Minaur Baia Mare

Origins and the post-war club

The roots of the historical Baia Mare side came from two clubs formed during the interwar period. Tricolor Baia Mare was founded in 1927 under the patronage of the local mining administration, while Phoenix, the works team of the city's chemical industry, appeared in 1932. Tricolor used the name Minaur between 1946 and 1948. In 1948, Minaur and Phoenix merged and the resulting team entered competition as CSM Baia Mare. The club went through several names during the 1950s. It became Metalul Baia Mare in 1950, Energia Trustul Miner in 1956 and Minerul in 1958, before returning briefly to the CSM and CSO names. On the field, Metalul was relegated from Divizia B in 1955, but immediately returned after winning its 1956 Divizia C series. The team reached its first major national final in the 1958–59 Cupa României, losing 0–4 to Dinamo București. The Minerul name was restored in 1962. Two years later, the club won Series II of the 1963–64 Divizia B and earned its first promotion to the top division as the post-war Baia Mare side. Its stay in 1964–65 Divizia A lasted one season, with Minerul finishing 13th and returning to the second tier.

FC Baia Mare and the Mateianu era

In 1975, Minerul was renamed FC Baia Mare. The most successful period in the club's history began after Viorel Mateianu took charge during the second half of the 1970s. His side won promotion in 1977–78, then finished fifth in its first season back in Divizia A and…

The table combines the competitive record of the historical FC Baia Mare lineage through 2010, FC Municipal Baia Mare between 2012 and 2016, and the current CS Minaur football section from 2017. FC Maramureș Universitar, active between 2010 and 2013, was a separate club and is not included in the seasonal record below. Historical league positions are based on RomanianSoccer and RSSSF records, while the later entries are supported by FRF, AJF Maramureș and CS Minaur sources.

Note: FC Baia Mare earned promotion through the 2000–01 play-off, but its place in the following Divizia A season was subsequently sold to FCM Bacău, so the club remained in Divizia B.

Domestic

Divizia A / Liga I

Best finish: 4th – 1979–80 Divizia B / Liga II

Winners (4): 1963–64, 1977–78, 1982–83, 1993–94 Runners-up (11): 1959–60, 1960–61, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1971–72, 1981–82, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1991–92, 2000–01, 2001–02 Divizia C / Liga III

Winners (8): 1956, 1999–2000, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2014–15, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2024–25 Runners-up (1): 2019–20 Liga IV – Maramureș County

Winners (2): 2012–13, 2017–18 Cupa României

Runners-up (2): 1958–59, 1981–82 Semi-finalists (1): 1992–93 Cupa României – Maramureș County

Winners (1): 2017–18

European

European Cup Winners' Cup

First round (1): 1982–83