Petrolul Ploiesti

Petrolul Ploiesti
	Petrolul Ploiesti
Basic data
Surname	Fotbal Club Petrolul Ploieşti
Seat	Ploieşti
founding	1952 (re-established in 2016)
Colours	yellow blue
president	Cristi Vlad
Website	fcpetrolul.ro
First soccer team
Head coach	Viorel Moldovan
Venue	Ilie Oană Stadium
Places	15,500
league	League II
2019/20	5th place, League II

FC Petrolul Ploieşti is a Romanian football club from Ploieşti . He has been playing in Liga II , the second Romanian football league , since 2018 . The club was three times national champions and three times cup winners.

history

Petrolul Ploieşti was founded when the team from Flacăra Bucharest (under the name Juventus Bucharest , Romanian champion in 1930 ) moved from Bucharest to Ploieşti. She initially played under the name Flacăra Ploieşti and rose from Divizia A in the year it was founded.

After the immediate resurgence, Flacăra (renamed Energia Ploieşti in 1956 and playing under the name Petrolul Ploieşti from 1957 ) developed into a top team in Romania. The highlights of this phase were the championships in 1958 , 1959 and 1966 as well as winning the cup in 1963. Internationally, Petrolul reached the quarter-finals of the trade fair cup in the 1962/63 season , while participation in the European Champions Cup ended in the first round.

After winning the third title in 1966, the club's heyday was over. After several years in a relegation battle Petrolul rose at the end of the season 1974/75 as a Table in the Divizia B from. In the 1970s and 1980s, Petrolul developed into the elevator crew and was never able to hold the class for long.

It wasn't until the beginning of the 1990s that Petrolul was able to build on earlier successes. After promotion in 1989, the team moved into the UEFA Cup for the first time the following year . After the club had briefly called FC Ploieşti in 1992/93 , the penultimate success achieved in 1995 with the cup win against Rapid Bucharest . In the European Cup Winners' Cup , Petrolul was eliminated in the first round against the eventual finalists SK Rapid Wien .

After relegation from Divizia A at the end of the 2001/02 season , Petrolul merged in 2003 with local rivals Astra Ploieşti to Petrolul Astra Ploieşti , but changed the name again shortly thereafter to Petrolul Ploieşti . As a result of the merger, Petrolul returned to Divizia A, but rose again to Divizia B in 2004 under coach Florin Marin , who was replaced by Virgil Dridea in July 2004 . There the club finished four times in third and twice in fourth place in the respective season in the following six seasons. After Eusebiu Tudor was sacked in April 2009, Valeriu Răchită was the team's new coach in June 2009 . With him succeeded in 2011, the promotion to League 1 , but he was replaced on March 28, 2012 by Gheorghe Mulțescu when the club was on a relegation zone after 23 matchdays.

In the 2006/07 season Petrolul carried out his home games due to the renovation of the Ilie-Oană Stadium in Mogoșoaia, 50 km away .

In 2013 the trophy was won for the third time under coach Cosmin Contra . Contra left the club on March 10, 2014 to sign a contract with Spanish first division club Getafe . The next day, Răzvan Lucescu was introduced as the new coach.

On September 17, 2014, Gheorghe Mulțescu became the new coach.

In 2016 the association filed for bankruptcy and disbanded. In the same year Petrolul was re-established. They started again in League IV , the fourth highest league in Romania. In the meantime, they have also been bought by the Romanian agency of the French company Veolia Environnement . Veolia owns part of the association.