Clubul Sportiv Dinamo București is a

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club based in

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, that competes in the Liga Națională, the top flight of Romanian handball. Nicknamed "the Red Dogs", the club was founded in 1948. The club's home ground is the Sala Polivalentă Dinamo in Sector 2, to which it moved in 2013. Dinamo București are among Romania's most successful clubs, having won over twenty competitive honours, including 21 top-flight titles, 9 Romanian Cups, 7 Romanian Supercups, and 1

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. Dinamo București has rivalry with Steaua București.

Kits

Accomplishments

Domestic competitions

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: **Winners Gold medal icon

(21): 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1995, 1997, 2005,

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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

, 2021,

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, 2023, 2024, 2025 **Runners-up Silver medal icon

(22): 1963, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 **Third place Bronze medal icon

(6): 1973, 1979, 1981, 2001, 2007, 2009,

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

*Romanian Cup: **Winners (9): 1979, 1982, 1988, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 *Romanian Super Cup: **Winners (7): 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024

International competitions

: **Winners (1): 1965 **Runners-up (1): 1963 **Third place (4): 1959, 1960, 1967, 1979 *

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: **Runners-up (1): 1983 **Third place (1): 1989 *

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: **Third place (2): 2004, 2024 *

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:Winners (2): 2016–17, 2020–21

Team

Current squad

:''Squad for the 2025–26 season'' ;Goalkeepers *1 Vladimir Cupara * 16 Alin Cozmaciuc * 18 Ionuț Iancu * Samir Bellahcene ;Left Wingers * 24 Andrei Nicușor Negru * 28 Alex Pascual Garcia ;Right Wingers * 55 Andrii Akimenko * Ionuț Nistor ;Line players *5 Călin Dedu * 14 Frederik Ladefoged * 45 Miklós Rosta ;Left Backs * 26 Haniel Langaro * 94 Robert Militaru ( c) * Andrei Buzle * Pedro Valdés ;Central Backs * 44 Daniel Stanciuc * 66 Yoav Lumbroso * Miguel Martins ;Right Backs * 2 Branko Vujović * Tom Pelayo

Transfers

:''Transfers for the 2025–26 season'' ; Joining * Samir Bellahcene (GK) ''(from TVB Stuttgart)'' * Andrei Buzle (LB) ''(from CSM Constanța)'' * Pedro Valdés (LB) ''(from

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)'' * Miguel Martins (CB) ''(from Aalborg Håndbold)'' * Tom Pelayo (RB) ''(from

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)'' * Ionuț Nistor (RW) ''(from CSM Constanța)'' ; Leaving *

Ali Zein Ali Zein Mohamed al-Hawwari (; born 14 December 1990) is an Egyptian handball player for Romanian side Dinamo București player and the Egyptian national team. Club career Zein was born in Abu Mina', Qena Governorate, hailing from the Hawwar ...

(LB) ''(to ONE Veszprém)'' * Ramon Șomlea (LB) '' (to ?)'' * Haukur Þrastarson (CB) ''(to

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)'' * Stanislav Kašpárek (RB) ''(to

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)'' ? * Tudor Buguleț (RW) ''(to CSM Constanța)'' * Darko Đukić (RW) '' (to ?)''

Staff

:''Staff for the 2025–26 season'' * Sport Director: David Barrufet * Head Coach: Paulo Pereira * Assistant Coach: Jordi Giralt Alberich * Assistant Coach: Sebastian Bota * Goalkeeping Coach: Răzvan Pop * Physiotherapist: Victor Semen * Physiotherapist: Tudor Cornea * Physical Trainer: Thomas Torabi * Physical Trainer: Roger Font Ribas * External Coordinator: Ovidiu Semen * External Coordinator: Marius Pintea

Notable former players

* Ion Mocanu *

Petre Ivănescu Petre Ivănescu (15 April 1936 – 1 April 2022) was a Romanian handball player and coach who played for CS Dinamo București (handball), Dinamo București and for the Romania men's national handball team, Romania national team. Coach Team ...

* Mircea Costache II * Cristian Zaharia * Rudi Prisăcaru * Ioan Moser * Mihai Redl * Ioan Bogolea * Virgil Hnat *

Ghiță Licu Gheorghe "Ghiță" Licu (1 December 1945 – 8 April 2014) was a Romanian handball pivot player. Between 1966 and 1976 he capped 197 times for the national team and scored 328 goals, winning world titles in 1970 and 1974 and Olympic medals in 19 ...

* Robert Licu *

Mircea Grabovschi Mircea Grabovschi (sometimes spelled Grabovski or Grabowski; 22 December 1952 – 23 July 2024) was a Romanian handball player and coach. He won the world title in 1974 and a silver medal at the 1976 Olympics. During his career he played 199 mat ...

* Marin Dan *

Adrian Cosma Adrian Cosma (5 June 1950 – 1996) was a Romanian handball player who won the world title in 1974. He competed at the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympics and won one silver and two bronze medals. During his career he played 130 times for the national ...

Cornel Penu Cornel Penu (born 16 June 1946) is a retired Romanian 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 ...

* Valentin Samungi * Cornel Durău * Alexandru Buligan *

Gheorghe Covaciu Gheorghe Covaciu (born 8 July 1957) is a Romanian former handball player who won a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. At the club level he played for Dinamo Bucharest, HC Minaur Baia Mare, Benfica and Sporting CP as well as BM Ciudad Re ...

Gheorghe Dogărescu Gheorghe Dogărescu (15 May 1960 − 18 August 2020) was a Romanian handball player who won a bronze medal at the 1984 Olympics. He spent most of his club career with Dinamo București, reaching with them the final of the 1981 EHF Cup Winners' C ...

* Eliodor Voica * Vasile Oprea * Rareș Jurcă * Marian Cozma * Ibrahim Diaw * Hugo Descat * Cédric Sorhaindo * Sajjad Esteki * Vitaly Komogorov * Gustav Rydergård

References

External links

Official website

Team's page at eurohandball.com
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