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{{short description|Romanian football club}}

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|fullname = Clubul Sportiv Concordia Chiajna

|nickname = ''Vulturii verzi''<br />(The Green Eagles)

|ground = [[Concordia Stadium (Chiajna)|Concordia]]

|owner = [[Chiajna|Chiajna Commune]]

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|manager = [[Ilie Poenaru]]

|league = [[Liga II]]

|season = [[2023–24 Liga II|2023–24]]

|position = Liga II, 10th of 20

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'''Clubul Sportiv Concordia Chiajna''', commonly known as '''Concordia Chiajna''', is a Romanian professional [[Association football|football]] [[football team|club]] based in [[Chiajna]], [[Ilfov County]], which competes in the [[Liga II]].

Founded in 1957, the team's best period was between 2011 and 2019, when it amassed eight participations in the highest tier of the [[Romanian football league system|Romanian league system]], the [[Liga I]]. Concordia was also runner-up of the short-lived [[Cupa Ligii]] in the [[2015–16 Cupa Ligii|2015–16 campaign]].

The club plays its home matches on the namesake [[Stadionul Concordia]], which has [[artificial turf]] and can hold 5,123 persons.

[[File:Concordia Chiajna League Performance.svg|thumb|right|300px|Chart showing the progress of Concordia's finishes in the national leagues from 2005 to 2017.]]

The club from [[Ilfov County]] was founded in 1957 by the inhabitants of the [[Chiajna]] commune, and over time, the team was also called ''GAC Chiajna'', ''AS Chiajna'' and ''ILF Militari'', while the team was sponsored by ''Întreprinderea de Legume-Fructe Militari''.

Concordia had struggled its entire existence in the [[Romanian football league system|lower leagues of Romania]], until 2007 when it earned promotion to the [[Liga II]] for the first time. It finished second behind [[CSM Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț|Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț]] in the [[2010–11 Liga II|2010–11 Liga II season]], earning promotion to the [[Liga I]].

In the first half of [[2011–12 Liga I|its debut season]] in Liga I, Concordia failed to impress, and never left the relegation places. During mid-season, [[Laurențiu Reghecampf]] was brought as manager, and he changed almost the entire squad, bringing 17 new players.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csconcordia.ro/acasa/487-cu-17-nume-noi-in-lot-chiajna-sper-in-salvarea-de-la-retrogradare.html|title=Cu 17 nume noi în lot, Chiajna speră în salvarea de la retrogradare|last=Administrator|access-date=2012-06-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122195550/https://www.csconcordia.ro/acasa/487-cu-17-nume-noi-in-lot-chiajna-sper-in-salvarea-de-la-retrogradare.html|archive-date=2019-01-22|url-status=dead}}</ref> The team started winning matches, and among its victims were bigger names like [[ASC Oțelul Galați|Oțelul Galaţi]], [[FC Rapid București|Rapid București]] and eventual champions [[CFR Cluj]]. As a result, the club climbed outside the relegation zone and finished the season in the first half of the table (ninth place). Because of this impressive results, after the season, Reghecampf was named manager at [[FCSB|FC Steaua București]]. His place at Concordia was taken by [[Ilie Stan]].

Under his spell, Concordia maintained its place in the upper half of the standings for the first half of the [[2012–13 Liga I|2012–13 season]]. But in the second half the team failed to find the same rhythm and after six consecutive losses, Concordia entered the battle to avoid relegation. With a total of 16 games in a row without a win, Concordia finished the season on the 15th spot, similar with a relegation to [[Liga II]] after two years in the first division. At the end of the season, Ilie Stan resigned, alongside his entire technical team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://csconcordia.ro/acasa/712-concordia-i-ilie-stan-s-au-desprit-pe-cale-amiabil.html|title=Concordia şi Ilie Stan s-au despărţit pe cale amiabilă|last=Florin|access-date=2013-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306031702/http://csconcordia.ro/acasa/712-concordia-i-ilie-stan-s-au-desprit-pe-cale-amiabil.html|archive-date=2016-03-06|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Ionuț Chirilă]] replaced Stan as the head coach of the team. Concordia Chiajna successfully remained in the first division, playing a promotion/relegation play-off with Rapid București. The play-off was played on 13 July 2013 and won by Rapid 2–1, after extra-time. The FRF decision was contested by Concordia at the [[Court of Arbitration for Sport]]. On 2 August, CAS decided that Concordia Chiajna should play in [[Liga I]] and Rapid be relegated to second division. The results of the matches played by Rapid with Viitorul and Vaslui were canceled.

