Fotbal Club Progresul Caracal was a
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football club
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Caracal
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Olt County
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History
Răsăritul Caracal was founded in 1924. Among the founding members of this sports association were: Mircea Botoi, Gheorghe Dumitrescu, Tudor Voiculescu, Ștefan Săndulescu, supported by a few people with financial possibilities, including: Stavarache Borcescu, Ionică Brătașanu or Tudor Popescu.
The first major competition at which Răsăritul Caracal started was the 1926–1927 season of the Oltenia Regional Championship, together with Rovine Grivița, Craiu-Iovan, Tinerimea, Generală, all from Craiova and Oltul Slatina and where it has been a constant presence for two decades.
The club was taken over by the management of the site that built the Bucharest-Craiova railway, changing its name to CFR Caracal (''
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'') and participating in the first season of
Divizia B
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1946–47, after the
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, finishing 14th.
In
1947–48 season, CFR Caracal finished on 9th place, but due to the reorganization of Divizia B was relegated in
Divizia C
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.
In February 1949, the shutting of Divizia C was announced, and CFR Caracal, which was in 10th place, was demoted to the regional championship.
Followed two decades in the Oltenia Regional Championship, during which period the club changed its name several times. In 1958, the club was taken over by the local authorities and for the ten years it was called Progresul Caracal and ''Răsăritul Caracal''.
The best result obtained during this period was in the
1963–64 season of the Romanian Cup. The team led by
Alexandru Apolzan
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reached the Round of 32, but lost to
Farul Constanța, 2–3, in a match played at Caracal.
In 1968, the club was renamed again as CFR Caracal and after the territorial reorganization of the country and the dissolution of the Regional Championship, the club played in the newly established
Olt County Championship.
CFR Caracal will remain in the history of the
Olt County Championship as the first county football champion, the team led by Ion Pârvulescu won the
1968–69 Olt County Championship, but lost the promotion play-off in
Divizia C
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against Petrolul Târgoviște, the champion of
Dâmbovița County
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, after a series of three matches (2–2, 2–2 and 0–1 on neutral ground at
Ștefănești).
In 1969, after losing the promotion, the management of the club was changed again, the team being taken over by the canning factory and renamed as ''FC (Fabrica de Conserve)''.
At the end of
1969–70 season, with the same Ion Pârvulescu on the bench and with players like: Oancea – Frăsineanu, Mototolu, M. Pătru, Cheran, Toma – Octavian Platagă, Cârciumaru, Petcu, Dumitru Neagu, Virgil Mincioagă,
Dumitru Marcu
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among others, the team sponsored by the canning factory, after won again the county championship and after won the promotion play-off against Metalul Mija ( 2–1 at Mija and 2–1 at Caracal), the champion of
Dâmbovița County
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, manages to promote in
Divizia C
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.
In the
1970–71 season, ''FC Caracal'' clinched the 2nd place in the 4th series of the Divizia C, narrowly losing the promotion, at two points difference, in front of
Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea.
In the
1971-72 season, the club was renamed once again as Răsăritul, finished that season on the 8th place.
After two more seasons in which finished mid-table twice - 9th (
1972–73) and 7th (
1973–74), the team from Caracal enter in decline. Renamed again, this time as ''Vagonul Caracal'', due to the collaboration with Uzina de Vagoane (Wagon Factory), the following two seasons was ended at the bottom of the table - 13th (
1974–75) and 14th (
1975–76) fighting to avoid the relegation.
Reverted to its old name, Răsăritul finally relegated to the Fourth Division at the end of the
1976–77 season, finishing on 15th place.
The
following season, Răsăritul went on to win the
Olt County Championship after a strong battle with the team of Uzina de Vagoane Caracal and the
promotion play-off against Gloria Berevoești (1–1 at Berevoești and 2–1 at Caracal), the champion of
Argeș County.
After an escape from relegation, at the end of the
1978–79 season, the next season brought for the football from Caracal a new name for the first team of the city, ''Sportul Muncitoresc Caracal'',
and a third place, with
Constantin Năsturescu as a coach, at the end of the
1979–80 season. It was the best result from the second place at the beginning of the 1970s.
With Iuliu Uțu, the former goalkeeper of
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and
Farul Constanța, as a head coach, Sportul Muncitoresc finished on the 5th place in the
1980–81 season and on the 10th place in
1981–82 season.
The team started the 1982–83 season with Ion Catană on the bench, which was replaced for the second part of the season with Ion Pârvulescu, finishing the championship on 5th place and managing to reach the
first round proper of the Romanian Cup after nineteen years, but lost in front of
Petrolul Ploiești with 0–3 at Caracal.
In the 1983–84 season, Sportul Muncitoresc Caracal, coached by Ion Pârvulescu, reached the
first round proper of the Cupa României for the second consecutive time, where they will lose in front of the
First Division club
Corvinul with 0–1. In the championship, nothing spectacular, the Caracal team finished 10th in the VI Series of
Divizia C
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. The squad included the following players: Florea Mantoc - Marinel Pâstae, Marin Boscor, V. Roșca, Doru Dumitrescu - Marinescu, Ion Antonescu, Georgel Mitran, Lăcătuș, Plotoagă, Ion Năuiu, Nedelcu, Nițu.
The 1984–85 season, with
Cornel Pavlovici
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Death
Pavlovici died on 8 January 2013.
Career statistics
*Total matches played in Romanian First League: 134 matches ...
as head coach, saw Sportul finishing seventh in the 6th Series of
Third Division and qualifying again in the
first round proper of the Cupa României, losing 0–1 to
Rapid București
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. The lineup of Sportul: Florea Mantoc – V. Roșca I, I.Crețu, Teodor Nicu, M. Roșca II – Nedelcu (Constantin Lăcătuș), Ion Năuiu, Georgel Mitran – Pârvu, Nicolae Stângaciu, Plotoagă.
In the fall of 1985, Sportul Muncitoresc Caracal qualified for the fifth time, and for fourth consecutive time, in the
Round of 32 of Cupa României. The good evolutions in the
Cupa României predicted the jump of Caracal football in a higher echelon. After the third-place from 1985–86 season, in the summer of 1987 Sportul Muncitoresc Caracal won the Series VI of Divizia C promoted in Second Division after four decades of regional, county or third-division championships.
Honours
Liga III
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*Winners (1):
1986–87
*Runners-up (1):
1970–71
Liga IV – Olt County
*Winners (6):
1968–69,
1969–70,
1977–78,
1997–98, 2000–01, 2001–02
League history
References
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Defunct football clubs in Romania
Football clubs in Olt County
Association football clubs established in 1924
1924 establishments in Romania
Association football clubs disestablished in 2004
2004 disestablishments in Romania
Caracal, Romania