CSM Jiul Petroșani
Petre Libardi | |||
Capacity | 15,500 | ||
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Owner | Petroșani Municipality | ||
Chairman | Radu Polifronie | ||
Head Coach | Adrian Enășescu | ||
League | Liga III | ||
2023–24 | Liga III, Seria VII, 8th | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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Clubul Sportiv Municipal Jiul Petroșani, commonly known as Jiul Petroșani, simply as Jiul, is a professional
History
1919–1937: Foundation and early years
Football was introduced to Jiu Valley in the early 20th century and was initially played in Petroșani at the present-day location of the Dâlja mine. Despite distrust and hostility from local coal miners, whose trade drove the local economy, a club was officially organized by Ion Winklehner, general manager of the Petroșani Society mines, under the name Clubul Atletic al Minelor Petroșani (Petroșani Mines Athletic Club) (CAMP). Early coaches included Iosif Keiling, Carol Krausz, Wilhelm Spitzer, and János Kovezdi.
In 1922, CAMP entered the District of Arad championship, where they played against teams from the Hunedoara Region. The club's owners brought in players from outside of Petroșani to make them a competitive team — these players included Iosif Klein, L. Kiminich, Adalbert Dankó, and Z. Veszprémy. In its first season, CAMP ranked third after AAC Arad and CS Vulcan. In the 1924-25 edition, they won the championship, now under the name Uniunea Cluburilor Sportive ale Societății Petroșani (Sports Club Association of Petroșani Society) (UCASP), adopted after merging with CS Vulcan in 1924. UCASP participated in the final stage of the 1924–25 Divizia A season after eliminating Universitatea Cluj and Jahn Cernăuți, but lost the final (1–5) against Chinezul Timișoara. Gheorghe Péterffy, Elemér Berkessy, and Ștefan Messner joined the team.
After the merger with CS Vulcan was reversed in 1926, UCASP merged with
Name | Period |
CAM Petroșani | 1919–1924 |
UCAS Petroșani | 1924–1926 |
Jiul Lupeni | 1926–1929 |
Jiul Petroșani | 1929–1950 |
Partizanul Petroșani | 1950 |
Flacăra Petroșani | 1951–1952 |
Minerul Petroșani | 1953–1958 |
Jiul Petroșani | 1958–1962 |
Jiul Petrila | 1962–1966 |
Jiul Petroșani | 1966–present |
Due to the popularity of Divizia A, which began in 1932–33, a second league, Divizia B, was established. The 1934–35 season began with five series based on geographic criteria. Jiul Petroșani was ranked 1st in the second series of Divizia B's first season. Rules at the time stated that a promotion tournament would be held between the winners of the five series. Jiul Petroșani won the tournament and went on to play a promotion/relegation playoff game against the bottom-ranked team, AMEFA Arad, in Divizia A, finishing 0–2 at Arad and 0–0 at home. Jiul Petroșani's top players at this point included Gusti Emerich, Géza Medve, Remus Radu, Szulle, Gheorghe Péterffy, and Gheorghe Vâjdea.
The 1936–37 season came with the introduction of Divizia C, the third tier, meaning that four teams from the two series in Divizia B were promoted. These teams were Phoenix Baia Mare, Vulturii Textila Lugoj, Olimpia Satu Mare, and Jiul Petroșani. Coach Rudolf Jeny led the team, including players Kiss, Bredan, Zastulka, and Gheorghe Vâjdea, into the club's first season in Divizia A.
1937–1966: Years of consolidation
Until the end of World War II, Jiul Petroșani oscillated between Divizia A (1937–38) and Divizia B (1938–41). Top players remained static: Gheorghe Vâjdea, Gusti Emmerich, and Géza Medve, along with Ernest Skovrán, who also played for Romania B. The club won the 2nd series of the second league at the end of the 1940-41 season but the championship was interrupted by the war and was put on hold until 1946. Jiul Petroșani advanced back to Divizia A. In the 1948-49 season, Jiul Petroșani achieved its best performance yet: they placed 3rd in the league after ICO Oradea and CFR București, despite having completed the prior season in 10th place. The success was due in part to acquiring Ion Panait, Costică Marinescu, and Tudor Paraschiva. Tiberiu Bone was also part of this squad.
