Club Sportiv Minerul 1947 Ocna Dej, commonly known as Minerul Ocna Dej, formerly known as Someșul Dej, is a

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based in Ocna Dejului,

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, which currently competes in

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, the third tier of the

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, following their promotion from the Liga IV – Cluj County at the end of the 2019–20 season.

History

The club was founded in 1947 as Minerul Ocna Dej by the workers of the mining exploitation Salina Ocna Dej and played most of its history in the fifth tier and more than thirty-five seasons in the fourth league. Minerul promoted for the first time to third division winning the Divizia D – Cluj County at the end of the 1998–99 season, but after was ranked 11th in the 1999–2000 season “The Miners” relegated after finished in 15th-place in the next season. For miners followed more than twenty seasons in the fourth and fifth division. In 2016, the club was taken over by the local businessman Vicențiu Știr who founded in 2017 another club, ACS Vicențiu Dej. Vicențiu Dej promoted to 4th league after was finished 2nd in the Dej Zone of the 2017–18 season of the

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and was renamed as Someșul Dej before the next season. After the 2019–20 season was suspended in March 2020, due to the

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, Someșul won the Liga IV – Cluj County championship play-off in the 90th minute against

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and, despite finished last in the promotion group, the team led by

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promoted to

benefiting from the withdraw of Voința Budeasa. In the first season in Liga III, Someșul, with

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as head coach, who replaced

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after five rounds, finished in 7th place in the Series X, 6 points ahead of CSM Satu Mare and Progresul Șomcuta Mare, thus avoiding relegation in the fourth league. Someșul began the 2021–22 season with

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on the bench, but the former defender from

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or Oțelul Galați in the early 2000s was sacked after qualifying the team for the Series X play-off and replaced with Tiberiu Bălan, that led the club to obtained the highest league finish as ranked 4th in the Series X play-off. Someșul merged in the summer of 2022, with the other club financially sustained by Vicențiu Știr, Minerul Ocna Dej, to form Minerul 1947 Ocna Dej.

Ground

''The Miners'' played its home matches at the Vad Sport Base, based in Vad, which holds 650 seats and having natural grass.

Honours

Liga IV – Cluj County *Winners (2): 1998–99, 2019-20 *Runners-up (1): 2018–19

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*Winners (1): 2017–18

Players

First team squad

Out on loan

Club officials

Board of directors

Current technical staff

Notable former players

The footballers mentioned below have played at least 1 season for Minerul and also played in

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for another team. * Sergiu Costin *

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Former managers

(2018–2019) *

(2020) *

(2020–2021) *

(2021–2022) * Tiberiu Bălan (2022–2023) *

(2023) * Dan Mugurel (2024–)

References

External links

Official website

Minerul Ocna Dej on Facebook
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