page_title: Steaua fans
section_title: Rivalry with Dinamo
hierarchical_section_title: Steaua fans / Rivalries / Rivalry with Dinamo
caption_attribution_description: English: Steaua Bucuresti v. Dinamo Bucuresti (49,112 spectators)
context_page_description: The term Steaua fans refers to all people who support Steaua Bucuresti, a Romanian sports club with several departments and a Romanian football club respectively.
  As Steaua is, judging by performances, the most successful Romanian football team, they enjoy the biggest support among Romanian football fans. A survey conducted in 2004 suggested that the Ghencea-based team accounts for approximately 42% of all Romanian football lovers, meaning about five million fans inside and outside Romania's borders. This large number of supporters is in large part to the club's outstanding performances, both domestically and internationally.
  After FCSB lost the name and the crest, the fans have divided into two groups, some fans support CSA Steaua founded in 1947 rather than FCSB, while other prominent groups remain undecided over the issue.
context_section_description: Steaua against FC Dinamo București has been the leading Romanian football derby in the last 60 years, as Steaua and Dinamo are the two most successful football teams in the country. It has also been and still is a match between the former clubs of the Romanian Army (Steaua) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Dinamo). Not once have there been famous clashes between different factions of supporters of them, in the streets as well as inside the stadium. The heyday was reached before a match kick-off in 1997, when Dinamo fans set a sector of Ghencea Stadium's South End (where they were assigned) on fire. Between October 1991 and April 2000, Steaua enjoyed their moment of glory, counting 19 undefeated official matches in front of their rivals, both in the championship and the cup.
  Rivalry with Dinamo also extends to other sports such as handball, rugby union and water polo.
caption: Steaua fans during a 2012 match with Dinamo.
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