Women's top flight to start in mid-August

The men's OTP Bank Liga and women's Simple Liga will start on the same weekend, the 15th/16th August. In the women's game, the eight teams top-flight teams from last season, FTC-Telekom, MTK Hungária, DVTK, Astra, Haladás-Viktória, ETO, Kelen SC and Szent Mihály will all participate in the Női Simple Liga due to the 2019-2020 season having been ended early, after the 13th round due to the coronavirus epidemic. Thus, there was no championship winner crowned nor any teams relegated, the end-of-season play-off series between FTC and MTK being held purely to decide which club would represent Hungary in next season's UEFA Women's Champions League.

Although the transfer period is far from over - amateur footballers can still change clubs by 31st August and professionals until 22 September - several players have already announced their transfers.

For example, Petra Kocsán, one of Fradi's key players, has switched allegiances to capital-city rivals MTK and has already been involved in her first training session with her new team. Ferencváros, which will start in the UEFA Women's Champions League qualifiers, has though strengthened its ranks with a number of foreign signings including Canadian-Swedish goalkeeper Chandra Bednar and 75-time capped Portuguese international Vanessa Marques, the latter of whom has arrived from SC Braga. On the other hand, Anna Samu, Marija Aleksic and Fanni Diószegi have left the greens and whites, as has Anna Csiki, who has since made a goalscoring debut for her new club, Kopparbergs-Göteborg FC of Sweden.

MTK's 21-year-old centre-back Lilla Turányi has also moved abroad, specifically to Germany where she will continue in the Bundesliga with compatriots Dóra Zeller and Henrietta Csiszár at Bayer Leverkusen. In Germany's top tier, you will often find Hungarian players, a situation exacerbated by moves for Dóra Süle and Laura Kovács from Győri ETO to SC Sand Frauen in Germany this summer.

There has also been movement within the women's NB I, Zsófia Rácz, for example, leaving Szombathely to join Astra; and Dóra Papp (who also continues her career abroad), Réka Csolti and Lilla Nagy all bidding farewell to MTK, for whom the afore-mentioned Fanni Diószegi has signed a contract.

All eight top-flight clubs have been active in the transfer market and we'll soon be publishing a summary article noting every major signing to have been made this summer.