[1] His debut in the national team took place on 10 July 1932 in Warsaw in a 2–0 win against Sweden 2–0).

All together he played in 18 international games (including the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin), scoring 7 goals.

During the World War II in 1939–40, Matyas played in Soviet competitions for Naftovyk Boryslav and, for a short while, for FC Dynamo Kiev in 1941.

[1] Soon after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, he returned to Lwów where he played for some local city teams in 1942–44.

[1] Following the war, Lwów was secured after the Soviet Union (as part of Soviet Ukraine), together with a group of Pogoń's players and activists, he settled in Bytom, where he played for Polonia Bytom in 1945–48.