Sándor Torghelle

Football player infobox
playername = Sándor Torghelle
height = 1.85 m
fullname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1982|5|5
cityofbirth = Budapest
countryofbirth = Hungary
currentclub = FC Augsburg
clubnumber = 14
position = Striker
youthyears = -1999
1999-2002
youthclubs = FC Marcali
Budapest Honvéd FC
years = 2000-2001
2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
2006-2007
2007-2008
2008-
clubs = Budapest Honvéd FC
FC Marcali
Budapest Honvéd FC
MTK Hungária FC
Crystal Palace F.C.
Panathinaikos
PAOK Thessaloniki FC
FC Carl Zeiss Jena
FC Augsburg
caps(goals) = 18 0(4)
22 0(7)
27 (10)
22 0(9)
12 0(0)
11 0(0)
24 0(1)
27 0(8)
05 0(4)
nationalyears = 2004-
nationalteam = Hungary
nationalcaps(goals) = 27 0(7)
pcupdate = 16:58, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
ntupdate = 23:25, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Sándor Torghelle (born May 5, 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian footballer, playing as a striker. He came to prominence after scoring both goals in a 2-0 victory over Germany in a friendly match in 2004.

He spent one season playing for Crystal Palace F.C., after being signed from MTK Hungária in August 2004 for a fee of roughly £750,000. He wore the number 10 shirt, that of a first-choice striker, but found it hard to gain a regular place in the Crystal Palace starting eleven with Andy Johnson often playing as a lone striker. He scored only one goal in a League Cup match against Charlton, but the referee sent off Sándor late on for diving.

After 12 months at Palace, Torghelle was first stripped of his first-team squad number (given number 30, while 10 went to new signing Jon Macken), and shortly after was loaned out to Panathinaikos in Greece for the 2005-06 season. In the deal, there was no clause for re-calling Sándor, so he spent the whole season in Greece. However, Torghelle failed to impress, and Panathinaikos chose not to make the deal permanent. Torghelle was transferred to PAOK Thessaloniki FC in Greece and handed a 3-year contract, being one of the three players that were traded for the transfer of striker Dimitris Salpingidis.

Torghelle was also famous for his failure to score even a single goal since he was transferred from Crystal Palace, yet this "curse" was lifted when he scored in a PAOK-Olympiakos derby in early 2007. He left PAOK at the end of the 2006-07 season for the German 2. Bundesliga team FC Carl Zeiss Jena. There, he finally met the expectations, scoring five goals and giving three assists (as at 2. Bundesliga matchday 12 of the 2007-08 season).

International goals