Illés Spitz

Illés was part of the Újpest FC's first "golden era" helping the club win the Coupe des Nations 1930 and three championships. In 1935 he moved to Switzerland where he played one season in FC St. Gallen and another in FC Zürich. During his playing career he played over 1,000 matches and scored over 600 goals. Spitz also played a total of six matches for the Hungary national football team, having scored three goals.

After finishing his playing career in Switzerland, Illés moved to Yugoslavia where he had a long managerial career. In 1937 he took charge of HNK Hajduk Split, one of the dominant clubs of the Yugoslav Championship. Despite not winning any titles during his two-year spell there, he is remembered in Split for having formed the generation that would later win the Croatian League in the 1940–41 season and end the years of disappointment the club had during the 1930s. In 1939 he moved to Gragjanski Skopje, the top Macedonian club at the time, which played in the regional Serbian League, which served as a qualifier for the final stage of the Yugoslav national championship. In 1941 with the beginning of the Second World War, the region of Vardarska Banovina where Gragjanski was located, was annexed by Bulgaria, and the club was merged with other city clubs to form Macedonia Skopje. Spitz remained at the helm at the reformed club, along with most of players of Gragjanski, some even going on to become Bulgarian internationals. The club competed in the Bulgarian Championship, which was played in a knockout tournament format. In the 1942 season Spitz managed to take Macedonia Skopje club to the league final, where they lost to Levski Sofia in October that year. In March 1943, Spitz was arrested by Bulgarian authorities and because of his Jewish descent was put on a train to Treblinka extermination camp in eastern Poland. However, he was rescued by the club's executives Dimitar…

Player

Újpest

Hungarian League: 1929–30, 1930–31 Coupe des Nations 1930 Mitropa Cup: 1929

Manager

Partizan

Yugoslav First League: 1946–47, 1948–49 Yugoslav Cup: 1947, 1952, 1954 Vardar

Yugoslav Cup: 1960–61