FCM Bacău

FCM Bacău
Full name Fotbal Club Municipal Bacău
Nickname(s) Taurii Furioşi (The Mad Bulls)
Founded 1950
Ground Municipal
(Capacity: 17,500)
Chairman Dumitru Sechelariu
Manager Gheorghe Poenaru
League Liga II
2010–11 Liga III, Seria I, 1st (Promoted)
Website Club home page
Home colours
Away colours
Current season

FCM Bacău is a Romanian football club, founded in 1950, currently playing in the Liga II. It's the best placed Moldovan team in the Liga I All-Time Table, ranking 9th with 42 seasons played.

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History

The club was established in 1950, and has achieved some decent results in the league (despite never having finished in the top 3), 4th place in the 1972/1973 season and 5th place in the 1996/1997 season as its best results there. In 2001, FCM Bacău relegated to the second league, but maintained in the first division after buying a place from promoted FC Baia Mare.

In the Romanian Cup, FCM Bacău managed to reach the final in the 1990/1991 season, eventually being defeated 2-1 by Universitatea Craiova, which also won the league that season. Their best European performance was achieved in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (the predecessor of the U.E.F.A. Cup) in the 1969-1970 Edition when the team, named at that time Dinamo Bacau, reached the quarter-finals, after eliminating teams like F.C. Floriana (Malta), F.K Skeid (Norway) and Kilmarnock F.C. (Scotland), being defeated by the team who at the end of the competition would win the trophy Arsenal F.C. with a humiliating 0-2 in Romania and 7-1 on Highbury Stadium.

FCM Bacău won the 1998 edition of Cupa Ligii and was runner-up in 2000.

In the 2001-2002 Divizia A season, Cătălin Cursaru the FCM Bacau's striker was the national Top Goal Scorer, scoring 17 goals.

The team's pennant decline accelerated even more, and at the end of the 2009–10 Liga II season, it relegated to the Liga III.

The club finished 1st the first half of the 2010–11 Liga III season, and their objective to promote back to the Liga II seems just in grasps reach.

FCM Bacău promoted at the end of the 2010–11 Liga III season after it finished 1st in the Seria I, with 23 victories, 3 draws and 0 loses.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
GK Catalin Pascal
GK Viorel Ignătescu
DF Eugen Baciu
DF Vasile Dobârceanu
DF Ciprian Dediu
DF Razvan Adăscăliţei
DF Ionut Mihălăchioaie
DF Andrei Bursuc
DF Ciprian Răduțoiu
DF Ionut Varea
No. Position Player
MF Dragos Petrache
MF Remus Cojocaru
MF Dragos Huiban
MF Marius Doboş
MF George Taban
FW Cătălin Vraciu
FW Gabriel Petrea
FW Ionut Radu
FW Eduard Tismănaru

Honours

Liga I:

  • Winners (0):, Best finish: 4th 1972-73

Liga II:

  • Winners (4): 1955, 1966–67, 1974–75, 1994–95
  • Runners-up (3): 1954, 1957–58, 1964–65

Liga III:

Romanian Cup:

  • Winners (0):
  • Runners-up (1): 1990–91

Romanian League Cup:

European record

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Season Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1991–92 First round Werder Bremen 0–6 0–5 0–11
UEFA Intertoto Cup
Season Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1999 First round Ararat Yerevan 0–1 0–1 0–2

Notable players

Notable managers

References

External links

Seria I
Seria II
Liga II seasons
1930–31 · 1931–32 · 1932–33 · 1933–34 · 1934–35 · 1935–36 · 1936–37 · 1937–38 · 1938–39 · 1939–40
1940–41 · 1941–42 · 1942–43 · 1943–44 · 1944–45 · 1945–46 · 1946–47 · 1947–48 · 1948–49 · 1949–50
1950–51 · 1951–52 · 1952–53 · 1953–54 · 1954–55 · 1955–56 · 1956–57 · 1957–58 · 1958–59 · 1959–60
1960–61 · 1961–62 · 1962–63 · 1963–64 · 1964–65 · 1965–66 · 1966–67 · 1967–68 · 1968–69 · 1969–70
1970–71 · 1971–72 · 1972–73 · 1973–74 · 1974–75 · 1975–76 · 1976–77 · 1977–78 · 1978–79 · 1979–80
1980–81 · 1981–82 · 1982–83 · 1983–84 · 1984–85 · 1985–86 · 1986–87 · 1987–88 · 1988–89 · 1989–90