5 iconic sport venues in Budapest

Thanks to the excellent Hungarian athletes and coaches, our country has achieved illustrious results in the world of sport. Hopefully, Hungarian sportspeople will continue to succeed on an international level in the future as well. We’d like to present five iconic venues, which are must-see sights for sport lover tourists when in Budapest.

The tomb of Ferenc Puskás

Ferenc Puskás is one of the world’s greatest football players, and his name always comes up when you ask foreigners about Hungary. Puskás Öcsi, or, as he is called in Spain, Pancho, won an Olympic Games, a silver medal at the World Championships with the famous Golden Team, set several records as the player of Real Madrid, and also won a Champions League title.

He was born in 1927, he emigrated from the country in 1956 due to communism but he returned later and died in Budapest on the 17^th of November, 2006. On the 9^th of December, he was buried in the Saint Stephen’s Basilica in the frameworks of a great national ceremony. If you want to honour the memory of the greatest Hungarian athlete, visit his tomb in the Basilica.

Groupama Arena

The stadium, which was inaugurated in the August of 2014, is currently the biggest sport facility (22 thousand seats) in Hungary. It is the home field of the historic team of Ferencváros and the national football team.

It will keep its “biggest stadium” status until 2019, because the new Puskás Ferenc Stadium, which will be able to fit three times as much people, is expected to be finished by then. You can learn about the past and present of FTC and the stadium on guided tours: http://www.groupamaarena.com/stadiontura/

Papp László Budapest Sports Arena

It is the biggest indoor facility in the country, which is quite multifunctional, meaning that it is the home of diverse sport events and many concerts. The establishment, which can fit 12,500 people, was built for two years and was inaugurated in 2003.