Club Sportiv Victoria Ineu, commonly known as Victoria Ineu, is a

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club from

Ineu Ineu (; ) is a town in Arad County, western Transylvania, Romania. It is situated at a distance of from the county capital, Arad, it occupies a surface at the contact point of Crișul Alb Basin and Crișurilor Plateau. Ineu is the main entranc ...

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and currently playing in

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– Arad County, the sixth tier of the

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. Founded in 1920, Victoria Ineu has had several names over time such as Progresul, Spartac, Crișul, CS Ineu, Tricotaje and ACB. The club reached the

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as Tricotaje Ineu, playing in the Romanian second division in 2003–04 and 2004–05, finishing in 9th position in both campaigns.

History

Victoria Ineu was founded in April 1920 at the initiative of a group of intellectuals from Ineu at that time, by creating football, athletics and gymnastics teams. The team played in the district, regional and county championships between 1946 and 1978. Victoria managed to win the county championship at the end of the 1977–78 season and the promotion play-off against CFR Caransebeș, the winner of the Caraș-Severin County Championship, with 2–2 on aggregate (1–2 away and 1–0 at home) and were promoted on the

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. In the first three years in

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, Ineuanii struggled to avoid relegation, finishing 12th in the 1978–79 season and 13th in both the 1979–80 and 1980–81 seasons. The following season, 1981–82, ended with a mid-table finish in 8th place. Preceded by two more years in the mid-table, finishing 11th in the 1982–83 season and 10th in the 1983–84 season, relegation to the fourth division came after the 1984–85 season, when finishing in 15th place. In 1985, Victoria Ineu also reached the Round of 32 of the

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, losing 0–3 to FC Olt Scornicești. The lineup in that match was: Țica I (Csillag) – Costin, Szabo, Maghiș (Weckerle), Reisz – Sas,

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, Leucuța – Țica II, Nicodin and Rusan, with Ioan Palcu as head coach. In 1986, in an attempt to make a comeback to the third division, Victoria merged with two other teams from the town, Metalul and Gloria, forming CS Ineu. The club won the Arad County Championship in the 1988–89 season but lost the promotion play-off against Minerul Ștei, the Bihor County Championship winner, with a 0–1 loss at Ștei and a 0–0 draw at Ineu. The 2000–01 season marks the long-awaited return of Ineu to

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. With Alexandru Gaica on the bench, Tricotaje Ineu (named after the knitwear factory in town) won the Divizia D – Arad County and defeated CS Vulcan, the Divizia D – Hunedoara County winner, 2–1 in the promotion play-off held at

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. In 2005, Tricotaje Ineu sold its place in

to FCM Reșița and bought the place in the third tier of Universitatea Reșița and renamed as CS Ineu. In the summer of 2020, ''CS Ineu'' started a collaboration with Brosovszky Football Academy and was renamed as ACB Ineu.

Honours

*Runners-up (2): 2002–03, 2008–09 Liga IV – Arad County *Winners (5): 1977–78, 1988–89, 2000–01,

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, 2021–22 *Runners-up (2):

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*Winners (1): 1994–95

Club officials

Board of directors

Current technical staff

League history

Former managers

Ionuț Popa Ionuț Popa (17 April 1953 – 25 June 2020) was a Romanian professional footballer and manager. Popa managed teams such as UTA Arad, Bihor Oradea, Politehnica Iași and ACS Poli Timișoara, among others. Managerial career Popa was the coach ...

(1985–1987) * Sorin Cigan (2002–2003) * Sorin Cigan (2004)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Victoria Ineu Association football clubs established in 1920 Football clubs in Arad County Liga II clubs Liga III clubs Liga IV clubs 1920 establishments in Romania