Divizia A 1956
The 1956 Divizia A was the thirty-ninth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania. Teams League table Results Top goalscorers Champion squad See also * 1956 Divizia B References {{1956–57 in European football (UEFA) Liga I seasons Romania Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ... 1 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Divizia A
The Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1, is a Romanian professional league for men's association football clubs. Currently sponsored by betting company Superbet, it is officially known as the SuperLiga. It is the country's top football competition, being contested by 16 clubs which take part in a promotion and relegation system with the Liga II. The teams play 30 matches each in the regular season, before entering the championship play-offs or the relegation play-outs according to their position in the regular table. The Liga I was established in 1909 and commenced play for the 1909–10 campaign, being currently on the 29th place in UEFA's league coefficient ranking list. It is administered by the Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal, also known by the acronym LPF. Before the 2006–07 season, the competition was known as ''Divizia A'', but the name had to be changed following the finding that someone else had registered that trademark. The best performer to date ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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FC Dinamo București
Fotbal Club Dinamo București (), commonly known as Dinamo București or simply Dinamo, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in Bucharest. Founded in 1948, they have spent almost List of unrelegated association football clubs, their entire history in Romanian football league system, Romania's top tier, the Liga I. Domestically, Dinamo București is one of the two most successful teams in the country, having won 18 Liga I, 13 Cupa României, two Supercupa României, and one Cupa Ligii. In the European Cup 1983-84, 1983–84 season, they became the first Romanian club to reach the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League, European Cup. Dinamo's traditional home colours are white and red, while the current crest is a modified version of the one adopted in the 1998. Their home venue is Stadionul Dinamo, although significant matches are also played at Arena Națională. Their bitter rivals are neighbouring FC Steaua București, with the matches between ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Traian Ivănescu
Traian Ivănescu (5 May 1933 – 29 July 2019) was a Romanian football player and manager. Career Born in Bucharest, Ivănescu played youth football with Militari București and Flamura Roşie București, before making his senior debut in 1951 with Flacăra București. He later played for CCA Steaua București, Progresul București, Siderurgistul Galați and Jiul Petroşani, before retiring in 1966. He was married to Doina Ivănescu a former volleyball player who represented her country at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He also earned one cap for Romania in 1954. Ivănescu later became a coach. He died on 29 July 2019, aged 86. Honours Player ;Steaua București *Divizia A (5): 1952, 1953, 1956, 1959–60, 1960–61 *Cupa României (3): 1952, 1955, 1961–62 ;Siderurgistul Galați * Romanian Second Division (1): 1964–65 ;Jiul Petroșani * Romanian Second Division (1): 1965–66 Manager ;Jiul Petroșani *Cupa României The Cupa României ( en, Romanian Cup) is a As ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Victor Dumitrescu
Victor Dumitrescu (25 September 1924 – 15 March 1997) was a Romanian footballer who played as left back. Dumitrescu began his football career at the age of 10, in the neighbour city of Deva. He played ten years for Corvinul Deva, beginning as a youth and finishing as a senior. In 1946, he moved to Sebeş, playing well for Surianul, and after two years he signed with Flacăra Mediaş. After three years in Mediaş, Dumitrescu joined Steaua București. He played eight years for his side, being a part of Steaua's Golden Team of the 1950s. He is the single player of the Golden Team who had never played for Romania national football team. Honours Club ;Steaua București *Liga I (3): 1952, 1953, 1956 * Cupa României (2): 1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ..., ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexandru Apolzan
Alexandru Apolzan (6 February 1927 – 23 December 1982) was a Romanian footballer, who played as a defender, mainly for Steaua București and also for Romania. He has been credited with the invention of the sweeper role and is considered one of the best sweepers in the history of Romanian football, with only Miodrag Belodedici and Gheorghe Popescu, in recent years, being able to play at a similar level. Playing career It was the Romanian Apolzan who first played as sweeper, while at Steaua București. However, Apolzan played during the darkest period in the history of Romania, when the connections with the outside world were almost cut completely. Apolzan signed his first contract with Şoimii, a local team from Sibiu, in 1941. After the war he joins the squad of CFR Bucharest and then between 1949 and 1962, he played for Steaua București until his retirement. Hungarian coach Gusztáv Sebes, the builder of the Hungarian team from the first half of the 1950s – the ''Ma ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vasile Zavoda
Vasile Zavoda, known as Zavoda II or Tigrul Akbar (26 July 1929 – 14 July 2014), was a Romanian football defender and manager. Between 1951 and 1962 he played 20 matches for Romania, including one at the 1952 Olympics. Domestically he competed through 1964 in the Romanian Divizia A, accumulating 257 games. After retiring from competitions he worked as an assistant coach for Steaua București in 1977–81. Overview Zavoda played for Metalul Baia Mare between 1947 and 1951, before joining Steaua București. In 1964, aged 35, Zavoda played his last season, for ASA Târgu Mureş. Zavoda played 257 games in Romania's Divizia A and scored two goals. He also won 20 caps for Romania, the first in 1951 against Czechoslovakia, the last one in 1962 against East Germany. He played for Romania at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was the younger brother of Francisc Zavoda. Until his death he lived in Bucharest, in the same block of flats with his great friend and former teammate Ion Voin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Costică Toma
