CSM Roman (football)


Club Sportiv Municipal Roman, commonly known as CSM Roman, is a Romanian football team based in Roman, Neamț County, currently competing in Liga IV – Neamț County, the fourth tier of Romanian football.
The team represents the men's football section of the multi-sport club CSM Roman, which also includes a women's handball team. Founded in 1954 as Laminorul Roman, the team was dissolved in 2018 due to poor results. However, the football section was re-founded in 2021 and enrolled in Liga IV – Neamț County, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system.
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History

CSM Roman was founded in 1954 as Laminorul Roman by the syndicate of Întreprinderea de Țevi Roman and played for twenty years in the regional and county championships.
The team earned its first promotion to Divizia C at the end of the 1973–74 season, winning the Neamț County Championship and the promotion play-off against the Iași County Championship winner, Șoimii Iași. The team consisted of the following players: A. Bălan, Niserciu – Musceleanu, C. Iamandi, Onu, Procopoaia, Ene, Ciocârlan, Tudosie, Mircea, Maticiuc, N. Iamandi, Dinu, Peisic, and Ivanov.
Țevarii played in Divizia C for sixteen consecutive years until the 1989–90 season, finishing 16th and suffering relegation to Divizia D – Neamț County. During this period, the club managed to finish as runner-up on four occasions.
The following season brought a quick return to the third tier. However, despite securing 6th place at the end of the 1991–92 season, relegation followed due to the restructuring of Divizia C, which allowed only the top four teams from each series to remain in the third division.
Laminorul won the next two seasons of the Neamț County Championship, each time missing out on promotion—first in 1992–93 against Rapid Miercurea Ciuc, and then in 1993–94 after matches against Mobila Iași, finishing below the sixteen teams with the best aggregate results. For the pipefitters, two consecutive seasons followed, each ending in 2nd place behind Cimentul Bicaz.
After five seasons in the fourth tier, Laminorul secured the 1996–97 Divizia D – Neamț County title and earned promotion by defeating Metalul Botoșani, the winner of Divizia D – Botoșani County, 8–2 at Emil Alexandrescu Stadium in Iași. The squad, coached by Nicolae Zaharia, featured: Simionaș - Costin, Claudiu Martin, Viorel Mocanu, Cristian Vizitiu - Corneliu Codreanu, Lucian Zaharia, Lucian Cozma, Gabriel Țapu - Bogdan Vizitiu, Ciprian Țigănuș.
Back-to-back promotions followed, with Laminorul winning Series I of Divizia C in the following season under two coaches: Nicolae Zaharia in the first half and Ioan Radu in the second, finishing 11 points ahead of Chimica Târnaveni.
In its first season in the second division, the team finished 5th in Series I, marking its best performance in history up to that point. A strong start to the following campaign resulted in an 8th-place finish at the end of the championship.
Daniel Iftodi became player-coach in July 2006, leading the team to 13th place in the 2006–07 Liga III season. His assistant, Dan Dosan, took over for the following season and guided the club to 15th place, narrowly avoiding relegation.
In July 2008, Costel Enache was appointed as head coach and remained in charge for three seasons, securing finishes of 6th in 2008–09 and 3rd in both 2009–10 and 2010–11. During this period, the club changed its name in the summer of 2009 from Laminorul Roman to Petrotub Roman.
Petrotub finished 3rd in the 2011–12 Liga III season under the leadership of Ovidiu Marc. In the following season, Gheorghe Poenaru guided the team to a 7th-place finish in 2012–13. Vasile Avădanei then took charge and secured 3rd place in the regular season of 2013–14 before achieving 2nd place in the promotion play-offs. This was followed by a 5th-place finish in 2014–15 season. Avădanei left after the first part of the 2015–16 season and was replaced by Gabriel Țapu, who led the team to a 4th-place finish.
In the summer of 2016, the club underwent another name change, becoming CSM Roman. The 2017–18 season saw them finish 3rd in Liga III. However, on 31 October 2018, CSM Roman announced its withdrawal from the league due to poor results.
The football section was re-founded in 2021 and enrolled in Liga IV – Neamț County.

Honours

Liga III
Liga IV – Neamț County

Former managers

League history

SeasonTierDivisionPlaceNotesCupa României
1996–974Divizia D 1st 'Promoted
1995–964Divizia D 2nd
1994–954Divizia D 2nd
1993–944Divizia D 1st '
1992–934Divizia D 1st '
1991–923Divizia C 6thRelegated
1990–914Divizia D 1st 'Promoted
1989–903Divizia C 16thRelegated
1988–893Divizia C 12th
1987–883Divizia C 13th
1986–873Divizia C 12th
1985–863Divizia C 6th
1984–853Divizia C 6th
1983–843Divizia C 3rd
1982–833Divizia C 6th
1981–823Divizia C 2nd
1980–813Divizia C 3rd
1979–803Divizia C 6th
1978–793Divizia C 12th
1977–783Divizia C 2nd
1976–773Divizia C 2nd
1975–763Divizia C 2nd
1974–753Divizia C 4th
1973–744County Championship 1st ''Promoted