CSA Steaua București (handball)

CSA Steaua București
CSA Steaua București
Full name	Clubul Sportiv al Armatei Steaua București
Nickname(s)	Roș-Albaștrii (The Red and Blues)
Short name	Steaua
Founded	1949; 75 years ago; (in 11 players) ; 1958; 66 years ago; (in 7 players)
Arena	Sala Polivalentă; (Capacity: 5,300); Sala Sporturilor Concordia; (Capacity: 1,465)
Head coach	Stephane Plantin
League	Liga Națională
2022–23	Liga Națională, 4th of 14
Club colours
Home	Away
	Website ; Official site

CSA Steaua București is a Romanian professional handball club based in Bucharest, Romania. It competes in the Romanian Handball League. They are part of the CSA Steaua sports organization.

Bucuresti

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Location of Steaua București

History edit

Founded in the late 1940s as part of the CSA Steaua army sports club. The handball section has won a record 28 national championships and 9 Romanian cups. Steaua won two EHF Champions League titles as well as reaching two further finals.

In 2006, they won the EHF Challenge Cup with Vasile Stîngă as their coach. The club played under various names throughout the years for sponsorship reasons.

Their biggest rival is Dinamo Bucharest with whom they contest the Bucharest derby.

Crest, colours, supporters edit

Naming history edit

Name	Period
ASA București	1949–1950
CCA București	1950–1961
Steaua București	1961–2006
Steaua MFA București	2006–2010
CSA Steaua București	2010–2015
CSA Steaua Alexandrion	2015–2017
CSA Steaua București	2017–present

Honours edit

Domestic competitions	European competitions
Liga Națională (in 11 players): Champions (7): 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1960–61 Runners-up (3): 1952–53, 1955–56, 1957–58 Romanian League: Champions (28): 1962–63, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2007–08 Runners-up (10): 1961–62, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1977–78, 1985–86, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2006–07, 2017–18 Romanian Cup: Winners (9): 1980–81, 1984–85, 1989–90, 1996–97, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09 Runners-up (10): 1977–78, 1978–79, 1981–82, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1998–99, 2002–03, 2015–16, 2018–19, 2021–22	EHF Champions League: Winners (2): 1967–68, 1976–77 Runners-up (2): 1970–71, 1988–89 Semi-finalists (3): 1969–70, 1974–75, 1985–86 EHF Challenge Cup: Winners (1): 2005–06 EHF Cup: Semi-finalists (2): 1992–93, 1993–94 EHF Cup Winners' Cup: Semi-finalists (1): 2009–10

Double

Winners (6): 1980–81, 1984–85, 1989–90, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2007–08

Team edit

Squad for the 2023–24 season^[1]

CSA Steaua București

Goalkeepers

Left Wingers

Right Wingers

00 Valentin Ghionea
19 Alexandru Tărîță

Line Players

Left Backs

06 Krsto Milošević
94 Gabriel Burlacu

Central Backs

Right Backs

00 Nicusor Ungureanu
56 Cosmin Ilie

Technical staff edit

Head coach: Stephane Plantin
Assistant coach: Ionuţ Georgescu
Goalkeeping coach: Ionuţ Ciobanu
Fitness coach: Marius Tudor

Transfers edit

Transfers for the 2023–24 season

Joining

Stéphane Plantin (coach) (from Toulon MV HB)
Valentin Ghionea (RW) (from Dinamo București)
Octavian Bizău (CB) (from Dinamo București)
Valentin Neagu (P) (from Wölfe Würzburg)
Marko Davidovic (CB) (from Tatran Prešov)

Leaving

Ovidiu Mihăilă (coach)
Ștefan Laufceac (assistant coach)
Ionuț Ștefan Georgescu (RW) (retired)
Martin Johansson (LP) (?)
Ramon Șomlea (LB) (?)
Yuriy Pop (CB) (to HC Vaslui)
Durmus Tinkir (RB) (?)
Andrei Mihalcea (RW)

European record edit

European Cup and Champions League edit

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1967–68 Winners	Round 2	HB Dudelange	37–14	29–10	66–24
	Quarter-finals	VfL Gummersbach	15–9	14–13	29–22
	Semi-finals	SC Dynamo Berlin	16–12	15–16	31–28
	Finals	Dukla Prague	13–11
1976–77 Winners	Round 1	Pallamano Trieste	38–21	38–18	76–39
	Round 2	HB Dudelange	35–17	28–11	63–28
	Quarter-finals	CB Calpisa	22–19	18–20	40–39
	Semi-finals	KFUM Fredericia	29–22	19–19	48–41
	Finals	CSKA Moscow	21–20

EHF Challenge Cup edit

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2005–06 Winners	Round 3	AC Diomidis Argous	33–28	32–22	65–50
	Round 4	KA Akureyri	30–21	23–24	53–45
	Quarter-finals	Vardar Skopje	34–29	31–35	65–64
	Semi-finals	Medveščak Zagreb	30–28	24–25	54–53
	Finals	Sporting Club Horta	34–27	21–26	55–53

EHF ranking edit

As of 14/07/2022^[2]

Rank	Team	Points
117	Handball Käerjeng	36
118	MMTS Kwidzyn	36
119	Steaua București	35
120	Parnassos Strovolou	35
121	AC Diomidis Argous	35
122	RK Tineks Prolet	34
123	Spor Toto SK	34