Clubul Sportiv Brănești is a

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

n amateur

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club based in Brănești,

Ilfov County Ilfov () is the Counties of Romania, county that surrounds Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It used to be largely rural, but, after the fall of communism, many of the county's villages and communes developed into high-income commuter towns, whi ...

, Romania, founded in 1968, dissolved in 2012 and refounded in 2019. At its best, the team played in the

Liga I 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 ...

, top-flight league in the

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History

The football team was founded in 1968 by football-loving people from the Brănești commune and played its entire history in the lower leagues of the Romanian football system. The ascension of the club practically began in 2007, after the club bought the place of Transkurier Sfântu Gheorghe in

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 ...

. In a first season in which Victoria's objective was to avoid relegation, the team succeeded by finishing eighth. After that came the 2008–09 season, where at the end the team was promoted to the

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 ...

. The club exceeded expectations by finishing first in the series, and it was promoted for the first time in its history to the

. The club had therefore succeeded, in only four years, in ascending from 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 ...

to the

. It was the first Romanian club that achieved this performance. In 2013 Corona Brașov managed to achieve the same performance. Brănești also became the smallest locality to have ever played in the Liga I, with only 8,531 inhabitants, beating the previous record which belonged to

Scornicești Scornicești () is a town in Olt County, Romania, with a population of 10,795. The town administers 13 villages (Bălțați, Bircii, Chițeasca, Constantinești, Jitaru, Mărgineni-Slobozia, Mihăilești-Popești, Mogoșești, Negreni, Piscani, R ...

. The team was relegated after only one season in

. They started the 2011–12 season in the

, but after 15 rounds the team was second to last. In February 2012, the team was disaffiliated by the Federation due to financial problems. After the dissolution, Brănești continued to play as Vulturii Pasărea until 2019. In 2019 the club was officially refounded as CS Brănești.

Stadium

CS Brănești played its home matches on the Cătălin Hîldan Stadium, which has a capacity of 2,500 seats. The Liga I matches were played on the Municipal Stadium in Buzău and the Concordia Stadium in

Chiajna Chiajna () is a commune in the south-west of Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, immediately west of the capital, Bucharest. It is composed of three villages: Chiajna, Dudu, and Roșu. The mayor of Chiajna is currently Mircea Minea ( Social Democra ...

, because theirs did not meet the requirements for the first division.

Honours

: *Winners (1): 2009–10

: *Winners (1): 2008–09 Liga IV – Ilfov County *Runners-up (1): 2021–22

Cupa României The Cupa României () is a Association football, football cup competition for List of football clubs in Romania, Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1933–34 Cupa României, 1933–34, except during World War II. It is the Romania ...

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*Winners (2): 2018–19, 2020–21

References

External links

Club's page at romaniansoccer.ro
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