CSM Câmpia Turzii

CSM Câmpia Turzii

Full name	Clubul Sportiv Municipal Câmpia Turzii
Short name	CSM
Founded	1921 as IS Câmpia Turzii 2013 as IS 1921 Câmpia Turzii 2017 as CSM Câmpia Turzii
Dissolved	2021
Ground	Mihai Adam
Capacity	2,700
2019–20	Liga IV, Cluj County, 10th
Home colours Away colours

Clubul Sportiv Municipal Câmpia Turzii was a Romanian professional football club from Câmpia Turzii, Cluj County, Romania, founded in 1921 and dissolved in 2021. Throughout the years, the club has had five other names, Metalul, Industria Sârmei, Energia, Mechel and Seso.

History

The club was founded in 1921 as Industria Sârmei and played in the district and regional championship. In 1936–37 season played in Divizia C finishing 5th out of 6 in the Series II of the North League and in 1937–38 season won the promotion to Divizia B.

With the name of Metalul, the team from Campia Turzii, played for two years in the Liga I, their best performance being 12th place in the 1952 season.

It was the fifth club representing Divizia B which reached the Romanian Cup final, which was lost with 0–2 against Progresul Oradea.^[1][2]

In the summer of 2008 it changed its traditional name of Industria Sârmei Câmpia Turzii to Mechel Câmpia Turzii.

But this change proved to be disastrous, because at the end of the 2008–09 season the club was relegated to Liga III. Soon after it changed its name to Seso Câmpia Turzii.

The following seasons it missed the promotion back to Liga II by a hair pin, finishing 2nd in 2010 and 2011. In 2012 it finished 6th, and in 2013 7th.

In the summer of 2013 the club was dissolved.^[3]

During the same summer, the club was refounded as Industria Sârmei 1921 Câmpia Turzii.^[4]

As a result of financial problems, the club entered in a deadlock again in the winter of 2017, collapsing in the summer of 2017; it was refounded again, this time as CSM Câmpia Turzii.^[5]

Chronology of names

Name[6]	Period
Industria Sârmei Câmpia Turzii	1921–1950
Metalul Câmpia Turzii	1950–1956
Energia Câmpia Turzii	1956–1957
Industria Sârmei Câmpia Turzii	1957–2008
Mechel Câmpia Turzii	2008–2009
Seso Câmpia Turzii	2009–2013
Industria Sârmei Câmpia Turzii	2013–2017
CSM Câmpia Turzii	2017–2021

Honours

Leagues

Liga I

• Best finish: 12th 1952

Liga II

• Winners (1): 1951
• Runners-up (7): 1938–39, 1940–41, 1947–48, 1953, 1955, 1961–62, 1964–65

Liga III

• Winners (4): 1937–38, 1971–72, 1977–78, 1981–82, 2000–01
• Runners-up (7): 1972–73, 1989–90, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2009–10, 2010–11

Liga IV – Cluj County

• Winners (2): 1992–93, 1994–95

Cups

Cupa României

• Runners-up (1): 1956

Cupa României – Cluj County

• Runners-up (1): 2018–19

Former managers

• Ion Bălănescu (1954)
• Adrian Văsâi (2002–2003)
• George Ciorceri (2004–2005)
• Alpár Mészáros (2007–2008)

References

1. "Performanţă istorică! Hermannstadt e prima echipă din Liga 2 calificată în finala Cupei României, după 36 de ani" [Historical performance! Hermannstadt is the first team in Liga 2 to qualify for the Romanian Cup final, after 36 years] (in Romanian). Digisport.ro. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
2. "80 de ani de suprize. O istorie a echipelor din ligile inferioare care au jucat finala Cupei României" [80 years of surprises. A history of the teams from the lower leagues that played the Romanian Cup final] (in Romanian). Theplaymaker.ro. 13 May 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
3. "Fotbal, Cupa României: FC Arieşul 1907 Turda (Seso) va juca la Viitorul Lechinţa (BN)". Turda News. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
4. "Noua echipa de fotbal de la ISCT 1921, ce va activa din acest sezon in Liga a 4-a, a început pregătirile!". TurdaNews. 15 July 2015.
5. "Fotbal, Cupa României: CSM Câmpia Turzii debutează în meciurile oficiale cu un meci in Cupa României, pe teren propriu!". TurdaNews. 7 August 2017.
6. RomanianSoccer.ro, (r). "Evoluția denumirilor echipelor de-a lungul anilor". www.romaniansoccer.ro.

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