Ladislau Bonyhádi
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 25 March 1923 | ||
| Place of birth | Bonyhád, Hungary | ||
| Date of death | 13 June 1997 (aged 74) | ||
| Place of death | Miami, Florida, United States | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1935–1941 | Szeged FC | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1941–1943 | Kolozsvári AC | ||
| 1943–1944 | Gamma Budapest | ||
| 1945–1946 | Ferar Cluj | ||
| 1946–1949 | ITA Arad | 54 | (80) |
| National team | |||
| 1947–1948 | Romania | 3 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Ladislau Ludovic Bonyhádi (Hungarian: Bonyhádi László; born 25 March 1923 - deceased 13 June 1997 in Miami, Florida, United States) was a former Romanian football player of Hungarian ethnicity. He was one of the legends of UTA Arad, being the top-goalscorer of Liga I twice, in 1947 and 1948. In the 1947-48 season, he scored 49 goals, which is still a record for Romanian first league, despite that Dudu Georgescu scored 47 goals in the 1976 -1977 season whom was regarded as european record, until Messi scored 50 goals in the 2011-2012 season. He earned also three caps for the Romania national side. After his last season at ITA Arad, he went to Hungary, and played for a few teams in a lower league. In 1958, he became coach at the class teams from the neighboring country.
Achievements
- 2 times winner of Liga I (1946–1947, 1947–1948)
- Winner of Romanian Cup (1947–1948)
- 2 times top-goalscorer of Liga I
Trivia
- Although he is born in Hungary, he played for the Romanian national football team.
- He played only 54 matches for UTA Arad, but he scored a huge number of 80 goals, being ranked second in the all-time classification of top-goalscorers from UTA Arad.
- In a ranking of most goals scored in a championship edition, compiled by the RSSSF, this record of Bonyhádi placed him on 20th, on par with that of Pelé, in the 1965 season of the Campeonato Paulista, and Uwe Seeler, in the Bundesliga season 1959-60.
- Ladislau Bonyhádi Profile (Romanian)