Key facts
- 1950
- Cosenza
- 1970
- Pezoporikos Larnaca
- 1971
- Niki Volos
- Full name
- Gyula Zsengellér
- Date of birth
- ( 1915-12-27 ) 27 December 1915
- Place of birth
- Cegléd , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
- Date of death
- 29 March 1999 (1999-03-29) (aged 83)
- Place of death
- Nicosia , Cyprus
- Height
- 1.77 m (5 ft 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Position
- Striker
- Years
- Team
- 1935 1936
- Salgótarjáni TC
- 1936 1947
- Újpest FC
- 1947 1949
- A.S. Roma
- 1949 1950
- AC Ancona
- 1951 1953
- Deportivo Samarios
- 1953 1954
- Pezoporikos Larnaca
- 1955 1957
- Pezoporikos Larnaca
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gyula
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Cegléd
- Place of death
- Nicosia
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Employer
- Nea Salamis Famagusta FC
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Participant in
- 1938 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Hungary men's national football team
- Position played
- forward
- Country for sport
- Hungary
- Mass
- 73
- Image
- Zsengeller-Gyula.jpg
- Height
- 177
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- date of birth
- 1915-12-27
- date of death
- 1999-03-29
- Commons category
- Gyula Zsengellér
- end of work period
- 1952-00-00
- start of work period
- 1933-00-00
- place of burial
- Cegléd
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Gyula Zsengellér (27 December 1915 – 29 March 1999) was a Hungarian footballer who played as a striker. A historic player of Újpest FC, he scored 387 goals in the Hungarian league between 1935 and 1947, making him the league's third-highest goalscorer of all-time. He was also a member of the Hungary national team that reached the final of the 1938 FIFA World Cup, being the tournament's second-highest scorer. Zsengellér also was the last surviving player of the Hungarian side that played the 1938 World Cup final.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gyula Zsengellér” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.