UTA Arad

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UTA Arad
UTA Arad.svg
Basic data
Surname Fotbal Club Municipal Uzinele Textile Arad
founding April 18, 1945
Website uta-arad.ro
First soccer team
Venue Stadionul Francisc von Neuman
Places 8,000
league League I
2019/20   1st place, League II
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UTA Arad is a Romanian football club from Arad . He plays in the second Romanian league, Liga II , in the 2016/17 season . UTA Arad has been the Romanian football champion six times. Only Steaua Bucharest and Dinamo Bucharest and the club Venus Bucharest , which was dissolved in 1949, were able to win more championships.

history

The association was founded in 1945 under the name Industria Textilă Arad on the initiative of the local textile manufacturer Franz (Francisc) von Neuman. Von Neuman, who had returned from his studies in England as an enthusiastic supporter of football, shaped the club colors based on the example of his favorite club, Arsenal FC, and also initiated the construction of the stadium that today bears his name.

From autumn 1949, the club was briefly called UTA Arad , before it was renamed in 1950 in Flamura Roșie UTA Arad . In December 1957, it gave itself its current name, which FCM was placed in front of for several years from 1984 .

UTA Arad was Romanian champion six times: in 1947, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1969 and most recently in 1970. The Romanian Cup was won twice, in 1948 and 1953. The greatest successes in the European Cup are the first round win against the defending champion Feyenoord Rotterdam in the 1970/71 European Cup and reaching the quarter-finals of the 1971/72 UEFA Cup . UTA took from 1946/47 to 1978/79 for 32 seasons without interruption in the first division, which earned the club the nickname "Bătrâna Doamnă" (German: the old lady ). Except for the 1981/82 season in the 1980s and 1993/94 and 1994/95 in the 1990s, the club then played second class.

It was not until 2002 that he was promoted to Divizia A again under coach Ionuț Popa . After a mixed first half of the season, Popa was replaced during the winter break of the 2002/03 season by former national player Radu Nunweiller , who had lived in Switzerland for over twenty years and was flown in especially for this commitment. On April 17, 2003 Nunweiller was dismissed, but his successor Costel Pană did not manage to prevent relegation as bottom of the table. After the end of the season, the previous technical director Gheorghe Borugă took over the coaching position with the aim of immediate promotion . When looking for a sponsor to finance this project, the Bucharest businessman Marius Locic struck gold in early March 2004. He brought the former international Ilie Stan with him as a coach , but he clearly missed promotion. The new investor Sandu Ion, who joined in June 2004, therefore refused to continue Stan's employment and transferred responsibility for the team to Sorin Cigan , the previous coach of league competitor Tricotaje Ineu . After a bad start to the 2004/05 season , Cigan was fired and assistant coach Dan Cuedan took over the coaching position for the second time within two months. In September 2004, the former national goalkeeper Silviu Iorgulescu was hired as the new coach and Marcel Coraş as the new manager, with whom UTA finished in a disappointing eleventh place at the end of the season.

However, the sporting low point in the club's history followed in the 2005/06 season . First Iorgulescu was dismissed and Coraş presented as the new coach, before this retired on July 12, 2005 and a month before the start of the season with Dan Mănăilă a new coach was brought. After the away defeat at CFR Timişoara on the 8th matchday, Mănăilă was replaced in October 2005 by Victor Roşca , who stayed until mid-April 2006 without being able to bring the team into the top half of the table. After Gheorghe Borugă's cancellation for health reasons and lack of financial possibilities, Marcel Coraș then took over the role of head coach. Coraş resigned after four championship games and was replaced on May 12, 2006 by Mircea Petcuț . At the end of the season, the sporting descent from Divizia B was certain. The club officials then bought the first division license of the promoted Liberty Salonta , so that UTA took up in the 2006/07 season under the new coach Marius Lăcătuş in the top division.

After the 2007/08 season , UTA Arad reached 17th place and was therefore again second class from the 2008/09 season. In League II , the club had to struggle with numerous financial difficulties. To get rid of the problems, a new joint stock company called SC FC UTA SA was established in the summer of 2010 . This offered Florin Macovei, the ambitious patron of the league competitor Fortuna Covaci , 20% of the own shares for the starting right of Fortuna Covaci. Macovei had already complained about the lack of support for his club from the residents of Covaci and accepted this offer in order to get closer to his goal of getting involved in League 1 . Thereupon UTA withdrew its own team, which had occupied fourth place in the second division season 2009/10, from the championship, whereby the athletically relegated Fortuna Covaci retained their starting place in the League II. Since UTA had secured this in advance and there were no problems with the naming rights, their own gaming operations could be maintained while Fortuna Covaci started the course in the sixth division. On January 28, 2011 it was confirmed by the Romanian Football Association that UTA will be able to advance to the top division in 2013 at the earliest due to this purchased starting place. In early March 2011, the Romanian Football Association fined the club with a fine of 20,000 Swiss francs and a deduction of 12 points because the old club FCM UTA still had outstanding debts of 230,000 euros at the two Bosnian-Herzegovinian clubs FK PKB Padinska Skela and FK Modriča Maxima who trained former UTA player Nikola Vasiljević .

successes

  • Romanian champions: 1947, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1969, 1970
  • Romanian Cup Winner: 1948, 1953

rivalry

The supporters of UTA Arad maintain a rivalry with Politehnica Timișoara , which can be viewed as a local rivalry due to the spatial proximity, even if they are not city rivals. In the game, which is often referred to as the western Romanian derby, the stadiums are usually sold out and the fan groups try to outdo each other with colorful choreographies. In some cases, there have already been violent riots around the game.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The stadium "Francisc Neuman" - the little Highbury of Arad (rum.)
  2. ↑ 9AM of July 14, 2005 , accessed December 1, 2011 (Romanian)
  3. ↑ Florin Macavei explică plecarea la UTA , accessed on January 28, 2011 (Romanian)
  4. ↑ ProSport from August 20, 2010 , accessed on January 28, 2011 (Romanian)
  5. ↑ Fortuna va juca probabil în "Municipiu" , accessed on January 28, 2011 (Romanian)
  6. ↑ APLICAREA ARTICOLULUI 5bis DIN ROAF , accessed on January 29, 2011 (Romanian)
  7. ↑ ProSport of March 6, 2011 , accessed on July 24, 2011 (Romanian)