# CSM Suceava

CSM Suceava, full name Club Sportiv Municipal Suceava, was a sports club from Suceava, Romania. It is notable for its football team which played one season in the Divizia A, the highest Romanian league at that time.

## History

Cetatea Sucevei football team—named after the Medieval Seat Fortress of Suceava—was founded in 1932 and included players such as Lazăr Andrian, Fleghel, Ioanițchi, Cosmovici, N. Scobeniuc, Marcean, A. Scobeniuc, Hariga, Semenov, Cozma, Buliga, Curcă, Schwartz, Curcă, Borosan, Salpeter, and Radu Dan.
Cetatea Sucevei initially competed in the Eastern League Championship, a regional series. Later, the team participated in the Eastern League of Divizia C, the newly formed third division of Romanian football. Initially, the Eastern League of Divizia C was organized into a single group, but it was later expanded into two groups. During their first season in Divizia C, Cetatea Sucevei finished 7th, last in the Eastern League, and achieved 2nd place in Group II of the Eastern League in the 1937–38 season of the third division.
In 1946, after World War II and the rise of the communist regime, Romanian football underwent drastic changes as the new Soviet model was implemented. This model required all sports associations to align with trade unions or governmental institutions. As a result, Cetatea Sucevei was absorbed into CFR Ițcani, a team from a village that later became a neighbourhood of Suceava.
In 1950, another team was founded near the Prodaliment abattoir in the village of Burdujeni—which also later became a neighbourhood of Suceava—named Spartac Burdujeni.
In the 1953 season, Spartac Burdujeni won the Suceava Regional Championship and qualified for the promotion play-off for Divizia B. However, it finished 5th in Series I, held in Ploiești. Despite this, the second division was expanded starting the following season, and along with the four group winners, an additional eight teams—including Spartac—were promoted.
Chronology of names :
| Name | Period |
| Progresul Suceava | 1957–1959 |
| Victoria Suceava | 1959–1960 |
| Dinamo Suceava | 1960–1964 |
| Viitorul Suceava | 1964–1965 |
| Chimia Suceava | 1965–1972 |
| CSM Suceava | 1972–1993 |
| Bucovina Suceava | 1993–1997 |
In the 1954 Divizia B season, Spartac finished in 7th place in Series III and ranked 5th in the following season under the guidance of Gheorghe Hedeș. In the 1956 season, the team was renamed Flamura Roșie, finished in 12th place tied on points with Locomotiva Iași, and barely avoided relegation on goal difference.
CSM Suceava was founded on 19 July 1972, incorporating the sections of football, track and field, rugby, and volleyball. During the years, more sections were added and offered to its members, among them archery, baseball, boxing, Greco-Roman wrestling, handball, ice hockey, rowing, speed skating, and swimming. The current setup includes archery, boxing, ice hockey, rugby, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling.
Being one of the founding sections, the football team rose through the ranks of the Romanian league system before eventually gaining promotion to the Divizia A at the end of the 1986–87 season. However, competition there proved to be too strong and relegation back to Divizia B was the logical consequence, a league in which the team played for the rest of its existence. Before the 1993–94 season, the name was changed to Bucovina Suceava, after the name of the region Bukovina.
Bucovina at the end of the 1996–97 season, merged with Foresta Fălticeni, creating the most successful team in the history of Suceava County, the new team being called Foresta Suceava, with the home ground in Suceava, on Stadionul Areni. Bucovina became the second team of Foresta Fălticeni, being called Foresta II Fălticeni, playing his matches on Nada Florilor, Fălticeni.

## Honours

Liga II
* Winners (1): 1986–87
Liga III:
* Winners (3): 1965–66, 1970–71, 1972–73
* Runners-up (1): 1971–72

## Former managers

* Valeriu Neagu (1966–1969)
* Sebastian Taciuc (1972)
* Petre Moldoveanu (1972–1973)
* Constantin Rădulescu (1980–1982)
* Robert Cosmoc (1986–1987)
* Vasile Simionaș (1987–1988)