Back in the Divizia B, Ceahlăul started with a new coach, Dumitru Dumitriu, but also started again its middle table evolutions: 1980–81 – 9th, 1981–82 – 10th and 1982–83 – 7th. In 1983 V.Copil was hired as the new coach and the team seemed to regain its second league glory after a 4th place occupied at the end of the 1983–84 season. After this result, which was the best in the history of the club, until then, Ceahlăul started to re-establish itself in the area that seemed to best characterize it, the middle of the ranking: 1984–85 – 11th, 1985–86 – 11th, 1986–87 – 8th, 1987–88 – 9th and 1988–89 – 11th. The midlife of the team in the second half of the 1980s was almost to turn into a new relegation at the end of the 1989–90 season, when "the Yellow and Blacks" finished only on the 14th place, just above the relegation line, at the same number of points (31) with Siretul Pașcani, first team located in the red zone. That season was a disconcerting one for the most of the teams in Romania, due to the 1989 Romanian Revolution and the fall of communism, facts that changed all the structures in the country.