Sándor Kocsis

Hungarian footballer

  • Fame59.4
  • Momentum16.1
  • Wikipedia22.8K
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Lived 1929–1979, aged 50
FootballersFootball / Soccer Player
  • Wikipedia
    52 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1929–1979
    Aged 50
  • Known for
    Red Earth
    1982
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

A striker whose heading ability and finishing rate were both freakish: 75 goals in 68 games for Hungary, eleven in the 1954 World Cup alone, and a goals-per-game average no one with more than 43 caps has matched since.

Biography

About

Kocsis came up through Hungarian football in the early 1950s and became the scoring partner to Ferenc Puskás in the Mighty Magyars, the national team that dominated the decade. He led all European leagues in goals in both 1952 and 1954 while playing for Budapest Honvéd. At the 1954 World Cup he scored eleven times — still a record for a single tournament until 1958 — including two hat-tricks and four against West Germany. After the 1956 Hungarian Revolution he left for Spain and joined FC Barcelona, where he played out the late 1950s. Over his career he scored 556 goals in 537 official matches…

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Teams

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  • Valencia CF
    1961–1961
  • Fc Barcelona
    1958–1965
  • SC Young Fellows Juventus
    1957–1958
  • Budapest Honvéd FC
    1950–1957
  • Ferencvárosi TC
    1950–1950
  • Hungary men's national football team
    1948–1956
  • Ferencvárosi TC
    1945–1950
19451965
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Season stats

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1958–19657542
1957–1958117
1950–1957145153
1950–19503030
1948–19566875
1945–19505940
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Awards

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  • honorary citizen of Budapest
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59.4
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Momentum16.1
Historical23.5
Now attention58.3
Source confidence65.0
Completeness65.0
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Sources

  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
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