AFC Rocar București
Squad
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Career & Clubs
The club was founded in 1953 under the name of Uzina de Autobuze București, being under the tutelage of the Romanian bus manufacturer with the same name, and competed in the Bucharest Municipal Championship. Autobuzul was promoted to Divizia C at the end of the 1967–68 season, finishing 1st in Series I of the Bucharest Municipal Championship. However, Autobuzul lost the Municipal Championship final to Voința București. In the first season in the third division, ”Bercenarii” finished in 4th place, and in the following season, Autobuzul won Series IV of Divizia C but missed promotion to the second division, finishing 4th in the play-off group held in Brașov. The squad included the following players: Ocea, Pandele, Opriș, Diaconu, Baicu, Ivan, Gerea, Rențea, Tănase, Andrei, Cărbuneanu, Radu, Postelnicu, Popescu, Jipa, Bobin, Vîrban, Constantin Tiniche, Dincă, Petculescu and Pipoi. After another two seasons in Divizia C, finishing 12th in the 1970–71 season and 3rd in the 1971–72 season, Autobuzul managed to promote to Divizia B. This promotion was achieved at the end of the 1972–73 season, when the team finished in 2nd place. The club’s leadership included engineer Vasile Cornac as association president and C. Băcanu as head of the football division. Coach Emil Samureanu was responsible for this achievement, assembling a squad of players who contributed to the team's success. The team included players such as Matache, Pandele, Diaconu, Gostin, Popescu, Bobin, Radu, Cosma,…
Legacy
Liga II
Runners-up (1): 1998–99 Liga III
Winners (4): 1969–70, 1976–77, 1985–86, 1988–89 Runners-up (1): 1972–73 Bucharest Municipal Championship
Runners-up (1): 1967–68 Cupa României
Runners-up (1): 2000–01
Archive
Passport
Identifiers & aliases
Rocar București was a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest, founded in 1953 and dissolved in 2009. The club had a meteoric appearance in the forefront of Romanian football. Promoted in 1999, the club from Drumul Găzarului Street in the Berceni Neighborhood, has made way back two years later. Also, Rocar reached the Cupa României final in the 2000–01 season.
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