Tibor Nyilasi

Tibor Nyilasi

Personal information
Date of birth	(1955-01-18) 18 January 1955
Place of birth	Várpalota, Hungary
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
0000–1972	Úttörőstadion SC
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1972–1983	Ferencvárosi TC	243	(132)
1983–1988	Austria Wien	120	(81)
Total		363	(213)
International career
1975–1985	Hungary	70	(32)
Managerial career
1990–1994	Ferencvárosi TC
1997–1999	Ferencvárosi TC
2014–2015	Hungary (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tibor Nyilasi (born 18 January 1955 in Várpalota, Hungary) is a retired Hungarian football player and manager. He signed with Ferencvaros in 1972 and played there until transferring to Austria Vienna in 1983. For the Hungarian National Football Team he made 70 appearances from 1975 to 1985, scoring 32 goals. He played in the 1978 FIFA World Cup (where he was sent off against Argentina) and the 1982 FIFA World Cup. After he retired as a player he was manager of Ferencvaros. He has more recently also worked for the Hungarian Football Federation and is regularly appearing as a pundit on the Hungarian sports channel 'Sport TV'.

Honours

Club

Ferencvárosi TC

• Hungarian League: 1976, 1981
• Hungarian Cup: 1974, 1976, 1978
• Cup Winners' Cup: Runner-up 1975

Austria Wien

• Austrian Bundesliga: 1984, 1985, 1986
• Austrian Cup: 1986

Individual

• Hungarian Top Goalscorer: 1981
• Austrian Top Goalscorer: 1984
• European Silver Boot: 1981

Manager

Ferencvárosi TC

• Hungarian League: 1992
  • Runner-up: 1998
• Hungarian Cup: 1991, 1993, 1994

Sources

• Ki kicsoda a magyar sportéletben?, II. kötet (I–R). Szekszárd, Babits Kiadó, 1995, p. 395., ISBN 963-495-011-6
• Nagy Béla: Fradisták (Sportpropaganda, 1981) ISBN 963-7542-44-2
• Nagy Béla: Fradi futballkönyv (Sportpropaganda, 1985) ISBN 963-7543-04-X
• Rejtő László–Lukács László–Szepesi György: Felejthetetlen 90 percek (Sportkiadó, 1977) ISBN 963-253-501-4
• Hoppe Pál – Szabó Ferenc: A Nyíl (Budapest, 1984)
• Nagy Béla: Nyilasi album (Budapest, 2003)
• His stats at Austria Wien