FC Brașov
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| Full name | Fotbal Club Brașov |
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| Nickname(s) |
Stegarii (The Flaggers) Galben-Negrii (The Yellow and Blacks) Echipa de sub Tâmpa (The Team from Tâmpa) |
| Founded | 1936 as Uzinele Astra Brașov |
| Ground | Silviu Ploeșteanu |
| Capacity | 8,800 |
| Owner | Ioan Neculaie |
| Chairman | Vasile Dochița |
| Manager | Cornel Țălnar |
| League | Liga II |
| 2015–16 | Liga II, Seria II, 5th |
| Website | Club home page |
Fotbal Club Brașov is a professional football club based in the city of Brașov, Romania. They were founded in 1936, and since then they have spent 41 seasons in the top-flight. Brașov kits are yellow-black, and they play their home matches on the Silviu Ploeșteanu stadium.
"Prehistoric" football in Brașov started between 1912 and 1914. In 1927, the unrelated Colțea Brașov won a major title. In the second edition of Division C (1937–1938), the team Brașovia had given way to the new team "Astra" Brașov, founded a year earlier in 1936, which developed through the years to the current team from the foot of the mountain Tâmpa, FC Brașov. Players from this precursor of FC's in '37 may be considered the first generation in the team history. Ten of them are mentioned by the press: Năftănăilă (no relation to Lulu Năftănăilă from the later history of the club), Aurel Stroe, Pitu, Chicomban (a known family of multiathletes), Danciu, Pedra, Chirică, Dumitrescu, A. Iftimie, Dănăilă, Dragan.
The Second World War paralyzed the world of football, although there were a few competitions like "The Cup of Bessarabia" or "The Heroes Cup". Immediately after the armistice, various teams began to emerge throughout Romania, for the most part related to industrial establishments, universities or the military.
Yet one more time we find the Brașov team in Division C – series XII, as "UAB". This constellation is the starting point of the team that manager Silviu Ploeșteanu, with firm hands and professionalism, will bring to the second place in the first division and to winning the first Balkan Interclub Cup. We consider this to be the second generation, the generation that finally succeeded to break into Division B, in 1950.
This is the generation that Silviu Ploeșteanu managed to become a great team, winners of "The Balkan Cup" and players on the front stage among Romanian clubs. In 1960 the team places itself as number two on the front stage. This is the generation of Nicolae Proca, Gheorghe Fusulan, Gheorghe Ciripoi, Tică Constantinescu, Gheorghe Percea, Octavian Zaharia and Gheorghe Raicu; later supplemented by Stephen Hidișan (who continued as coach, a discoverer of talent), Nicolae Campo, Ioan Szigeti, Alexandru Meszaroși, Vasile Szeredai, Dorin Gane, Valer Târnăveanu and Necula Dorin.
The following generation is the one of the trio Nicolae Pescaru – Stere Adamache – Mihai Ivăncescu, the generation that provided three players to the Romanian national team at the World Cup in Mexico 1970. For a province team this was an extraordinary achievement, especially as they then played in Division B, even if the demotion (starting in 1968) was due to factors unrelated to the playing proficiency of the team.
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