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CS Ocna Mureș
Full name	Clubul Sportiv Ocna Mureș
Nickname(s)	Ocna-Mureșenii; (The people from Ocna Mureș) Alb-Albaștrii; (The white and blues)
Short name	Ocna Mureș
Founded	1933; 92 years ago; as Solvay Uioara; 1945; 80 years ago; as Soda Ocna Mureș ; 2007; 18 years ago; as CS Ocna Mureș
Ground	Soda
Capacity	2.000 (1.500 seated)
Owner	Ocna Mureș Town
Chairman	Stelian Grozav
Manager	Romeo Arinar
League	Liga IV
2023–24	Liga IV, Alba County, 3rd of 16
Home colours	Away colours

Clubul Sportiv Ocna Mureș commonly known as CS Ocna Mureș or simply Ocna Mureș, is a Romanian football club based in Ocna Mureș, Alba County, which currently competes in the Liga IV – Alba County, the fourth tier of the Romanian football.

The club was known in the interwar period as Solvay Uioara and as Soda Ocna Mureș between 1945 and 2007.^[1]

History

The club was founded in 1933 as Solvay Uioara, from the passion of the Belgian baron Solvay – the owner then of the soda factory – to continue the tradition of football in Ocna Mureș, began by FC Ocna Mureș still before the First World War, when the precursor of the team from the town on the Mureș River has represented the city in the Hungarian Second Division in the 1913–14 season.^[2]^[3]

Solvay Uioara was part of the Northern League Championship (fourth tier) and promoted to Divizia C at the end of the 1936–37 season winning the Aiud District Championship. In the 1937–38 season, Solvay finished 5th in the Series I of North League of Divizia C.^[4]^[5]

Name^[1]	Period
Solvay Uioara	1933–1945
Soda Ocna Mureș	1945–2007
CS Ocna Mureș	2007–present

Honours

Liga III

Runners-up (3): 1963–64, 1965–66, 2005–06

Liga IV – Alba County

Winners (7): 1979–80, 1981–82, 1988–89, 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2017–18, 2019–20
Runners-up (2): 2008–09, 2016–17

Stadium

The stadium from Ocna Mureș was inaugurated on 30 August 1936 with the occasion of the match between Solvay Uioara and IAR Brașov (2–4), and was the first stadium with a lighting system in Romania. With the ultra-modern floodlights of those days, and the good training conditions, they made that the Romanian national team to establish its training camp in the town on the Mureș River.^[2]

Stadionul Soda, known as Dragostei (Love) Stadium, holds 2000 seats, where 500 of them are covered. The field size is 105x65 with natural grass. There exists a circuit for athletics. In 2015, the stadium was renovated.

Notable former players

References

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^ ^a ^b "Solvay (Soda) Ocna Mureș, locul în care s-a aprins lumina în fotbalul românesc" [Solvay (Soda) Ocna Mureș, the place where the light came on in Romanian football]. ziarulunirea.ro. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.(in Romanian)
^ "Vidéki bajnokság – Erdélyi kerület 1913/1914" [Rural Championship - Transylvania District 1913/1914]. magyarfutball.hu. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.(in Hungarian)
^ "Document rar: raportul unui arbitru, după un meci de fotbal din anul 1935: "Muncitorii joacă cu elan! Schoturi, hands și goal"" [Rare document: a referee's report after a football match in 1935: "Workers play with enthusiasm! Shots, hands and goal"]. adevarul.ro. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.(in Romanian)
^ "Divizia C - Season 1937-38 - Edition 2". romaniansoccer.ro. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.(in Romanian)