Franco-Româna Brăila

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Franco-Româna Brăila
Full name Franco-Româna Brăila
Founded 1928
Dissolved 1948
Ground Brăilița, Brăila
Ground Capacity 2,000

Franco-Româna Brăila was a football team from Brăila, Romania.

Their best performance was reaching the Quarter-finals in Cupa României in 1935–36 season when they lost with 6-4 against Unirea Tricolor Bucureşti.

Franco-Româna Brăila second team was founded in 1940 and was called AS Brăilița.[1]

Brăilița was also the neighbourhood and name of the stadium. The stadium was like a small English stadium looking same with the famous Highbury, but in a smaller size.[2]

Even they won twice Divizia B they never promoted in Divizia A, because they could not manage to win the Promotion play-off.

The biggest rival in their history was another local team Dacia Unirea Brăila. Franco-Româna Brăila was in the shadow of the rival team in all of their history.

After they fold in 1948, another team was created in Brăila to replace them, a team called Progresul Brăila.[3]

Players

Ștefan Filote, Ionel Radu, Kosek, Bodi, Manici, Letay, Morărescu, Gavrilă, Neta, Belcin.[4][5]

Honours

Liga II:

[6][7][8]

Quarter-finals in Cupa României (1): 1935–36

[9]

References

External links

Literature

  • Hardy Grüne (2000) (in German), Enzyklopädie der europäischen Fußballvereine (1. ed.), Kassel: AGON Sportverlag, pp. 337, ISBN 3-89784-163-0