Clubul Sportiv Gaz Metan Mediaș (), commonly known as Gaz Metan Mediaș or simply as Gaz Metan, was a Romanian professional

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based in

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. Founded in 1945 as ''Karres Mediaș'', the team spent most of its existence in the

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. It also participated in 16 seasons of the

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, the highest level of the Romanian league system, and lost a

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final to

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. Gaz Metan registered its debut in

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competitions in the 2011–12 campaign, when it defeated

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and

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prior to being eliminated by Austria Wien in the

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play-off round. After the dissolution of the club in 2022, some of its former players and coaches founded ACS Mediaș 2022, which has the purpose of continuing the football tradition in the town.

History

Founding and early years (1945–1950)

The club was founded in 1945 under the name of ''Karres Mediaș'' and participated in the Romanian Second League (Liga II). The team achieved promotion to the

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in 1947, club's name was changed to ''CSM Mediaș'' in the same year. At the end of the season, the team managed to secure a comfortable 11th place out of 16, in its first Divizia A season. Financial troubles and inadequate training conditions plagued the club's second Liga I season (1948–1949). After the second round, disgruntled players complained to the press and the

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(FRF) about the poor training conditions at the club. FRF decided to allow the factory ''Zorile Roșii'' (Red Dawn) to take ownership of the club. The name of the team was also changed to ''Zorile Roșii Mediaș''. Later that season the team merged with Vitrometan Mediaș. The second half of the season brought another change in ownership, also the most recent in the club's history, when it was taken over by Ateliere Gaz Metan and the name was changed to ''Gaz Metan Mediaș''. The team was relegated to Liga II in the same season. The 1948–49 team was formed by Kodacek – Sulyak, Szobo – Șerban, Molnar, Rășinaru – Pop, Coman, Guța, Szabo, Pologea.

Gaz Metan, a respected second league team (1950–1999)

This period is characterized by frequent name changes, but also by the most important performance ever achieved by the club: the

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final. The club carried the following names: ''Partizanul'' (1950–51), ''Flacara'' (1951–56), ''Energia'' (1956–58), ''Gaz Metan'' (1958–60), and ''CSM Mediaș'' (1960–1963). The final name change took place in 1963 when the club reverted to its former ''Gaz Metan Mediaș'' name. In 1951, the club achieved its most significant domestic performance by reaching the final stage of the Romanian Cup as a

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team. Led from the bench by the famous

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, Flacăra lost 3–1 in overtime against

(current Steaua București). The goalscorer for Flacăra Mediaș was Coman (min.71). Team: Varaday – Luca, Szabo – Dumitrescu, Molnar I, Costea – Pop, Papay, Coman, Szasz, Moldovan. In the period that followed, Gaz Metan participated mostly in the

, becoming a regular and respected name of this echelon, occupying mid-rank positions until 1972 when it was relegated for the first time to

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. After that, was an immediate promotion back to Divizia B, where it evolved until 1976 when it was relegated for the second time to the third division of the Romanian football league system. The club was promoted again to the Divizia B next year where it remained until 1992, with the following results: 1977–78 – 8th, 1978–79 – 9th, 1979–80 – 11th, 1980–81 – 7th, 1981–82 – 6th, 1982–83 – 8th, 1983–84 – 5th (best place), 1984–85 – 6th, 1985–86 – 5th (best place), 1986–87 – 7th, 1987–88 – 10th, 1988–89 – 11th, 1989–90 – 10th, 1990–91 – 11th and 1991–92 – 14th. As a consequence of the place occupied at the end of the 1991–92 season of Divizia B, ''gaziștii'' relegated to Divizia C, for the third time in their long existence. That difficult moment was handled exemplary by the Transylvanian team, which was promoted back after only one year by winning the third series of the third league with 5 points ahead of the second place, Petrolul Stoina, a team from

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. Returned to a Divizia B with only 2 series instead of 3, Gaz Metan resumed its safe evolutions with a meritorious 7th place in the first season, 11th place in the second one, and 4th place at the end of the 1995–96 season, the best rank in the previous 20 years for the team. Next season Gaz Metan would become a respected team because it ended on the podium (3rd place) starting to announce its serious intentions to return to the first league of Romanian football. This season was followed by two hard seasons finishing in 5th and 4th.

