Full name | Clubul Athletic Muncitoresc Timișoara |
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Short name | CAMT |
Founded | 1911 as RGM Timișoara |
Dissolved | 1949 |
CAM Timișoara was a football club based in Timișoara, western Romania. It was founded in 1911 and it played one Romanian Cup final in 1938. In the summer of 1936, CA Timișoara disappeared after a merger with RGM Timișoara, to form the new team named CAM Timișoara. The club was dissolved in 1949.
The club was founded in 1911, under the name Reuniunea de gimnastică a muncitorilor din Timișoara (Workers Gimnastic Reunion from Timișoara), when it started officially in the district championship. Colours: red-black. The first president of the association was Sigismund Löbi. The usual team used during the period before World War I was: Holzer – Reuter I, Drexeler, Reuter II, Tóth, Horváth – Heich, R. Wetzer, Stepumer, Serly, Blum.
After the war, the club activated in the Timișoara District Championship, 1st Category, regularly finishing in the upper half of the table. Players used during the 1925–1929 period were: Pülöck, Grell, Zarda II, Koch, Steinbach, Radici, Wessely, Ranschau, Katai, Szlovik, Busza, Karlach, Sindelar, Szedlanik, Löwenfeld, Kovács, Antalescu, Palmer II, Loch, Stepan, Szabó, Szücs.
In the summer of 1936, CA Timișoara disappeared after a merger with RGM Timișoara, to form the new team named CAM Timișoara.
At the end of the 1929–30 season of the Regional Championship, the club finishes 1st and qualifies for the final tournament of the national championship, Divizia A 1929–30. It reaches the quarter-finals being eliminated by Gloria CFR Arad, 1–0.
In 1932–33, at the start of the newly formed Divizia A, RGM Timișoara becomes Timișoara's one of two representatives at this competitional level, alongside Ripensia Timișoara. It finishes 6th in the Seria II of the Divizia A 1932–33 and is obliged to participate at a play-off to avoid relegation. It plays against România Cluj and Juventus Bucharest and loses both matches. So it relegates to the District Championship. The team used in the Divizia A 1932–33: Fuch – Molnár, Hajdu – Gerber, Stepan, Máthé – Iovicin, Reuter, Löwenfeld, Stocksläger, Busza.