CSF CFR Timișoara
association football team in Romania
Club Sportiv de Fotbal CFR 1933 Timișoara, commonly known as CFR Timișoara (Romanian pronunciation: [t͡ʃefeˌre timiˈʃo̯ara]), is a Romanian football club based in Timișoara, Timiș County. The club currently competes in Liga VI – Timiș County, the 6th tier of Romanian football.
Founded in 1933, the railway team from Timișoara shares a fierce rivalry with city rivals Politehnica Timișoara. The club's best moment came in the 1947–48 season, finishing 2nd in Divizia A and reaching the Romanian Cup final.
In recent years, the club has become better known for its futsal team and women's football team.
History
Originally founded in 1919 as Sparta CFR Timișoara, the club merged with Unirea Timișoara in 1926, adopting the name Sparta Unirea CFR Timișoara. In 1927 it was dissolved only to be founded again five years later in 1933 as CFR Timișoara.
The team made only two national divisional appearances until World War II, finished 5th in the 1937–38 season in the Western League of Divizia C and 6th in the Series I of Divizia B in the 1940–41 season. It also participated in Series I of the Heroes Cup, a competition that replaced Divizia B during the war, finishing 2nd in 1942–43 and 3rd in 1943–44.
In the 1945–46 season, CFR finished 2nd in the Timișoara City Championship, and in the summer of 1946, after a play-off against Politehnica Timișoara, won 4–2 on aggregate (1–1 and 3–1), securing promotion to Divizia A. The squad led by player-coach Rudolf Kotormány was composed, among others, of Ciopraga, I. Barna, Munteanu, Covejdeanu, Volariu, I. Ritter, Raniță, Csapo, Gh.
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