Clubul Sportiv Orășenesc Tricolorul Breaza, commonly known as Tricolorul Breaza, is a
Romania
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football club
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based in
Breaza
Breaza () is a town in Prahova County, Muntenia, Romania. The town center consists of at least two former villages, ''Podu Vadului'' and ''Breaza de Sus'', which were later merged. Today, ten villages are administratively part of the town: Breaza ...
,
Prahova County and currently playing in the
Liga IV – Prahova County, the fourth tier of the
Romanian football league system
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.
The club was founded in 1971 and disbanded in August 2010 when it merged with
Liga V
Liga V is the fifth level of the Romanian football league system.
Current format
Liga V has 42 divisions. The divisions are regionalised and are organised by every county association. Each team plays in their own county. The county associatio ...
team Navobi Iași to form
ACSMU Politehnica Iași. In order to continue the football legacy of
Breaza
Breaza () is a town in Prahova County, Muntenia, Romania. The town center consists of at least two former villages, ''Podu Vadului'' and ''Breaza de Sus'', which were later merged. Today, ten villages are administratively part of the town: Breaza ...
, in June 2010, was founded Precizia Breaza, which was enrolled in Liga V Prahova County, the fifth tier. In 2013 Precizia ceded the place in Liga IV to the newly formed
multi-sport
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club CSO Tricolorul Breaza.
History
Football in
Breaza
Breaza () is a town in Prahova County, Muntenia, Romania. The town center consists of at least two former villages, ''Podu Vadului'' and ''Breaza de Sus'', which were later merged. Today, ten villages are administratively part of the town: Breaza ...
appeared after the
First World War
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, the press of that time writing the story of a match played 1924 in the commune from
Prahova Valley between “Tricolorul I” from Breaza and “Principesa Ileana I” from
Câmpina
Câmpina () is a municipiu, city in Prahova County, Romania, north of the county seat Ploiești, located on the main route between Wallachia and Transylvania. Its existence is first attested in a document of 1503. It is situated in the historical r ...
. The current club was founded in 1971, Tricolorul played for thirty years in the Prahova County Championships. Between 1982 and 1993 the club was called Precizia Breaza and between 1993 and 2001 Hidrojet, after the name of the factory that sponsored the club.
Hidrojet promoted to
Liga III
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at the end of the
2000–01 season, winning the
Liga IV – Prahova County and the promotion play-off played against Aromet Poșta Câlnau, the winner of
Liga IV – Buzău County 2–0 at
Tractorul Stadium in
Brașov
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According to the latest Romanian census (2011), Brașov has a pop ...
. The lineup of Hidrojet with Ilie Rontea as head coach: Florin Panfil – Ionuț Nicolae (63 Puiu Buciu), Gabriel Bâcneanu (68 Bogdan Cazan), Bogdan Iarca, Antonio Moțoi – Alexandru Chilom, Constantin Rontea (
cpt), Cosmin Costache, Paul Enache – Florin Defta, Marian Uțică (82 Marius Vișan).
After promotion to Liga III, the club changed its name to Tricolorul Breaza. In the first season in the Third Division was assigned to Series II, ending the season in 9th position. Followed six seasons in the Third Division in which Tricolorul finished as follows: 4th (
2002–03), 9th (2003–04), 5th (2004–05), 2nd (2005–06), 11th (
2006–07) and 3rd (
2007–08).
Also, Tricolorul reached the Round of 32 of the
2007–08 Cupa României
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*Piatra N ...
losing 0–1 to
Gloria Buzău.
Tricolorul, with Florin Stăncioiu as head coach, finished the
2008–09 season as runners-up in the 3rd Series of Liga III and promoted to
Liga II
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after won the promotion play-offs against
Oțelul Galați II and
CSO Ovidiu. The squad included the following players: Bogdan Sava, Marius Anghelache, Andrei Stoica,
Samson Nwabueze, Rareș Forika, Ionuț Petcu, Cristian Apostol, Mihai Olteanu, Daniel Șandru, Radu Bumbăr, Marian Băeșu, Bogdan Marinescu, Valentin Turiac, Georgian Ghiță, Marius Dascălu, Alin Liuba, Marius Vișan, Andrei Vasilescu, Marian Ghiorghiță.
In
Cupa României, Tricolorul reached, for the second time in a row, the Round of 32, but lost 1–2 to
Oțelul Galați.
In the
2009–10 season, Tricolorul Breaza debuted in the
Second Division
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, but despite a good start in which it accumulated 9 points from their first five matches, the team led by Florin Stăncioiu finished 16th out of 18 in the Series I being spared from relegation due to the withdrawal of
FC Baia Mare
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from Liga II.
In the summer of 2010, after the
bankruptcy of the original
Politehnica Iași, the owner
Constantin Anghelache
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Life and career
Constantin Anghelache joined Unirea Tricolor București after being seen by coach Petre Steinbach ...
moved Tricolorul Breaza to
Iași and merged with Liga V team Navobi Iași to form
ACSMU Politehnica Iași, leaving the Breaza town without a football team. In order to continue the football legacy of Breaza, in June 2010, was founded Precizia Breaza, which was enrolled in
Liga V – Prahova County, the fifth tier of the
Romanian football league system
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.
In the 2010–11 season, Precizia, with Cornel Vasilescu as head coach, played in the West Series of the fifth division and finished in seventh place. The next season saw Precizia promoted to
Fourth Division after won the West Series of Liga V - Prahova County.
Honours
Liga III
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*Runners-up (2):
2005–06,
2008–09
Liga IV – Prahova County
*Winners (2):
2000–01,
2022–23
*Runners-up (2):
1976–77,
2019–20
Liga V – Prahova County
*Winners (1): 2011–12
Current squad
Club officials
Board of directors
Current technical staff
League history
References
External links
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Football clubs in Prahova County
Association football clubs established in 1971
Liga II clubs
Liga III clubs
Liga IV clubs
1971 establishments in Romania