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Imre Aranyos (born 13 June 1966) is a Hungarian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He gained 3 caps for Hungary and was a member of 1993-94 Vác FC-Samsung squad that won Nemzeti Bajnokság I and became Hungarian champion first and up to date the last time in the club`s history.

Playing career
Aranyos made his first league debut in 1985 at the age of 19 for Eger SC, the team of a historical city of Eger, famous about the Siege of Eger (1552) and the novel Eclipse of the Crescent Moon (Hungarian: Egri Csillagok). The manager of the team was János Csank, who later worked and became Hungarian champions together with Aranyos in Vác.

Following his young-age top-flight debut he had to wait seven years to play again in Nemzeti Bajnokság I. In 1992 Vác FC-Samsung signed him where the manager was his ex-coach János Csank. Aranyos spent the most successful part of his career at Vác FC, became runner-up in the leauge in his first season (1992-1993) then Hungarian champion in 1993-1994. He also reached the final of Magyar Kupa (Hungarian Cup) with Vác FC, although they lost against Ferencvárosi TC. During his years at Vác FC, the team competed in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League qualifiers. The biggest clubs that Aranyos plated against were SL Benfica, and Paris Saint-Germain F.C.

In 1995 Aranyos left Vác FC-Samsung and joined Budapesti VSC. He spent one season at the club which traditionally was the team of Hungarian State Railways and at the end of the season they finished second which is makes this year the best season of BVSC up to date. They played their most important game of the season against Ferencvárosi TC, in Népstadion ("People`s Stadium, later renamed to Ferenc Puskás Stadium) in front of an attendance of 45,000 fans. The game was played only two rounds before the end of the season, Ferencvárosi TC won 1-0.

In the summer of 1996, reign Hungarian champion Ferencvárosi TC signed Aranyos hoping to quaily again to the UEFA Champions League`s group stage following the successful campaign ot the previous season. IFK Goteborg knocked out Ferencvárosi TC in the qualification round (0-3; 1-1), Aranyos played on both games. Beyond the two UEFA CL qualifiers he played only 4 league games and 3 games in the Magyar Kupa against lower league teams for Ferencváros before he left the club and joined Vasas SC for the rest of the season.

From 1996 to 2001 Aranyos spent five years at Vasas SC, played 128 league games and scored 7 goals. During his time at the club, Vasas finished third in the league three times, 1997-98, 1999-2000 (in this season the top flight of Hungarian football was called Professzionális Nemzeti Bajnokság - Professional National League) and 2000-2001.

At the beginning of the season 2001-2002 Aranyos left Vasas SC and joined Kispest-Honvéd FC, where he played 19 games and scored 1 goal before he returned to Vasas for the second part of the season. He played another 12 games for Vasas and scored 2 goals in his last top flight season.

Aranyos played a few more season on professional level for FC Dabas and JázberényiI SE in the second tier of Hungarian football, Nemzeti Bajnokság II, then continued his career in lower leagues, where he was active until 2018, the age of 52. For some of the teams he worked as a player-coach. Hungarian sports daily Nemzeti Sport reported multiple times about his role in amateur football. 

International career
Aranyos was capped 3 times for Hungary. He made his debut against England in the old Wembley Stadium in 1996 then played two more games for his country against Italy and Australia. He did not score for Hungary.


 * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only