Imre Schlosser

Imre Schlosser

Personal information
Full name	Imre Schlosser-Lakatos
Date of birth	(1889-10-11)11 October 1889
Place of birth	Hungary
Date of death	19 July 1959(1959-07-19) (aged 69)
Playing position	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1905–1916	Ferencvárosi TC	155	(258)
1916–1922	MTK Hungária FC	125	(141)
1925–1926	Wiener AC	17	(6)
1926–1927	Ferencvárosi TC	14	(11)
1927–1928	Budai 33	9	(1)
–	Career Total	320	(417)
National team
1906–1927	Hungary	68	(59)
Teams managed
1922−1923	Vívó és Atlétikai Club
1923–1924	IFK Norrköping
1924–1925	Wisla Kraków
1925−1926	Wiener AC
1925−1926	Brigittenauer AC
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Imre Schlosser-Lakatos (11 October 1889 – 19 July 1959) was a Hungarian footballer of Danube Swabian ancestry. He still holds the record as the highest goalscorer in the history of the Hungarian League.

Career

Schlosser made his debut for Hungary on 7 October 1906, aged 16 years, 361 days, in a 4-4 draw with Bohemia. In a national team career that would last more than 20 years, Schlosser played 68 times for Hungary (the team won 70% of the games in which they fielded Schlosser), and scored 59 goals, a ratio of 0.87 goals per match.^[1]

In his club career, Schlosser reportedly scored 417 league goals, a number believed to be the sixth highest of all-time.^[2]

He managed IFK Norrköping.^[3][4]

Honours

Ferencvárosi TC

• Hungarian League (7): 1907, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1927
• Hungarian Cup (2): 1913, 1927

MTK Hungária FC

• Hungarian League (6): 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922

Hungarian Top Goalscorer (7): 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1917

• European top goal-scorer (4):1911, 1912, 1913, 1914^[5]

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