Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)
Gyula Zsengellér (
Cegléd,
December 27,
1915 -
Nicosia,
March 29,
1999) was a
Hungarian footballer and a legend of
Újpest FC, most famous for his part in taking the
Hungarian national team to the
1938 World Cup Final. He was that tournament's second-highest scorer, behind
Leonidas of
Brazil. His first international cap came on
December 2,
1936, when Hungary lost 6-2 against
England. In total, he gained 39 caps for his country, scoring 32 goals. This makes him the eighth-highest goalscorer of all-time for the Hungarian national side.

Zsengellér also played 325 games in the Hungarian league and scored 387 goals between
1935 and
1947, making him the
third-highest goalscorer of all-time in the Hungarian league. He began his career at
Salgotarjani TC, then moving to
Újpest FC in 1936. Zsengellér spent 11 years serving Újpest, when in 1947 he joined Italian side
AS Roma. In the 1949/50 season Zsengellér played for
Ancona and he finished his carrier playing for Colombian
Deportivo Samarios between 1951 and 1952. He was the Hungarian league's top-scorer in five seasons:
1938,
1939,
1943,
1944 and in the spring season of
1945.He was
Europe's top goalscorer in 1939 and 1945. He died in
1999 aged 83.
IFFHS named Zsengellér the 7th most successful Top Division Goal Scorer of all time.
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