Ready to roll!

The new season is starting in the domestic league at the weekend. Our team will begin their campaign on the home court of NKE-FCSM Csata, who have got talented Hungarians as well as international players on their roster, from 7 pm on Saturday at Ludovika Aréna.

Even as rookies last year the team from the capital had big plans, which brought them a 7th place in the regular season. However, they weren't able to keep that spot in the play-offs against PEAC-Pécs and finished 8th. With a one-year experience behind them they would like to make another step forward and earn a EuroCup Women spot. To achieve this goal experienced 30-year-old Euroleague and WNBA player Emma Cannon could be of great help, to whom head coach Krisztián Tursics and his coaching staff clearly assigned a leadership role on the team. They could also easily build on the talents of fellow American 191 cm's tall Megan Gustafsson, as well as Zala Friskovec, the rising star of Slovenian basketball who is barely even 20 years old, and already made herself a name in senior basketball. From the Hungarian core Réka Lelik will be an important player, since she has made it to the European championship with the national team! We can be sure that they will give a hard time to their opponents this year as well.

Our team has had a successful pre-season. As head coach Dávid Gáspár said "Our strengths and weaknesses that we have to work on have shown. We have done valuable work, according to our plans, we'll see where that will get us in a real competitive game." In this period we were still missing our American international player, but Briann January has also arrived on Wednesday making our roster complete. She will need a couple of days to adjust for sure, but she has joined in the work on Thursday.

As it was stated by the board of our club on the Media Day on Monday the Hungarian league keeps getting more and more competitive year after year, but we mostly have to concentrate on ourselves and keep doing the hard and high quality work that has led us to success in past seasons. Our main goal for this season will be to overcome ourselves, which we are aiming to fulfill with a talented and well-prepared head coach, Dávid Gáspár and many young players on the roster. We want to make progress patiently, practice by practice, game by game, in which we have to always give our best. To quote our team captain Zsófia Fegyverneky: "I am sure we'll have a lovable team! We will carry on the perspective, the hard work, professionalism, that characterized us in former years! We are eagerly waiting for the season to start!"

Before the game against Csata Debóra Dubei and Aleksandra Crvendakic stood in front of our cameras, with whom we also took a look back on the pre-season.





The game can be followed via live online statistics at the official site of the Hungarian Federation.

Sopron vs. Csata DSE

2 games/2 wins
197 points scored/113 conceded

Games in the last season

Sopron Basket – NKE-FCSM Csata 93-55
NKE-FCSM Csata – Sopron Basket 58-104

- 2019-09-27

We managed to get on the front foot early in the game and then fought off every single comeback effort by the French to collect our first road win in the new Euroleague season

Our team that is getting ready for the opening day of Euroleague had a rough start on their first trip to a road game

Az Euroliga nyitányára készülõdõ csapatunknak nem indult jól az elsõ útja

The most prestigious international women's competition, the Euroleague is getting started on Wednesday

Szerdán elrajtol a legrangosabb nemzetközi nõi kosárlabda sorozat, az Euroliga

The board of our club and the coaching staff have been invited by Tímea Szarjas Hotel Director and István Soltész Executive Director to Hotel Sopron for a lunch meeting

Klubunk vezetõsége és csapatunk szakmai stábja Szarjas Tímea szálloda igazgató és Soltész István üzemeltetési igazgató meghívására a Hotel Sopronban vendégeskedett egy beszélgetéssel egybekötött ebéd erejéig

A csoportunk másik francia csapata, a Lyon magabiztos legyõzésével melegített az Euroliga rajtjára a Montpellier

Ahogy az már lenni szokott, minden évben bemutatjuk az újonnan érkezõket

We played a useful game against BEAC in the last league game before the start of the Euroleague season

Mindenki sok lehetõséget kapott ma a rosszabb periódusainkat jó játékkal kihasználó fõvárosiakkal szemben

We have one league game ahead of us before the Euroleague season begins next week

Még egy bajnoki van elõttünk a jövõ heti Euroliga rajt elõtt

TF put up a good fight in the first half but we managed to crack their defense and got another confident win in the league

A mérkõzés csúszása után lassan értük el az üzemi hõfokot a jól kosárlabdázó TFSE-MTK ellen, de a második félidõben már rendben mûködtek a fogaskerekek

Our schedule is getting crowded from now on, since we are switching to a two games per week rhythm

Felpörög a menetrendünk mostantól, miután beállunk a heti két mérkõzéses ritmusra

Our first rivals in Euroleague, French side BLMA won their first championship game of the new season

Idei elsõ Euroligás ellenfelünk, a francia BLMA megnyerte elsõ találkozóját az új bajnoki szezonban

After a couple of minute we took charge in the game and came away with a big win in our first home game of the season