Club Sportiv Municipal Avântul Reghin, commonly known as Avântul Reghin is a

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n professional

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club from

Reghin Reghin (; , or ; ; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Reen'') is a city in Mureș County, Transylvania, central Romania, on the Mureș River. As of 2021, it had a population of 29,742, making it the second biggest city of the Mureș county, just behind th ...

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and currently playing in the

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, the third tier of the

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. The club was founded in summer 1949 and soon played in the Romanian first league, finishing 13th (last) in the 1955 season. Since then, it has played only in

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and

. Over time, the club has had several names: IPEIL Reghin (1949–1950), Avântul Reghin (1950–1957), Recolta Reghin (1957–1958), Partizanul Reghin (1958–1959), Avântul Reghin (1959–1965), Progresul Reghin (1965–1966), Voința Reghin (1966–1968), and since 1968 it is known as Avântul Reghin.

History

In Reghin, football was played in an organized way even before the

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, as noted by Professor Ioan Costea in the book ''Avântul Reghin - Football and honor''. In the

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the strongest local team was ''Victoria'', but with the development of the economy of the main factories in the city they established their own teams to motivate their workers. This is how the formations ''Foresta Română'', ''Partizanul'', ''Nautica'', ''Producția'', ''Recolta'', ''Progresul'' and ''Rapid'' appeared and these will later form the core and foundation of Avântul Reghin. In 1946, three of the strongest Reghin football teams ''(Foresta Română, Nautica and Cărămida)'' merged out of the desire for performance to form the ''Foresta Reghin''. The results are seen quite quickly, the team reaching the quarter-finals of the

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in the 1947–48 season, but in 1949, following the

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and of IPEIL, the factory that sustained the team, Foresta was metamorphoses into a new team led by Wajda Janos. The official date of establishment of the new team is 16 June 1949 under the name of ''IPEIL Reghin'' changed few months later to Avântul Reghin. In 1952, Avântul managed to promoted to second division and, after an 11th place in the 1953 season, the white and blues won the Series II of the 1954 season of

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and promoted to

Divizia A Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

. The squad led by Alexandru Schwartz was composed of: Cojocaru, Szekes - Katona II, Bartha, Tonița, Veszi, Feher, Lukacs, Katona I, Constantinescu, Balint, Nistor, Eles, Mateon, Farago, Munteanu and Asztalos I. In 2008, the team finished second in the third league and participated at the play-offs for the promotion to Liga II. It made a good impression but failed to qualify. Same in 2016.

Honours

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*Best Finish 13th

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

*Winners (1):

1954 Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...

*Winners (3): 1976–77, 1982–83, 1987–88 *Runners-up (6): 1986–87, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 2007–08, 2015–16 Liga IV – Mureș County *Winners (2): 1972–73, 1998–99

Players

First team squad

Out on loan

Club officials

Board of directors

Current technical staff

League history

Former managers

Elemér Kocsis Elemér Kocsis (; 26 February 1910 – 6 October 1981, in Romania) was a Hungarian Romanian football forward and coach. Career During his career he has made twelve appearances and five goal for the Romania national team. His career in club f ...

(1955) * Vasile Gain (1956) * Petre Grosu (1989–1990) * Cristian Dulca (2004) * Sorin Cigan (2008) * Alexandru Schwartz

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Avantul Reghin Association football clubs established in 1949 Football clubs in Mureș County Liga I clubs Liga II clubs Liga III clubs 1949 establishments in Romania Reghin