Clubul Sportiv Municipal Pașcani, commonly known as CSM Pașcani or simply Pașcani, is a

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n football club from

Pașcani Pașcani () is a city in Iași County in the Western Moldavia region of Romania, on the Siret river. , it has a population of 30,766. Five villages are administered by the city: Blăgești, Boșteni, Gâstești, Lunca, and Sodomeni. The city der ...

Iași County Iași County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia, with the administrative seat at Iași. It is the most populous county in Romania, after the Municipality of Bucharest (which has the same administrative level as that of a cou ...

, currently playing in the

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, the fourth tier of the

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. The club played for twenty-five seasons in the second Romanian football league. The biggest performance in the club's history was the fourth place in

Divizia B 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 football season. It is currently sponsored by Casa Pariu ...

, reached in the 1962–63 season and playing the quarter-finals of the 1987–88 Cupa României.

History

CSM Pașcani was founded in 1921 as ''CFR Pașcani'' and played in the districts and regional championships. The club played for the first time at national level in the 1934–35 season in the newly formed

. He had previously changed his name to ''Unirea CFR Pașcani'', renamed again as CFR Pașcani in 1948. As a club of the Romanian railway company

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, the club changed its name to ''Locomotiva Pașcani'' in the early 1950s. He finished the 1956 season in second place in his Divizia C series behind Recolta Fălticeni, missing the return to Divizia B by one point. This was made up for two years later, winning the

1958–59 Divizia C The 1958–59 Divizia C was the 7th season of Liga III, the third tier of the Romanian football league system. Team changes To Divizia C Relegated from Divizia B * Partizanul Reghin * CFR Cluj * Progresul CPCS București * CSU București ...

, after the club went back to its original name ''CFR Pașcani'' in 1958. In Divizia B CFR played for ten consecutive seasons, mostly fighting to save from relegation. Best result of the 1960s was the 4th place in the 1962–63 season. After the relegation from 1968–69 season, CFR returned to Divizia B a year later after winning promotion in the 1969–70 season of

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. As in previous years, the fight against relegation was in the foreground and after eight years, in which the best performance was the 5th place in the

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and 1975–76 seasons, CFR relegated at the end of the 1977–78 season. This time it was not possible to return immediately, finishing as runner-up in 1978–79 season behind CS Botoșani, the club remained in the third tier. After two seasons at the mid-table, 6th in 1979–80 and 5th in 1980–81, CFR missed the promotion in the 1981–82 season at

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in front of Minerul Gura Humorului. In the next season, Pășcănenii finished 3rd, behind Chimia Fălticeni and Zimbrul Siret. At the end of the 1983–84 campaign, CFR Pașcani, with Constantin Dinu as head coach, won the Series I of Divizia C, returning to second division after six years of absence. In Divizia B, the club managed to place several times at the mid-table. The biggest success of that time came in the 1987–88 season of the Romanian Cup. After the victories with

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2–2 after

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and 3–2 on

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and

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2–1 , CFR advanced to the quarter-finals, but was eliminated by

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0–2. CFR Pașcani relegated at the end of the 1989–90 season. After a 3rd place in the 1990–91 season, ''Pășcănenii'' won the Series 1 of Divizia C in the 1991–92 season, but due to the reorganization of the competitive system, in the summer of 1992, dictated by the Romanian Football Federation, the club remained in the Third Division. The years that followed were changeable. In 2000–01 season CFR was able to leave the relegation battle behind and missed the promotion in front of Petrolul Moinești just as narrow as five years later behind Politehnica Iași II. In the summer of 2009, the club changed its name to CSM Pașcani and has played continuously in Liga III. In 2012 it was renamed once again, this time as ''Kosarom Pașcani'' after the name of the main sponsor. In the summer of 2014 reverted to ''CSM Pașcani''.

Honours

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 ...

*Winners (5): 1958–59, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1983–84, 1991–92 *Runners-up (7):

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, 1978–79, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1985–86, 2000–01, 2005–06 Liga IV – Iași County *Runners-up (1): 2023–24

League history

Former managers

* Ion Bălănescu (1947–1950) * Gheorghe Bărbulescu (1958–1960) * Constantin Dinu (1983–1984) * Gheorghe Poenaru (2005–2006) *

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(2013)

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pascani Pașcani Association football clubs established in 1921 Football clubs in Iași County Liga II clubs Liga III clubs Liga IV clubs 1921 establishments in Romania