Imre Schlosser

The native form of this personal name is Schlosser Imre. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Imre Schlosser
Schlosser in 1923
Personal information
Full name Imre Schlosser-Lakatos
Date of birth (1889-10-11)11 October 1889
Place of birth Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Date of death 18 July 1959(1959-07-18) (aged 69)[1]
Place of death Budapest, Hungary
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1905–1916 Ferencvárosi TC 155 (258)
1916–1922 MTK Hungária FC 125 (141)
1925–1926 Wiener AC 17 (6)
1926–1927 Ferencvárosi TC 14 (11)
1927–1928 Budai 33 9 (1)
Total 320 (417)
International career
1906–1927 Hungary 68 (59)
Managerial career
1922–1923 Vívó és Atlétikai Club
1923–1924 IFK Norrköping
1924–1925 Wisła Kraków
1925–1926 Wiener AC
1925–1926 Brigittenauer AC
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Imre Schlosser (also known as Imre Lakatos; 11 October 1889 – 18 July 1959) was a Hungarian footballer of Danube Swabian ancestry who played as a forward. He still holds the record as the highest goalscorer in the history of the Hungarian National Championship. He was also the first player from outside the British Isles to break the record of most association football international caps.

Club career

The son of János Schlosser and Mária Kettner, he had two elder brothers, János and József, who were both members of Ferencvárosi TC. Following in his brothers' footsteps, he made his debut at the age of 17, on 25 February 1906, against Postás (0-1). His game was not yet appropriate, so he returned to the second team to strengthen for 3 months. He was on the first team again in the fall, and this time, he showed his potential and soon became a regular member of the team. Schlosser played eight seasons in green and white (1906 - 1915), of which he was champion six times and the top goal scorer of the league six times in a row, scoring a total of 258 league goals in 155 league matches. He also won one Hungarian Cup in 1912-13, in which he scored the winning goal in the final.[2] Remarkably, he also topped the European top scoring list four times in a row, in the 1910-11(42), 1911-12(40) and 1912-13(42) and 1913-14(36) seasons, making him the first-ever player to be Europe's top scorer four times, a record that was later equalled only by the great Josef Bican and Lionel Messi.[3] After an argument with the FTC management team, he signed with the club's biggest rival MTK, and with them, he was the champion of Hungary a further 6 times. He then spent a season at Wiener AC in Austria before returning to Ferencvárosi to help them to a double, winning both the league and cup. In his club career, Schlosser reportedly scored 417 league goals, a number believed to be the sixth highest of all-time in European top leagues.[4] He managed IFK Norrköping.[5]

International career

Schlosser made his debut for Hungary on 7 October 1906, aged 16 years and 361 days, in a 4–4 draw with Bohemia. In a national team career that would last more than 20 years, Schlosser played 68 times for Hungary (the team won 70% of the games in which they fielded Schlosser) and scored 59 goals, a ratio of 0.87 goals per match.[6] The first of which came on 4 November 1906, aged 17 years and 24 days, in a 3–1 win over Austria.[7] He scored 5 hat-tricks for Hungary against the likes of Austria, France, Switzerland, Germany and Russia, the most notable of which being the one against Germany, because it handed his nation a 3–1 win in the 1912 Summer Olympics – Consolation tournament semi-finals, and Hungary went on to beat Austria in the final, where Schlosser scored the opening goal in a 3–0 win.[8][9]

Schlosser was the first footballer to score 50 international goals,[10] achieving the feat when he scored a brace (two goals) in a 6–2 victory against Austria on 3 June 1917.

International

Main article: List of international goals scored by Imre Schlosser

Sources:[11]

Hungary national team
Year Apps Goals
1906 2 1
1907 4 0
1908 4 3
1909 5 7
1910 3 2
1911 7 12
1912 10 16
1913 3 1
1914 5 3
1915 4 2
1916 3 2
1917 5 4
1918 4 3
1919 1 0
1920 1 0
1921 4 2
1926 2 0
1927 1 0
Total 68 58

Honours

Ferencvárosi TC

MTK Hungária FC

Individual

  • Hungarian Top Scorer: 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1917
  • European Top Scorer: 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ Imre Schlosser at Olympedia (archive)
  2. ^ "Ferencvárosi TC - Budapesti AK 2 : 1, 1913.06.01". magyarfutball.hu. June 1913. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  3. ^ "European Topscorers by Season". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Best League Goalscorers All-Time". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000–1990". www.mek.iif.hu.
  6. ^ "Imre Schlosser-Lakatos - Goals in International Matches". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Imre Schlosser". football.eu. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Olympic Football Tournament Stockholm 1912". FIFA website. Archived from the original on 4 August 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  9. ^ "V. Olympic Games Consolation Tournament 1912 results". football.eu. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  10. ^ "The Top 50 International Goalscorers of All Time". Sport Illustrated. 18 July 2019. Archived from the original on 19 July 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  11. ^ "Imre Schlosser-Lakatos - Goals in International Matches". RSSSF. 2 February 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  12. ^ "European Topscorers before 1967/68". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 10 September 2005. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
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