FC Brăila
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| Full name | ACS Dacia Unirea Brăila |
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| Nickname(s) |
Alb-Albaștrii (The White and Blues) |
| Founded | 1919 |
| Ground | Municipal |
| Capacity | 20,000 |
| Owner | Brăila County Council Brăila Municipality |
| Chairman | Valentin Avramescu |
| Manager | |
| League | Liga II |
| 2015–16 | Liga II, Seria I, 3rd |
| Website | Club home page |
Dacia Unirea Brăila is a Romanian professional football club from Brăila, founded in 1919. The club currently plays in the Liga II, currently their 50th season at this level. Their home is the 18,256-seat Stadionul Municipal stadium, where they have played since 1974.
Among the club's best performances are one Romanian Cup final in the 1992–93 season and a 6th-place finish in the top division of the Romanian football league system in the 1991–92 season.
Dacia Brăila was founded in 1919 around the same time with another team, Unirea. Until 1928, when the two merge their collective and Dacia Unirea appears, each separately participated in the regional championship.
In November 1929 Dacia Unirea had the following base team: Padimatopol (Căpreanu), Stanciu, Vasiliu, Leo (Săvulescu), Fritz, Grigoriou, Anastasios, Leșu, I. Goldenberg, Teodorescu (Frătescu, Cavada, Geller, Munteanu). In the 1929–1930 season the team won the regional tournament and qualified for the national championship tournament. In the quarter-finals they were eliminated by Juventus Bucharest, the team that won the championship that year.
Afterwards, Dacia Unirea played in the Divizia B between the years 1934–1937, 1938–1940 and in the Divizia A between the years 1937–1938, 1940–1941, the name of the team and of the club changing a few times: D.U.I.G. (Dacia Unirea Ignatz Goldenberg) in 1937, Dacia Unirea in 1938 and FC Brăila in 1940.
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