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SCM Dunărea Giurgiu
Romanian football club From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sport Club Municipal Dunărea Giurgiu, commonly known as SCM Dunărea Giurgiu or Dunărea Giurgiu, is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Giurgiu, Giurgiu County and currently playing in the Liga III, the 3rd tier of the Romanian football league system.
The team was founded in 1948 and until the summer of 2010 it was known as FC Dunărea Giurgiu. Then it was renamed Astra II after it was bought by Ioan Niculae, owner of Liga I squad FC Astra Giurgiu.[1][2] In the summer of 2012 the club was dissolved after its owner decided to cut back on expenses. Then the club was refounded in the summer of 2013 as CSM Dunărea Giurgiu.[3]
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Founded in 1948, with players from Dragaje and Acvila, two small clubs from Giurgiu, Dunărea played for several years in the districts and regional championships.[4]
In the 1960–61 season, led by Lucian Mititelu, Dunărea won the Bucharest Regional Championship and qualified for promotion play-offs in the second division, but lost the promotion finishing in the 3rd place behind CFR Arad and Carpați Sinaia, in a series in who also played Flacăra Roșie București, Muscelul IMS Câmpulung and Dinamo Craiova.[5] Also, Dunărea reached the first round proper of the Romanian Cup, but lost in front of Progresul București 0–4. The squad of Dunărea during the championship and the play-offs matches was composed of: Cristache Manole, Vasile Gheorghiu, Sandu Drăgănescu, Nicolae Nemțescu, Pepi Iorgulescu, Alexandru Ghiță, Alexandru Pană, Alexandru Albu, Alexandru Iorgulescu, Ion IIiuță, Ștefan Stan, Nicu Marinel, Puiu Rotărescu, Constantin Năsturescu, Dumitru Nania, Vasile Ene, Negrilă și Gheorghe Grozea.[4]
In the summer of 1963, the club merged with the newly promoted in Divizia C Victoria Giurgiu and played in the South Series of the third tier, occupied the 2nd place in the 1963–64 season and 3rd in the 1964–65 season.[6]
The two clubs separated in 1965 and the shipyard team was renamed as Dunărea continuing to play in the third division, finishing 5th (1965–66) and 4th (1966–67) in the following two seasons.[6]
After five consecutive seasons in the third tier, Dunărea managed to promoted for the first time in Divizia B at the end of the 1967–68 season winning the South Series after a strong battle with Progresul Brăila. Led by Gheorghe „Gogu" Gîrlea almost the whole season and at the end by Nicolae Nemțescu the squad of Dunărea was composed of: Gică Penescu, Ion Piticu, Ghibănescu, Iacob, Petrișor Lungu, Gore Cristache, Alexandru Ghiță, Sandu Cojocaru, State, Dumitru Ion, Liviu Borțea, Grădinaru, Dumitru Nania, Vasile Mustață, Trăistaru, Anghel, Tudor Constantin, Ilie Emil, Crăciun Clepcea, Constantin Sandu, Budurincă, Stelian Marin, Mănăilă, Pavel Nicolae and Țigănilă.[7]
In the second division, Dunărea successively occupied 12th in 1968–69, 13th in 1969–70, 6th in 1970–71, 11th in 1971–72, and 12th in 1972–73, before being relegated at the end of the 1973–74 season after finishing 16th in Series II.[8] Dunărea spent only one season in the third division, earning a quick promotion by winning Series V of the 1974–75 Divizia C under coach Tinel Popescu.
The team was refounded in the summer of 2013 under the multisport club Sport Club Municipal Dunărea Giurgiu and competed under the leadership of former player Constantin Sandu in the South Series of Liga IV – Giurgiu County,[3] finishing 2nd in the 2013–14 season and losing 0–2 in the championship semifinals to Petrolul Roata Cartojani. In the following seasons, Dunărea ranked 4th in 2014–15 and 1st in 2015–16, with Marcel Abăluță as head coach, but was eliminated in the semifinals after a 1–1 draw and a 5–6 penalty loss to Avântul Florești.[9]
In the 2016–17 season, the team finished 2nd and, after defeating Petrolul Roata de Jos 2–1 in the semifinals, Dunărea won the county title by beating CS Mihai Bravu 2–0 in the final, qualifying for the promotion play-off to Liga III, where they lost 2–3 on aggregate (2–2 at home and 0–1 away) to Agricola Borcea, the Călărași County champions.[10]
Dunărea Giurgiu appointed Andrei Nemțescu as head coach in July 2022 for the 2022–23 season. Under his leadership, the team finished first in the South Series, qualifying for the championship play-offs, where they defeated Singureni 2–0 in the semifinals and Viitorul Tântava 2–0 in the final, winning the Giurgiu County Liga IV title. They secured promotion to Liga III after the play-off against Bărăganul Ciulnița, the Ialomița County champions, with a 1–1 away draw and a 6–1 home victory. The squad included, among others, Stancu, Mitrea, Calea, Blaga, Popescu, Lungu, Matache, Cazaciuc, Florescu, Țangulea, Mizdrescu, Diceanu, Bălțat, G. Gheorghe, Arpetin, Constantinescu, and Pasăre.[11][12][13]
In the 2023–24 Liga III season, Dunărea finished 4th in both the regular season and the play-off round of Series IV,[14] while in the 2024–25 season they ranked 6th in the regular season and 9th in the play-out round, being spared from relegation due to the withdrawal of other teams and appointing Bogdan Vintilă as the new head coach.[15]
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- As of 10 September 2024
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Valentin Stănescu (1955–1958)- Constantin Marinescu (1965–1967)
- Constantin Marinescu (1969–1971)
- Octavian Popescu (1972–1973)
- Ștefan Onisie (1975–1977)
- Imilian Șerbănică (2006–2007)
- John Ene (2007–2008)
- Marin Barbu (2008–2010)
- Emil Ursu (2010)
- Imilian Șerbănică (2010–2011)
- Vasile Cosarek (2012)
- Ioan Tătăran (2012)
- Marcel Abăluță (2015–2016)
- Andrei Nemțescu (2022–2025)
- Bogdan Vintilă (2025–)
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