Sports
Sports at BME
Throughout the year, BME offers a wide range of outdoor and indoor sports activities at its various sports facilities. The sports activities and equipment are mainly available to its own students, but non-university members also get a chance to partake in sports activities at BME. Numerous European, World and Olympic champions have emerged from the university athletic fields.
BME Sports Centre
Opened in 2012, the BME Sports Centre offers over 4,000 square metres of facilities, including a three-storey gym and a room for spinning classes with 25 bicycles, a first for a university. BME students and employees can use the sports facilities at a special discount.
BME Sports Complex
Open all year round, the BME Sports Complex offers 4 astro turf football pitches, 5 clay tennis courts (3 indoor ones in winter) and a 400 m 8-lane recortan track.
BME Physical Education Centre
At the BME Physical Education Centre, nearly 5,000 students take part in organised physical education classes and recreational activities every week, under the supervision of highly qualified physical education teachers and sports coaches. The most popular sports are ball games, strength training, martial arts and yoga.
Extracurricular tasks of the Physical Education Centre include organising recreational sports activities for students, hosting BEFS Universitas and MEFOB tournaments and delegating BME students to international university events organised by EUSA and FISU. Each year, thousands of students participate in the University Sports Days in the autumn term, organised by the Physical Education Centre in cooperation with the University Students’ Representative Council.
The Centre's elite athlete mentoring programme helps and supports the academic progress of students studying at the university, who are selected for the national team and participate in the Olympics.
The Centre's lecturers also carry out academic research in the fields of sport psychology, sport sociology and sport management.
BME Athletics and Football Club (MAFC)
The official sports club of BME was founded in 1897. The main task of the club is to organise sports activities for BME students and staff, but the association is open, which means that a significant number of our members are students from other higher education institutions, engineers who have graduated from the university, their children and people from the surrounding city area.
The club's activities are divided into four main groups: competitive sports, recreational sports, student sports and recreational sports for people with disabilities.
The departments are: table tennis, athletics, motor sports and motorcycling, baseball, squash, floorball, futsal, ice hockey, cycling, handball, korfball, men’s, women's and children’s basketball, football, shooting, climbing, boxing, pentathlon, recreation and fencing, flying disc, men's and women's volleyball, chess and go, weightlifting, orienteering, telemark, tennis, badminton, triathlon, sailing, water polo and water sports (kayak and canoe, rowing).
The Recreation Department organises various sports courses (aerobics, aikido, chi-kung, self-defence, rowing, climbing, karate, cycling, ninjutsu), adventure and hiking, hiking in nature, skiing and open water trips.
MAFC also provides a framework for student sports clubs based on colleges. Here, teams mainly play in championships at Budapest level, but there are also examples of teams making it to the Hungarian second division football league. Student sports clubs also organise many other faculty sports programmes in cooperation with the Students’ Representative Council and the Physical Education Centre.
BME Rowing Club (MEC)
Of all the Hungarian university rowing clubs founded at the turn of the century, BME's MEC is the only one that has maintained its continuity and was re-established in 1989 after the transition into democracy. It is one of the country's most dynamically developing clubs, which has given and gives many athletes to the Hungarian national team, plays a significant role in the education of junior athletes, and is also an important Hungarian base for recreational sports and veteran coaching. The MEC base for water sports is located on the banks of the Soroksár Danube.
Sports scholarships, sports competitions
Students can receive support in many forms to back their sporting activities within BME or while representing the institution. The various forms of support related to sports are managed by the Student Union of the University (EHK) For example, support can be requested for the use of sports fields and sports halls. Good academic results and outstanding sports performance are supported by the Student Union of the University with a sports scholarships, and for years students of BME have also been excelling in the "Elite student, elite athlete" competition.
BME Alfréd Hajós Award
In 2024, the BME Senate established the "BME Alfréd Hajós Award - Best Student Athlete of the Year” recognition, which emphasises that university studies and professional sports are well compatible at BME.
The award is given to a student of BME with active or passive student status who has achieved outstanding sporting results in the period from 1 May to 30 April of the previous year, has set a good example as a professional athlete in the development of health and physical culture, and in the successful combination of a sporting career and studies, and has contributed to strengthening the national and international reputation of BME.
MÜHASZ
The Műegyetemi Hallgatói Kft. is an economic company jointly owned by BME and the Foundation for Students of BME. Its unofficial abbreviated name is the acronym "MŰHASZ". The primary activity of the company is the provision of services on the premises of BME, in particular the support of recreational and competitive sporting activities of the students. Together with the Physical Education Centre, the high quality of the staff, the experience accumulated over the last 20 years and the human resources are the guarantee for the provision of high quality sports services.
