„Ha a bajonett most nálam volna, keresztülszúrnám!” Futballerőszak a két háború közötti Kelet-Magyarországon
„If I had my bayonet with me, I would stab him through!” Football violence in the interwar period in East-Hungary

Summary/Abstract: The study intends to show that Hungarian football in the interwar period did not at all lack violence; actually, the occurrence of several characteristic phenomena was more frequent than today. The 1921 act issued by the minister of internal affairs for controlling football violence had an all-European echo; police could interfere in matches; and by the end of the year spectators were banned from all Budapest matches for an unspecified period of time. In the period between the two World Wars, in the eastern part of the country only, incidents of different kinds and seriousness have intruded in nearly hundred cases into the order of matches or following the meetings. This region was the most infected area by football violence, the news of which has even reached Paris. The study, based on numerous contemporary reports, presents cases of violence between players, between spectators and also cases in which spectators have attacked opponent players or the referee. Apart from elaborating on the different types of incidents, the study attempts to present who and for what reasons have launched these attacks and also, why the number of violent cases grew exactly after the war. According to the author’s hopes, by this, the study will also highlight how the war affected norms of behavior – and will supply an important contribution to the historical embedding of Elias’ theory on civilization and Durkheim’s theory on anomy.

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