Vilmos Tamás "Willi" Orbán[3] (born 3 November 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and captains them.

A few flower vases and bottles, nothing wild, but it was enough that Mama said: The boy has too much energy, we prefer to put it in a football club.

[20] Orbán also started both legs of Kaiserslautern's promotion playoff against 1899 Hoffenheim as the club sought an immediate return to the Bundesliga.

In the 2014–15 season, Orbán continued to regain his first team place for the side, initially starting out in the centre–back position.

FC Nürnberg on 14 March 2015, which he set up one of the goals, Orbán suffered an injury and had to be substituted in the 55th minute.

FC Kaiserslautern, he was the club's fan favourite and was subjected of a chant by supporters, calling him: "Williiiiie".

[48] After picking up his fifth yellow card of the season against SV Sandhausen, Orbán missed the contest against his former club, Kaiserslautern, through suspension.

[55] After Dominik Kaiser was placed on the substitute bench against Hamburg on 17 September 2016, Orbán captained the side for the first time this season, where he set up a goal for Timo Werner, who went on to score twice, as RB Leipzig won 4–0.

Ahead of the 2017–18 season, Diego Demme and Orbán were among two candidates to be given a captain role by Manager Ralph Hasenhüttl, succeeding Kaiser.

[64] Orbán was officially named captain of RB Leipzig by manager Ralph Hasenhüttl on 11 August 2017.

[69] After serving a one match suspension, he returned to the starting lineup as captain, in a 2–2 draw against Bayer Leverkusen on 18 November 2017.

[76] He then helped the side qualify for the UEFA Europa League Group Stage after beating the likes of BK Häcken, Universitatea Craiova and Zorya Luhansk.

[78] Having initially appeared in the substitute bench at the start of the season, Orban regained his first team place in the centre–back position, along with his captaincy.

[79] However, he soon lost his first team place and was demoted to the substitute bench, due to strong competition in the centre–back positions.

[83] In the final against Bayern Munich, Orbán started as captain and played for 70 minutes before being substituted, as RB Leipzig lost 3–0.

In the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, Orbán was part of the team which reached the semi-finals, but eventually lost 3–0 against Paris Saint-Germain.

[90] On 21 May 2022, RB Leipzig won the DFB-Pokal Final against Freiburg, in which Orbán scored in the penalty shootouts which ended in a 4–2 win, to be his club's first title in the competition.

[91] In February 2023, he was in doubt to play a Bundesliga match against Union Berlin, as he would donate his stem cells, being registered with the DKMS since 2017, in order to save a patient with blood cancer.

[94] In the 2022–23 season, he scored two more goals, one in a 3–2 victory against Hertha BSC on 5 October 2022[95] and another one in a 2–1 win against SV Werder Bremen on 14 May 2023.

[100][101] On 27 January 2024, he returned from his injury in a 5–2 defeat against VfB Stuttgart on the 19th matchday, in which he entered the pitch as a substitute for Mohamed Simakan.

[102] On 6 March 2024, he scored the equalizer in a 1–1 draw against Real Madrid in the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League round of 16 at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium; however, his team was eliminated from the competition by losing 2–1 on aggregate.

In August 2016, the RB Leipzig's sporting director Ralf Rangnick hinted that Orbán could potentially play for the national side.

"[116] His performance at RB Leipzig attracted attention from the German media over calls of including in the squad for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

[121] The decision came after Hungary initially expressed interest in calling Orbán up to the national team about five months prior.

[125] On 8 October 2020, Orbán scored his fourth international goal for Hungary against Bulgaria in a UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying play-off semi-final, as the Magyars won 3–1 in Sofia.

[126] On 13 November, he played the full 90 minutes as Hungary beat Iceland in the play-off final to qualify for the 2020 European Championship.

[127] On 1 June 2021, Orbán was included in the final 26-man squad to represent Hungary at the rescheduled UEFA Euro 2020 tournament.

[128] He played all three of the team's Group F matches at centre back as the Magyars lost to Portugal and drew with both France and Germany.

[135] In an article published on Nemzeti Sport, Zsolt Somogyi said that Orbán cannot be substituted and his absence is a huge problem for the national team.

[137] He started the team's opening match of the tournament against Switzerland, playing the full 90 minutes of the 3–1 loss in Cologne.