==Honours==

===League===

*'''[[Liga II]]'''

**Runners-up: [[Liga II 2010–11|2010–11]]

*'''[[Liga III]]'''

**'''Winners:''' [[Liga III 2006–07|2006–07]]

*'''[[Cupa Ligii]]'''

**Runners-up: [[2015–16 Cupa Ligii|2015–16]]

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{{Fs player|no=21|nat=ROU|pos=DF|name=[[Florin Dumbravă]]}}

{{Fs player|no=22|nat=ROU|pos=DF|name=[[Paul Pîrvulescu]]}}

{{Fs player|no=23|nat=ROU|pos=FW|name=Mario Iordan}}

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! style="background:#009346;color:#FFFFFF;border:1px solid #000000;" |Role

! style="background:#009346;color:#FFFFFF;border:1px solid #000000;" |Name

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Chiajna|Chiajna Commune]]

|-

| Honorary President

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Liță Dumitru]]

| Board Member

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} Mircea Minea

| Economic Director

| Marketing Director

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} Radu Birlică

| Youth Center Director

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Costel Orac]]

| Sporting Director

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Gabriel Tamaș]]

|-

| Chief Scout

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Cristian Bălașa]]

| Press Officer

{{col-2}}

! style="background:#009346;color:#FFFFFF;border:1px solid #000000;" |Role

! style="background:#009346;color:#FFFFFF;border:1px solid #000000;" |Name

| Head coach

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Ilie Poenaru]]

| Assistant coach

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Marin Dună]]

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Florin Matache]]

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} Andrei Popa

|-

| Club Doctors

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} Mamour Kane <br /> {{Flagicon|ROU}} Romeo Popescu

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} Dumitru Tiberari <br /> {{Flagicon|ROU}} Iulian Creangă

|-

| Storemen

| {{Flagicon|ROU}} Victor Cristea <br /> {{Flagicon|ROU}} Ilie Tache

|}

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==League history==

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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"

! Season || Tier || Division || Place || [[Cupa României]]

|-

| [[2024–25 Liga II|2024–25]] || '''2''' || [[Liga II]] || TBD || TBD

|-

| [[2023–24 Liga II|2023–24]] || '''2''' || Liga II || 12th || [[2023–24 Cupa României|Play-off round]]

|-

| [[2022–23 Liga II|2022–23]] || '''2''' || Liga II || 8th || [[2022–23 Cupa României|Play-off round]]

|-

| [[2021–22 Liga II|2021–22]] || '''2''' || Liga II || 5th || [[2021–22 Cupa României#Round of 32|Round of 32]]

|-

| [[2020–21 Liga II|2020–21]] || '''2''' || Liga II || 13th || [[2020–21 Cupa României|Round of 32]]

|-

| [[2019–20 Liga II|2019–20]] || '''2''' || Liga II || 16th || [[2019–20 Cupa României|Round of 32]]

|-

| [[2018–19 Liga I|2018–19]] || '''1''' || [[Liga I]] || align=center bgcolor=#FFCCCC| '''14th''' '''(R)''' || [[2018–19 Cupa României|Round of 32]]

|-

| [[2017–18 Liga I|2017–18]] || '''1''' || Liga I || 11th || Round of 32

|-

| [[2016–17 Liga I|2016–17]] || '''1''' || Liga I || 11th || Round of 32

|-

| [[2015–16 Liga I|2015–16]] || '''1''' || Liga I || 11th || Round of 16

|}

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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"

