CS ACU Arad

ACU Arad
Nickname(s)	Alb-Albaștrii (The White and Blues)
Short name	ACU Arad
Founded	1995
Dissolved	2011
Ground	Motorul
Capacity	5,000
Home colours	Away colours

Last updated August 12, 2019

ACU Arad was a Romanian professional football club from the Arad County, founded in 1995. The club was dissolved in August 2011, after it withdrew from the Liga II championship due to financial difficulties.^[1]^[2]

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the southeast, Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, and Moldova to the east. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate. With a total area of 238,397 square kilometres (92,046 sq mi), Romania is the 12th largest country and also the 7th most populous member state of the European Union, having almost 20 million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Constanța, Craiova, and Brașov.

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.

Arad County is an administrative division (judeţ) of Romania roughly translated into county in the western part of the country on the border with Hungary, mostly in the region of Crișana and few villages in Banat. The administrative center of the county lies in the city of Arad. The Arad County is part of the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregion.

Honours

Liga III:

Runners-up (2): 2007–08, 2009–10

Stadium

ACU Arad played its home matches at Motorul Stadium, Arad, which has a capacity of 5,000 seats.

Motorul Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Arad, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of UTA Arad until the new Stadionul Francisc von Neuman is completed. The stadium holds 4000 people, has an electronic scoreboard, a small floodlight for training and also a secondary training pitch behind the west stand. It is located in the Aradul Nou neighbourhood, next to the Caraiman station on the number 3 tram line of the public transport network. Between February 2017 and August 2018 the stadium was under renovation, in this time the old pitch was changend and a new artificial pitch was instaled and the capacity of the stadium increased from 2000 to 4000 seats.

Arad is the capital city of Arad County, historically situated in the region of Crișana, and having extended into the neighboring Banat region in the 20th century. Arad is the third largest city in Western Romania, behind Timișoara and Oradea, and the 12th largest in Romania, with a population of 159,704.

Performances

Their best performance was a 13th place at the end of the 2003–04 season in the Liga II and reaching the Round of 32 phase in the Romanian Cup in the 2003–04 and 2007–08 seasons.

Liga II is the second level of the Romanian football league system. The league changed its name just before the start of the 2006–07 season, previously being called Divizia B. It is currently sponsored by betting company Casa Pariurilor, and thus officially known as the Liga 2 Casa Pariurilor.

The Cupa României is a football cup competition for Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1933–34, except during World War II. It is the country's main cup competition, being open to all clubs affiliated with the Romanian Football Federation (FRF) and the county football associations regardless of the league they belong to. Currently, the winner of the competition is granted a place in the UEFA Europa League qualifiers and plays the Supercupa României.

The 2007–08 Cupa României was the 70th season of the annual Romanian football knockout tournament. The final was held on May 10, 2008 at the Stadionul Ceahlăul in Piatra Neamţ.

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References

↑ "Dispare încă un club de fotbal! ACU Arad şi-a sistat activitatea". Adevărul. 2011-08-02.
↑ "Culisele desfiinţării clubului ACU Arad, exclus acum de FRF din Liga a III-a". Adevărul. 2011-08-18.

Notable Managers

Marcel Coraş
Ioan Şold
Mihai Jivan

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[1] "Dispare încă un club de fotbal! ACU Arad şi-a sistat activitatea". Adevărul. 2011-08-02.

[2] "Culisele desfiinţării clubului ACU Arad, exclus acum de FRF din Liga a III-a". Adevărul. 2011-08-18.