Between 1950 and 1956,
1966–1985: Golden Team
Jiul Petroșani spent eight years in Divizia A, jumping between positions: 8th in
After losing their original stadium after a fire in 1975, the team's
1985–2002: Ups and downs
Jiul Petroșani continued to oscillate between leagues over the next 15 years. While Coach Gheorghe Mulțescu, a former Jiul player, got the team promoted back to Divizia A following the 1985-86 season, they fell again in 1987. They remained in Divizia B for two years until 1988-1989, when they were promoted. The two subsequent years in the first league were the height of players like Ioan Varga, Marian Bâcu, Horațiu Lasconi, Aristică Cioabă, Ion Sburlea, and Damian Militaru. At the end of the 1990-91 season, however, not only were they relegated, but they also spent several seasons in the middle of Divizia B, with 13th place in 1993-94 and 7th place in 1994-95. The team managed to turn itself around following the intervention of Miron Cozma, leader of the Miners Union League of the Jiu Valley.[5]
Under Coach Ion "Liță" Dumitru and with standout players Leontin Toader, Aristică Cioabă, Marin Tudorache, and Fănel Țîră, Jiul Petroșani returned to the first league for the 1995-96 season.[6] Ion Bivolaru, Cristian Pușcaș, Romulus Bealcu, Tudorel Zamfirescu and Tiberiu Csik joined the club over the next two years. Jiul was relegated at the end of 1997-98 with its most crushing defeat in club history: they finished the season with 10 points and only three victories out of 34 matches. Club ownership changed hands over the next several seasons and the team struggled; even after hiring experienced coach Ioan Sdrobis, Jiul Petroșani was further relegated to Divizia C for the first time in its history at the end of the 2001–02 season.[7]
2002–2007: The last shine of the miners
Despite its disastrous 2001-02 season, Jiul Petroșani only spent one year in Divizia C, winning the sixth series with 8 points over CS Certej. In 2003-04, Jiul Petroșani continued to push forward with determination and finished 2nd, just one point behind CFR Cluj. They finished the subsequent season in the third series tied with Gaz Metan Mediaș and were promoted back to Divizia A due to their better goal average. Coach Gheorghe Borugă's team advanced with players like Dumitru Hotoboc, Cătălin Mulțescu, Cornel Irina, Iosif Kalai, Mihai Pintilii, Szabolcs Perenyi, Vasile Ciocoi, Mircea Voicu, Damian Militaru, Gabriel Apetri, Adrian Drida, Adrian Dulcea, and Marian Pâcleșan.
The next two seasons saw a number of administrative changes and issues within the team and the club went through two different coaches: Ionuț Chirilă followed by Aurel Șunda. Despite acquiring Alin Paleacu, Florentin Dumitru, Alin Ilin, and Laurențiu Diniță, Jiul Petroșani finished 18th at the very bottom of the league with 20 points and the longest winless run (12 games) of the season. They returned to the second league, now called Liga II.
2007–present: Financial problems and the decline
The decline of the mining industry in the
due to a shortage of teams and finished 5th.Alin Simota left the team during the 2012-13 winter break, designating its ownership to the Petroșani Municipality. The city, however, refused to take over and Jiul was forced to withdraw from Liga III and re-join Liga IV. In 2014, the club was moved to the government-owned Municipal Sports Club and funding became even scarcer. As such, they have continued to struggle, placing 8th in 2013–14, 9th in 2014–15, 13th in 2015–16, 9th in 2016–17, 12th in 2017–18 and 9th in 2018–19. Despite the changes during the COVID-19 pandemic and finishing 12th in the 2019-20 season, Jiul Petroșani was promoted and finished 8th in the seventh round of Liga III's 2020-21 season. They managed to stay within the third league during the 2021-22 season but have qualified for the play-out round in 2022-23.
Grounds
Stadium
Destruction of the first stadium
The first Stadionul Jiul was built in 1922 and was used until it caught fire on 25 May 1975 .
The Jiul Petroșani sports club has had two stadiums over time, and the current one would never have been built (perhaps just improved the old one) if not for an incident. This happened on May 25, 1975, at the single-stand stadium that had lasted almost since its foundation, more precisely since 1922 . On that day, a match was scheduled with FC Politehnica Iași , which was announced to be extremely tense due to the critical situation in which the miners were relegated from Division A. The match was led by the Bucharest referee Gh. Limona, who gave the start and the dispute proceeded normally until the 14th minute when the 53-year-old tribune caught fire, and the management was forced to start the construction of a stadium again. On the site of the old stadium are now the "Petroșani" Hotel and the "Carol Schreter" Central Park.
