2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (men's handball)

K&H férfi kézilabda liga
Season	2016–17
Champions	Telekom Veszprém; (25th title)
Relegated	Balmazújvárosi KK; Mezőkövesdi KC
Champions League	Telekom Veszprém; MOL-Pick Szeged
EHF Cup	Grundfos Tatabánya KC; CYEB Budakalász; Csurgói KK; Balatonfüredi KSE
Matches played	184
Goals scored	9,596 (52.15 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mátyás Győri (158 goals)
	← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (known as the K&H férfi kézilabda liga for sponsorship reasons) is the 66th season of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, Hungarian premier Handball league.

Team information

Location of teams in 2016-17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I

The following 14 clubs compete in the NB I during the 2016–17 season:

Team	Location	Arena	Capacity
Balatonfüredi KSE	Balatonfüred	Balatonfüredi Szabadidőközpont	712
Balmazújvárosi KK	Balmazújváros	Kőnig Rendezvényközpont	880
Budakalász FKC	Budakalász	Budakalászi Sportcsarnok	400
Ceglédi KKSE	Cegléd	Gál József Sportcsarnok	1,046
Csurgói KK	Csurgó	Sótonyi László Sportcsarnok	1,200
Eger-Eszterházy SzSE	Eger	Kemény Ferenc Sportcsarnok	875
Gyöngyösi KK	Gyöngyös	Dr. Fejes András Sportcsarnok	1,500
Komlói BSK	Komló	Komlói Sportközpont	800
Mezőkövesdi KC	Mezőkövesd	Városi Sportcsarnok	850
Orosházi FKSE	Orosháza	Eötvös Sportcsarnok	900
SC Pick Szeged	Szeged	Újszegedi Sportcsarnok	3,200
Tatabánya KC	Tatabánya	Földi Imre Sportcsarnok	1,000
Váci KSE	Vác	Városi Sportcsarnok	800
Veszprém KC	Veszprém	Veszprém Aréna	5,096

Personnel and kits

Following is the list of clubs competing in 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, with their president, head coach, kit manufacturer and shirt sponsor.

Team	President	Head coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor(s)
Balatonfüred	László Csima	István Csoknyai	Erima	tippmixPro¹, Sennebogen, 77 Elektronika, Kinizsi Bank
Balmazújváros	Sándor Király	Tamás Tréki	adidas	tippmixPro¹, König-Trade Kft., Thermal Hotel Balmaz
Budakalász	Gábor Hajdu	Attila Horváth	adidas	Swietelsky, tippmixPro¹
Cegléd	István Borsos	István Kökény	Erima	tippmixPro¹
Csurgó	János Varga	László Sótonyi	hummel	tippmixPro¹, PriMont, Dráva-Coop
Eger-Eszterházy	Róbert Szabó	Edmond Tóth	Erima	tippmixPro¹, SBS, Eger
Gyöngyös	Zsolt Marczin	Tibor Nigrinyi	Salming	B. Braun, tippmixPro¹, HE-DO
Komlói BSK	Szabolcs Szigeti	Bálint Klivinger	Zeus	tippmixPro¹, Sport36 Komló
Mezőkövesd	Róbert Rapi	Pál Janó	Erima	tippmixPro¹, Mezőkövesd Önkormányzata
Orosháza	Tamás Vájer	Dániel Buday	Kappa	tippmixPro¹, Linamar
Szeged	Nándor Szögi	Juan Carlos Pastor	adidas	tippmixPro¹, MOL, Pick, OTP Bank
Tatabánya	László Marosi	Vladan Matić	Jako	tippmixPro¹, Grundfos
Vác	Dr. Attila Schoffer	Péter Gúnya	adidas	tippmixPro¹
Veszprém	Ákos Hunyadfalvy	Xavi Sabaté	adidas	Telekom, Veszprém, tippmixPro¹

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Mezőkövesd	László Skaliczki	End of contract	End of 2015–16 season	Pre-season	Ferenc Molnár	1 July 2016^[1]
Vác	Gyula Zsiga	Mutual consent	22 November 2016^[2]	9th	Péter Gúnya	23 November 2016
Orosháza	Vladan Jordović	Sacked	2 December 2016^[3]	12th	Dániel Buday	4 December 2016
Balmazújváros	Ferenc Füzesi	Mutual consent	6 December 2016	13th	Magi Serra	7 December 2016^[4]
Mezőkövesd	Ferenc Molnár	Resigned	10 December 2016^[5]	14th	Pál Janó	11 December 2016^[6]
Balmazújváros	Magi Serra	Sacked	23 March 2017^[7]	13th	Tamás Tréki	23 March 2017^[8]
Gyöngyös	Viktor Debre	Resigned	18 March 2017^[9]	12th	Tibor Nigrinyi	21 March 2017

