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Botond Baráth

Botond Baráth
Baráth with Sporting Kansas City in 2019
Personal information
Date of birth (1992-04-21) 21 April 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth Budapest, Hungary
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
Vasas
Number 36
Youth career
2001–2002 Dunakeszi
2002–2008 Újpest
2008–2012 Honvéd
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2019 Honvéd 159 (6)
2019–2020 Sporting Kansas City 21 (1)
2019Swope Park Rangers (loan) 1 (0)
2020–2022 Honvéd 29 (0)
2022– Vasas 59 (3)
International career
2009–2010 Hungary U-18
2010–2012 Hungary U-19 1 (0)
2012–2013 Hungary U-21 11 (1)
2018– Hungary 11 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 November 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 May 2021

Botond Baráth (Hungarian: [ˈbotond ˈbɒraːt]; born 21 April 1992) is a Hungarian football player who plays for Vasas as a defender.

Club career

From Budapest, Baráth is a 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) right-footed central defender, who joined his hometown club Budapest Honved FC as a youth. After making 213 first-team appearances in all competitions since 2009 during which he helped Honved to the 2016–17 Hungarian first-division title, Barath was announced as moving to MLS fulfilling an international slot for Sporting Kansas City.[1]

On 11 July 2020, Sporting Kansas City agreed to transfer Baráth back to Honvéd.[2]

On 21 June 2022, Baráth signed a three-year contract with Vasas.[3]

International career

Baráth earned his first three caps for the Hungary national team in 2018. He made his international debut in a 3–3 draw at Estonia on 15 October 2018 in the UEFA Nations League before earning consecutive starts in 2–0 wins over Estonia and Finland in November 2018.

Club statistics

Club Season League Cup League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Honvéd
2009–10 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
2010–11 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 6 0
2011–12 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 0
2012–13 21 1 5 1 5 0 1 0 32 2
2013–14 24 0 3 0 1 0 3 0 31 0
2014–15 19 1 3 1 7 0 29 2
2015–16 30 3 2 1 32 4
2016–17 22 0 2 0 24 0
2017–18 27 1 6 1 2 1 35 3
2018–19 16 0 0 0 2 1 19 1
2020–21 14 0 0 0 2 0 16 0
2021–22 13 0 3 1 16 1
Total 186 6 29 5 20 0 10 2 245 13
Career Total 186 6 29 5 20 0 10 2 245 13

Updated to games played as of 15 May 2022.

Honours

Honvéd

References

  1. ^ "Sporting Kansas City sign Hungarian international Botond Barath". Major League Soccer. 18 December 2018. Archived from the original on 20 December 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Sporting agree to transfer Botond Barath to former club Budapest Honved FC in Hungary". Sporting Kansas City. 11 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Baráth Botond és Dombó Dávid piros-kékben folytatja" [Baráth Botond and Dávid Dombó continue in red and blue] (in Hungarian). Vasas. 21 June 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2023.