CSM Bucovina Rădăuți

Clubul Sportiv Municipal Bucovina Rădăuți, commonly known as Bucovina Rădăuți, is a Romanian professional football club based in Rădăuți, Romania, founded in 1956. Currently the team plays in Liga III.

Bucovina Rădăuți
Full nameClubul Sportiv Municipal Bucovina Rădăuți
Nickname(s)Bucovinenii
(The People from Bucovina)
Rădăuțenii
(The People from Rădăuți)
Short nameBucovina
Founded1956; 68 years ago (1956)
as Progresul Rădăuți
2012; 12 years ago (2012)
as CSM Bucovina Rădăuți
GroundRădăuți Municipal Stadium
Capacity2,000
OwnerRădăuți Municipality
ChairmanCosmin Nichiforiuc
ManagerOvidiu Murariu
LeagueLiga III
2023–24Liga III, Seria I, 1st
Current season

History

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Clubul Sportiv Municipal Bucovina Rădăuți was founded in 1956 as Progresul Rădăuți to continue the football tradition in Rădăuți started before World War II by Hatmanul Luca Arbore Rădăuți and then continued by teams like: Jahn Rădăuți and Hagwiruch Rădăuți.

Bucovinenii played almost all their history at Liga III being a traditional team at this level and the best performance of the club was at the end of 1958–1959 season when it finished on the 2nd place.[1]

From the beginning of 60's the club played under the name of Metalul Rădăuți, the name with which it would evolve throughout the communist period, from 1991 the team was renamed as Bucovina Rădăuți.

At the end of the 2003–04 Divizia C season Bucovina Rădăuți relegated to Liga IV being then unable for several consecutive years to return to Liga III.
In the 2011–12 season Bucovina Frătăuții Noi won Liga IV – Suceava County and promoted to Liga III after the play-off match, then in the summer of the same year the team was moved from Frătăuții Noi to Rădăuți and renamed as Bucovina Rădăuți reinventing the football tradition of Rădăuți.[2]

In the middle of the 2015–16 Liga III season Rădăuțenii withdrew from Liga III due to financial problems.[3] In the summer of 2016 the team enrolled in Liga IV-Suceava County and after one year the club was promoted back to Liga III after a play-off match against Bistrița-Năsăud County champions, ACS Dumitra.[4]

Honours

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Leagues

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Liga III:

Liga IV – Suceava County

Cups

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Romanian CupSuceava County

  • Winners (1): 2016–17

Players

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First team squad

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As of 6 September 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   ROU Ionuț Puianu
2 MF   ROU Gabriel Derevlean
3 MF   ROU Alexandru Nistor
4 DF   ROU Andrei Pintilei
6 MF   ROU Daniel Bejenar (Vice-Captain)
7 MF   ROU Adrian Stroe
8 MF   ROU Răzvan Maftei
9 FW   ROU Robert Ciobanu (on loan from Ceahlăul)
10 MF   ROU Cornel Căinari (Captain)
11 MF   ROU Georgel Hopulele
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF   ROU Iulian Serediuc
21 MF   ROU Cătălin Grosu
27 DF   BFA Luc Zango
33 DF   ROU Andrei Alecsandru
44 DF   ROU Alexandru Ciobanu
77 MF   ROU Georgică Popovici
92 MF   ROU Iosif Netbai
93 GK   ROU Cristian Butnariu
99 MF   ROU Robert Bălan

Out on loan

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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
No. Pos. Nation Player

Club officials

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League history

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Former managers

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References

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