! Season || Tier || Division || Place || [[Cupa României]]

|-

| [[2014–15 Liga I|2014–15]] || '''1''' || [[Liga I]] || 12th || Round of 32

|-

| [[2013–14 Liga I|2013–14]] || '''1''' || Liga I || 14th || Round of 32

|-

| [[2012–13 Liga I|2012–13]] || '''1''' || Liga I || 15th || Quarter-finals

|-

| [[2011–12 Liga I|2011–12]] || '''1''' || Liga I || 9th || Round of 32

|-

| [[2010–11 Liga II|2010–11]] || '''2''' || [[Liga II]] <small>(Seria I)</small> || align=center bgcolor=silver| '''2nd''' '''(P)''' || Round of 32

|-

| [[2009–10 Liga II|2009–10]] || '''2''' || Liga II <small>(Seria I)</small> || 7th || Fourth Round

|-

| [[2008–09 Liga II|2008–09]] || '''2''' || Liga II <small>(Seria I)</small> || 8th || Fourth Round

| [[2007–08 Liga II|2007–08]] || '''2''' || Liga II <small>(Seria I)</small> || 5th || Round of 32

| [[2006–07 Liga III|2006–07]] || '''3''' || [[Liga III]] <small>(Seria III)</small> || align=center bgcolor=gold| '''1st''' '''(C, P)''' ||

==Notable former players==

The footballers enlisted below have had international cap(s) for their respective countries at junior and/or senior level and/or more than 75 caps for CS Concordia Chiajna.

{{For|a list of all former and current CS Concordia Chiajna players with a Wikipedia article|Category:CS Concordia Chiajna players}}

;Romania

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* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Alexandru Albu]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Paul Batin]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Cristian Bălgrădean]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Ștefan Bărboianu]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Bogdan Bucurică]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Claudiu Bumba]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Valentin Crețu (footballer)|Valentin Crețu]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Marian Cristescu]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Florin Gardoș]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Sorin Ghionea]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Gabriel Giurgiu]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Răzvan Grădinaru]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Ovidiu Herea]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Adrian Iencsi]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Mihai Leca]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Vasile Maftei]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Iulian Mamele]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Andrei Marc]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Petre Marin]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Cristian Melinte]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Adrian Mihalcea]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Florin Niță]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Silviu Pană]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Sorin Paraschiv]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Marius Pena]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Adrian Popa (footballer, born 1988)|Adrian Popa]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Andrei Prepeliță]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Florin Purece]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Neluț Roșu]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Tiberiu Serediuc]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Gabriel Tamaș]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Eugen Trică]]

* {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Bogdan Vintilă]]

;Albania

* {{flagicon|ALB}} [[Azdren Llullaku]]

;Argentina

* {{flagicon|ARG}} [[Nicolás Gorobsov]]

;Brazil

* {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Fernando Boldrin]]

* {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Wellington (footballer, born 1987)|Wellington]]

;Bulgaria

* {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Yordan Gospodinov]]

;Burkina Faso

* {{flagicon|BFA}} [[Narcisse Bambara]]

;Italy

* {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Alessandro Caparco]]

;Jordan

* {{flagicon|JOR}} [[Tha'er Bawab]]

;Nigeria

* {{flagicon|NGA}} [[Christian Obodo]]

* {{flagicon|NGA}} [[Michael Odibe]]

* {{flagicon|NGA}} [[Gomo Onduku]]

;Tunisia

* {{flagicon|TUN}} [[Hamza Younés]]

;Ukraine

* {{flagicon|UKR}} [[Artem Milevskyi]]

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==Notable former managers==

{{For|a list of all former and current CS Concordia Chiajna managers with a Wikipedia article|Category:CS Concordia Chiajna managers}}

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* {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Adrian Bumbescu]]

* {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Laurențiu Diniță]]

* {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Ion Dumitru|Liță Dumitru]]

* {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Ion Moldovan]]

* {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Costel Orac]]

* {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Laurențiu Reghecampf]]

* {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Emil Săndoi]]

* {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Ilie Stan]]

* {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Marius Șumudică]]

* {{Flagicon|ROU}} [[Cornel Țălnar]]

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