Dunarea Calarași

Asociația Fotbal Club Dunarea 2005 Calarași, commonly known as Dunarea Calarași (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdunəre̯a kələˈraʃʲ]), is a Romanian professional football club from the city of Calarași, Calarași County.

Founded in 1962, Valahii currently play in the Liga II, after finishing 13th out of 14 at the end of the 2018–19 Liga I season.

History

Celuloza Calarași (1962–1979)

Dunarea Calarași was founded in 1962 as Celuloza Calarași, but it was not the first football club of Calarași. In 1919 football appeared in the city from the Danube banks and Ialomița Calarași was founded, an amateur club which used to be the main attraction of the Sunday events, the day when everyone enjoyed a well spent time. Over the years a lot of amateur clubs like: Tricolorul, Venus, FC and Energia have contributed to the evolution of local football, eventually leading to the creation of the first professional club, Celuloza.

Appearing quite late on the stage of the Romanian football, Celuloza did not have a fulminating climb at all, being a team that grew from year to year. For the first 6 years of its existence the club played in the Divizia D, then in 1968 Celuloza promoted to Divizia C. The club ended the 1968–69 season on 11th place, ensuring its presence also in the next season. In the following seasons Celuloza had very good results: 1969–70 – 5th, 1970–71 – 9th, 1971–72 – 5th, then making a sensational 1972–73 season, at the end of which the team promoted for the first time in its history to the Divizia B. Celuloza promoted with an advance of 8 points ahead Autobuzul București.

First Divizia B season was a good one for the Vlachs, which ended on the 11th place, result followed by other good rankings in the next seasons: 1974–75 – 8th and 1975–76 – 11th, then a seasons in which the team saved from relegation with some emotions: 1976–77 – 14th and finally Celuloza relegated back to Divizia C at the end of 1977–78, whe

This page also has a version in other languages :  Дунэря (russian)