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2014-15 Hungarian Football League – Summary
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The 2014-2015 football season in Hungary has proved to be a competition which was taking place in two fronts. Enthusiastic spectators who brought themselves to visit the stadiums weekly could see both good and less good clashes. Meanwhile, the Hungarian Football Federation was working on the background to propose more severe checks and harsher penalties on the clubs, allegedly in order to increase the number of domestic players on the pitch from the next season.
A total of 16 teams contested the 2014-2015 OTP Bank League, including 14 sides from the 2013–14 season and two promoted from the 2013–14 Ness Hungary second-division.
Dunaújváros PASE and Nyíregyháza Spartcaus entered the league as the two promoted teams from the second-division. The two promoted teams replaced Kaposvári Rákóczi and Mezõkövesd Zsóry FC, which were relegated to the second-division at the end of the previous season.
Videoton FC won the title with four games to spare even before the championship ended. Since the establishment of the football club, it was the second time the club claimed the Hungarian first-division trophy, and this time, they did so from start to finish. They won the championship with a club record of 71 points.
Videoton FC won the championship this season by 7 points over the silver medallist Ferencvárosi TC. By winning both the Hungarian Cup and the Hungarian League Cup, the runner-up Ferencvárosi TC ran its best season over the last decade. Although their season did not start as easily as they had imagined, the club signed several high-profile players during the winter transfer window, with the help of whom it became possible for ‘The Green Eagles’ to pull off a miraculous recovery and reach their ultimate goal.
The third-placed of the 2014-2015 OTP Bank League is MTK Budapest. Since the club claimed the trophy in 2008, this year was the first time that the team reached the podium, which is an impressive achievement from such a young team.