It took part in the first official football match between different clubs to be played in Hungary, on 6 February 1898, when it won against Budapesti TC 5–0, despite BTC having trained the MFC players in the prior months.

It took active part in the introduction of football, swimming, athletics, boxing, gymnastics, fencing at the beginning of the century, and also in the thirties it still played a big role in national sports.

Dr. Leó Donáth and Artúr Kankovszky have made an outstanding contribution to building the reputation of Hungarian sports and MAFC through his activities as Secretary General of the International Swimming Association.

It later established contacts with higher education institutions in Prague, Berlin, Sofia, Cluj-Napoca, Moscow, Dresden, Tallinn, Karlsruhe and Trieste.

In addition, perhaps not as spectacular, measurable, and brilliant as gold medals was the activity that MAFC was doing to get the many tens of thousands of students out of the university learned and mastered in sports.