CS Dinamo București is a professional Romanian

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club from

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, which plays in the

Liga Națională de Rugby The Liga Națională de Rugby () is a professional rugby union club competition that is played in Romania. In the 2023 season there are 14 teams competing. The competition was established in 1913 and is governed by the Romanian Rugby Federation ...

, the first division of Romanian rugby. They are the second most successful rugby union team in

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with 16 championship titles, 14 cup titles and even a Champions League title to their name. After a pause of 15 years, Dinamo won the 2023 Liga Națională de Rugby season, denying rival

CSM Știința Baia Mare CSM Știința Baia Mare, commonly referred to as Știința Baia Mare (), is a Romanian professional rugby union club based in Baia Mare that competes in the Liga de Rugby Kaufland, Romania's top division of rugby. History Originally founded in ...

a 5th historic consecutive title.

History

The Dinamo București rugby club was founded in 1949, under the wing of the

CS Dinamo București CS Dinamo București (full name: Clubul Sportiv Dinamo București), or Dinamo for short, is a multi-sport club from Bucharest, Romania. History The club was founded in the spring of 1948, being subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior. F ...

sports club that had been founded by the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs the previous year. Along with Steaua București and Grivița Roșie București (their two local-town rivals), they had dominated the 1950s scene in Romanian rugby as they won 3 Romanian Championships in 1951, 1952 and 1956, while also winning the Romanian cup twice in 1954 and in 1959. Located in the nation’s capital,

, the Dinamo București side had traditionally consisted of members drawn from the ranks of the civil service and/or police. Along with the army side, Steaua, the Dinamo team is one of the nation’s top rugby union outfits. Dinamo won their most recent title in the 2023 Liga Națională de Rugby season, defeating

17-13. Their only try was scored by the centre Mihai Graure, while four penalties were successfully executed by Jondre Williams.Rugby-Dinamo champion after a 15-year wait
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Honours

Domestic

**Winners (17): 1951, 1952, 1956, 1965, 1969, 1982, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2023 **Runners-up (2): 2003, 2005 *

Cupa României The Cupa României () is a Association football, football cup competition for List of football clubs in Romania, Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1933–34 Cupa României, 1933–34, except during World War II. It is the Romania ...

**Winners (14): 1954, 1959, 1980, 1989, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2023, 2024 **Runners-up (2): 1981, 2005

European

*Champions League (rugby) **Winners (1): 1967

Current squad

References

External links

Official website

SuperLiga Squad Details

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Rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

Rugby union teams in Romania Rugby clubs established in 1949 1949 establishments in Romania