FC Corvinul Hunedoara

The Pride of the Iron Workers (1921–1953)

Football has been practiced in Hunedoara, in an unorganized way, since the early 1900s, being brought by young locals which were studying in the big cities of the country or abroad, as happened with most of the football beginnings in Transylvania. The year 1921 will be the first one in which a Football Championship was organized between the borders of the Kingdom of Romania, a championship which was running as a tournament with regional leagues and a national final stage. In the same year, in Hunedoara, on the initiative of several sports enthusiasts, led by Ludovic Rimbaș was established the first organized football team, Fero Sport Hunedoara. The new football club operated under the patronage of the local Iron Plant. Iosif Onciu (then director of the Iron Plant) was elected president, and Ludovic Rimbaș held both the position of secretary of the club and the manager of the team. The company's headquarters were in the former premises of the "Red Union" in Severin Street. Hunedoara's first organized football team aroused great enthusiasm among the locals, but especially among the employees of the Iron Plant, who agreed to each contribute 1% of their salary to support the new football team. At the same time, the footballers were regularly awarded by the management of the Plant and had priority in employment. Thus, from the very beginning, the football team had a close connection with the local Iron Plant, which later became a…

Domestic

Leagues

Divizia A / Liga I Best finish: 3rd 1981–82 Divizia B / Liga II Winners (5): 1953, 1959–60, 1975–76, 1979–80, 2025–26 Runners-up (4): 1956, 1957–58, 1994–95, 2023–24 Divizia C / Liga III Winners (4): 1966–67, 2001–02, 2021–22, 2022–23 Runners-up (3): 1965–66, 2011–12, 2012–13 Liga IV – Hunedoara County Winners (2): 2009–10, 2017–18

Cups

Cupa României Winners (1): 2023–24 Supercupa României Runners-up (1): 2024