FC Olt Scorniceşti is a 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...

 club based in Scorniceşti

Scornicesti

Scornicești is a town in Olt County, Romania with a population of 12,802. The town administers 13 villages and has a total area of 170 km², being the locality with the largest area in the county of Olt, surpassing even its capital...

, Olt County

Olt County

Olt is a county of Romania, in the historical regions of Oltenia and Muntenia . The capital city is Slatina.- Demographics :In 2002, it had a population of 489,274 and the population density was 89/km²....

 in southern Romania

Romania

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. Founded in 1973, it soon became one of the best teams from a rural area. It currently plays in the Olt County Championship (fourth level).

History

The club represented the home village of former dictator

Dictator

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 Nicolae Ceauşescu

Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian Communist politician. He was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader...

, arguably receiving "extra help" to reach the first division

Liga I

Liga I, or in full, due to sponsorship reasons, Liga I Bergenbier, is the top division of the Romanian football league system. Before the 2006/2007 season, it was called Divizia A, but the name had to be changed following the discovery that someone else had registered the trademark "Divizia A"...

 and remain there. However, after the fall of the communist regime, the club lost its main support and, since then, did not manage to play at a higher level than third

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:...

.

Notable players

• Mihai Mortan
• Ilie Balaci
  Ilie Balaci
  Ilie Balaci is a retired Romanian football midfielder.He was born in Bistreţ, Dolj County and debuted in Divizia A with FC Universitatea Craiova in 1973. He played 12 seasons for Universitatea, winning the league titles in 1980 and 1981. The team also won the Romanian Cup in 1977, 1978, 1981 and...
  
  
• Ilie Bărbulescu
  Ilie Barbulescu
  Ilie Bărbulescu is a Romanian former football player, who was a member of Steaua Bucureşti's winning squad for the European Cup in 1986 and for the European Supercup in 1987...
  
  
• Gheorghe Mihali
  Gheorghe Mihali
  Gheorghe Mihali is a retired Romanian football defender and current manager.-Career:He debuted in Divizia A with FC Olt Scorniceşti in 1984. He went to Dinamo Bucureşti in 1991, and helped Dinamo win the title in his debut season. In 1995, he was bought by French club En Avant Guingamp where he...
  
  
• Adrian Bumbescu
  Adrian Bumbescu
  Adrian Bumbescu is a former Romanian footballer, who played as a central defender.A defender with a tough attitude, Bumbescu played mostly with Steaua Bucureşti, helping it win the 1986 European Cup and subsequent European Supercup.-Club career:During his career as player, Bumbescu won the...
  
  
• Daniel Minea
  Daniel Minea
  Daniel Adrian Minea is a Romanian footballer who played as a midfielder in the 1980s and 1990s.He started his career with Steaua Bucharest, before moving to FC Olt Scorniceşti. He returned to Steaua in 1989 and he went on to play for them in their 1989 European Cup Final defeat by Milan...
  
  
• Zoltan Crişan
  Zoltan Crisan
  Zoltan Crişan was a Romanian international footballer who played for FC Baia Mare, Universitatea Craiova, FC Bihor Oradea, FC Olt and Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea....
  
  
• Costică Donose
• Ilie Dumitrescu
  Ilie Dumitrescu
  Ilie Dumitrescu is a former Romanian football player and current coach, he last managed Steaua Bucureşti. A tricky forward, he shot to fame when his frontline partnership with Gheorghe Hagi and Florin Răducioiu led the Romania national football team to the 1994 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal,...
  
  
• Dorinel Munteanu
  Dorinel Munteanu
  Dorinel Ionel Munteanu is a Romanian former football midfielder, and current manager of Oţelul Galaţi.-Club career:Munteanu started to play football for Metalul Bocşa, a team which offered him the first chance to play in Divizia B in 1986...
  
  
• Dan Petrescu
  Dan Petrescu
  Daniel Vasile Petrescu is a Romanian football manager and former player, currently the manager of Kuban Krasnodar in the Russian Premier League....
  
  
• Victor Piţurcă
  Victor Piturca
  Victor Piţurcă is a Romanian football manager and former player.-Club career:Piţurcă was one of the prolific strikers of Steaua Bucureşti, being one of the team's top scorers – he scored 137 goals in 174 league games...
  
  
• Dumitru Stângaciu
  Dumitru Stângaciu
  Dan Dumitru Stângaciu, , is a former football goalkeeper and coach, winner of the European Cup in 1986 and the European Supercup one year later...
  
  
• Gheorghe Pena
• Gheorghe Niţu
• Alexandru Nicolae
• Florian Dumitrescu

Honours

Liga I

Liga I

Liga I, or in full, due to sponsorship reasons, Liga I Bergenbier, is the top division of the Romanian football league system. Before the 2006/2007 season, it was called Divizia A, but the name had to be changed following the discovery that someone else had registered the trademark "Divizia A"...

:

• Winners (0):, Best finish: 4th 1981–82

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....

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• Winners (1): 1978–79

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 (2): 1977–78, 1990–91

External links

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/emielelgersma/3409298208/