FC Progresul București

FC Progresul Bucharest until the summer of 2007 FC Bucharest Naţional ( Fotbal Club Naţional Bucureşti ) is a Romanian football club from Bucharest. Since 2009 IV he plays in the fourth highest football league, the league His biggest success he achieved in 1960 when he won the Romanian Cup. Between 1995 and 2003 he was one of the best Romanian clubs and was able to repeatedly win the runner-up.

History

The origins of the club in December 1865, when Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza in Parcul cu Platani, the site of the present stadium Cotroceni, the Societatea de Dare de SEMN, a group of sports Driving, brought to life. In 1944 arose from this group a club, Banca Naţională a României Bucureşti ( Bucharest BNR ), the sports club of the Romanian National Bank.

After the takeover by the Communists in the winter 1947/48, the BNR changed its name and in this context also the association, which from the year 1949 under the name Spartac Banca Republica populara Română Bucureşti ( Spartac Banca RPR Bucureşti), Spartak Bank of the Romanian People's Republic, acted. At this time the club played in Divizia B. There in the 1954 season succeeded the first time jump into the highest Romanian league, which Divizia A after the club in 1953, first in Spartac Finanţe BANCI Bucureşti ( Bucharest Spartac FB ) and 1954 in Progresul Finanţe BANCI Bucureşti ( Bucharest Progresul FB ) had renamed. From 1958, he only wore the name Progresul Bucharest.

Sporty Progresul be able to maintain for ten years in Divizia A. The greatest success during this time succeeded in 1960 by winning the Romanian Cup. 1958, the club had at least reached the final, while the best placement of third places in the seasons 1955 and 1961/62 were. After relegation in 1965 the club managed as well as after the descent 1969, the immediate resurgence. However Progresul Divizia A was during the 1970s and 1980s to infrequently, only four seasons were to book. Not, however, under the name Progresul Bucharest, but as Progresul - vointa Bucharest, after he had set out from 1977 to 1987 as Progresul Vulcan Bucharest - Instead, the club experienced in 1988 with the descent into Divizia C a temporary low point. After two more name changes - Progresul Energia Bucharest from 1988 and Progresul Soimii IMUC Bucharest from 1989 - succeeded in 1990 to return to the Divizia B.

After the club had its old name Progresul Bucharest adopted again in 1991 and the National Bank of Romania ( Banca Naţională a României ) was again entered as a sponsor, already succeeded in 1992 to return to the Divizia A. In 1994 the club name of the sponsor and named the name FC Naţional Bucharest. In the second half of the 1990s Naţional rose in the Romanian top on and Won in the years 1996, 1997 and 2002, the Romanian runner. In addition, the club reached in the years 1997, 2003 and 2006 the cup final, but lost each. The big coup, winning the championship, did not succeed. Naţional placed mostly in the upper middle, so that the club does not continuously participated in the European Cup.

At the end of the 2006/07 season Naţional rose unexpectedly from the top league, which was since start of the season league 1, from and played two years in the second-class league 2 After the descent and the withdrawal of the sponsor, the name was again in SC FC Progresul Bucharest changed. In the second division season 2008/ 09 the debt mountain grew so high that first payments to coaches and players have been set. As the Bulgarian goalkeeper Radostin Stanev his former club sued over unpaid wages at the FIFA and Progresul the demand did not comply, the club was punished in March 2009 with a three- point deduction. After Progresul did not compete on 23 game against Dunărea Giurgiu and 24 game against CS Concordia Chiajna, it was decided by the Romanian Football Federation, the exclusion from the championship. In August 2009, the club was re-established by the lawyer Bogdan Tohăneanu under the name AS FC Progresul Bucharest and enters the League IV, the championship of the Bucharest Municipality, at. The Cotroceni Stadium was abandoned for reasons of cost, the home games of the team took first in the smaller Coresi Stadium near the Casa Presei Libere instead. 2011 played Progresul in Electroaparataj Stadium since the BNR refused as before, the association to adopt the old debt in the amount of 300,000 euros.

Achievements

The club won the 1960 Romanian Association Cup.

Known player

  • Romania Gabriel Caramarin
  • Romania Liviu Ciobotariu
  • Romania Gigel Coman
  • Dudu Georgescu Romania
  • Romania Ovidiu Hereâ
  • Romania Razvan Lucescu
  • Romania Paul Manta
  • Romania Viorel Mateianu
  • Romania Viorel Năstase
  • Romania Radu Niculescu
  • Romania Cosmin Olăroiu
  • Romania Titus ozone
  • Romania Marius Popa
  • Romania Gabriel Popescu
  • Romania Sergiu Radu
  • Romania Mircea Sandu
  • Romania Marian Savu
Spartak (sports society) Liga II Liga I 1955 Divizia A 1961–62 Divizia A Liga III 2006–07 Liga I
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