Current stadium
The new stadium became unique in Romania in 1981, and was the only one with two stands + the official one completely covered until the inauguration of the arenas in Cluj, Ploiesti and Bucharest. It was improved to new standards after the recent promotion to the Romanian Superliga in 2005, when the entire surface was covered with plastic seats, a training ground was illuminated and the press stand benefited from sockets and internet access. The construction still had an electronic scoreboard installed (quite old), an athletics track placed around the field, and four training fields belonging to the sports complex. Originally, the stadium had a capacity of 30,000 seats, but this was reduced to 15,500 seats as a result of the renovation in 2005, during which the old benches were replaced with seats. The stadium was renamed
Honours
Domestic
Leagues
Cups
European
- Runners-up (1): 1977–78
European record
Season | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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1974–75 European Cup Winners' Cup | First round | Dundee United | 2–0 | 0–3 | 2–3 |
Players
First team squad
- As of 14 January 2024
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out of loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Club officials
Board of directors
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Current technical staff
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League history
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Notable former players
The footballers enlisted below have had international cap(s) for their respective countries at junior and/or senior level and/or more than 100 caps for CSM Jiul Petroșani.
- Cristian Albeanu
- Gabriel Apetri
- Justin Apostol
- Ionel Augustin
- Dragu Bădin
- Eric Bicfalvi
- Marian Bâcu
- Elemér Berkessy
- Tiberiu Bone
- Iosif Cavai
- Grigore Ciupitu
- Aurel Crâsnic
- Augustin Deleanu
- Florea Dumitrache
- Florentin Dumitru
- Iuliu Farkaș I
- Aurel Guga
- Daniel Huza
- Cornel Irina
- Traian Ivănescu
- Horațiu Lasconi
- Petre Libardi
- Constantin Marinescu
- Florea Martinovici
- Salif Nogo
- Damian Militaru
- Gheorghe Mulțescu
- Victor Niculescu
- Ion Nițu
- Nicolae Negrilă
- Marian Pâcleșan
- Ion Panait
- Tudor Paraschiva
- Cornel Pavlovici
- Mihai Pintilii
- Mircea Popa
- Octavian Popescu
- Sergiu Radu
- Adalbert Rozsnyai
- Ion Sburlea
- Gabriel Stan
- Andrei Stocker
- Mihai Stoichiță
- Vasile Suciu
- Daniel Timofte
- Gogu Tonca
- Marin Tudorache
- Ioan Varga
- Ion Voicu
Notable former managers
References
- ^ "Istoric "JIUL" PETROȘANI si INSIGNELE SALE" (in Romanian). valeajiului.blogspot.ro. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ "Jiul Petroșani, echipa-fanion a Văii Jiului și cel mai important club minier din istoria fotbalului românesc" (in Romanian). Sport Magazin Ripensia. 23 June 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ "Jiul Petroșani în Cupa României 1974" (in Romanian). Gazeta de deimineata. 27 May 2012. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012.
- ^ "Clubul Sportiv Jiul Petroșani" (in Romanian). Enciclopedia României. 19 August 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ^ "Ion Iliescu, Petre Roman si Miron Cozma au fost trimisi in judecata in Dosarul Mineriadei. Ce acuzatii li se aduc" (in Romanian). Știrile Pro TV. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ "Episodul 21. Ediția 1995–96. Promovarea lui Cozma" (in Romanian). Gazeta de dimineata. 17 July 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ "Episodul 27. Ediția 2001–2002 "Obiectiv" îndeplinit: retrogradarea în Divizia "C"!" (in Romanian). Gazeta de dimineata. 30 July 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ "Lungan, snopit în bătaie de oamenii lui Simota". Arena Vâlceană. 14 August 2007. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ "OFICIAL! Jiul Petroșani a fost exclusă din Liga 2" (in Romanian). Liga 2. 24 March 2010. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ Juglea, Loredana (6 June 2011). "Jiul, campioană județeană" (in Romanian). Liga 2. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ Biholari, Cornel (16 June 2011). "Flacăra a evaporat Jiul!" (in Romanian). Liga 2. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ "Stadionul Jiul va purta numele "Petre Libardi"" [Jiul Stadium will be called "Petre Libardi"] (in Romanian). Avantulliber.ro. 21 June 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
External links
- CSM Jiul Petroșani on Facebook