SCM Gloria Buzău


Sport Club Municipal Gloria Buzău, commonly known as Gloria Buzău or simply as SCM Gloria, is a Romanian association football club based in Buzău, Buzău County, currently playing in the Liga II.
The club was founded on 25 August 2016, as FC Buzău, being renamed as SCM Gloria Buzău in the summer of 2018 at once with the inclusion as the football section of the newly founded sports club of the city, SCM Gloria Buzău. "The Glorious Ones" achieved three consecutive promotions from the fifth tier up to Liga II, in the Liga III being undefeated for almost all the season.
Founded as a chance of continuity for the football in Buzău, the club does not hold the record of the old team, but enjoys the support of the local fans, who consider it as the main club of the city and the successor, at least unofficially, of the football history from the Crâng park.

History

''FC Gloria Buzău (1973–2016)''

FC Gloria Buzău, the original football club of the city, was founded on 16 June 1973, by the Buzău County Local Council, as part of CSM Buzău , the local all-sports association. Gloria absorbed the former team of Buzău, Metalul, whose place it also took in the Divizia C. With Metalul's players, together with other local footballers, they ranked 1st in their first season of Divizia C. Gloria won the subsequent Divizia B promotion play-off tournament and thus won promotion in their first year of existence.
On 26 May 2016, the Romanian Football Federation fined 14 players and three managers of FC Gloria for match-fixing in the Liga II, in 10 matches between September 2014 and May 2015 and imposed a total ban of 174 months on them. At the end of the 2015–16 Liga II season, Gloria had to face Olimpia Satu Mare in a relegation play-off in June but the club did not compete after it did not have enough players to line up once the bans had come into effect. Along with these developments the club went into bankruptcy after decades of ups and downs, in which the club spent only seven seasons in the top-flight of the Romanian football, where it achieved as a best finish a 5th place.

First years and ascension (2016–present)

After the bankruptcy of FC Gloria Buzău, businessman Ionel Turturică founded a new club, FC Buzău, which was enrolled in the Liga V – Buzău County. After only one season, the new club, which also had players with many matches played for FC Gloria Buzău, promoted to Liga IV with a total of 63 points, 7 points ahead the second place.
In the summer of 2017 FC Buzău was renamed as SCM Gloria Buzău, as part of the city new sports club SCM Gloria Buzău, and at the end of the 2017–18 season promoted again, this time in the Liga III.
In the 2018–19 season of Liga III SCM Gloria managed to promote for the third consecutive year, this time in the Liga II, after winning the first series of the third tier, series in which they had tough matches against teams such as Oțelul Galați, Foresta Suceava, Bucovina Rădăuți or Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț, under these conditions "the red and blues" suffered their first defeat only in the last round, having the best run of all the series winners.

Ground

The club plays its home matches, like its predecessor, FC Gloria Buzău, on Municipal Stadium from Buzău, with a capacity of 12,000 seats. Municipal Stadium was opened in 1942, is located in the Crâng park, hence the nickname Crâng. The arena was renovated several times since its opening ceremony. The last renovations works were made in the summer of 2018 when the pitch of the stadium was changed.

Support

SCM Gloria Buzău has many supporters in Buzău and especially in Buzău County, most of them being in the past the supporters of FC Gloria Buzău. The ultras group of SCM Gloria it is known as "Peluza Crâng".

Rivalries

SCM Gloria does not have many important rivalries, however, a local one, of little intensity, exist, against Metalul Buzău, the club which was dissolved in 1973 to found FC Gloria Buzău.

Honours

Leagues

First team squad

Out on loan

Club officials

Board of directors

Current technical staff

RoleName
Manager Ilie Stan
Assistant Managers Vasile Tudose
Goalkeeping Coach Vasile Lazăr
Fitness Coach Robert Panduru
Club Doctors Stanciu Paraschiv
Georgiana Ghizdeanu
Kinetotherapist Cătălin Bălan
Masseurs Dănuț Boboc
Gheorghe Roșu

League history

SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCupa României
2019–202Liga II8th
2018–193Liga III 1st '

SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCupa României
2017–184Liga IV 1st '
2016–175Liga V 1st