Szeged

SzCsGA respects the traditions and history of soccer in Szeged, but it is not the legal successor to the former Szeged teams such as Szegedi AK, Szegedi Dózsa SC, or SZEOL SC. Szeged-Csanád Grosics Akadémia was founded in 2011, as Szeged 2011, as a symbol of a new direction and stable operation—something that had not been characteristic of soccer in Szeged in the preceding period.

The Sports Organization is wholly owned by the Diocese of Szeged-Csanád, as is the Gyula-based Grosics Academy Football Club, which works in close professional collaboration with it and is an independent youth development association. The founder of the sports organization is László Kiss-Rigó, Bishop of the Diocese of Szeged-Csanád, whose creed is “Strength, Love, Sobriety”—which is also the club’s motto and appears on the coat of arms. Initially, Szeged 2011 Kft. had only an adult team, while the Grosics Academy in Gyula—which has been operating since 2009—focused solely on youth development.

Since the summer of 2012, Szeged-Csanád Grosics Akadémia have been building and fielding our own youth teams in Szeged to meet the requirements for competing in the league.

Szeged-Csanád Grosics Akadémia competed in the second division of the national league, Nemzeti Bajnokság II, from 2011 to 2013, when the Hungarian Football Federation (MLSZ) merged the previously two-group second-division league, and we lost the promotion playoff match against Kisvárda, so we continued in the third division.

The city of Szeged’s soccer infrastructure was inadequate; in particular, the sports complexes and arenas were all outdated and obsolete. It had long been a dream to build a high-quality stadium and sports complex that would meet the demands of modern soccer.

On a weekly basis, renting 3–4 different sports facilities—each in worse and worse condition and located far apart—used by the adult team, as well as traveling between them, had become a burden. Thus, in the summer of 2013, the club’s management made the painful decision to move the adult team out of Szeged and relocate it to the modern Grosics Academy in Gyula—which met all their needs—until the stadium in Szeged, which had since been given the green light, was completed.

From 2014 to 2018, the senior team competed in the second division, and after one year in the third division, we returned to NB II.

A New Stadium, a New Era

In 2019, a new era began in many respects—not only for the club, but also in the history of soccer in Szeged and the region. The senior team advanced to the second division as group winners in NB III and began competing in the Merkantil Bank League in the summer of 2019 under the name Szeged-Csanád Grosics Academy, while still based in Gyula.

In September, however, both the senior team and the youth teams took possession of the Szent Gellért Fórum in Szeged, built by Market Zrt., which, in addition to a UEFA Category 4-certified main field and stadium capable of accommodating more than 8,000 people, three practice fields, and an indoor sports hall the size of a handball court.

On 28 August 2019, the club's new stadium, Szent Gellért Fórum, was opened with Placido Domingo's concert.

The team played its first adult league match against Csákvári TK on September 15, 2019, and had a 5–3 victory.