Many changes again

The pre-season period saw the appointment of Slobodan Kusztudics as the new manager. He was assisted by Dragan Szekulics. Parmalat extended their sponsorship of the football club for a further two years. Videoton Holding were also back assisting the club after a break of 5 years. The name of the football club became Videoton FC Fehervar.

Arrivals: Midfielder Janos Argyelan from Honved, keeper Szabolcs Biro from Vasas, Forward Almir Filipovics from Nagykanizsa, Szabolcs Schindler and Attila Toth from Eger. Miklos Vancsa came in from Csepel and defender Denes Vaczi also moved to the Fehervar club. There were also some youngsters who made the jump up from the youth set-up. 

Departures were also plenty: Forward Carlos Juliano Alves moved to Germany while defender Andras Javorka joined Paks. Forward Ferenc Horvath moved to the capital to join Ferencvaros. Midfielder Vasile Miriuta made the move out of Szekesfehervar. Laszlo Palfi moved to Stadler on loan while defender Csaba Laszlo and midfielder Lajos Nagy also joined Gazszer FC.

Mixed performances in the league

The Hungarian FA increased the first division by 2 clubs to take the number up to 18. The new season kicked off with an away match at MTK, which saw the Budapest club keep the points with a 2-0 win. A big 6-2 win over Vac followed and the next five games resulted in an unbeaten run. That came to an end against Vasas and a 1-0 loss. A battling and hard game with Ferencvaros did not go Vidi's way and the side lost 2-0. The end of September had Videoton in 10th place and the continuation did not bring improved results. Big defensive mistakes at Ujpest cost the red and blues the points in a 3-1 loss. 

There were few wins to talk about but one of those came agaisnt ZTE. A Takacs goal meant a single goal win. The last game of autumn saw Honved come from behind to win 3-2.

Club enter the transfer market

Attila Horvath joined Vidi at the end of December. He had been in Austria with Austria Vienna and also at St Polten. He signed a deal until the 30th June 1999. Another new arrival was Vytautas Karvelis from Zalgiris Kaunas. The international from Lithuania committed himself to the club for two and a half years. Another player to move to Fehervar from Lithuania was defender Valdas Urbonas on a half year loan deal. Tamas Csordas and forward Istvan Varga made the step up from the youth team.

Free transfers were given to Denes Vaczi and defender Gabor Arki. Defender Janos Argyelan moved to Israel while midfielder Csorovics Nebojza and Almir Filipovics joined Siofok. 

Defeats and change of manager

The opening game of the second half of the season was against title hopefuls MTK. It proved a frustrating game with the sending off of Tamas Peto and a 3-1 defeat. The following game also ended in defeat to Vac by a 1-0 scoreline. The club parted company with manager Slobodan Kusztudics and his assistant Dragan Szekulics days later. Laszlo Disztl took over and he was assisted by Zoltan Csucsanszky and keeper coach Peter Disztl.

The team pulled itself together to collect the points with a 1-0 win over Csepel. The end of March included a game against Győrgy Mezey's BVSC side. Two goals from Zsolt Dveri secured a 2-0 win. Things improved with 3 draws and 2 wins including a 5-0 win over Pecs, which saw Vidi score their 350th goal in the nb1. The unbeaten run ended at Ujpest and and another 3 draws was capped off with a 3-2 defeat to Siofok. 

The team ended the season in 8th place, which was an improvement on the autumn season. 42 points were collected including 10 wins, 12 draws and 13 losses.

Hungarian cup - exit in the last 16

Videoton exited the cup at the final 16 stage with a 3-2 aggregate defeat to BVSC. They had beaten Perbal, Balatonlelle, Soroksar and Csakvar on the way to the match with BVSC.