Career
Mátéfi, an ethnic Hungarian from Transylvania, began her career by Computer Software Systems Târgu Mureş, from where she also made to the Romanian national selection and later became the captain of the team Her best results with Romania were a fourth place in the 1989 World Championship and a fifth place on the World event three years earlier. Following the cessation of her club, the left back moved to Hungary in January 1992, having signed by Debrecen.
From 1993 to 1997 Mátéfi played for Győri European Theatre of Operations KC. A year later on the Olympic Games in Atlanta she collected the bronze medal.
Mátéfi received her coaching diploma yet in 1998 and after retiring from professional handball in 1999 she began to train the youth sides of Dunaferr. Later she was promoted to assistant coach and also had spells by the Hungarian national team in younger age categories.
She got her first head coaching job in 2007 from Békéscsabai Előre NKSE. The team, that climbed back to the top-tier division just in 2006, performed under the guidance of Mátéfi superbly and reached the fourth place in the Hungarian championship both in 2009 and 2010, in this way winning the right to take part in the EHF Cup. In the summer of 2009 she was appointed as the head coach of the Hungarian women"s national team, replacing Vilmos Imre in the position.
Mátéfi remained in charge both by her club and the national team until November 2010, when Beáta Bohus took the coaching seat of Békéscsaba to help her to be able to concentrate fully on her international duties.
However, during the reign of Mátéfi the Hungarian team slightly underperformed, finishing ninth at the 2009 World Championship and tenth at the 2010 European Championship. Hungary eventually got knocked out by Germany in the 2011 World Championship qualifying play-offs, thereupon Mátéfi resigned in June 2011. Mátéfi returned to coaching in November 2011, when she was named the head coach of the recently established handball academy in Dunaújváros.
A year later, in July 2012 she took over the senior club of Dunaújvárosi Kohász KA. Club Liga Naţională International Top Scorer: 1994.
