CSM Pașcani
association football club
Clubul Sportiv Municipal Pașcani, commonly known as CSM Pașcani or simply Pașcani, is a Romanian football team based in Pașcani, Iași County, currently competing in Liga III, the third tier of the Romanian football league system. The club has played twenty-five seasons in Romania's second division between 1934 and 1990.
The team is the men's football section of the multi-sport club CSM Pașcani, which also fields teams in handball, rugby, athletics, basketball, volleyball, tennis, and chess. Its most notable achievements include a 4th-place finish in the 1962–63 season of Divizia B and reaching the quarter-finals of the 1987–88 Cupa României. In 2026, Pașcani returned to Liga III after winning the Iași County championship and defeating Cimentul Bicaz 6–3 on aggregate in the promotion play-off.
History
The team was founded in 1921 as CFR Pașcani by workers from the local railway carriage repair workshops and initially competed in district and regional championships. In 1930, the team changed its name to Unirea CFR Pașcani and became part of Căminul Cultural CFR Unirea, a social and cultural society that aimed to continue, on a new basis, the activities of the old Unirea reading club, founded in Pașcani in 1872. The team competed for the first time at national level in the 1934–35 season of Divizia B and later in the 1937–38 season of Divizia C, before being renamed again as CFR Pașcani in 1948.
The team adopted the name Locomotiva Pașcani in the early 1950s. In the 1956 season, Locomotiva finished 2nd in Series I of Divizia C, just one point behind Recolta Fălticeni, narrowly missing promotion to Divizia B, and ranked 4th in the 1957–58 season.
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