page_title: CSM Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
section_title: Golden Age of Ceahlăul (1993–2004)
hierarchical_section_title: CSM Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț / History / Golden Age of Ceahlăul (1993–2004)
caption_attribution_description: English: Ion Nunweiller in 1971.
context_page_description: Club Sportiv Municipal Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț, commonly known as Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț or simply as Ceahlăul, is a Romanian professional football club based in Piatra Neamț, Neamț County, currently playing in the Liga III.
  Originally established in 1919, the team's name stems from the not far off Ceahlău Massif. Nemțenii made their first appearance in the Romanian top division in the 1993–94 season.
  The club plays its home matches in black and yellow kits at the 18,000-seater Stadionul Ceahlăul.
context_section_description: The golden age of Ceahlăul was a period full of successes, beaten records, but also full of controversies, accusations and strange moments.
  At the start of the 1993–94 Divizia A Ceahlăul was a well-known second league team, but a novice and a mysterious team for most combatants in the first division of the country. With the former player, Mircea Nedelcu, as the new coach and with its first golden generation on the pitch, Ceahlăul made a more than decent first season, installing where it felt the best also in the second league, on the 10th place, in the middle of the table. In the same component Ceahlăul would exceed all expectations and get the best performance in the history of the club, until then, a 5th place at the end of the 1994–95 season and the first qualifying in a European Cup.
  1995–96 season is an important landmark in the history of the club from Neamț County, the club playing for the first time in a European Competitions, more exactly in the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup, where they have had remarkable results, winning a group composed of: FC Groningen, Beveren, Boby Brno and Etar Veliko Tarnovo. The results were as follows: 2–0 against Etar, 2–0 against Beveren, 2–0 against Brno and 0–0 against Groningen. In the round of 16 nemțenii encountered FC Metz of France, in front of which they inclined at Piatra Neamț, 0–2, goals scored by Jocelyn Blanchard and Meyrignac. In the championship the team did not feel so good, probably accusing their first participation in European competitions and finished 15th, at 6 points from the relegation zone.
  Under coach Florin Marin, "the Yellow and Blacks" had a revival in the 1996–97 season and end on the 6th place at only one point distance of the best performance equalizing. Followed two consecutive rankings in the 9th place, at the end of the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons, the team being trained by: Florin Marin, Mircea Nedelcu, Nicolae Manea or Viorel Hizo. In 1999 Ceahlăul was preparing for a new European Cup participation, the same UEFA Intertoto Cup, but the 1999 season. Ceahlăul made a new good run and eliminated two teams: Ekranas (2–0 on aggregate) and Jedinstvo Bihać (5–2 on aggregate). In the third round Ceahlăul would have had a historical two matches encounter, the games for which the entire Moldavia mobilized its forces, against the titrated Italian side Juventus. This double would remain an important landmark in the history of the club, the more so as Ceahlăul gave a good "answer", 1–1 at Piatra Neamț, scored Scânteie in the 28th minute and Alessio Tacchinardi in the 58th. In Italy, on the Dino Manuzzi Stadium from Cesena, they obtained an unexpected 0–0, but not enough to qualify. In the Divizia A Ceahlăul finished on the 4th place, best performance in its entire history, 1999–2000 season, being in fact the top period of the club. This golden generation, the second after the 1993 one, had Viorel Hizo as a coach and the following players: Eugen Anghel, Costel Câmpeanu, Radu Lefter – Angelo Alistar, Cristinel Atomulesei, Adrian Baldovin, Dumitru Botez, Ștefan Domșa, Costel Enache, Leontin Grozavu, Constantin Ilie, Mihai Dan Ionescu, Ovidiu Marc, Mihai Nemțanu, Gheorghe Pantazi, Dănuț Perjă, Daniel Scânteie, Adrian Solomon, Tiberiu Șerban, Tudorel Șoimaru and Lavi Hrib.
  In 2000 Ceahlăul entered again in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, becoming a traditional team of this competition. After a 9–4 on aggregate against Narva Trans from Estonia, in the first round, followed a 4–3 against Mallorca from Spain and Ceahlaul impressed again. In the third round nemțenii faced Austria Wien and after a 2–2 in Piatra Neamț, "the Yellow and Blacks" succumbed at Wien, on the Franz Horr Stadium, 0–3, goals scored by Wagner, Leitner and Dospel.
  A proverb says: "What got up has to go down" and that's exactly what happened to Ceahlăul in the early 2000s. Frequent changes of coaches (11 in 4 years) from: Mircea Nedelcu to Florin Halagian and from Florin Marin to Marin Barbu, Viorel Hizo and Marius Lăcătuș and the partial change of generations led to poor results: 2000–01 – 11th, 2001–02 – 8th, 2003
caption: Ion Nunweiller, coach that obtained first Divizia A promotion, in 1993.
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