CAO Oradea
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| Full name | Asociația Club Sportiv CAO 1910 Oradea |
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| Short name | CAO |
| Founded | 25 May 1910 as Nagyváradi Atletikai Club 17 March 2017 as CAO 1910 Oradea |
| Ground | Iuliu Bodola |
| Capacity | 18,000 (11,155 seated) |
| Chairman | Florin Mal |
| Manager | Florin Farcaș |
| League | Liga V |
| 1962–63 | Dvizia A, 13th (relegated) |
| Website | Club website |
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| Football | Basketball (Men's) |
Basketball (Women's) |
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| Water Polo | Handball (Men's) |
Handball (Women's) |
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| Judo | Fencing | Athletics |
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Asociația Club Sportiv CAO 1910 Oradea, commonly known as Club Atletic Oradea (Romanian pronunciation: [ˌklub aˈtletik oˈrade̯a]) or simply as CAO, is a Romanian football club based in the city of Oradea, Bihor County.
It was founded in 1910 and it soon became one of the best teams in the country. The club was dissolved in 1963 and refounded in the spring of 2017.
Nagyvárad (Oradea) in 1910 was a prosperous city in central Hungary, with a 90% Hungarian population. A commercial and transport hub, the city was an early hotbed of the game of football, which had arrived in 1902 with inhabitants returning from study or work abroad or in Budapest. The sport was gaining in popularity, but there was not yet an organised club to represent the town in matches against Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) or Temesvár (Timișoara). Established in 1910, when Transylvania was still part of Austria-Hungary, Nagyváradi Atletikai Club - in Romanian: Club Atletic Oradea - will soon become the symbol of the football from Oradea. Its initials, NAC, then CAO, will require respect. The colors of the club were white and green. The constituent assembly was held on 25th May 1910, in the Emke Café, the board of directors being Dr. Emil Jonas, chairman, Béla Mikló, executive president, Andor Szabo, secretary, and Dr. Kálmán Kovács, cashier, and the affiliation to the Hungarian Football Federation was sought. On 31 July NAC played its first game, against the Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) railway workers’ club KVSC, and in January 1912 a home ground was secured in Rhedey Park (where the zoo now stands). The next month, a touring team from England came to town: Bishop Auckland, the Northern League champions that season, beat NAC 8-0.
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