Country Profile - Hungary
Name: Hungary
Population: 9,539.502 inhabitants
Capital: Budapest
Date of accession to the Council of Europe: 1990
Convention on an Integrated Safety, Security and Service Approach at Football Matches and Other Sports Events, 2016
Date of Signature: 02/06/2021
Date of Ratification: 29/04/2025
Date of entry into force: 01/09/2025
Coordination Arrangements
Presentation of the country's main government and sports institutions
- Ministry of Defence, State Secretariat for Sport
- National Sports Agency
- Sports Institute of Hungary
Independent sports safety bodies
- National independent safety bodies: No
Main Sports/Sport Activities
Main sports in the country (by number of members)
- Football: 196,768 members
- Handball: 135,392 members
- Basketball: 104,641 members
- Volleyball: 40,098 members
- Ice hockey: 8,477 members
National Olympic Committee:
Main sports federations and leagues:
- Hungarian Handball Federation
- Hungarian Basketball Federation
- Hungarian Volleyball Federation
- Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation
- Hungarian Athletics Federation
- Hungarian Swimming Federation
National football authorities
Major Sports Events
Last major sports events organised since 2000 and key elements of their legacy
- World Aquatics Championships Budapest (2017, 2022)
- UEFA Euro 2020 in Budapest (2021)
- Giro d’Italia Grande Partenza (2022)
- UEFA Europa League Final (2023)
- World Athletics Championships (2023)
Future major sports events organised and/or co-organised within the next 5 years
- UEFA Champions League Final (2026)
- World Athletics Ultimate Championships (2026)
- World Aquatics Championships (2027)
- Pentathlon World Championships (2027
The country's main sports competitions
- Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix
- Fizz Liga (football)
- K&H Kézilabda Liga (handball)
- E.ON Férfi Országos Bajnokság (waterpolo)
- Tippmix Kosárlabda Nemzeti Bajnokság (basketball)
Supporter Organisations
National supporter organisations or National team supporter organisations: which supporter organisations are involved at national level in representing supporters to public authorities or sports federations?
- Carpathian Brigade (supporter group of the national team)
- Green Monsters (Ferencvárosi TC)
- Újpest Ultras 1992 (Újpest FC)
- Ultras Debrecen (Debreceni VSC)
- Red Blue Devils RBD (Fehérvár FC)
- SUD, Bajtársak, Egység, Beagle Boys, Red Company, Emigrantes Rojos, Commandos (Diógyőri VTK)
Legal Framework
National legal framework on sports safety and security, including specific legal provisions on:
List of main laws and regulations
- Act I of 2004 on sport
- Act C of 2012 on the criminal code
- Act II of 2012 on offences, procedures for offences and the system for registering offences
- Act CXXVIII of 2011 on disaster management and the amendment of related laws
- Act CXXXIII of 2005 on the rules of personal and property protection and private investigation activities
- Government Decree 54/2004 (III. 31.) on the security of sports events
- Government Decree 215/2004 (VII. 13.) on the rules of sports medicine and the network of sports
- Ministerial Decree 5/2006 (II. 7.) of the Ministry of Health on emergency services
- ORFK Directive 8/2010 (OT 5.) on the classification and police protection of sports events
- Government Decree 173/2011 (VIII. 24.) on civil pyrotechnic activities
- Government Decree 210/2009 (IX. 29.) on the conditions for conducting commercial activities
National / local coordination bodies
- Hungarian Football Federation
- Minister in charge of sports policy (Ministry of Defence, State Secretariat for Sport)
- Ministry of Interior
- Police (National Police Headquarters, county level police headquarters and police stations)
- National Football Information Point
- National Ambulance Service
- National Directorate General for Disaster Management
- Public Health Administration
- National Office for the Judiciary
- General Prosecutor’s Office
- The Committee in charge of Evaluating Safety of Sports Events
- Owners and operators of sports facilities
National Strategies/Policies
N.A.
Major Risks and Incidents
Major risks and trends on sport-related violence and disorder
- use of pyrotechnic devices
- throwing of objects
- pitch invasion
- racist/xenophobic/homophobic expressions (chanting, flags, banners)
Last major incidents which seem relevant and enlightening on the need to adopt an integrated approach to safety, security and service
2015 Hungary vs. Romania national teams match, where both supporters fought on public places, fought with the police and caused damage in the surroundings of the stadium.
Please provide a graph of the evolution of total incidents over the last 10 years.
The graph below shows the data from the Hungarian Football Federation Disciplinary proceedings in the 1st League (National Championship 1; NB1). Pyrotechnics used devices, pitch invasion per pax and throwing of objects per pcs.
Last updated on January 2026
