Prahova Ploiești

Prahova Ploiesti was a Romanian football club based in Ploieşti. He was twice Romanian football champions.

History

Prahova Ploiesti was founded in 1909 as FC United Ploieşti by American and Dutch workers of the oil refineries in Ploieşti. It was not until 1911, the first Romanian player joined the club. In the 1911/12 season United won the Cupa Alexandru Bellio, which was seen later as a Romanian football championship. It is worth noting that United could take the match against Olympia Bucharest with only nine players, as it was banned the other from their parents to travel to Bucharest.

At the beginning of 1914, the foreigners left the country or joined the newly founded association Societatea Romano - Americana Bucureşti. United named thereupon order in Prahova Ploiesti. In the season 1915/16 Prahova won the Cupa Jean Luca P. Niculescu, which was later interpreted also as a Romanian football championship, but benefited from the war preparations in Romania, after Bucharest clubs could not compete in Ploieşti.

After the First World War Prahova played only a minor role and had to settle for playing in Divizia B and C Divizia content. Only in the 1946/47 season, the club played in Divizia A. 1947 merged with Prahova Ploiesti Concordia and changed in the following years often his name. About Partizanul (1950), Flacara (1951) and Flacara May 1 (1955 ), there were Energia May 1 (1956). In the season 1962/63 Energia was demoted to the lower leagues due to illegal methods. After a name change in Prahova CSU (1984 ) it came in 1999 to its name Argus Prahova and was disbanded in 2000.