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🤾CSM Bucuresti

Romania · Polivalenta Hall (5,300 seats)

Major honours

1Champions League
8Romanian league
8Romanian Cup

A city-funded club that reached the top of Europe in its debut season. Founded in 2007 as a sports club under the city of Bucharest, it plays at the 5,300-seat Polivalenta Hall. It entered the Champions League for the first time in 2015-16 and won it immediately, beating Gyor in a shootout in the Budapest final for Romania's first-ever top European club title. Domestically it has won the Romanian league eight times and the Romanian Cup eight times. Its roster-building approach was straightforward: a city budget used to buy up national-team-level players from across Europe all at once. Sweden's Isabelle Gullden, Croatian goalkeeper Jelena Grubisic, members of Brazil's world-championship-winning team, and Romania's own greatest player, Cristina Neagu, joined in succession. Neagu never won a major title with the Romanian national team, but she reached the top of Europe with this club.

Record comparison

Top European club title
1
Domestic league titles
8
Domestic cup titles
8
Home arena capacity
5,300

Bars are scaled to the strongest team in this list.

Club legends

Cristina NeaguIsabelle GulldenJelena GrubisicNora Mork

Rivalry

The derby with fellow Bucharest club Rapid is the biggest domestic fixture, while Gyor is its fixed European opponent. Since the 2016 final, the two clubs have repeatedly met in the quarterfinals and semifinals nearly every season.

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