Bucovina Radauți

Clubul Sportiv Municipal Bucovina Radauți, commonly known as Bucovina Radauți, is a Romanian professional football club based in Radauți, Romania, founded in 1956. Currently the team plays in Liga III.

History

Clubul Sportiv Municipal Bucovina Radauți was founded in 1956 as Progresul Radauți to continue the football tradition in Radauți started before World War II by Hatmanul Luca Arbore Radauți and then continued by teams like: Jahn Radauți and Hagwiruch Radauți.

Bucovinenii played almost all their history at Liga III being a traditional team at this level and the best performance of the club was at the end of 1958–1959 season when it finished on the 2nd place.

From the beginning of 60's the club played under the name of Metalul Radauți, the name with which it would evolve throughout the communist period, from 1991 the team was renamed as Bucovina Radauți.

At the end of the 2003–04 Divizia C season Bucovina Radauți relegated to Liga IV being then unable for several consecutive years to return to Liga III.
In the 2011–12 season Bucovina Fratauții Noi won Liga IV – Suceava County and promoted to Liga III after the play-off match, then in the summer of the same year the team was moved from Fratauții Noi to Radauți and renamed as Bucovina Radauți reinventing the football tradition of Radauți.

In the middle of the 2015–16 Liga III season Radauțenii withdrew from Liga III due to financial problems. In the summer of 2016 the team enrolled in Liga IV-Suceava County and after one year the club was promoted back to Liga III after a play-off match against Bistrița-Nasaud County champions, ACS Dumitra.