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Club Sportiv Municipal Oltenița, commonly known as CSM Oltenița, or simply Oltenița (Romanian pronunciation: [olˈtenit͡sa]), is a professional Romanian football club based in Oltenița, Călărași County.

CSM Oltenița

Full name	Club Sportiv Municipal Oltenița
Nickname(s)	Napoletanii Oltenițenii (The People from Oltenița)
Short name	Oltenița
Founded	1948; 74 years ago (1948) as Șantierul Naval Oltenița 2012; 10 years ago (2012) as CSM Oltenița
Ground	Municipal
Capacity	2,500
Owner	Oltenița Municipality
Chairman	Iulian Cudalbu
Manager	Florin Stancu
League	Liga IV
2021–22	Liga III, Seria III, 10th (relegated)
Home colours Away colours

The team was founded as Șantierul Naval Oltenița in 1948 and played between 1965 and 1992 in the Liga II and Liga III. After 1992 the team had only sporadic appearances in the third league, before being declared bankrupt at the end of the 2004–05 season. For 7 years football has disappeared from the city, and the stadium has also become a ruin. In 2011 the renovations of the stadium started and after one year the club was re-founded, this time as CSM Oltenița.

History

CSM Oltenița was founded in 1948 as Șantierul Naval Oltenița (also known as ȘN Oltenița or SNO). The team was first promoted to the Divizia C at the end of the 1964–65 season. ȘN Oltenița played at this level for five years before advancing to the Divizia B at the end of the 1969–70 season.[1] The club was strongly supported by the Oltenița shipyard and they had good results and at the end of the 1971–72 season occupied the 3rd place (best ranking in its entire history).[2] In the following seasons the club no longer succeeded in approaching this performance: 1972–73 – 6th, 1973–74 – 13th, 1974–75 – 9th, 1975–76 – 13th, then culminating with a 17th place and a relegation at the end of the 1976–77 season. After one season, the club from the left bank of the Argeș River promoted again, but it would only last a season before returning to the third league, where it would remain. In 1992 after the Romanian Revolution and fall of the communism in Romania, Oltenița shipyard, which was an institution of the state, has begun to face growing financial problems, which has also shifted to the football team.

In 1992 Unirea Tricolor București (not to be confused with the original club Unirea Tricolor București, which was dissolved in 1958) was moved from Bucharest to Oltenița and merged with ISCIP Ulmeni and ȘN Oltenița. The new entity was named Unirea Tricolor Oltenița, then Navol Unirea Oltenița.[3] After two seasons, Unirea Tricolor and ȘN Oltenița split up, Unirea Tricolor moved back to Bucharest and maintained the Divizia C place while ȘN Oltenița was renamed as Navol Oltenița (the new name of the Oltenița shipyard) and enrolled in the Divizia D.[4] Navol promoted after only one season and remained in the Divizia C until 1999, then promoting again only in 2004. As the shipyard's support had disappeared because of the serious problems it faced, Navol has withdrawn at the end of the season due to lack of funds, the shipyard was declared bankrupt a year later. After this followed the darkest period in the history of football from Oltenița, a period of seven years in which the club remained just a memory and the stadium has become a ruin.[5]

Name[6]	Period
Șantierul Naval Oltenița	1948–1992
Unirea Tricolor Oltenița	1992–1993
Navol Unirea Oltenița	1993–1994
Navol Oltenița	1994–2005
CSM Oltenița	2012–present

In 2011 the stadium was renovated and in 2012 the football club was refounded as CSM Oltenița.[7] The team returned to the Liga III at the end of the 2014–15 season after winning the Liga IV, Călărași County group.

Ground

CSM Oltenița plays its home matches on the 2,500-seat Stadionul Municipal from Oltenița.[8] In the past the stadium could fit 10,000 people, but the capacity was reduced by the irreparable damage suffered during the period in which it was abandoned. In 2011 the stadium was revived, but the capacity was reduced at only 2,500 and from 2014 was also bought by Municipality of Oltenița from the company that took over the assets of the Oltenița shipyard after its bankruptcy.[9]

Honours

Liga III

• Winners (2): 1969–70, 1977–78
• Runners-up (1): 1982–83

Liga IV – Călărași County

• Winners (4): 1964–65, 1995–96, 2000–01, 2014–15

Liga V – Călărași County

• Winners (1): 2012–13

Other performances

• Appearances in Liga II: 8
• Best finish in Liga II: 3rd place in the 1971–72

Players

First team squad

As of 8 March 2022

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ROU Andrei Oprica 2 MF  ROU Silviu Rotaru (Captain) 3 DF  ROU Mirel Duțu 4 DF  ROU Ștefan Dumitru 5 MF  ROU Marius Gheorghe 6 DF  ROU Florin Pașca 8 MF  ROU Ciprian Stoica 9 FW  ROU Roberto Eftene 11 MF  ROU Fabian Ivan 12 GK  ROU Robert Vâlceanu

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 MF  ROU Ionuț Drăgan 14 DF  ROU Teodor Podocea 15 MF  ROU Valentin Crăciun 16 MF  ROU Antonio Neagu (on loan from Chiajna) 18 MF  ROU Alexandru Iliescu (on loan from Asalt) 19 MF  ROU Marian Stoica 21 FW  ROU Andrei Pirliteanu 23 DF  ROU Radu Podocea 26 DF  ROU David Popescu 28 MF  ROU Ciprian Manea

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player

No. Pos. Nation Player

Club officials

League history

References

External link

• CSM Oltenița on Facebook

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