Liga IV Bucharest

Liga IV Bucharest is the municipal football division of Liga IV for clubs based in Bucharest, Romania. The competition is ranked as the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system and is organized by AMFB Bucharest – Asociația Municipală de Fotbal (lit. 'Municipal Football Association').

Liga IV Bucharest

Founded	1968
Country	Romania
Level on pyramid	4
Promotion to	Liga III
Relegation to	Liga V Bucharest
Domestic cup(s)	Cupa României Supercupa României
Current champions	Știința București (1st title) (2024–25)
Most championships	Spic de Grâu București and Chitila (4 titles each)
Website	AMF Bucharest
Current: 2024–25 Liga IV Bucharest

It is contested by a variable number of teams, depending on the number of teams relegated from Liga III, the number of teams promoted from Liga V Bucharest, and the teams that withdraw or enter the competition. The winner may or may not be promoted to Liga III, depending on the result of a promotion play-off contested against the winner of a neighboring county series.

History

Football in the City and Region of Bucharest included over time, apart from the participating teams at the national level, a variable number of lower category teams, contained in different organizational and competitive formulas.

After 1948, following the administrative and territorial organization of the Romanian People's Republic, the football from the City of Bucharest and from Bucharest Region was governed by the municipal commission and the regional commission within the coordination forum for physical culture and sport.

In the Bucharest Region, football was organized into regional and district championships that comprised over time teams from nowadays Ilfov, Giurgiu, Ialomița, Teleorman and Călărași counties as from City of Bucharest. The Bucharest Regional Championship was disbanded in 1968 along with the new territorial reorganization of the country^[1] and the new competitive system in which each county has its own football championship. Starting that year, football in the Municipality of Bucharest was organized by the newly established Consiliul Municipal pentru Educație Fizică și Sport (lit. 'Municipal Council for Physical Education and Sports') in Bucharest.^[2]

In the City of Bucharest competitive formula was that of the municipal championship with teams from the largest Bucharest enterprises, in value categories called Honor, Promotion and Sector. A peak moment in this period, which ended after 1990, was the time interval between 1964 and 1976, when the destinies of football in the Capital were ensured by Prof. Traian Tomescu, and the number of teams, players, referees and coaches reached a record number, under the conditions of some competitions with two series at Honor Category, another four series at Promotion Category and one or two series for each sector of Bucharest.

After 1992, football in the Municipality of Bucharest was organized under the Asociația Municipală de Fotbal (lit. 'Municipal Football Association'), and the number of teams participating in competitions decreased due to poor economic and financial conditions. The competition was renamed Divizia C – Faza Municipală (Divizia C – Municipal Phase), became Divizia D in 1997, and has been known as Liga IV since 2006.

Promotion

The champions of each county association play against one another in a play-off to earn promotion to Liga III. Geographical criteria are taken into consideration when the play-offs are drawn. In total, there are 41 county champions plus the Bucharest municipal champion.

List of Champions

Bucharest Regional Championship

Ed.	Season	Winners
1	1951	Dinamo 8 București
2	1952	Spartac Giurgiu
3	1953	Dinamo Oltenița
4	1954	Flacăra București
5	1955
6	1956
7	1957–58	Oltul Turnu Măgurele
8	1958–59	CFR Roșiori
9	1959–60	CFR Roșiori
10	1960–61	Dunărea Giurgiu
11	1961–62	Progresul Alexandria
12	1962–63	Unirea Răcari
13	1963–64	Chimia Turnu Măgurele
14	1964–65	Șantierul Naval Oltenița
15	1965–66	Celuloza Călărași
16	1966–67	Chimia Turnu Măgurele
17	1967–68	Celuloza Călărași (East Series) Comerțul Alexandria (West Series)