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	MOL-Pick Szeged (C)	26	25	0	1	841	574	+267	50^[a]	Qualification to the Final
2	Telekom Veszprém	26	25	0	1	821	584	+237	50^[a]	Qualification to the Final
3	Grundfos Tatabánya KC	26	20	2	4	723	639	+84	42	Qualification to EHF Cup third qualifying round
4	CYEB Budakalász	26	15	1	10	664	677	−13	31	Qualification to EHF Cup third qualifying round
5	Csurgói KK	26	14	2	10	678	661	+17	30	Qualification to EHF Cup second qualifying round
6	Balatonfüredi KSE^a	26	13	1	12	667	650	+17	27	Qualification to EHF Cup second qualifying round
7	Orosházi FKSE- LINAMAR	26	12	0	14	656	710	−54	24
8	Sport36-Komló	26	8	5	13	624	694	−70	21
9	Eger SBS Eszterházy	26	9	1	16	628	677	−49	19
10	Váci KSE	26	8	2	16	649	718	−69	18
11	Ceglédi KKSE	26	7	3	16	632	716	−84	17
12	B. Braun Gyöngyös	26	7	1	18	629	695	−66	15
13	Balmazújvárosi KK (R)	26	4	3	19	618	726	−108	11	Relegation to Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B
14	Mezőkövesdi KC (R)	26	4	1	21	669	778	−109	9	Relegation to Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b SZE - VES: 26–23; VES - SZE: 24–22

Schedule and results

Home \ Away	BKSE	BKK	BFKC	CEG	CSKK	EGER	GYKK	KBSK	MKC	ORO	SZE	TAT	VÁC	VES
Balatonfüredi KSE		29–25	26–29	23–16	27–23	29–23	26–21	27–27	32–21	30–27	21–33	24–29	26–24	20–31
Balmazújvárosi KK	23–33		22–28	25–25	28–29	26–32	25–21	30–27	29–26	26–30	24–33	22–28	24–19	24–28
Budakalász FKC	21–26	31–23		28–20	24–21	20–19	25–24	34–23	35–30	29–26	20–35	25–26	28–28	22–32
Ceglédi KKSE	30–28	24–24	25–28		19–20	24–20	36–24	26–26	29–28	24–25	23–35	18–25	30–28	24–40
Csurgói KK	18–22	28–21	25–21	25–20		34–17	28–20	28–24	31–22	32–24	24–35	19–19	22–21	26–31
Eger-Eszterházy SzSE	25–21	24–19	20–22	29–27	31–36		25–22	20–25	30–22	32–25	23–33	26–30	36–24	20–28
Gyöngyösi KK	24–23	27–21	23–21	35–27	23–29	21–21		25–26	30–23	18–19	25–39	26–31	28–24	24–35
Komlói BSK	27–30	22–22	22–27	20–22	29–29	27–26	20–19		20–23	25–23	23–26	21–23	25–20	27–31
Mezőkövesdi KC	17–31	34–23	28–29	31–32	27–26	20–21	33–35	27–28		28–29	19–36	32–34	31–27	21–31
Orosházi FKSE	24–22	30–28	26–24	25–18	25–30	26–22	27–23	24–26	31–26		24–37	26–33	29–24	21–28
SC Pick Szeged	29–19	30–24	36–19	25–20	30–23	29–20	36–27	36–16	39–19	36–22		26–23	39–19	26–23
Tatabánya KC	26–22	27–25	36–27	33–22	35–26	26–19	24–19	27–27	34–29	26–22	23–24		25–21	22–28
Váci KSE	29–26	21–18	26–27	32–29	26–24	24–19	23–22	30–24	26–26	30–26	27–36	32–36		22–29
Veszprém KC	28–24	40–17	29–20	34–22	40–22	37–28	28–23	39–17	30–26	33–20	24–22	31–22	33–22

Source: ^[10]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2
MOL-Pick Szeged (1)	47–50	Telekom Veszprém (2)	17–23	30–27

