Géza Turi

The native form of this personal name is Turi Géza Tamás. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

For the Faroese player, see Géza Dávid Turi.
Géza Turi
Personal information
Full name Géza Tamás Turi
Date of birth (1974-03-11) 11 March 1974
Place of birth Budapest, Hungary
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 KÍ Klaksvík
Number 48
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Keszthely
Csepel SC 2 (0)
Dunakeszi
2000–2003 Zalaegerszegi TE 78 (0)
2003–2004 FC Fehérvár 9 (0)
2005–2006 FC Tatabánya 14 (0)
2006–2007 GÍ Gøta 55 (0)
2008–2018 Víkingur Gøta 235 (0)
2019– KÍ Klaksvík 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 October 2019

Géza Turi (born 11 March 1974, in Budapest) is a Hungarian football player who currently plays for KÍ Klaksvík.[1]

Career

Whilst at Hungarian side ZTE, Turi played against Manchester United at Old Trafford in a UEFA Champions League qualifier. He came on as a substitute after Saša Ilić was sent off for a foul on Ruud van Nistelrooy.[2] He came to the Faroe Islands to be a goalkeeper for GÍ Gøta, which merged with LÍF Leirvík in 2009 into the new club Víkingur. Géza Turi has been the goalkeeper for Víkingur Gøta and the former GÍ Gøta since 2006.

In 2019, the 45-year-old Turi signed for KÍ Klaksvík, where he worked as a goalkeepers coach, but also as the club's third-choice goalkeeper.[3] In the build-up for a Faroe Islands Premier League match against Havnar Bóltfelag on 14 May 2023, Klaksvík's full-time keepers were both ruled off, as Markus Pettersen fell ill, while his backup Rói Hentze got injured, thus forcing Turi to make his first league appearance since June 2018, when he was 44, but despite his advanced age, he managed to keep a clean-sheet in a 1–0 victory.[3]

In doing so, at the age of 49 years 64 days, he became not only the oldest player in the history of the Faroe Islands top-flight, breaking the previous record set by the Pole goalkeeper Waldemar Nowicki in 2008 (aged 47 years and 235 days), but also the oldest active player in the top-flight national divisions of the world, surpassing Bulgarian goalkeeper Georgi Petkov, who had played the month before in the Bulgarian top-flight at the age of 47.[3] He was thus the oldest top-tier player of 2023, ahead of Petkov.[4]

Personal life

He is the father of fellow footballer and Grimsby Town player Géza Dávid Turi.

Honours

Zalaegerszegi TE

Kí Klaksvìk

Víkingur Gøta

References

  1. ^ "Leikari - Géza Tamás Turi". www.faroesoccer.com. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  2. ^ "Rampant Reds on the march". BBC. 27 August 2002.
  3. ^ a b c "Two age records of Géza Túri!". www.iffhs.com. 15 May 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  4. ^ "Géza Túri, the oldest top-level player in 2023". www.iffhs.com. 8 January 2024. Retrieved 28 June 2025.


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