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n amateur football

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based in

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, founded in 1914 and re-founded in 2014. The club is currently playing in the

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- București. Venus players are nicknamed ''Negrii'' (English: ''The Blacks'') due to their all black shirts. Before being dissolved by the

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authorities, Venus was the most successful football club in Romania, winning seven

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championships. The club's colours are black and white, and the club crest is an eight-pointed white star.

History

The club was established in 1914 in the old neighborhood of Venus,

. The team played at the ''Venus'' stadium that opened in 1931. It had a capacity of 15,000 spectators and it became the first stadium in

to host a match under floodlights in 1935. The club won 7 national titles which came in 1920, 1929, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939 and finally in 1940. It never managed to win the Romanian Cup having been beaten by local rivals

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in the final in 1940 as well as losing to the same opponents in the semi-finals in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941 and 1942. The club also took part in three editions of the

Mitropa Cup The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale or Central European Cup, was one of the first international major European football cups for club sides. It was conducted among the successor states of the former Austria-Hunga ...

: * 1937 Mitropa Cup – Last 16: Venus București 4–6 Ujpest and Ujpest 4–1 Venus București *

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– Quarterfinals: Venus București 1–0

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and

5–0 Venus București *

1940 Mitropa Cup The 1940 Mitropa Cup was the 14th edition of the Mitropa Cup and the last season played before the competition was interrupted by the Second World War. The competition would be resumed after the war under the name ''Zentropa Cup'' but by that ti ...

– Quarterfinals: BSK Beograd 3–0 Venus București and Venus București 0–1 BSK Beograd In 1948, due to communist regime norms that stated that all sport associations had to join a trade-union or a governmental institution, the team was forced to merge with "UCB" ("Uzinele Comunale București" – Administration of Sewerage Systems). In 1949 the league was dissolved and the team disbanded. In 2014 the team was reestablished and competed in

, fourth tier of the

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, finishing 7th in Seria II.

Stadium

The club plays its home matches on Stadionul Biruința in

due to demolition of the Venus Stadium in 1953.

Honours

Domestic

Leagues

: *Winners (7): 1919–20, 1928–29, 1931–32, 1933–34, 1936–37, 1938–39, 1939–40 Liga V –

*Winners (1): 2021–22

Cups

Cupa României: *Runners-up (1): 1939–40

Former managers

* Franz Platko 1936-37 *

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1938-40

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Venus Bucuresti Association football clubs established in 1914 Football clubs in Bucharest Liga I clubs Liga IV clubs 1913 establishments in Romania *