Gábor Babos

The native form of this personal name is Babos Gábor. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Gábor Babos

Personal information
Date of birth	(1974-10-24) 24 October 1974
Place of birth	Sopron, Hungary
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
	Soproni LC
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1993–1995	Soproni LC	27	(0)
1995–2000	MTK	141	(1)
2000–2004	NAC Breda	126	(0)
2004–2006	Feyenoord	24	(0)
2005–2006	→ NEC (loan)	29	(0)
2006–2013	NEC	198	(0)
2013–2015	NAC Breda	0	(0)
2022	NAC Breda	0	(0)
Total		545	(1)
International career
1997–2009	Hungary	27	(0)
Managerial career
2015–2018	BSC Roosendaal
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gábor Babos (Hungarian: [ˈɡaːbor ˈbɒboʃ]; born 24 October 1974) is a Hungarian footballer who played as a goalkeeper and is the goalkeeper coach of NAC Breda.

Babos played for MTK Hungária, NAC Breda, Feyenoord and NEC. He was also a member of the Hungary national team for twelve years.

On 16 December 2022, he was named for the squad for NAC, although he had retired five years previously.

Coaching career

After his career, Babos started working as a goalkeeper coach for the youth teams of NAC Breda. In November 2015, he became manager of the Roosendaal amateur club BSC, where his son, Dani, played. Though his new manager job, he still continued as a youth goalkeeper coach at NAC.

In March 2018, Babos joined NEC, replacing Wilfried Brookhuis, who was hit by an Intracerebral hemorrhage.

On 16 December 2022, Babos was registered to the NAC Breda squad as an emergency backup due to the illness of their three starting goalkeepers.

Honours

MTK Hungária

• Hungarian League: 1997, 1999; runner-up 2000
• Hungarian Cup: 1997, 1998, 2000

Individual

• Dutch Football Goalkeeper of the Year: 2004, 2008

External links

• Voetbal International profile (in Dutch)
• Gábor Babos at ESPN FC