CFR Cluj

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Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj, commonly known as CFR Cluj (Romanian pronunciation: [t͡ʃefeˌre ˈkluʒ] or [ˌt͡ʃefere ˈkluʒ]) or simply CFR, is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the Liga I. Founded in 1907 as Kolozsvári Vasutas Sport Club, when Transylvania was part of Austria-Hungary, the club takes its current name from the acronym for Căile Ferate Române ("Romanian Railways"). CFR Cluj first competed in the Romanian top flight in the 1946–47 season, but was relegated at the end of the following campaign. Aside from another spell in the top division between 1969 and 1976, the club spent most of the twentieth century in the lower leagues. Following its return to the Liga I in 2004, CFR made its European debut in the 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup, finishing as joint runners-up. With substantial financial backing from then-owner Árpád Pászkány, CFR won its first national championship in the 2007–08 season, ending a 17-year period of...

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