CSA Steaua București is a Romanian professional
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...
club based in
Bucharest
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, Romania. It competes in the
Romanian Handball League. They are part of the
CSA Steaua sports organization.
History
Founded in the late 1940s as part of the
CSA Steaua army sports club. The handball section has won a record 28
national championships and 9 Romanian cups. Steaua won two
EHF Champions League
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titles as well as reaching two further finals.
In 2006, they won the
EHF Challenge Cup with
Vasile Stîngă as their coach. The club played under various names throughout the years for sponsorship reasons.
Their biggest rival is
Dinamo Bucharest with whom they contest the Bucharest derby.
Club name history
Honours
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Double
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* Multiplication by 2
* Double precision, a floating-point representation of numbers that is typically 64 bits in length
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* A ...
:Winners (6): 1980–81, 1984–85, 1989–90, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2007–08
First-team
Current squad
:''Squad for the 2024–25 season''
Technical staff
* Head coach: Nedeljko Matic
* Assistant coach: Åžtefan Laufceac
* Goalkeeping coach:
Ionuţ Ciobanu
* Fitness coach:
Marius Tudor
Transfers
:''Transfers for the 2025–26 season''
;Joining
;Leaving
European record
European Cup and Champions League
EHF Challenge Cup
EHF ranking
Former club members
Notable former players
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Silviu Băiceanu (1999–2003)
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Ciprian Beșta (1991–1994)
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Ștefan Birtalan
Ştefan Birtalan (25 September 1948 – 27 May 2024) was a Romanian handball player, coach and sports official.
Birtalan was one of the best players of his time and was named the World Player of the Year in 1974, 1976 and 1977. He spent most of ...
(1970–1985)
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Octavian Bizău (2017–2019)
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Sebastian Bota (1991–1997)
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Alexandru Buligan (1981–1982)
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Ionuț Ciobanu (2005–2010, 2021-)
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Alexandru Dedu (1991–1996)
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Cristian Gațu (1968–1978)
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Gheorghe Gruia (1961–1973)
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Javier Humet (2018–2020)
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Ionuț Iancu (2021–)
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Josef Jakob (1963–1971)
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Andrei Mihalcea (2018–)
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Marius Novanc (2005–2010)
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Cornel Oțelea (1958–1970)
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Alin Șania (2005–2009)
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Ciprian Șandru (2021–)
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Hansi Schmidt (1961–1963)
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Tudor Stănescu (2016–)
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Marius Stavrositu (2007–2010, 2017-2019)
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Vasile Stîngă (1977–1989)
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Werner Stöckl
Werner Stöckl (born 28 June 1952) is a retired Romanian handball player of Banat Swabian ethnicity. He won the world title in 1974 and two Olympic medals in 1972 and 1976.
Stöckl took up handball in 1967 and in 1969 joined Steaua București, ...
(1969–1981)
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Marius Szőke (2011–2017)
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Radu Voina
Radu Voina (born 29 July 1950) is a Romanian former handball player and current head coach.
Playing career
He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, in the 1976 Summer Olympics, and the 1980 Summer Olympics.
In 1972, he won the bronze medal wit ...
(1972–1991)
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Dan Rosescu (1964–1970)
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Marin Vegar (2018–2019)
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Ivan Matskevich (2015–2017)
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João Pedro Silva (2019-2020)
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Guilherme Valadão Gama (2019-2020)
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Rodrigo Salinas Muñoz (2014-2015)
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Nikola Kedžo (2017-2019)
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Guillermo Corzo (2014–2015)
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Ahmed Khairy (2020-2021)
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Mohsen Babasafari (2017-2019)
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Alireza Mousavi (2022-)
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Nemanja Grbović
Nemanja Grbović (born 26 April 1990) is a Montenegrin handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players a ...
(2018-2019, 2020-)
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Milan Popović (2021-)
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Samvel Aslanyan (2017-2021)
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Miloš Kostadinović (2016-2018)
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Krsto Milošević
Krsto Milošević (born 6 January 1988) is a Serbian handball player who plays for Steaua București.
Achievements
* Serbian Superleague:
**''Silver Medalist'': 2014
*Serbian Cup:
**''Gold Medalist'': 2010
* Serbian Cup :
**''Silver Medalis ...
(2018-)
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Stefan Vujić (2017-2019)
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Mosbah Sanaï (2020-2021)
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Obrad Ivezic (2007-2010)
References
External links
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Handball clubs in Romania
Handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...
Handball clubs established in 1949
1949 establishments in Romania
Liga Națională (men's handball)
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