History of FC Rapid București
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The history of FC Rapid București covers the time between the foundation of Rapid București, a Romanian football club based in Bucharest, up to the present day.
Rapid was founded on 25 June 1923 by the employees of the Grivița workshops, Domestically, Rapid București is one of the most successful clubs in the country, having won three national titles, 13 Cupa României and four Supercupa României. Internationally, its highest achievements are reaching the quarter-finals of the 1972–73 Cup Winners' Cup and of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup, and the final of the 1940 Mitropa Cup, the latter not being played because of the Second World War. Recently, the club was declared bankrupt in 2016, but was refounded and managed to return to the top flight in 2021.