Clubul Sportiv Municipal Aurul Brad, commonly known as CSM Aurul Brad, or simply as Aurul Brad, is a

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club based in

Brad Brad may refer to: * Brad (given name), a masculine given name Places * Brad, Hunedoara, a city in Hunedoara County, Romania * Brad, a village in Berești-Bistrița Commune, Bacău County, Romania * Brad, a village in Filipeni, Bacău, Romania * ...

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, founded in 1934. The club is currently playing in the

Liga IV Liga IV is the fourth level of the Romanian football league system and is run in all 41 counties and in the Municipality of Bucharest. It was known as the Regional Championship, County Championship, Divizia C – County Phase and Divizia D. Its ...

History

Aurul Brad was founded in 1934, under the name of ''Mica Brad'', its first coach being Ion "Ale" Popescu. Throughout its over 85 years of history, the club was also known as ''Metalul Brad'' or ''Progresul Brad''. In the 1940–41 season, Aurul Brad played in the

Divizia A Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

, the first tier of the Romanian football league system. This was a notable achievement for a small town like Brad and the team was also able to finish in 5th, out of 13. That was the last season before

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. After WWII, Aurul never managed to play again in the first league, despite it was never relegated.

Ground

The team plays its home matches in

, on the Aurul Stadium, with a capacity of 1,500 seats.

Chronology of names

Honours

Liga II The Liga 2, most commonly spelled as Liga II, is the second level of the Romanian football league system. The league changed its name from Divizia B just before the start of the 2006–07 Liga II, 2006–07 football season. It is currently Sponso ...

*Winners (1): 1939–40

Liga III The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III, is the third level of the Romanian football league system. It was founded in 1936 and was called Divizia C until 2006. An exception was the seasons 1992–93 to 1996–97, in which the league was call ...

*Winners (2): 1975–76, 1989–90 Liga IV – Hunedoara County *Winners (3): 1996–97, 1997–98,

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*Runners-up (5) 1994–95, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2023–24 Hunedoara Regional Championship: *Winners (3): 1956, 1959–60, 1966–67 *Runners-up (3) 1963–64, 1965–66, 1967–68

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*Winners (1): 2012–13 *Runners-up (1): 2018–19

Other performances

*Appearances in

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Club Officials

Board of directors

Current technical staff

League history

Former managers

* Ion "Ale" Popescu (1934–1935) * László Raffinsky (1950) * Vasile Gain (1957–1960) *

Ladislau Băcuț Ladislau Băcuț (also known as Ladislau Băcuț II; 12 November 1931 – 1996) was a Romanian football defender and manager. His brother, Gheorghe Băcuț was also a footballer, they played together at ITA Arad and Dinamo București. Honours ...

(1963–1967) * Ladislau Vlad (1979–1981) * Ion V. Ionescu (1983–1984) * Ioan Petcu (2004) * Ioan Petcu (2021–2023) * Zoltan Crișan

References

External links

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