Dacia Unirea Braila

Asociația Fotbal Club 1919 Dacia Unirea Braila, commonly known as Dacia Unirea Braila, is a Romanian professional football club from Braila, founded in 1919. The club currently plays in the Liga II. Their home is the 18,256-seat Stadionul Municipal stadium, where they have played since 1974.

Among the club's best performances are one Romanian Cup final in the 1992–93 season and a 6th-place finish in the top division of the Romanian football league system in the 1991–92 season.

Dacia Unirea's current home colors are white and dark blue. Accordingly, the players are nicknamed The White-blues or The Cozmoc’s Lions (“Leii lui Cozmoc") and play their home games at the 20,000-seater Municipal Stadium. The club's most notable rivalry is the one against Oțelul Galați.

History

Dacia Braila was founded in 1919 around the same time with another team, Unirea. Until 1928, when the two merge their collective and Dacia Unirea appears, each separately participated in the regional championship.

In November 1929 Dacia Unirea had the following base team: Padimatopol (Capreanu), Stanciu, Vasiliu, Leo (Savulescu), Fritz, Grigoriou, Anastasios, Leșu, I. Goldenberg, Teodorescu (Fratescu, Cavada, Geller, Munteanu). In the 1929–1930 season the team won the regional tournament and qualified for the national championship tournament. In the quarter-finals they were eliminated by Juventus Bucharest, the team that won the championship that year.

Early years of football (1919-1950)

Afterwards, Dacia Unirea played in the Divizia B between the years 1934–1937, 1938–1940 and in the Divizia A between the years 1937–1938, 1940–1941, the name of the team and of the club changing a few times: D.U.I.G. (Dacia Unirea Ignatz Goldenberg) in 1937, Dacia Unirea in 1938 and FC Braila in 1940.

During the war it activated in the Cupa Eroilor. After the war, the club changed its name back to the traditional "Dacia Unirea", and participated at only