Zsolt Homlok

Businessman Zsolt Homlok acquired a 60.41 percent majority stake in Szombathelyi Haladás football club in 2022 after marrying Ágnes Mészáros, daughter of oligarch Lőrinc Mészáros. The club's stadium, opened in 2017, ultimately cost 15.2-15.6 billion forints against an original budget of 8.8-9.6 billion, making it Hungary's most expensive provincial stadium at the time. After Homlok divorced Mészáros's daughter in 2023, his businesses - including his firm Vasútvill - lost access to contracts from the Mészáros business circle, contributing to the club's financial collapse in early 2024 (it could not pay wages in February 2024, and its equity fell roughly 153 million forints into negative territory). The situation was ultimately resolved not through the market but through government intervention: two government resolutions covered unpaid wages and operating costs after, in the words of county government commissioner Zoltán Vámos, the problem was brought before the prime minister.