Nyíregyháza Spartacus dominates the table after the 28th round of the Hungarian second division football championship. According to the team’s leader, Bálint Révész, the team’s budget did not increase during the season, and he is sure that they are not the top team in NB II in terms of budget.
Révész pointed out to csakfoci.hu that their ceiling is currently HUF 2 million, while the average team earns between HUF 600,000 and HUF 1.3 million.
However, these are only basic wages, if the team performs well, then various bonuses are added to this, which is often the case these days, he added.
vg.hu notes that in January of this year, the gross average salary of full-time employees in Hungary was HUF 605,100, and with discounts, the net average salary was HUF 4,016,600.
Based on this, according to the paper, the HUF 600,000 basic salary for soccer players is 144 percent of the average salary, and the HUF 1.3 million salary indicates that certain soccer players in the Nyíregyháza second division take home more than three times the average domestic salary.
By the way, Bálint Révész, who leads the team, is also the founder-owner of the Révész Group of Companies, which is one of the country’s leading logistics service providers. The company has 500 vehicles, 103,000 square meters of warehouse space, more than a thousand employees, and 14 different services. In 2022, the Révész Trans International Freight Forwarding and Service Limited Liability Company achieved a net sales revenue of approximately HUF 17.9 billion.
They are chasing the ball more and more for European wages in NB1
In terms of salaries, the Hungarian NB I has spectacularly managed to catch up with Western Europe in recent years. On average, the monthly salary of a NB I soccer player is HUF 4.5 million.
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