ASU Politehnica Timișoara
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| Full name | Asociația Sportivă Universitatea Politehnica Timișoara |
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| Short name | ASU Poli |
| Founded | 1 July 2012 |
| Ground | Dan Păltinișanu / Știința |
| Capacity | 32,972 / 1,000 |
| Owner | Druckeria |
| Chairman | Florin Drăgan |
| Manager | Bogdan Andone |
| League | Liga II |
| 2016–17 | Liga II, 15th |
| Website | Club website |
Asociația Sportivă Universitatea Politehnica Timișoara, commonly known as ASU Politehnica Timișoara, is a Romanian professional football club based in Timișoara, Timiș County, currently playing in the Liga II.
ASU Politehnica Timișoara belongs to the Polytechnic University of Timișoara and is a fan-owned phoenix club formed after the dissolution of FC Politehnica Timișoara in 2012. ACS Recaș was moved to Timișoara and was renamed ACS Poli Timișoara but the fans decided to create and support an amateur team, being of the opinion that ACS Poli is a fraud and a political maneuver.
Lacking other ambitions, in most of its business the team has evolved in the municipal championship. Following the dissolution of the Liga II team and disagreeing with the mayor's proposal to move ACS Recaș to Timișoara, South Lawn representatives, together with other fans of Politehnica Timișoara, decided to support the Liga V team, ASU Politehnica, which is the only now that they can identify as belonging to the right of the Polytechnic Institute, institution which appeared in 1921 as Politehnica Timișoara. Even if ASU Politehnica is not the legal successor of the former Divizia A and B team and even if not holding Polytechnics old track record, this is the only team that Poli supporters recognize as the one that can carry forward the spirit of the white and purple colours of Timișoara.
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