Gloria Bistrița

The club was founded on 6 July 1922, and among its founding staff were Simion Sbârcea as president, Teofil Moldovan as secretary, and Ion Bota, Leon Bârsan, Dumitru Hara, Simion Pop, Ioan Archiudean, and others as members of the club's administration committee. Throughout its earlier history, the club had several other names: Ceramica Bistrița (before World War II), CS Bistrița (after World War II) and Progresul Bistrița until 1956, when the old name, Gloria, was readopted. In the 1954 season, the team participated in the Liga II promotion playoffs but missed on the promotion, in spite of the fact that, at that time, Progresul had on its team future Romania national team players, Anton and Dumitru Munteanu brothers. Gloria promoted to Divizia B at the end of the 1957–58 season after winning Series IV of Divizia C. The team also reached the Round of 16 in Cupa României, after eliminating first-division side CS Târgu Mureș 5–2, but lost 2–3 to CS Oradea. The squad included Radu, Kaiser, Ivanenco, Covaci, Țiriac, Vasilescu, Botescu, Ilie Copil, Marin Vasile, Firică, Zeană and Rădulescu. In the 1958–59 season, coached by Gheorghe Nuțescu, Gloria ranked last in Series II of Divizia B but was spared from relegation due to the expansion of the second division. Nuțescu continued to lead the team until mid-season of the 1959–60 campaign, when he was replaced by Adalbert Pall, who guided Gloria to a 9th-place finish in Series I. Pall remained in charge during the first half of the…

Domestic

Championships

Liga I

Best finish 3rd 2002–03 Liga II

Winners (1): 1989–90 Runners-up (8): 1976–77, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1987–88, 2011–12 Liga III

Winners (3): 1957–58, 1969–70, 1974–75 Runners-up (1): 1964–65 Cluj Regional Championship

Winners (5): 1954, 1956, 1962–63, 1966–67, 1967–68

Cups

Cupa României

Winners (1): 1993–94 Runners-up (1): 1995–96 Cupa Ligii

Winners (1): 2000 Supercupa României

Runners-up (1): 1994

European

UEFA Intertoto Cup

Runners-up (1): 2007