CA Oradea
| CA Oradea | |||
| Full name | Clubul Atletic Oradea | ||
| place | Oradea | ||
| Founded | 1910 | ||
| Dissolved | 1963 | ||
| Club colors | White-green | ||
| Stadion | "Stadionul Municipal", Oradea | ||
| Top league | Divizia A | ||
| successes | Romanian champion 1949 Hungarian champion 1944 |
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CAO Oradea was a Romanian football club from Oradea . It is the only Romanian club to have become football champions of two countries: Hungarian champions in 1944 (as Nagyváradi Atletikai Club ) and Romanian champions in 1949 (as IC Oradea ). In 1955 they won the Romanian Cup (as Progresul Oradea ). The association was dissolved in 1963.
history
The CAO Oradea was founded in 1910 as the Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club (Nagyvárad is the Hungarian name of the city of Oradea). At that time Oradea was still on the Hungarian territory of the Danube Monarchy . Until 1918 the association was only active on a local and regional level. After the First World War , the city came to Romania and the club was henceforth Clubul Atletic Oradea (CAO).
Between 1920 and 1932 they played in the regional league. Twice the team, in a duel with local rivals Stăruința Oradea , in 1924 and 1925 there champions will qualify for the finals of the Romanian football championship. Once they made it to the 1924 final against Chinezul Timișoara , which was lost.
The club was one in 1932, one of the founding members of the new Romanian professional league, the Divizia A . After missing the entry into the finals twice, the team won the Romanian runner-up behind Ripensia Timișoara at the end of the 1934/35 season . 1938 had to CAO in the Divizia B dismount. After the second Viennese arbitration award in 1940, Oradea, which was near the Hungarian border, came back to Hungary. Again named as Nagyváradi AC , the club played for four years in the 1st Hungarian league, the Nemzeti Bajnokság . At the start of the new league in 1941/42 they finished 5th. The team remained runner-up until the end of World War II, and in the third season of 1943/44 the NAC even won the championship - as the first team that did not come from the Hungarian capital Budapest .
After the Second World War , the club - Oradea had become Romanian again - was re-established as Clubul Sportiv Libertatea Oradea (CSL Oradea) and played again in Divizia A. Renamed in Întreprinderea Comunala Oradea (ÎCO) in 1948, the club could do the same To win the Romanian championship season in Divizia A 1948/49 , it was the only football club in Romania to become champions of two different countries. In 1951 the club changed its name again and was henceforth Progresul Oradea . In the Divizia A 1954 season , Progresul rose to Divizia B, but only a year later they were promoted again and played in the final for the Romanian Cup . In the following season, they even won the cup, which was the last great success in the club's history. In the 1957/58 season Progresul rose again from Divizia B. In the same year, the club changed its name, now played as Clubul Sportiv Oradea , from 1961 then as Crișana Oradea .
In the 1962/63 season Crișana took part in Divizia A for the last time. After relegation again, the club was dissolved. At the same time, the young local rival Crișul Oradea (founded in 1958) was promoted to Divizia A.
successes
- Romanian football champion: 1949
- Hungarian football champion: 1944
- Romanian Cup Winner: 1956
- Romanian runner-up: 1924, 1935
- Hungarian runner-up: 1943
- Romanian Cup finalist: 1955