| Clubname: | Metaloglobus București |
| Upright: | 0.75 |
| Fullname: | Fotbal Club Metaloglobus București SA |
| Nickname: | Echipa Pantelimonului (Pantelimon's team) |
| Short Name: | Metaloglobus |
| Ground: | Metaloglobus |
| Capacity: | 1,000 |
| Owner: | Imad Kassas |
| Chairman: | Marius Burcă |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Ianis Zicu |
| League: | Liga II |
| Season: | 2023–24 |
| Position: | Liga II, 12th of 20 |
| Website: | https://metaloglobusfc.ro |
| Current: | 2023–24 FC Metaloglobus București season |
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Fotbal Club Metaloglobus București, commonly known as Metaloglobus București or simply as Metaloglobus, is a Romanian football club based in Bucharest, currently playing in the Liga II.[1] [2]
Metaloglobus București was founded in 1923 as the football team of the Metaloglobus factory,[3] a powerful factory that was founded in the same year by the Austrian industrialist Manfréd Weiss. The factory has been developed more in the communist period and produced all kinds of objects made of steel and iron from lanterns, bullets, boilers and from 1965 they started to produce toys. After the 1989 Romanian Revolution, the factory began to have financial problems and in 2000 was bought by Syrian businessman Imad Kassas.
The football team experienced success. They played in amateur leagues of Bucharest almost all of its existence, until 2011 when they won Liga IV Bucharest and qualified for the Liga III play-off where they lost against Rapid Clejani, Giurgiu County champions. After a lot of the Liga III teams abandoned the competition in that summer, Metaloglobus was invited in Liga III. In five consecutive seasons, the team was always ranked in the top half and their best performance was the third place in the 2012–13 and 2015–2016 seasons.[4]
Metaloglobus finished first at the end of the 2016–17 season, 11 points in front of 2nd-placed Viitorul Domnești, and were promoted to the Liga II for the first time in their history.[5] Their first season in the second tier was a difficult one, and they were unable to avoid the relegation zone as they finished 16th. However, they were spared from going down after the withdrawal of fifth-placed Afumați.[6]
The club plays its home games on the Stadionul Metaloglobus from the Bucharest neighborhood of Pantelimon. The stadium was under renovations between 2011 and 2015; during this period the team played its home matches on Stadionul Clinceni and on Stadionul CNAF.[7]
| Role | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | Imad Kassas | |
| President | Marius Burcă | |
| Sporting director | Gigel Coman | |
| Delegate | Adrian Bondoc | |
| Team Manager | Mihai Nedelcu |
| Role | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Head coach | Ianis Zicu | |
| Assistant coaches | Daniel Florea Vlad Ștef | |
| Goalkeeping coach | Dumitru Costică | |
| Fitness coach | Florin Drăghici | |
| Video analyst | Mihail Moraru | |
| Club doctor | Sebastian Culman | |
| Masseur | Constantin Righel | |
| Kit man | Alexandru Greblea |
The footballers enlisted below have had international cap(s) for their respective countries at junior and/or senior level and/or significant caps for FC Metaloglobus București players.
Alexandru Ciocâlteu Alexandru Coman Gigel Coman George Gavrilaș Valentin Ghenovici Lucian Goge Claudiu Herea Ovidiu Herea Alexandru Iacob Florin Iacob Andrei Ionescu Daniel Lung Andrei Lungu Ștefan Niculae Alexandru Potocea Iulian Roșu Andrei Sin Marius Tomozei| Season | Tier | Division | Place | Notes | Cupa României | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | TBD | Third Round | ||||
| 2 | Liga II | 11th | Play-off round | |||
| 2 | Liga II | 15th | Play-out winner | Third Round | ||
| 2 | Liga II | 10th | Third Round | |||
| 2 | Liga II | 10th | Fourth Round | |||
| 2 | Liga II | 7th | Round of 32 | |||
| 2 | Liga II | 9th | Fourth Round | |||
| 2 | Liga II | 16th | Round of 32 |
| Season | Tier | Division | Place | Notes | Cupa României | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Liga III (Seria II) | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1st (C) | Promoted | Second Round | ||
| 3 | Liga III (Seria II) | align=center bgcolor=#BF8D5B | 3rd | Fifth Round | |||
| 3 | Liga III (Seria II) | 5th | Second Round | ||||
| 3 | Liga III (Seria III) | 4th | Third Round | ||||
| 3 | Liga III (Seria II) | align=center bgcolor=#BF8D5B | 3rd | Fourth Round | |||
| 3 | Liga III (Seria IV) | 9th | |||||
| 4 | Liga IV (B) (Seria I) | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1st (C) | Promoted |