István Sztáni (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈiʃtvaːn ˈstɒni]; born 19 March 1937) is a Hungarian football manager and a former player who played as a forward.

István Sztáni
Personal information
Full name István Sztáni
Date of birth (1937-03-19) 19 March 1937 (age 87)
Place of birth Ózd, Hungary
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1942–1954 Vasas Ózd
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1954–1956 Vasas Ózd
1956–1957 Banned by FIFA
1957–1959 Eintracht Frankfurt 36 (20)
1960–1965 Standard Liège 155 (57)
1965–1968 Eintracht Frankfurt 21 (3)
1968–1969 Makkabi Frankfurt ? (0)
1969–1971 Gent 11 (8)
Managerial career
1971–1973 Gent
1973–1974 Tournaisien
1974–1975 1. FC Schweinfurt 05
1975–1976 VfB Stuttgart
1976–1977 FK Pirmasens
1977–1978 Bayern Hof
1979 Arminia Hannover
1980 Würzburger FV
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sztani left Hungary for Eintracht Frankfurt and faced a one-year FIFA ban. With Eintracht he won the German championship in 1959. At the end of the season he moved to Standard Liège of Belgium and stayed there until 1965 when he returned to Frankfurt. In his second stint he amounted 21 Bundesliga appearances for Eintracht.

In the 1975–76 season, Sztáni was manager at VfB Stuttgart in the 2. Bundesliga Süd, but was fired on 31 March 1976 when the planned promotion to the Bundesliga was almost out of reach.

After this tenure Sztáni managed a number of other German second tier clubs.

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