CSM Bacău (football)

Clubul Sportiv Municipal Bacău, commonly known as CSM Bacău, is a Romanian professional football club based in Bacău, Bacău County. This team represents the football section of the multi-sport club CSM Bacău, which also include handball, volleyball, athletics, boxing, swimming, tennis, archery, weightlifting, Greco-Roman wrestling, badminton and equestrian sports.

Not to be confused with FCM Bacău or ACS Gauss Bacău.
This article is about the football team. For the handball team, see CSM Bacău (men's handball). For the volleyball team, see CS Știința Bacău (women's volleyball).
CSM Bacău
Full nameClubul Sportiv Municipal Bacău
Nickname(s)
  • CSMeii (The CSMs)
  • Băcăuanii (The People from Bacău)
Short nameCSM
Founded2016 (2016)
as CSSM Bacău
GroundConstantin Anghelache
Capacity2,000
OwnerBacău Municipality
ChairmanAdrian Gavriliu
ManagerGiani Florian
LeagueLiga III
2019–20Liga III, Seria I, 15th
WebsiteClub website

CSM Bacău was established on 28 December 2010 and is fully supported by the Municipality of Bacău. The football section of CSM was established only in 2016 and after three seasons spent in the amateur football (Liga IV and Liga V), managed to promote in the Liga III, where is now an active member.

History

CSM Bacău was founded in 2016, as the football section of the local multi-sport club, which was established on 28 December 2010.[1] CSM is the third project of the Municipality of Bacău which involves the creation of a competitive football team.

The first and the most successful project was FCM Bacău, club that was strongly supported financially in the 1990s and early 2000s, when Dumitru Sechelariu was the Mayor of Bacău. FCM had notable results in the top-flight of the Romanian football and players such as Cristian Ciocoiu, Andrei Cristea, Florin Lovin or Vlad Munteanu made their debut at senior level in the squad of "the Mad Bulls".[2]

In 2010, Romeo Stavarache, the new Mayor of Bacău, decided that FCM, which was further owned by Sechelariu it can no longer be financially supported, not even at the level of the second or third league and decided to financially support Mesagerul Bacău, also changing its name in SC Bacău (a former name of FCM Bacău) and its colors from white and black in white and red.[2] SC Bacău reached Liga II in 2013 and remained at this level until 2016, when was relegated due to financial problems. SC Bacău was no longer supported by the municipality after mayor Stavarache had legal problems and the club was bought by Cristian Postolache, a local businessman.[3][4][5]

In 2016, the new administration of Bacău, led by mayor Cosmin Necula decided the establishment of a football section at the municipality's club, CSM, thus filling the vacancy left by SC Bacău in the multi-sport club organization chart.

Football section of CSM Bacău was enrolled in the Liga V, promoted after only one season in the Liga IV and since 2019 is an active member of Liga III.[6]

Ground
Main article: Stadionul Constantin Anghelache

CSM Bacău plays its home matches on Constantin Anghelache Stadium in Bacău, Bacău County. Opened in the early 1970s and formerly known as Letea Stadium, the arena has a capacity of 2,000 seats and was for most of its existence the home ground of Letea Bacău, team that would become second team of FCM Bacău in the early 2000s.[7][8] Between 2006 and 2017 the stadium was also used by Gauss Bacău, team known in the past also as Mesagerul Bacău or SC Bacău.

Honours

Players

First team squad
As of 15 March 2020

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Emanuel Savu
2 MF Cezar Strat
3 DF George Mocanu
7 MF Florin Nicodim
9 FW Cosmin Zarzu
10 MF Alin Mocanu
12 GK Teodor Cîmpeanu
15 MF Daniel Preda
17 MF Răzvan Istrate
18 DF Alexandru Belecciu (Captain)
— DF Andrei David
— DF Andrei Ghenici (on loan from Ceahlăul)
No. Position Player}
— DF Valentin Iacoboaie
— DF Ionel Manta
— DF Alexandru Scorțanu
— MF Norbert Antal
— MF Andrei Apostol
— MF Leonard Hilițeanu
— MF Răzvan Hodorogea
— MF Alin Juncu
— MF Lorenzo Ungurenașu
— FW Tamás Becze (on loan from Miercurea Ciuc)
— FW Filip Belciu
— FW Adrian Olteanu

Club Officials

League history

References
  1. "Istoric club" [Club's history]. csmbacau.ro. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  2. "Dispariția Bacăului din fotbalul mare" [The disappearance of Bacau from top-flight]. echipedetraditie.ro. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  3. "Romeo Stavarache, condamnat la 4 ani de închisoare" [Romeo Stavarache, sentenced to 4 years in prison]. digi24.ro. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  4. "Romeo Stavarache iese din închisoare. Fostul primar din Bacău a fost condamnat în noiembrie 2017 la 4 ani de închisoare pentru luare de mită" [Romeo Stavarache comes out of prison. Former mayor of Bacău was sentenced in November 2017 to 4 years in prison for taking bribes]. hotnews.ro. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  5. "Gauss vede bine C-ul" [Gauss sees the C well]. desteptarea.ro. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  6. "CSM Bacău a promovat în Liga a III-a" [CSM Bacău promoted to Liga III]. desteptarea.ro. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  7. Stadionul Letea re-inaugurat de campionii arcasi, nu de fotbalisti. zdbc.ro (in Romanian)
  8. Aripile (actuala Aerostar) si Letea (actuala FCM II) au facut istorie in esaloanele doi si trei.. zdbc.ro (in Romanian)
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