FC Corvinul Hunedoara
association football team in Romania
Asociaţia Club Sportiv FC Corvinul Hunedoara 1921 (Romanian pronunciation: [huneˈdo̯ara]), commonly known as Corvinul Hunedoara or simply Corvinul, is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Hunedoara, Hunedoara County, that competes in the Liga I.
Founded in 1921 as Fero Sport Hunedoara, the club bore various names over time, but stuck with Corvinul, inspired by the history of the Hunyadi family (Romanian: Familia Corvinilor) and the local Corvin Castle. Under this name, the team achieved its best performances during the 1980s, when it was a constant appearance in the top flight. Between 1979 and 1982, Corvinul was coached by Mircea Lucescu, who would go on to become one of the most successful Romanian managers.
Following the fall of communism, Corvinul relegated to the Divizia B in 1992 and spent 34 consecutive seasons outside of the top flight. The club faced financial and identity issues in the 20th century, but in 2021 its brand was recovered by the Municipality of Hunedoara.
They will return to Liga I for the 2026–27 season having won the previous edition of Liga II.
History
The Pride of the Iron Workers (1921–1953)
Football has been practiced in Hunedoara, in an unorganized way, since the early 1900s, being brought by young locals which were studying in the big cities of the country or abroad, as happened with most of the football beginnings in Transylvania.
The year 1921 will be the first one in which a Football Championship was organized between the borders of the Kingdom of Romania, a championship which was running as a tournament with regional leagues and a national final stage. In the same year, in Hunedoara, on the initiative of several sports enthusiasts, led by Ludovic Rimbaș was established the first organized football team, Fero Sport Hunedoara. The new football club operated under the patronage of the local Iron Plant. Iosif Onciu (then director of the Iron Plant) was elected president, and Ludovic Rimbaș held both the position of secretary of the club and the manager of the team.
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