CFR Timişoara is a Romania

Romania

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n football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 team from Timişoara

Timisoara

Timișoara is the capital city of Timiș County, in western Romania. One of the largest Romanian cities, with an estimated population of 311,586 inhabitants , and considered the informal capital city of the historical region of Banat, Timișoara is the main social, economic and cultural center in the...

, Timiş County

Timis County

Timiș , , Banat Bulgarian: ) is a county of western Romania, in the historical region Banat, with the county seat at Timișoara. It is the largest county in Romania in terms of land area....

 founded in 1919. It currently plays in the Liga V in the 2010-11 season.

The team's best season was the 1947-48 one, when they finished second in the 1947–48 Divizia A and reached the Romanian Cup

Romanian Cup

The Cupa României is a football competition which was held annually since 1933-34, except during the World War II. It is the country's main cup competition, and it is open to all clubs affiliated with FRF and the county football associations regardless of the league they belong to...

 final. However UTA Arad managed to beat them in both cases.

History

Originally founded in 1919, under the name of Sparta CFR Timişoara, it merges in 1926 with Unirea Timişoara and takes on the name of Sparta Unirea CFR Timişoara. In 1927 the club is dissolved only to be founded again, 5 years leater, in 1933, as CFR Timişoara.

Honours

Liga I

Liga I

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• Winners (0):
• Runners-up (1): 1947-1948

Liga II

Liga II

Liga II is the second tier league of the Romanian football league system. The league acquired this name in the 2006-07, being previously called Divizia B....

• Winners (1): 1969–70
• Runners-up (3): 1958–59, 1962–63, 1990–91
  1990–91 Divizia B
  The Divizia B 1990–91 season was the 51st season of Divizia B, the second tier of the Romanian football league system.The winner of each series of the Divizia B was promoted to the Divizia A.-Seria I:#Oţelul Galaţi 47p...
  
  

Liga III

Liga III

Liga III is the third level of the Romanian football league system. Its name was changed from Divizia C into Liga III before the start of the 2006-07 season.-Relegation:...

• Winners (4): 1965–66, 1979–80, 1987–88, 2004–05

Liga V

• Winners (1): 2010–11

Romanian Cup

Romanian Cup

The Cupa României is a football competition which was held annually since 1933-34, except during the World War II. It is the country's main cup competition, and it is open to all clubs affiliated with FRF and the county football associations regardless of the league they belong to...

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• Winners (0):
• Runners-up (1): 1947–48

Notable former players

Aurel Boroş Ioan Barna Ştefan Rodeanu Petre Cojereanu Iosif Ritter Constantin Woronkowski Gheorghe Moniac Nicolae Reuter Iosif Kovacs Emil Avasilichioaie
Petru Bădeanţu Dumitru Pavlovici Gheorghe Raniţa Francisc Fabian Ion Munteanu Dumitru Bandu Ernest Eles Adalbert Kovacs Sorin Gheju Gabriel Torje

Gabriel Torje

Gabriel Andrei Torje is a Romanian footballer who currently plays for Serie A club Udinese. He is a versatile right winger with the ability to swap onto the left side of the field during games.- Politehnica Timişoara :...

External links

• Official CFR Timişoara website