Romtelecom Arad
| Romtelecom Arad | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Romtelecom Arad |
| Seat | Arad (Romania) |
| founding | August 1911 |
| resolution | 2007 |
| Colours | White blue |
| First soccer team | |
| Venue | Astra-CFR (demolished 2006) |
| Places | unknown |
Romtelecom Arad was a Romanian football club from Arad , which was owned by the Romanian telephone company Romtelecom until its dissolution in 2007 . He last played in the Categoria Onoare , the regional league of the Arad district . The club achieved its greatest success under the name AMEF Arad in the 1920s and 1930s, when it belonged to the highest Romanian football league, Divizia A , and won the runner-up in 1936.
history
Romtelecom Arad was founded in August 1911 as Asociația Muncitorilor pentru Educație Fizică Arad ( AMEF Arad ; German workers' association for physical training ) when Arad was still part of Austria-Hungary . AS Tipografia Arad joined in 1913 . After Arad came to Romania through the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, AMEFA took part in the qualification for the final round of the Romanian football championship. In 1922, 1926 and 1927 AMEFA came to the finals, but was eliminated twice against the then best Romanian team, Chinezul Timișoara . AMEFA achieved the best result with the semi-finals in 1926 .
When the Romanian professional league Divizia A was founded in 1932 , AMEFA was one of the founding members. AMEFA's services were very unstable. After the team was only able to secure relegation in the 1934/35 season, the biggest success in club history was achieved in the following season with the runner-up. Until the outbreak of the Second World War , AMEFA was one of the top Romanian teams, but could not win the championship. In 1940 the club was excluded from gambling by the Romanian fascist youth organization Straja Țării , as it was said to have been communist because of its proximity to the unions.
After the war AMEFA started in the second-rate Divizia B . In 1948, AMEFA merged with Astra Arad , the sports club of the Arad wagon factory founded in 1932, to form UVA-AMEF Arad and played in the first season of the third-rate Divizia C in the 1948/49 season . This league was dissolved after the first half of the season and AMEFA played in regional leagues from then on. In 1950, the association was renamed Metalul Flamura Roșie Arad . 1954 succeeded in returning to Divizia B and the club shortened its name to Metalul Arad . After a year in the re-established Divizia C, the immediate return to Divizia B succeeded. In the following period, the club often changed its name and called itself after Energia Arad (1957) and again AMEF Arad (1959) from 1962 Vagonul Arad . In 1963 he went back to Divizia C, but was able to rise to the top teams of Divizia B after an immediate return.
As a result of the upward trend, Vagonul managed to return to Divizia A in 1968, which was associated with the club's move from the current prototype site of the wagon factory to the CFR Arad stadium . After only one year, at the end of the 1968/69 season, relegation was certain. In the same season Vagonul was able to surprisingly reach the semi-finals of the Romanian Cup. Since this descent, Vagonul has never been able to build on previous successes. It followed in 1971 the crash into Divizia C, in which the club was active for two seasons and first took 12th and then 6th place. In 1973 he merged with the second division club CFR Arad to Unirea Arad , which changed its name to Rapid Arad in 1974 . The club became an elevator team between Divizia B and Divizia C. In 1986 the name of the club was changed back to Vagonul Arad , before it was called Astra Arad from 1991 .
After the last relegation to Divizia C in 1992, the football department of Astra Arad merged in 1994 with local rivals Aris Arad (formerly Strungul Arad ) to form FC Arad . The new club took over the colors red and blue and the home stadium Stadionul Aris from Aris Arad. Although he was traded as a candidate for promotion to Divizia B at the beginning of the season, FC Arad could only just save itself from relegation in 1995.
After the champions of the Arad district , Telecom Arad , failed in the promotion games to Divizia C in June 1995 , Gheorghe Marinca, the president of this club, agreed with those responsible at Arad FC on a new merger. The newly formed club had chosen yellow and blue as the colors and initially called itself FC Arad Telecom . He stepped as the successor to FC Arad in Divizia C, while the second team played under the name Telecom Arad 1995/96 in the district championship and was disbanded a short time later after moving to Vladimirescu . In 1996 Romtelecom took over the club, which later called itself FC Telecom Arad and from the 1998/99 season just Telecom Arad . He no longer wore his games in the Banu Mărăcine, but in the old Constructorul stadium in the Micălaca district and was able to knock on the door of Divizia B in 2001, but narrowly failed. In the 2005/06 season the club changed its name to Romtelecom Arad and rose from Divizia C after eleven years of league membership. Then Romtelecom Arad played another year in League IV , the fourth-class regional league of the Arad district. In 2007 he was relegated to the Categoria Onoare and in the same year the dissolution of the club still led by Gheorghe Marinca, which did not play for the last championship games.
Except for the wrestlers, who continue to compete as CS Astra Arad , all the remaining departments of the Astra sports club were renamed AMEFA in 2008 .
successes
- Romanian runner-up: 1936
player
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Coloman Braun-Bogdan (1915–1932) -
Stefan Auer (1919–1921) youth, (1921–1926) player, -
Róbert Szádowsky (1935–1938)
Others
Under the name Astra Arad , the club was Romanian runner-up in water polo in the 1996/97 season . Numerous weightlifters who competed for AMEFA have won medals at world and European championships. In addition, numerous other sports were practiced in the club: wrestling, athletics, rowing, cycling, chess, bowling, motorcycle sports, tennis, shooting, handball, bodybuilding, gymnastics, judo and table tennis.
literature
- Tiberiu Țiganu, Gheorghe Biriș: Clubul Sportiv Astra la 90 de ani , 2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ Divizia C 1948/49 (English)
- ↑ AMEFA la 100 de ani: povestea echipei de fotbal ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sportarad from April 7, 2011, accessed on July 23, 2011 (Romanian)
- ↑ Bănățeanul dated November 1, 2005 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 24, 2011 (Romanian)
- ↑ AMEFA la 100 de ani: la polo se face legătura dintre un trecut frumos şi un prezent care a confirmat, din nou, valoarea şcolii arădene ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sportarad from May 19, 2011, accessed on July 23, 2011 (Romanian)
- ↑ AMEFA la 100 de ani: Halterele au fost ridicate până în Olimp (iadă) ( Memento of the original of September 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sportarad from April 14, 2011, accessed on July 23, 2011 (Romanian)
Web links
- Romtelecom Arad on romaniansoccer.ro (English)