History of the club

History of FC Branč

Football was already among the popular sports in the past. According to František Kóša, the oldest place where football was played in the village was the place near the granary (today’s Morgen Club). Several history buffs, including Mrs. Beaty Pintérová tried to find out when Branc´s football became an organized association. In the last century, they attributed this event to 1941, in 1971 they even celebrated the establishment of the club on this date. However, the first mention of the founding of the club was brought by the Nyitravármegye weekly newspaper, in which it was written that the priest Anton Beňuška founded the sports association Testvériség (translated as Brotherhood) in 1939. The chairman of the association was the priest himself, the secretary was local teacher Ladislav Ulrich, the recorder was Jozef Bárczy, the treasurer was František Lőrincz, and they elected Arpád Lőrincz and Eugen Lőrincz as auditors. Several names of football players have also been preserved from this era: Lőrincz, Majercsik, Tóth.

Golden generation “Aranycsapat”

The absolute peak of history so far was the so-called The Golden Generation, Aranycsapat, who achieved several successes in the 70s of the 20th century, thanks to which they were also talked about in the local periodicals of the time. In 1971, they became champions of the second class of the Nitra district. This legendary team consisted of goalkeepers Alexander Doboš and Vladimír Kóša, in the field Dušan Nagy, Jozef Milo (“Jokka”, ktorý je ocom hokejistu zlatej generácie, Dušana Mila), Ladislav Lőrincz (“Blecsko”), Milan Lőrincz (“Gigi”), Zoltán Lőrincz, Ladislav Kreškóczi, Silvester Kreškóczi, Jozef Pénzeš, Tibor Pintér, Jeremiáš Pintér, Miroslav Lőrincz, Alexander Kreškóczi, Mikuláš Lőrincz. The best scorer was Jeremiáš Lőrincz, who scored a respectable 25 goals. This period also brought up coach Milan Lőrincz (“Gigi”), who led the A team. Under his leadership, the team played beautiful attacking football in the 90s, and he also led U19 in the 90s and at the turn of 2000/2001, where he raised a successful team (Babčan Miloš, Kóňa Štefan and others).