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Club Atletic Oradea
Club Atletic Oradea (Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club) (Romanian pronunciation: [ˌklub aˈtletik oˈrade̯a]), commonly known as CA Oradea (Nagyváradi AC), or simply as CAO (NAC), is a Romanian football club based in Oradea, Bihor County, which competes in the Liga IV.
The team was founded as Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club in 1910, when the city was part of Austria-Hungary. Over its history, CA Oradea won the Hungarian national title, the Romanian national title, and the Romania national cup on one occasion each. The Romanian title won during the 1948–49 season, under the name of ICO Oradea, meant that the team became part of a select group of entities that won the national title in different countries.
After World War II, the communist regime in Romania had a negative impact on the club's identity, forcing it to change its name and colours several times. In 1945 it was renamed Libertatea Oradea, in 1948 Întreprinderea Comunală Oradea (ICO), in 1951 Progresul Oradea, in 1958 CS Oradea, and in 1961 CSM Crișana Oradea (not to be confused with Crișana Oradea).
Dissolved in 1963 by the same communist regime, CA Oradea was re-established in the summer of 2017 as a private entity. In the same year, CA Oradea was enrolled in the fifth tier (Liga V), and three years returned to the national divisions (Liga III) after 58 years of absence.
The game of football had arrived to Nagyvárad (Oradea) in 1902 together with inhabitants that returned from study or work, from abroad or from Budapest. The first football match that was ever played on the banks of Crișul Repede river was a friendly one and was held in the Rhédey Garden. The game was gaining in popularity fast, but there was not yet an organized club to represent the town in matches against other towns. This organizational problem led to the establishment of Nagyváradi Sport Egyesület (NSE), then appeared Nagyváradi Torna Club (NTK), both multi-sport clubs, but none focused mainly on football. Then, eight years after that first football match played in Oradea's history, Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club (NAC) – in Romanian: Club Atletic Oradea (CAO) was established, also a multi-sport club, but with the football section as the "pearl of the crown".
The constituent assembly was held on 25 May 1910, in the EMKE Café (today Astoria Hotel), a place that also had an important contribution in the identity, bohemianism and cosmopolitanism of the football club. EMKE (Erdélyi Magyar Közművelődési Egyesület) Café, translated as the Coffee Shop of the Hungarian Cultural Association of Transylvania Coffee Shop, was the place where the Oradea's cultural elite spent much of its time, one of the main clients being the well-known poet Endre Ady. Back to the football club, the first board of directors was formed of: Dr. Emil Jonas (chairman), Béla Mikló (executive president), Andor Szabo (secretary) and Dr. Kálmán Kovács (cashier), one of the decision took also in that first day was to submit the documents for registration at the Hungarian Football Federation.
On 31 July 1910, NAC played its first game, against KVSC, and in January 1912 a home ground was secured, in the Rhédey Garden. The next month, a touring team from England came to town: Bishop Auckland, the Northern League champions that season, NAC won with an incredible 8–0. Before World War I, the club activated only on local and a regional level, they joined the eastern division of the Southern Hungarian League and in 1913 NAC won 25 out of 31 matches. One of the most important games for the local community, in this period, was the match against Hungarian giant, Ferencváros, played in Nagyvárad, on 6 July 1913 and lost honorable by NAC, with the score of 2–4.
During World War I (1914–1918), the football competitions were suspended, and the club suffered from the lack of activity. However, friendly matches and different sporting activities were held, even in that tough situation and with all the problems generated by world conflagration.
Club Atletic Oradea
Club Atletic Oradea (Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club) (Romanian pronunciation: [ˌklub aˈtletik oˈrade̯a]), commonly known as CA Oradea (Nagyváradi AC), or simply as CAO (NAC), is a Romanian football club based in Oradea, Bihor County, which competes in the Liga IV.
The team was founded as Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club in 1910, when the city was part of Austria-Hungary. Over its history, CA Oradea won the Hungarian national title, the Romanian national title, and the Romania national cup on one occasion each. The Romanian title won during the 1948–49 season, under the name of ICO Oradea, meant that the team became part of a select group of entities that won the national title in different countries.
After World War II, the communist regime in Romania had a negative impact on the club's identity, forcing it to change its name and colours several times. In 1945 it was renamed Libertatea Oradea, in 1948 Întreprinderea Comunală Oradea (ICO), in 1951 Progresul Oradea, in 1958 CS Oradea, and in 1961 CSM Crișana Oradea (not to be confused with Crișana Oradea).
Dissolved in 1963 by the same communist regime, CA Oradea was re-established in the summer of 2017 as a private entity. In the same year, CA Oradea was enrolled in the fifth tier (Liga V), and three years returned to the national divisions (Liga III) after 58 years of absence.
The game of football had arrived to Nagyvárad (Oradea) in 1902 together with inhabitants that returned from study or work, from abroad or from Budapest. The first football match that was ever played on the banks of Crișul Repede river was a friendly one and was held in the Rhédey Garden. The game was gaining in popularity fast, but there was not yet an organized club to represent the town in matches against other towns. This organizational problem led to the establishment of Nagyváradi Sport Egyesület (NSE), then appeared Nagyváradi Torna Club (NTK), both multi-sport clubs, but none focused mainly on football. Then, eight years after that first football match played in Oradea's history, Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club (NAC) – in Romanian: Club Atletic Oradea (CAO) was established, also a multi-sport club, but with the football section as the "pearl of the crown".
The constituent assembly was held on 25 May 1910, in the EMKE Café (today Astoria Hotel), a place that also had an important contribution in the identity, bohemianism and cosmopolitanism of the football club. EMKE (Erdélyi Magyar Közművelődési Egyesület) Café, translated as the Coffee Shop of the Hungarian Cultural Association of Transylvania Coffee Shop, was the place where the Oradea's cultural elite spent much of its time, one of the main clients being the well-known poet Endre Ady. Back to the football club, the first board of directors was formed of: Dr. Emil Jonas (chairman), Béla Mikló (executive president), Andor Szabo (secretary) and Dr. Kálmán Kovács (cashier), one of the decision took also in that first day was to submit the documents for registration at the Hungarian Football Federation.
On 31 July 1910, NAC played its first game, against KVSC, and in January 1912 a home ground was secured, in the Rhédey Garden. The next month, a touring team from England came to town: Bishop Auckland, the Northern League champions that season, NAC won with an incredible 8–0. Before World War I, the club activated only on local and a regional level, they joined the eastern division of the Southern Hungarian League and in 1913 NAC won 25 out of 31 matches. One of the most important games for the local community, in this period, was the match against Hungarian giant, Ferencváros, played in Nagyvárad, on 6 July 1913 and lost honorable by NAC, with the score of 2–4.
During World War I (1914–1918), the football competitions were suspended, and the club suffered from the lack of activity. However, friendly matches and different sporting activities were held, even in that tough situation and with all the problems generated by world conflagration.