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Fotbal Club FCSB (Romanian pronunciation: [fet͡ʃeseˌbe]), formerly named and still sometimes referred to as FC Steaua București, is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest. It has spent its entire history in the Liga I , the top flight of the Romanian football league system .
The historical records of the Steaua București football team are disputed by CSA Steaua București and Fotbal Club FCSB.Originally founded on June 7, 1947, as part of the multi-sports club run by the Romanian Ministry of National Defence, the football team became one of the most successful in Romanian history.
The Eternal derby (Romanian: Eternul derby), also called the Romanian derby (Romanian: Derby-ul României or Derby de România) or the Great derby (Romanian: Marele derby), is a football match between Bucharest rivals FCSB and Dinamo București.
Romanian professional football club Steaua, based in Bucharest, has regularly taken part in Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) competitions, despite CSA Steaua and FCSB are involved in FC Steaua București records dispute. Qualification for Romanian clubs is determined by a team's performance in its domestic league and cup competitions.
Clubul Sportiv al Armatei Steaua București (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈste̯awa bukuˈreʃtʲ]), commonly known as Steaua București, or simply as Steaua, is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest. It is one of the sporting sections of the namesake CSA Steaua București and competes in the Liga II.
Even though Rapid only won 3 Romanian football championships to Steaua/FCSB's 27, they both dominate the Romanian Cup (23 times for Steaua/FCSB and 13 times for Rapid) and the Romanian Supercup (7 times for Steaua/FCSB and 4 times for Rapid). They also have great performances in club competitions organised by UEFA among other Romanian football ...
Because of this divergence in opinion, the ultras and fans alike are on two opposite sides. One side claims that CSA Steaua Bucharest is the true successor of the legendary team and the other claim it is FCSB. Even with this ongoing dispute over identity, FCSB still enjoys huge popularity, remaining among the biggest football clubs in the country.
Steaua (66 seasons) and FC Dinamo București (65 seasons) are the only clubs to have played only in the first Romanian league; For 17 years, no other team from Romania has managed to advance any further than Steaua in European club competitions (not counting the two seasons when Steaua didn't manage to qualify for Europe);