Bucharest Municipal Championship

Ed. Season Winners Municipal Championship 1 1952 Dinamo 8 București 2 1953 Progresul CPCS București 3 1954 Știința București 4 1955 Locomotiva MCF București 5 1956 6 1957–58 7 1958–59 Bumbacul București 8 1959–60 Academia Militară București 9 1960–61 Flacăra Roșie București 10 1961–62 Filaret București 11 1962–63 Flacăra Roșie București 12 1963–64 Metalul Floreasca 13 1964–65 Laromet București 14 1965–66 Dinamo Obor București 15 1966–67 TUG București 16 1967–68 Voința București 17 1968–69 Laromet București 18 1969–70 Constructorul București 19 1970–71 Dinamo Obor București 20 1971–72 UREMOAS București 21 1972–73 IOR București 22 1973–74 Automatica București 23 1974–75 ICSIM București 24 1975–76 Abatorul București 25 1976–77 Mecanica Fină București 26 1977–78 Vâscoza București 27 1978–79 Danubiana București 28 1979–80 Granitul București

Ed. Season Winners 29 1980–81 Dinamo Victoria București 30 1981–82 Vâscoza București 31 1982–83 URBIS București 32 1983–84 TMB București 33 1984–85 Voința București 34 1985–86 CFR BTA București 35 1986–87 IMGB București 36 1987–88 URBIS București 37 1988–89 Mecos București 38 1989–90 Voința București 39 1990–91 Calculatorul București 40 1991–92 Constructorul Feroviar București Divizia C 41 1992–93 Viscofil București 42 1993–94 Aversa București 43 1994–95 Electromagnetica București 44 1995–96 Acumulatorul București 45 1996–97 Inter Gaz București Divizia D 46 1997–98 Grivița București 47 1998–99 Aversa București 48 1999–00 Venus RGAB București 49 2000–01 Spic de Grâu București 50 2001–02 Spic de Grâu București 51 2002–03 Spic de Grâu București 52 2003–04 Chitila 53 2004–05 Sportul Studențesc București II 54 2005–06 Aversa București

Ed. Season Winners Liga IV 55 2006–07 Comprest GIM București 56 2007–08 Progresul București II[3] 57 2008–09 Comprest GIM București[4] 58 2009–10 Spic de Grâu București[5] 59 2010–11 Metaloglobus București 60 2011–12 Chitila[6] 61 2012–13 Chitila[7] 62 2013–14 Comprest GIM București[8] 63 2014–15 Chitila 64 2015–16 Progresul București 65 2016–17 Progresul Spartac București 66 2017–18 Rapid București 67 2018–19 Carmen București[9] 68 2019–20 Steaua București[10] – 2020–21 Not disputed[a] 69 2021–22 CS Dinamo București[11] 70 2022–23 Daco-Getica București 71 2023–24 ACS FC Dinamo București[12] 72 2024–25 Știința București[13]

1. Not disputed due to COVID-19 pandemic in Romania.

See also

Main Leagues

• Liga I
• Liga II
• Liga III
• Liga IV

County Leagues (Liga IV series)

North–East Liga IV Bacău Liga IV Botoșani Liga IV Iași Liga IV Neamț Liga IV Suceava Liga IV Vaslui

North–West Liga IV Bihor Liga IV Bistrița-Năsăud Liga IV Cluj Liga IV Maramureș Liga IV Satu Mare Liga IV Sălaj

Center Liga IV Alba Liga IV Brașov Liga IV Covasna Liga IV Harghita Liga IV Mureș Liga IV Sibiu

West Liga IV Arad Liga IV Caraș-Severin Liga IV Gorj Liga IV Hunedoara Liga IV Mehedinți Liga IV Timiș

South–West Liga IV Argeș Liga IV Dâmbovița Liga IV Dolj Liga IV Olt Liga IV Teleorman Liga IV Vâlcea

South Liga IV Bucharest Liga IV Călărași Liga IV Giurgiu Liga IV Ialomița Liga IV Ilfov Liga IV Prahova

South–East Liga IV Brăila Liga IV Buzău Liga IV Constanța Liga IV Galați Liga IV Tulcea Liga IV Vrancea