SCM Gloria Buzău

FC Gloria Buzău, the original football club of the city, was founded on 16 June 1973, by the Buzău County Local Council, as part of CSM Buzău (Clubul Sportiv Municipal) (En: Municipal Sports Club), the local all-sports association. Gloria absorbed the former team of Buzău, Metalul, whose place it also took in the Divizia C (currently Liga III). With Metalul's players, together with other local footballers (especially from another team, Șoimii), they ranked 1st in their first season of Divizia C. Gloria won the subsequent Divizia B promotion play-off tournament and thus won promotion in their first year of existence.

On 26 May 2016, the Romanian Football Federation fined 14 players and three managers of FC Gloria for match-fixing in the Liga II, in 10 matches between September 2014 and May 2015 and imposed a total ban of 174 months on them.[1] At the end of the 2015–16 Liga II season, Gloria had to face Olimpia Satu Mare in a relegation play-off in June but the club did not compete after it did not have enough players to line up once the bans had come into effect.[2] Along with these developments the club went into bankruptcy after decades of ups and downs, in which the club spent only seven seasons in the top-flight of the Romanian football, where it achieved as a best finish a 5th place.

After the bankruptcy of FC Gloria Buzău, businessman Ionel Turturică founded a new club, FC Buzău, which was enrolled in the Liga V – Buzău County.[3] After only one season, the new club, which also had players with many matches played for FC Gloria Buzău, promoted to Liga IV with a total of 63 points, 7 points ahead the second place.[4]

In the summer of 2017 FC Buzău was renamed as SCM Gloria Buzău, as part of the city new sports club SCM Gloria Buzău, and at the end of the 2017–18 season promoted again, this time in the Liga III.[5]

In the 2018–19 season of Liga III SCM Gloria managed to promote for the third consecutive year, this time in the Liga II, after winning the first series of the third tier, series in which they had tough matches against teams such as Oțelul Galați, Foresta Suceava, Bucovina Rădăuți or Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț, under these conditions "the red and blues" suffered their first defeat only in the last round, having the best run of all the series winners.[6]

SCM Gloria does not have many important rivalries, however, a local one, of little intensity, exist, against Metalul Buzău, the club which was dissolved in 1973 to found FC Gloria Buzău.

• Liga III
  • Winners (1): 2018–19
• Liga IV – Buzău County
  • Winners (1): 2017–18
• Liga V – Buzău County
  • Winners (1): 2016–17

• Cupa României – Buzău County
  • Winners (1): 2016–17
  • Runners-up (1): 2017–18

As of 14 March 2020[9]

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 Rareș Șerban 2 DF Alexandru Gîț 4 DF Dragoș Ceaușel 5 DF Marius Ioniță (Captain) 7 MF Bogdan Gavrilă 8 MF Cristian Balgiu 9 MF Adelin Pîrcălabu 10 FW Bogdan Chipirliu 11 MF Dragoș Huiban 12 GK Relu Stoian 13 MF Andrei Enescu 14 FW Matei Constantinescu 17 MF David Stăiculescu (on loan from Voluntari II) 18 DF Ciprian Perju 19 DF Călin Toma

No. Position Player 20 DF Răzvan Catană 21 FW Constantin Stoica 22 GK Cristian Andrei (on loan from FCSB II) 23 MF Sebastian Ghinga (Vice-Captain) 24 MF Iulian Roșu 26 DF Cătălin Savin 28 MF Branislav Ľupták 29 MF Cosmin Tucaliuc (on loan from Viitorul) 30 DF Călin Tudose (on loan from FCSB II) 77 MF Valentin Munteanu 80 MF Andrei Ignat 97 MF Robert Candrea 98 FW Mihai Chică-Roșă 99 DF Gabriel Nedelea (on loan from Viitorul)

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

No. Position Player 72 MF Mădălin Calu (to CSM Reșița) — DF Marian Pleșoiu (to Râmnicu Sărat)

No. Position Player — FW Marian Codreanu (to Râmnicu Sărat)