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Franco Româna Brăila

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Full name
  
Franco-Româna Brăila

Ground
  
Brăilița, Brăila

Founded
  
1928

Dissolved
  
1948

Ground Capacity
  
2,000

Franco-Româna Brăila was a football team from Brăila, Romania.

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History

Their best performance was reaching the Quarter-finals in Cupa României in 1935–36 season when they lost with 6–4 against Unirea Tricolor Bucureşti.

Franco-Româna Brăila second team was founded in 1940 and was called AS Brăilița.

Brăilița was also the neighbourhood and name of the stadium. The stadium was like a small English stadium looking same with the famous Highbury, but in a smaller size.

Even they won twice Divizia B they never promoted in Divizia A, because they could not manage to win the Promotion play-off.

The biggest rival in their history was another local team Dacia Unirea Brăila. Franco-Româna Brăila was in the shadow of the rival team in all of their history.

After they fold in 1948, another team was created in Brăila to replace them, a team called Progresul Brăila.

Honours

Liga II:

  • Winners (2): 1935–36, 1939–40
  • Runners-up (2): 1934–35, 1940–41

    • Quarter-finals in Cupa României (1): 1935–36

    Literature

  • Hardy Grüne (2000) (in German), Enzyklopädie der europäischen Fußballvereine (1. ed.), Kassel: AGON Sportverlag, pp. 337, ISBN 3-89784-163-0 

    • References

    Franco-Româna Brăila Wikipedia
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