Gaz Metan is back (2000–2014)

The first year of the 21st century has brought great success for the black and whites, the promotion to

after no less than 51 years after the last presence in the first league. Led by the coach Jean Gavrilă, Gaz Metan secured won the promotion to Liga 1 by winning the second group of the 1999–2000 Divizia B, with a gap of 11 points from the second place, ARO Câmpulung. The squad that achieved that historical promotion was composed of: GK: Filip, Roșca – DF: Ciurar, Grigore, Grasu, Lungu, Șomfălean, Vasile -MF: Zotincă, Boroncoi, Callo, Hanc, Ioan, Moldovan, Pătru, Stoica – FW: Vitan, Boloban, Boaru, Găldean. 51 years of absence were too much and the shock of the first league level has hit hard in the morale of the team, the joy of promotion was quitting fast and ''gaziștii'' finished on the last place (16th) with a disastrous ranking line, only 3 victories, 9 draws and 18 defeats, 21 goals scored and 42 conceded, in total 18 points, with 16 less than 15th place, occupied at that time by

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The 2001–02 season was finding the team back in the second league, with morale to the ground, and trying to rebuild a competitive team, Gaz Metan finished only in 12th place. With the start of the 2002–03 season the club was again in the fight for promotion, but finally resembled with a 3rd place, first under the promotion places, occupied by Apulum Alba Iulia and FC Oradea. For the supporters, it seemed clear that Gaz Metan had returned to its status as a

team, only now it seemed a team decided to fight for promotion than a mid-rank team. In the following season, the results were: 2003–04 – 4th, 2004–05 – 2nd, 2005–06 – 4th, and 2006–07 – 6th with the statement that in 2005 the team missed the promotion in the last minute after finishing at the same number of points (65) with

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. In 2008 led by coach

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, a former Gaz Metan player, the team secured promotion to Liga I from second spot after a hard fight and promoted to

, 8 years away from the last presence, team: Ștețca –

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, Lazăr, Zaharia, Buzean – Dudiță,

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, Hoban, Curtean – Boaru, C.Prodan. The team finished the 2008–09 season in 15th position out of 18 teams, the last spot leading to relegation. Following the corruption scandal involving

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and the subsequent relegation of the team from Liga II, Gaz Metan remained in the first league. 2009–10 season was finished in 10th place, far away from the relegation zone, which was also a new record for the club, and they had completed 3 consecutive seasons in

. The white and blacks finished 7th in the 2010–11 season and secured a

participation for the following season, its first in history. Gaz Metan reached the

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by eliminating

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(Agg. 2–1) in the second round and

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(Agg. 4–3 pen.) in the third round. Gaz Metan lost in the playoffs to Austria Wien (Agg. 2–3). Domestically, Gaz Metan reached the Romanian Cup semi-finals in the 2011–12 season but was eliminated (Agg. 2–2 away goals) by the future cup winner

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and finished on 13th place in the league. In the next two seasons, the team consolidates its first league-team status through the following results: 2012–13 – 10th and 2013–14 – 13th.

Difficult times (2014–16)

2014–15 season has brought major changes to the first league competitive system by reducing the number of teams from 18 to 14, leading to the relegation of 6 teams. ''Lupii negri'' finished in 13th place, first under the relegation line, and returned to

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after 7 consecutive years in the first league, the longest run for the club, with the best performance in the club's history (7th place) and with the first participation in the European competitions.

Best ever position and play-off, collapse and dissolution (2016–22)

Gaz Metan has once again proved to be an ambitious team and promoted back after only one season in the second league, 2015–16 team: Greab –

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, Cristea, Zaharia, Buzean – P.Iacob, Danci – Munteanu, Bic,

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– Gavra. 2016–17 season was a tumultuous one for the team from

which finished the regular season on the 7th place, at only 2 points distance from a play-off place and qualified for the play-out round, when it finished on 2nd place (8th in the general ranking). The club also encountered serious financial problems choosing to go into insolvency. In the summer of 2017, the club approached a low-budget strategy and after 22 rounds played in the 2017–18 season, the club finished in 12th place, just above the relegation zone, but with the same number of points as the team from the 13th place, the first place situated in the red zone. Under the guidance of

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, Gaz Metan has achieved its highest-ever finish in 2019–20 season by ascending into the playoffs and finishing in 6th position. The next season was affected by a presidential change, numerous staff and players changes, and the team ending the 2020–21 season in the bottom half of the table. 2021–22 season was proven to be the last ever season in the club's existence. Marked by huge debts to former employees and collaborators created in the previous years by bad and suspicious management, the team was deducted points several times before finishing the season with a negative record of -38 points.

Stadium

Gaz Metan plays its home games on the Municipal Gaz Metan Stadium. The stadium has a capacity of 8000 seats with half of the seats covered; playing surface with under-soil heating and a 1500 lux floodlights system. The stadium is homologated to host preliminary rounds of any UEFA club competitions as well as U21 international games. The stadium underwent major renovations and expansions in 2010. The playing surface was replaced in its entirety and covered stands were built on the opposite side of the main stands, increasing the stadium's capacity to 7,814 seats.

Support

Gaz Metan has many supporters in

and especially in

. The ultras groups of Gaz Metan Mediaș are known as ''Lupii Negri'' (The Black Wolves) and ''Commando Mediensis''.

