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CSM Deva

Club Sportiv Municipal Deva, commonly known as CSM Deva, is a Romanian professional football club based in Deva, Hunedoara County. The club was originally established in 1921 under the name of Mureșul Deva and since 1964 was a constant presence at the level of Liga III and Liga II under various names, such as: Minerul Deva, Explormin Deva, Explorări Deva, Vega Deva, Cetate Deva or CS Deva, but mainly under the name of Mureșul Deva.

Club's most fruitful periods were during the 1970s and 2000s when the club spent six, respectively five seasons in the second tier of the Romanian football league system. The best ranking of Cetate Deva was a 4th place at the end of the 1973–74 Divizia B season, period when the club was managed by Ladislau Vlad.

Over time the club suffered several re-foundations, from two mergers (with Vega Caransebeș in 1994 and with CS Certej in 2003) to two re-establishments (as CS Mureșul Deva in 2006 and as CNS Cetate Deva in 2013).

CSM Deva was established in 1921, under the name of Mureșul Deva and played at county level until 1943, when appeared as a member of the Heroes Cup, this time under the name of Corvinul Deva.

After World War II, Corvinul Deva was an active part of the third tier and regional leagues, but without obtaining any notable results for the next 20 years. Devenii appeared in the re-organized Divizia C during the 1964–65 season, under the name of Minerul Deva (The Miner), financially supported by the mining industry from Hunedoara County. In that season, Minerul (coached by Mircea Zeană and Mircea Miron) was ranked 2nd, with the same number of points as the leader (CFR Arad) and the third place (Metalul Hunedoara), but missed a spot in the second tier in the favor of the club based in Arad.

After this result, Minerul was ranked 5th in 1966, then in the summer of the same year changed again its name, now back in Mureșul Deva, name under which the team based in Deva would obtain its most important results. Until the end of the 1960s, Mureșul remained a constant team at the level of the third league, with rankings between 5th and 10th (out of 14).

Starting with the 1970–71 season, Mureșul changed its objectives and from a middle-table team became a candidate for the promotion in the Divizia B. At that time, heads of the club, D. Cepănaru and I. Anescu decided to make all the needed efforts to promote the team in the second tier. In the first season Mureșul missed again the promotion spot, one point behind Independența Sibiu, then in 1972, three points split "the team below Deva Citadel" from the leader, Vagonul Arad. The most important movements were made by the administrative staff in the summer of 1972, when as a manager was hired Ladislau Vlad, a coach that already had succeed to promote with his hometown club, Crișul Oradea, in 1971, from Divizia B to Divizia A.

Vlad has built a redoubtable team at Deva, then at the end of the 1972–73 season, the dream of Mureșul, a promotion to Divizia B, was achieved, finishing first, 6 points ahead UM Timișoara. The squad was composed of the following players: V. Rusu – Ceaușu I, Ceaușu II, T. Pop, Puia, Stanciu, Nenu, Iancu, Macovei, Gherga, Tarcu, Precup, Macavei, Achim, Stark, Haidu, Uilecan, Mircea Marian, Mihai Marian, Moț, Naghi, Sereș, Stoian, Covaciu, P. Grigore, I. Ardelean and Ș. Dubinciuc. After promotion, the squad received reinforcements, among them Árpád Szűcs, former player of FC Bihor Oradea and one of the most important player of Deva in the autumn of 1973. At the end of the season, Mureșul was ranked 4th (best ranking in the history of the club), but Ladislau Vlad left the team and went back to FC Bihor Oradea, to promote the team once again in the top-flight.

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