Costică Toma (1 January 1928 – 13 May 2008) was a Romanian international football goalkeeper and later manager. Playing career He was born in Brăila Brăila (, also , ) is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of Brăila County. The ''Sud-Est'' Regional Development Agency is located in Brăila. According to the 2011 Romanian census there were 180,302 pe ..., into a family coming from Muralto, Switzerland. Toma began his football career in 1940, when he played for FC Suter as a striker. After a period when he played as a youth for Capșa București, he moved to Iași. He played only a season at CS ta, and after two months at Câmpulung Moldovenesc, he moved to FC Steaua București, Steaua București. He played twelve years for the Army club, and was a part of the Steaua Golden Team. He had at Steaua a famous and a fair-play rivalry with Ion Voinescu. It was said that Toma and Voinescu were the best couple of goalkeepers that a Romania ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ion Voinescu
Ion "Țop" Voinescu (18 April 1929 – 9 March 2018) was a Romanian footballer, who is often considered one of the finest goalkeepers Romania has ever produced. Voinescu joined his first club, Olympia București, in 1939 just before the start of World War II, aged 10. After four years with Olympia, Voinescu left to join another club from Bucharest, ASPIM, but left again after the war's conclusion in 1945, in order to sign his first professional contract with Carmen București, which was one of the best Romanian football teams during the interbelic period. However, he ended up leaving the club a year later, where he joined Solvay Uioara. Voinescu left Solvay Uioara a year later to join RATA Târgu Mureș in 1947, where he remained at for a year before leaving in order to return to Bucharest, where he signed for Metalul București. Following a three-year spell with Metalul, Voinescu moved to Steaua București, which was where he remained at before his retirement from professi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gheorghe Constantin
Gheorghe Constantin (14 December 1932 – 9 March 2010) was a Romanian former footballer and coach. Known as ''The Professor'', he was a symbol of Steaua București. Club career Constantin made his debut for Unirea Tricolor's youth team, and shortly after their abolition he signed with Venus UCB. He played only a year for his new club, before moving to Avântul Reghin and then CFR Iaşi before he signed a contract with Steaua București. He played for Steaua 15-years, scoring 149 goals in Divizia A. Romanian Communist authorities allow him to play abroad for Kayserispor in Turkey. He made his debut in the Romanian national team against Yugoslavia; that was a game made notable by the fact that the whole Romanian team was made up of players from Steaua București. Constantin was also a member of the Romanian soccer team at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Managerial career After his return from Turkey, he was appointed by Steaua București as an assistant manager. Constantin was t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Titus Ozon
Titus Ozon (13 May 1927 – 24 November 1996) was a Romanian international football striker and manager. He was considered one of the greatest talents of the postwar in the Romanian football, famous for his extraordinary ability to dribble. Career He was born in Bucharest, in the Obor neighborhood. He started football at Unirea Tricolor București at the age of 10, under the guidance of coach Ștefan Cârjan. In 1948 he came to Dinamo, from which he was loaned disciplinary to Dinamo Braşov in 1951. After returning he was the top-goalsocorer of the Divizia A for two years in a row, in 1952 with 17 goals and in 1953 with 12 goals. His other performances include securing the second place three times and the four finals of the Cupa României he played in 1954 (for Dinamo), 1958 ( Progresul), 1961 and 1962 (Rapid). In 1952, Titus Ozon was part of the Divizia A team that played two matches in the Soviet Union, with CSKA and Dynamo Moscow. Following the tournament, the members of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexandru Ene
Alexandru Ene (also known as Alexandru Ene I; 19 September 1928 – 22 May 2011) was a Romanian football striker. Club career Alexandru Ene was born on 19 September 1928 in Brăila, Romania and he started playing football at junior level at Olympia București from 1941 to 1947, then he went to play Metalul București at senior level in Divizia B, helping the team promote to Divizia A where he made his debut under coach Augustin Botescu on 22 August 1948 in a 6–1 loss against CFR Timișoara. He was transferred at Dinamo București in 1951 where he spent 8 seasons, being loaned in 1953 at Dinamo Brașov, afterwards returning to Dinamo where in the 1954 Divizia A season he became the top-scorer of the league with 20 goals, in the following season he helped the club win the first Divizia A title in its history, being used by coach Angelo Niculescu in 23 matches in which he scored 14 goals, being the top-scorer of the team. He also won the 1958–59 Cupa României and played ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1957–58 Divizia B
The 1957–58 Divizia B was the 18th season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system. The format with two series has been maintained, both of them having 14 teams. At the end of the season the winners of the series promoted to Divizia A, the last two places from each series relegated to Divizia C. This was the first season played in the autumn-spring system, after seven seasons played in the spring-autumn system, a system imposed by the Soviet influence existing in the country. Team changes To Divizia B Promoted from Divizia C * Foresta Fălticeni * Locomotiva MCF București * Energia Baia Mare * Metalul Arad Relegated from Divizia A * Locomotiva Timișoara * Știința Cluj * Dinamo Bacău From Divizia B Relegated to Divizia C * Progresul Satu Mare * Locomotiva Iași * Locomotiva Turnu Severin * Flamura Roșie Bacău Promoted to Divizia A * Recolta Târgu Mureș * Metalul Steagul Roșu Renamed teams ''Avântul Reghin'' was renamed as Part ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |