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The University Fencing Club is the most experienced fencing hall in Hungary and uses one of the most modern teaching methods through wireless fencing. The association has been engaged in fencing for decades and has trained many successful competitors.

The history of the University Fencing Club dates back to 1898,

Within the walls of the fencing hall, during the last century, almost all Olympic and world champion fencers and pentathletes have turned, and it is still the center of fencing.

The University Fencing Club, formerly known as BEAC, was founded on November 5, 1898, when fencing practices began in Lipót Street under the leadership of Count Lajos Vay. Boosting the fencing life of the club dr. It is named after László Gerentsér, who led the club from 1907 to 1942. 

From 1912, however, the fencing hall on Halász Zsiga Street proved to be small, but the then 20-year-old György Erdélyi started fencing here in 1926. He saw the empty premises of the Lord's Club in 1929 and decided to acquire them for the university association. Together with László Herceg Esterházy and István Pluhár, they successfully achieved that BEAC could rent the elegant premises. 

The costs of the transformation and equipment at that time were covered jointly by the university, the Ministry of Public Education and BEAC. This is how BEAC's new fencing hall was born, which was named Bp. Haládás from 1951 and OSC fencing hall from 1957. 

 From 2021, it will operate under the name University Fencing Club with the most modern equipment in a modern but traditional hall.