Rivalries

The most important rivalries overtime for Gaz Metan were against football clubs from

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whether they were:

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, Inter Sibiu,

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or Voința Sibiu. Now the team that represents Sibiu is

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and the two clubs met for the first time on 17 April 2018, in a

semi-final, in front of many fans.

Honours

Domestic

League

**Winners (2): 1999–2000, 2015–16 **Runners-up (5): 1946–47, 1952,

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, 2004–05, 2007–08 *

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**Winners (3): 1972–73, 1976–77, 1992–93

Cups

**Runners-up (1):

European record

The club has only played in the qualifiers of one

season thus far, as showcased in the table below. Notes for the abbreviations in the tables below: * 2QR: Second qualifying round * 3QR: Third qualifying round * PO: Play-off round

League history

Notable former players

The footballers enlisted below have had international cap(s) for their respective countries at junior and/or senior level and/or more than 100 caps for CS Gaz Metan Mediaș. * Mircea Axente * Ovidiu Bic * Sergiu Buș *

Claudiu Boaru Claudiu Nicolae Boaru (born 10 April 1977) is a retired Romanian footballer who played his entire career for Gaz Metan Mediaş. After the retirement, Boaru continued to work for Gaz Metan Mediaş as assistant coach or sporting manager until te ...

* Florin Bratu *

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* Ionuț Buzean *

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* Valentin Crețu * Iulian Cristea *

Alexandru Curtean Alexandru Paul Curtean (born 27 March 1987 in Sibiu) is a Romanian footballer who played as a midfielder. Personal life Born in Sibiu, Curtean was born into a sporting family. His father, Dan Curtean, was also a football player in the early 1 ...

Doru Dudiță Doru Dudiță (born 7 September 1977) is a retired Romanian footballer, currently a coach. As a player Dudiță played mostly for Gaz Metan Mediaș, with short episodes at FCM Bacău, Unirea Alba Iulia, FC Sibiu FC Sibiu was a Romanian profes ...

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* Ionuț Larie * Florin Lazăr * Casian Miclăuș * Alexandru Munteanu * Sergiu Muth *

Darius Olaru Darius Dumitru Olaru (; born 3 March 1998) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga I club FCSB, which he captains, and the Romania national team. After starting out at hometown side Gaz Metan Mediaș and amassi ...

Ciprian Petre Ciprian Cătălin Petre (born 10 December 1980) is a Romanian football player who plays as winger for CSM Focșani. In his career Petre played for teams such as Juventus București, Unirea Urziceni, Gloria Bistrița or Gaz Metan Mediaş or F ...

* Paul Pîrvulescu *

Răzvan Pleșca Răzvan Nicolae Pleșca (born 25 November 1982) is a former Romanian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. In his career Pleșca played mostly for Gaz Metan Mediaș, but also for teams such as Național București, Politehnica Ia ...

* Flavius Șomfălean * Cristian Todea *

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* Radu Zaharia * Alex Zotincă ;Albania *

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;Algeria *

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;Argentina * Patricio Matricardi * Julián Velázquez ;Brazil * Eric Pereira ;Bulgaria * Antoni Ivanov ;Cameroon *

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;Cape Verde * Ely Fernandes ;Croatia * Dario Rugašević ;Czech Repulic * Miloš Buchta ;Georgia * Akaki Khubutia ;Greece *

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;Guinea * Boubacar Fofana ;Italy *

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* Roberto Romeo ;Jordan * Tha'er Bawab ;Portugal * David Caiado * Carlos Fortes ;Serbia * Žarko Marković *

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;Slovakia * Michal Kubala ;Suriname *

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;Venezuela *

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Notable former managers

Cristian Dulca Cristian Alexandru Dulca (born 25 October 1972) is a Romanian professional football coach and former player, who is currently in charge of the Romania women's national team. Playing career As a player, Dulca represented CFR Cluj, Gloria Bistr ...

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Nicolae Kovács Nicolae Kovács ( hu, Kovács Miklós, sometimes rendered as ''Nicolae Covaci'', 29 December 1911 – 7 July 1977) was a Romanian-Hungarian football player and coach. He was a dual international football player and played both for Romania and H ...

Ferenc Rónay Ferenc Rónay or Francisc Rónay (29 April 1900 – 6 April 1967) was a Hungarian-Romanian footballer and manager. Rónay was the first ever scorer of the Romania national football team, giving them the equaliser against Yugoslavia in their d ...

Ioan Sabău Ioan Ovidiu Sabău (born 12 February 1968) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player. Club career Ioan Sabău, nicknamed ''Moțul'' after the people from Țara Moților because of his ambition, was born on 12 February 1968 ...

Gheorghe Mulțescu Gheorghe Mulțescu (; born 13 November 1951) is a Romanian professional football manager and a former football player. Club career Gheorghe Mulțescu made his Divizia A debut playing for Jiul Petroșani in a 0–0 against Crișul Oradea. He p ...

* Dušan Uhrin Jr.

References

External links

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