Maccabi Bucharest
Maccabi Bucharest | |||
Full name | Maccabi Bucureşti | ||
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Founded | May 25, 1919 | ||
Dissolved | May 14, 1948 | ||
Club colors | Red Blue | ||
Stadion | Calea Dudeşti | ||
Top league | Divizia A | ||
successes | |||
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Maccabi Bucharest was a Romanian sports club from Bucharest . He is one of the predecessors of clubs Dinamo Bucharest and played two years in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A .
history
Maccabi Bucharest was founded in 1919 by a Jewish businessman. In 1925 a women's field handball department was added.
Although the Maccabi football department regularly took part in the games for the Romanian football championship, it was never able to qualify for the finals in the Bucharest region due to the great competition. For the same reason, Maccabi was not one of the founding members of Divizia A in 1932 . But when Divizia B was launched two years later , the club was there. In 1935 the club celebrated its greatest successes. In addition to the first place in his season of Divizia B (Maccabi failed in the promotion round) Maccabi won the soccer tournament of the Maccabiade 1935 in Tel Aviv .
In the following years Maccabi also fought for promotion to the top division until these efforts were suddenly ended in 1940. In the course of anti-Semitism , which was also increasing in Romania and was officially supported , the club was excluded from the official championships.
After the end of the Second World War the club was reorganized and was allowed to start in Divizia A in the 1946/47 season after merging with a local rival under the name Ciocanul Bucharest . After successful relegation, the club merged in May 1948 - shortly before the end of the 1947/48 season - with the league competitor Unirea Tricolor Bucharest to form the new football club of the Romanian Ministry of the Interior, Dinamo Bucharest .
successes
- Maccabiade winner: 1935
Trainer
- Béla Guttmann (1946)
player
Web links
- Maccabi Bucharest on romaniansoccer.ro (English)