CS Dinamo București (rugby union)

This article is about the rugby club. For the sports club, see CS Dinamo București

Dinamo București

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Full name	Clubul Sportiv Dinamo București
Nickname(s)	Dinamoviștii Bulldogi (The Bulldogs) Alb-roșii (The White and Reds)
Founded	1949 (1949)
Location	Bucharest, Romania
Ground(s)	Stadionul Florea Dumitrache (Capacity: 1,500)
President	Ionuţ Adrian Popa
Coach(es)	Sosene Anesi
Captain(s)	Alexandru Mitu
League(s)	Liga Națională de Rugby
2020–21 SuperLiga season	3rd
1st kit 2nd kit
Official website
www.csdinamo.eu/sectia-jocuri-sportive/rugby/

CS Dinamo București is a professional Romanian rugby union club from Bucharest, which plays in the Liga Națională de Rugby, the first division of Romanian rugby. They are the second most successful rugby union team in Romania with 16 championship titles, 12 cup titles and even a Champions League title to their name.

History

The Dinamo București rugby club was founded in 1949, under the wing of the CS Dinamo București sports club that had been founded by the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs the previous year.

Along with Steaua București and Grivița Roșie București (their two local-town rivals), they had dominated the 1950`s scene in Romanian rugby as they won 3 Romanian Championships in 1951, 1952 and 1956, while also winning the Romanian cup twice in 1954 and in 1959.

Located in the nation’s capital, Bucharest, the Dinamo București side had traditionally consisted of members drawn from the ranks of the civil service and/or police. Along with the army side, Steaua, the Dinamo team is one of the nation’s top rugby union outfits.

Honours

Domestic

• Liga Națională de Rugby
  • Winners (16): 1951, 1952, 1956, 1965, 1969, 1982, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008
  • Runners-up (2): 2003, 2005

• Cupa României
  • Winners (12): 1954, 1959, 1980, 1989, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008
  • Runners-up (2): 1981, 2005

European

• Champions League (rugby)
  • Winners (1): 1967

Current squad

Dinamo București Liga Națională de Rugby squad
Props Omar Baliashvili Alexandru Gordaș Dragoș Mihai Bogdan Neacșu Jean-Pierre Smith Dorin Tică Hookers Florian Ciocoiu Ovidiu Cojocaru Sergiu Puescu Locks Keanan Murray Malcolm Onsando Dylan Pieterse Marcel Rusu Andrei Toader	Back row Eduard Cioroabă Alexandru Mitu (c) Samuel Swanepoel Etienne Terblanche Johannes van Heerden Scrum-halves Andrei Homiuc TC Kisting Jondré Williams Fly-halves Tudor Boldor Ovidiu Neagu Gabriel Pop	Centres De-An Ackermann Mihai Graure Iulian Melinte Dylan Schwartz Wayne Smith Petre Urs Wings Damian Bonaparte Rafael Florea-Jilăveanu Marian Ispir Leighton van Wyk Fullbacks Valentin Nițu Marius Simionescu
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players. * denotes players qualified to play for Romania on residency or dual nationality.

See also

• Rugby union in Romania

External links

• Official website (in Romanian)
• SuperLiga Squad Details (in Romanian)
• itsrugby.co.uk Squad Details (in English)