Barnabás Varga

Barnabás Varga (born 25 October 1994) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for Nemzeti Bajnokság I club Ferencváros and Hungary national team as a forward.

With 26 goals for Paks, Varga was the top scorer of the 2022–23 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season.

On 1 June 2023, he moved to then defending champions, Ferencváros.

On 6 August 2023, he scored his first goal in the 2023–24 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season against Fehérvár FC at the Sóstói Stadion.

On 27 August, he scored a hat-trick in a 6–1 victory over former club Paks in the fifth game day of the league season.

He followed this up with another hat-trick in the club's next league match, a 6–2 win over Zalaegerszeg on 3 September.

On 22 October 2023, he was injured in a Nemzeti Bajnokság I match against Diósgyőri VTK.

Ferencváros manager, Dejan Stanković, said that Varga paid for his matches in the national team.

Therefore, he had to miss the UEFA Europa League match against K.R.C. Genk.

In an interview with M4 Sport, Gábor Kubatov, the president of Ferencváros, said that he is happy that he had been convinced to purchase the top scorer of the 2022–23 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season.

However, Kubatov was hesitating during the aummer of 2023 to sign or not to sign Varga.

In January 2024, he started training with the team after his injury.

On 6 February 2024, he scored four goals in a 5-1 vicory over arch-rivals MTK Budapest FC.

After the match, Dejan Stanković, Ferencváros manager, said that Varga is a fascinating football player.

In an interview, published on Nemzeti Sport, Varga said that scoring four goals was really beneficial for his soul after his long injury.

On 27 March 2023, Varga made his first appearance as a substitute for the Hungary national team in an UEFA Euro qualifying match against Bulgaria.

Three games later, he scored his first goal in the third qulifying group stage match against Lithuania.

On 7 September 2023, he scored the first Hungarian goal in a 2–1 victory against Serbia national football team in the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying match at the Stadion Rajko Mitic in Belgrade, Serbia.

On 14 October 2023, he scored the first Hungarian goal in a 2–1 victory over Serbia at the Puskás Aréna in the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying match.

On 25 October.2023, it was revealed that Varga would not play against Bulgaria and Montenegro in the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying due to injury.

In an article, published on Nemzeti Sport, Gábor Thury said that Varga is a player who reached his peak at the end of his career.

Varga was about to give up his career in his early 20s, when he received an offer from SV Mattersburg.

He resides in a small village, Szentpéterfa, located close to the Austrian border.

In an interview published on Nemzeti Sport, he said that when he retires he wants to spend his life there.