Biography
Hungarian wide player Peter Halmosi was briefly Hull City’s record signing when he joined the Tigers in July 2008 for a £2 million fee. He was signed to be a key part of Phil Brown’s Premier League squad following promotion via the play-offs the previous May, but was unable to hold down a first team place and was used mostly from the substitutes’ bench. He played a more prominent role in the teams that reached the FA Cup Sixth Round in the early months of 2009, starting four ties and scoring his only City goal in a February 2009 Fifth Round replay victory over Sheffield United.
Halmosi was rarely deployed by Brown during the first half of the 2009/10 season and in February 2010 he was loaned to Szombathelyi Haladas, his first club back in Hungary. Isolated completely by the Tigers during the 2010/11 season, club and player agreed a mutual termination of his contract in January 2011 and Halmosi returned again to Hungary.
Peter Halmosi was born in Szombathely, Hungary’s oldest city located near the Austrian border. He came through the ranks at his hometown club Szombathelyi Haladas and made his senior debut in August 1998 against Dunaferr SC. He was a first team regular from the start of the 1999/00 season, scoring his first senior goal in August 1999 against Szeged LC, and by the end of the 2001/02 season he had made over 100 appearances for the club. In July 2002 Halmosi joined Austrian Bundesliga side Grazer AK, scoring three goals in 24 appearances during the 2002/03 season including six appearances in the Champions League and UEFA Cup.
In July 2003 Peter returned to Hungary and signed for top flight side Debrecen, in the next three and a half seasons he won two Hungarian league titles in the 2004/05 and 2005/06 seasons, contributing goals and assists – Debrecen also lifted the league title in the 2006/07 season with Halmosi playing during the first half of that campaign. By January 2007 he had scored 19 goals in exactly 100 appearances for Debrecen when he joined English Championship side Plymouth Argyle on a half season loan. He impressed during the remainder of the 2006/07 season and in May 2007 the Pilgrims paid £500,000 for his permanent transfer. Halmosi continued to stand out during the 2007/08 season and by the 2008 close season he had scored thirteen goals for Plymouth in 66 appearances.
Halmosi returned to Szombathely Haladas in January 2011 and spent most of the rest of his career with his hometown club. In eight and a half years he scored 30 goals in 214 appearances, captaining the side during the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons. He left Haladas in May 2019, during 2020 he had brief spells at Austrian side Markt Allhau and Hungarian side Kiraly SE, a Szombathelyi-based club set up by trackie-bottom wearing former Hungary and Crystal Palace goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly, before hanging up his boots.
Halmosi was part of the Hungarian international setup during much of his career. He made his debut for the Hungary Under-21 team in August 2000 against Austria and went on to make nine appearances at that level. In February 2002 he made his senior debut for Hungary against Czechia and added two further caps later in 2002. After a spell out of the international side Halmosi returned in August 2005 and was chosen intermittently by his country for the next eight years, earning the last of his 36 international caps against Romania in March 2013.
Details
Nationality: Hungary
Date/Place of Birth: 25 September 1979, Szombathely (Hungary)
Hull City First Game: 16 August 2008, Fulham H (Premier League), 28 years, 326 days old
Hull City Final Game: 2 January 2010, Wigan Athletic A (FA Cup Third Round), 30 years, 99 days old
Clubs
Szombathelyi Haladas (1997-2002), Grazer AK (2002-2003), Debrecen (2003-2007), Plymouth Argyle (2007, loan), Plymouth Argyle (2007-2008), Hull City (2008-2011), Szombathelyi Haladas (2010, loan), Szombathelyi Haladas (2011-2019), Markt Allhau (2020), Kiraly SC (2020)
Hull City Record
Career: 27 apps, 1 goals
Peter Halmosi| Season | LGE App | LGE Gls | FAC App | FAC Gls | FLC App | FLC Gls | EUR App | EUR Gls | OTH App | OTH Gls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008/09 | 4 (14) | 0 | 4 (1) | 1 | 1 (0) | 0 | – | – | – | – |
| 2009/10 | – | – | 1 (0) | 0 | 2 (0) | 0 | – | – | – | – |
| 2010/11 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |