Ladislau Bonyhádi

Ladislau Ludovic Bonyhádi (Hungarian: Bonyhádi László; born 25 March 1923 - deceased 13 June 1997 in Miami, Florida, United States) was a 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.

László Bonyhádi
Personal information
Date of birth (1923-03-25)25 March 1923
Place of birth Bonyhád, Hungary
Date of death 13 June 1997(1997-06-13) (aged 74)
Place of death Miami, Florida, United States
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1935–1941 Szegedi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1941–1943 Kolozsvári AC 41 (21)
1943–1944 Gamma Budapest 21 (10)
1944–1946 Ferar Cluj 35 (22)
1946–1949 ITA Arad 54 (80)
Total 151 (133)
International career
1947–1948 Romania 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Honours

Club
UTA Arad

Individual

Trivia
  • Although born in Hungary, he played for the Romania national 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.
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