Cupa României (rugby union)

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Cupa României
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2023 Cupa României
SportRugby union
Founded1914; 110 years ago (1914)
First season1914
Owner(s)Romanian Rugby Federation
No. of teams5
CountryRomania
Most recent
champion(s)		Dinamo București (13th title)
Most titlesCSA Steaua Bucuresti (16 titles)
TV partner(s)Prima Sport (Some matches)
RugbyTV.ro (Live Streams)
Related
competitions		CEC Bank SuperLiga
Official websiterugbyromania.ro

The Cupa României is a rugby union cup competition for Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1914 except for a couple of years where the cup was not held either because of World War II or other unknown reasons. It is the country's main cup competition, although not being open to all clubs affiliated with the Federaţia Română de Rugby (FRR) like in previous editions and only being open to the teams competing in the CEC Bank SuperLiga. In late March, it was announced that Tomitanii Constanța would not participate in the Cupa României for the 2021 season due to financial reasons.

History[edit]

The Cupa României, like the SuperLiga was set up in 1914 as the main cup competition in Romania and was only competed by two teams which were Tennis Club Român and Sporting Club, both from București. This two team competition continued until the 1920s and 1930s where the number of clubs in the capital had increased due to the popularity of the tournament in the capital especially. But the Cupa României was cancelled again (after the first two time in 1917 and 1918 which was due to World War One), in 1940 and 1942 because of the second World War caused by Nazi Germany at the time. After the war had ended, the birth of eternal rivals CSA Steaua Bucuresti and CS Dinamo București had arrived, consequently meaning the Cupa României was being dominated by the militarii (military) and poliţişti (police) respectively during the 1950s era with only one side standing in both of their ways, which was Energia ISP București.

However, despite the growth of interest from Romanian fans in the Cupa României, it was not held between 1960 and 1972 for unknown reasons yet during this time, Stadiul Român along with seventeen more teams were founded in București-only while outside of the capital, teams were being founded finally after years of rugby being dominant in București. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Cupa României started to become more national in terms of the fact that teams like Știința Petroșani, Rulmentul Bârlad, Farul Constanța and Sibiu were winning the cup and beating most of the teams in București with style and grace.

In recent years although, the Cupa României has been restricted to teams in the SuperLiga only instead of being open to all teams in Romania possibly in an attempt to improve the standard of the game in the whole country after the collapse of communism in Romania back in 1989 where the number of clubs and players had decreased significantly in the aftermath. The current champions of the Cupa României are CSA Steaua Bucuresti who beat SCM Timișoara in a close 25–23 game in December 2022.[1]

Teams[edit]

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Location of clubs in the 2021 Cupa României.

Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality

Team Manager Captain Stadium Capacity
Dinamo București Romania Cosmin Rațiu Romania Petru Tamba Stadionul Florea Dumitrache 1,500
Steaua București Romania Dănuț Dumbravă Romania Viorel Lucaci Stadionul Ghencea II 2,000
Știința Baia Mare Romania Eugen Apjok Romania Marius Dănilă Stadionul Lascăr Ghineț (Arena Zimbrilor) 1,000
Timișoara Rugby Romania Valentin Calafeteanu Romania Eugen Căpățână Stadionul Gheorghe Rășcanu 1,000
Universitatea Cluj-Napoca Romania Horea Hîmpea Romania Vlad-Bogdan Rotar Stadionul Iuliu Hațieganu 1,000

Champions[edit]

Pos. Club Wins Winning Years
1 Steaua București 16 1950, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1974, 1977, 1978, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2019, 2022
2 Dinamo București 13 1954, 1959, 1980, 1989, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2023
3 Știința Baia Mare 6 1981, 1990, 1999, 2010, 2012, 2020
4 RC Grivița București 5 1947, 1948, 1982, 1984, 1985
4 Stadiul Român București 5 1919, 1921, 1923, 1936, 1941
4 Viforul Dacia București 5 1934, 1939, 1942, 1945, 1946
4 SCM Rugby Timișoara 5 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021
8 Sportul Studențesc București 4 1937, 1949, 1975, 1976
9 Știința Petroșani 3 1983, 1991, 1993
10 Tennis Club Român București 2 1915, 1916
10 Politehnica Iași 2 1979, 2003
10 Poșta Telegraf Telefon București 2 1935, 1944
10 Sibiu 2 1994, 1995
10 CSM București 2 2017, 2018
10 Rulmentul Bârlad 2 1986, 1987
16 Farul Constanța 1 1992
16 Gloria Buzău 1 1988
16 Energia ISP București 1 1957
16 ȘEFS București 1 1920
16 Sporting Club București 1 1914

Winners by year[edit]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "CSA Steaua București a câştigat Cupa României ediția 2022". 11 December 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.

External links[edit]

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