Clubul Sportiv Otopeni, commonly known as CS Otopeni, or simply as Otopeni, was a Romanian professional footballclub from Otopeni, Ilfov County, founded in 2001 and dissolved in 2013. Its greatest performance was that it played for one season in the Liga I in the 2008–09 season.[1]
The club was founded in 2001 at the initiative of the mayor of the locality, Silviu Constantin Gheorghe. In the first season, 2001–02, in the Ilfov County Championship, missed the direct promotion in front of Sportul Ciorogârla, but managing to reach the Liga III after he bought the place from Conired Pucioasa and it soon made way from the Liga III to the Liga I.[2]
In 2008 the team on the outskirts of Bucharest managed the biggest performance in the club's history, namely promoting to the Liga I finishing as runners-up in the 2007–08 season.[3] Because its own stadium in Otopeni didn't meet the licensing conditions for the first league, the team played its matches on Astra Stadium in Ploiești.[4]
It didn't achieve much in Romania's top football division, finishing next to last at the end of 2008–09 season and relegating back to the Liga II.[5]
The following seasons it finished 6th, 6th, 12th and 4th in the second division.
In the summer of 2013 the club was withdrawn from the Liga II by its owners and dissolved.
^"Otopeni: cei mai mici din Liga 1" [Otopeni: the smallest from Liga 1]. prosport.ro. 17 May 2008. from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2024.(in Romanian)
^"Replay / A existat cândva CS Otopeni" [Once existed CS Otopeni]. 100sport.ro. 16 October 2017. from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2024.(in Romanian)
^"CS Otopeni, ultima echipă promovată în Liga 1" [CS Otopeni, the last team promoted in Liga 1]. hotnews.ro. 19 March 2008. from the original on 15 August 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2024.(in Romanian)
^"CS Otopeni va juca la Ploiești, dacă promovează" [CS Otopeni will play at Ploiesti, if they promote]. prosport.ro. 19 March 2008. from the original on 21 June 2008. Retrieved 3 March 2024.(in Romanian)
^"CS Otopeni revine în Liga 2 după o aventură interesantă în prima ligă" [CS Otopeni returns to Liga 2 after an interesting adventure in the first league]. romaniansoccer.ro. 18 July 2009. from the original on 21 September 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2024.(in Romanian)
External linksedit
Official website (in Romanian)
May 01, 2024
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