Welcome
to Budapest for the eighth edition of the Budapest
Fives football tournament in Hungary for our
110th tournament in Europe. With 21-teams assembled
in the Open Age category and 12-teams assembled
in the Veterans section were ready to kick-off
our largest single tournament weekend to date.
Our
debut in May 2011 saw Olympic Phil Babb claim
the honours by winning their 4th European title
in 4 attempts. In 2012 they vacated their crown
to chase glory in Mallorca as Romanian side,
ABC United, stormed to victory. The Romanians
in turn vacated their title to successfully
chase glory in the 2013 Berlin Fives as Team
Bear stepped up to take the title.
The
2014 Budapest Fives saw CIS Committee of Belarus
claim the first of their 2 eurofootballfives.com
titles that year (they also won the Bratislava
Fives). 12 months on in May 2015, CIS Committee
were back to retain their title and they made
it all the way to the Cup Final but fell at
the last hurdle as Csabagyongye made their breakthrough
Cup victory to become 2015 champions.
It
was Hungarian success again in 2016 as Meglepetes
became the sixth individual winner of the title
and made it back-to-back victories for Hungary.
The most recent edition of the tournament was
in 2017 and it was Budapest Celtic who made
it a hat-trick for Hungary. They picked up their
second eurofootballfives.com title after also
winning the 2013 Krakow Trophy.
They
would kick us off in Group as they were technically
the “away” team to Deportivo Dooradoyle. It
was not a good start for the defending champions
as they went down (1-0) to the Irish courtesy
of a Pa O'Brien strike.
