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| Full name | Club Sportiv Municipal Fetești | ||
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| Nickname | Feteștenii (The People from Fetești) | ||
| Short name | Fetești | ||
| Founded | 1945; 80 years ago (1945) asLocomotiva CFR Fetești 1972; 53 years ago (1972) asRapid Fetești 2018; 7 years ago (2018) asCSM Fetești | ||
| Ground | Municipal | ||
| Capacity | 4,000 | ||
| Owner | Fetești Municipality | ||
| Chairman | Dragoș Țonea | ||
| Manager | Claudiu Ionescu | ||
| League | Liga IV | ||
| 2024–25 | Liga III, Seria III, 10th(relegated) | ||
Club Sportiv Municipal Fetești, commonly known asCSM Fetești, or simply asFetești is aRomanian football club based inFetești,Ialomița County and currently playing in theLiga III, the third tier of theRomanian football league system. The club has played eighteen seasons in the Romanianthird division between 1973 and 2025.
The team was founded in 1945 under the name Locomotiva CFR Fetești, at the initiative of a large number of workers from the Fetești Railway Complex, who had a love for sports. Notable individuals involved in its creation include Oprea Cojocaru, Petre Ion, and Ștefan Iacob.
During this period, several other teams emerged in the city, such as Progresul (the town hall's team), Ogorul (the team of the State Agricultural Enterprise), and Autobuzul (the team of the Regional Transport Enterprise), which played in the lower divisions. Progresul and Ogorul later merged to form a new team, called Viticola. In the summer of 1972, after Viticola lost the promotion play-off to Divizia C, the two leading clubs of the city, Viticola and Locomotiva CFR, decided to merge to create a stronger club forFetești. Thus, Rapid Fetești was born.
In thefirst season, Rapid Fetești managed to win theIalomița County Championship and earned promotion toDivizia C, where it played for the next three seasons, finishing 10th in Series IV in the1973–74 season, 9th in the same series in the1974–75 season, and relegating back to thefourth division after the1975–76 season, when ranked 16th in Series V.[1]
After missing promotion in the1977–78 season, losing the play-off against Voința Constanța, the winner of theConstanța County Championship (2–0 at home and 0–4 away), Rapid Fetești returned to Divizia C at the end of the1978–79 season, winning the County Championship for the second consecutive time. This time, the team was promoted directly, without needing to play a promotion play-off, taking advantage of the fact thatIalomița County was less represented in the third division.
Feteștenii spent the next six seasons in Series IV of Divizia C, ranking as follows: 12th in1979–80, 5th in1980–81, 3rd in1981–82 – the best performance in the club's history up to that point – 10th in1982–83, 8th in1983–84, and 15th in1984–85, after which it was relegated.[1]
The club managed to return toDivizia C in1989, but once again without notable results: narrowly avoided relegation in the1989–90 season, finishing 14th out of 16, then placed 11th in1990–91, and was relegated again at the end of the1991–92 season, after finishing 15th.[1]
Another comeback followed in 1993, but after finishing 13th in the1993–94 season, the club faced major financial difficulties in the following year due to the withdrawal of its main sponsor, Elcom, and withdrew from Divizia C after just nine rounds.[1]
Between 1994 and 2002, Rapid Fetești became a consistent top-half finisher in thefirst football division of Ialomița County. In the2001–02 season, the club wonDivizia D – Ialomița County for the fifth time, but failed to secure promotion after losing the play-off against Turistul Pietroasa Haleș, the champions ofDivizia D – Buzău County, with a score of 1–4 in the match played atStrejnic.[2]
After a long spell of eighteen seasons in the fourth league, Rapid Fetești achieved promotion to Liga III at the end of a successful2011–12 campaign. The team won LLiga IV – Ialomița County and secured promotion after defeating the champions ofLiga IV – Brăila County, Victoria Traian, 3–0 onpenalty shoot-out in the promotion play-off, played on neutral ground inBerca.[3]
In the2012–13 season, Rapid endured a difficult campaign in the third tier, finishing in 9th place and narrowly avoiding relegation only due to the withdrawal of other teams.[4] However, thefollowing season ended in relegation, with a finish of 11th out of 12.
In the 2014–15 season, due to financial difficulties, the club enrolled inLiga V – Ialomița County, the fifth tier ofRomanian football, and secured immediate promotion back to Liga IV, finishing the season unbeaten.[5]
Upon returning to first football division of Ialomița County, Rapid Fetești finished 3rd in two consecutive seasons (2015–16 and2016–17), but withdrew for financial reasons during the winter break of the2017–18 season. All remaining matches were lost by default (0–3) under competition rules, and the season concluded with a 14th-place finish.[6]
| Name | Period |
| 1945–1972 | Locomotiva CFR Fetești |
| 1972–1993 | Rapid Fetești |
| 1993–1994 | Rapid Elcom Fetești |
| 1994–2018 | Rapid Fetești |
| 2018–present | CSM Fetești |
In the summer of 2018, to continue the football legacy, the Fetești municipality foundedClub Sportiv Municipal Fetești, which does not carry the official record of the former Rapid Fetești team. At the beginning of the2018–19 season, CSM Fetești purchased the fourth division spot of newly promoted Fulgerul Fierbinți and finished the championship in 9th place.[7][8]
The2019–20 season was suspended in March 2020 due to theCOVID-19 pandemic in Romania, with the team sitting in 10th place at the time.
Under the management of Mircea Ștefan, CSM Fetești won the shortened2020–21Liga IV – Ialomița County short tournament and secured promotion by winning theplay-off onaway goals againstLiga III sideCS Făurei (2–2 at Făurei and 0–0 at Fetești), marking a return to the third division after a seven-year absence.[9][10][11]
However, relegation followed at the end of thenext season, with a 9th-place finish in Series III of Liga III. Feteștenii ranked 2nd in the East Series of the regular season and finished as runners-up at the end of the2022–23 campaign. In thefollowing season, 1st place was secured in both the East Series and the championship play-off, earning promotion back to Liga III after a play-off victory against Venus Independența, theCălărași County winners, with a 4–0 win away and a 1–3 loss at home.
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Dumitru Dumitriu (1977–1978)
