Ferenc Bene

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Personal information
Ferenc Bene
Full name	Ferenc Bene
Date of birth	December 17 1944
Place of birth	Balatonújlak, Hungary
Height	171 cm
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	deceased
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1961-78	Újpesti Dózsa	417 (303)
National team
1962-79	Hungary	76 (36)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Men's Football
Olympic medal record
Gold	1964 Tokyo	Football

Ferenc Bene (Balatonújlak, December 17, 1944 – Budapest, February 27, 2006) was a Hungarian football (soccer) player of Újpesti Dózsa, who was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He was the top scorer of the tournament.

Bene played his first international match against Yugoslavia on October 14, 1962, and his last against Czechoslovakia on September 12, 1979. He obtained 76 caps and scored 36 goals. He was bronze medallist at the European Championship of 1964, and a quarter-finalist at the World Cup of 1966 (at the latter event he was the best scorer of the Hungarian national team). Bene was named Footballer of the Year in 1969. He died after a lengthy treatment following a fall at the end of last year.

He played for the following teams:

Újpesti Dózsa (1961-1978)
Volán SC (1978-79, 1983-84)
Sepsi 78, Finland (1981-82)
Soroksári VOSE (1984)
Kecskeméti SC (1985)

	Hungary squad - 1966 FIFA World Cup
1 Szentmihályi \| 2 Káposzta \| 3 Mátrai \| 4 Sóvári \| 5 Mészöly \| 6 Sipos \| 7 Bene \| 8 Varga \| 9 Albert \| 10 Farkas \| 11 Rákosi \| 12 Fenyvesi \| 13 Mathesz \| 14 I. Nagy \| 15 Molnár \| 16 Tichy \| 17 Szepesi \| 18 Ihász \| 19 Puskás \| 20 A. Nagy \| 21 Gelei \| 22 Géczi \| Coach: Baróti