Game 1

20 May 2017 15:45 (CEST)	Telekom Veszprém	23 – 17	MOL-Pick Szeged	Veszprém Aréna, Veszprém Attendance: 5,000 Referees: Herczeg, Südi
	Gajić, Lékai 4	(8–10)	Bodó 5
	3× 4×	Report	3× 5×

Game 2

24 May 2017 18:00 (CEST)	MOL-Pick Szeged	30 – 27	Telekom Veszprém	Városi Sportcsarnok, Szeged Attendance: 3,200 Referees: Herczeg, Südi
	Källman 7	(15–14)	Pálmarsson 5
	3× 3×	Report	2× 4×

Telekom Veszprém won the FINAL, 50–47 on aggregate.

2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I Champion^[11]
Telekom Veszprém 25th title

Alilović, Mikler, Borbély (goalkeepers), Blagotinšek, Gajić, Gulyás, Ilić, G. Iváncsik, Lékai, Marguč, L. Nagy (c), Nilsson, Pálmarsson,
Schuch, Sulić, Terzić, Ugalde (Ancsin, Gyene, Kopljar, Aflitulin, Chema Rodríguez, Milašević, D. Fekete, Slišković, Ligetvári, A. Tóth)

Head coach

Xavi Sabaté

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played on 19 May 2017.^[12]

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	Matches
1	Mátyás Győri	Balatonfüred	158	25
2	Miloš Vujović	Tatabánya	143	26
3	Radoslav Antl	Eger	137	26
4	Marinko Kekezović	Balmazújváros	123	26
4	Ivan Perišić	Cegléd	123	25
6	Stanislav Kašpárek	Balatonfüred	122	25
7	Bence Nagy	Budakalász	118	21
8	Srećko Jerković	Komlói BSK	117	24
9	Igor Marković	Komlói BSK	113	21
10	Aleh Astrashapkin	Csurgó	108	26
10	Milan Popović	Vác	108	26

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total attendances	Average attendances	Highest attendances	Lowest attendances
1	Telekom Veszprém	23,600	1,815	5,000 (vs. Szeged)	1,000 (vs. Eger)
2	MOL-Pick Szeged	18,805	1,447	3,200 (vs. Veszprém)	500 (vs. Budakalász)
3	Grundfos Tatabánya KC	11,200	862	1,000 (vs. Budakalász)	700 (vs. Komlói BSK)
4	Sport36-Komló	11,170	859	1,000 (vs. Szeged)	500 (vs. Cegléd)
5	Eger SBS Eszterházy	10,195	784	890 (vs. Gyöngyös)	600 (vs. Tatabánya)
6	B. Braun Gyöngyös	10,000	769	1,200 (vs. Veszprém)	400 (vs. Csurgó)
7	Csurgói KK	9,000	692	1,000 (vs. Szeged)	500 (vs. Komlói BSK)
8	Balmazújvárosi KK	8,280	637	780 (vs. Szeged)	400 (vs. Gyöngyös)
9	Ceglédi KKSE	8,200	631	900 (vs. Veszprém)	500 (vs. Balmazújváros)
10	Balatonfüredi KSE	7,350	565	800 (vs. Veszprém)	400 (vs. Balmazújváros)
11	Mezőkövesdi KC	7,100	546	850 (vs. Veszprém)	300 (vs. Cegléd)
12	Váci KSE	5,050	388	620 (vs. Veszprém)	250 (vs. Tatabánya)
13	Orosházi FKSE- LINAMAR	4,400	338	600 (vs. Szeged)	300 (vs. Csurgó)
14	CYEB Budakalász	2,860	220	250 (vs. Veszprém)	200 (vs. Komlói BSK)
Total		137,210	754	5,000 – VES vs. SZE	200 – BFKC vs. KBSK

Source: League matches: NB I 2016/2017

Number of teams by counties

Pos.		No. of teams	Teams
1	Pest	3	Budakalász FKC, Ceglédi KKSE and Váci KSE
2	Heves	2	Eger-Eszterházy SzSE and Gyöngyösi KK
2	Veszprém	2	Balatonfüredi KSE and Telekom Veszprém
4	Baranya	1	Komlói BSK
	Békés	1	Orosházi FKSE
	Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén	1	Mezőkövesdi KC
	Csongrád	1	MOL-Pick Szeged
	Hajdú-Bihar	1	Balmazújvárosi KK
	Komárom-Esztergom	1	Tatabánya KC
	Somogy	1	Csurgói KK