Asociația Fotbal Club Venus 1914 București, commonly known as Venus București, or simply as Venus, is a Romanian amateur football club based in Bucharest, founded in 1914 and re-founded in 2014. The club is currently playing in the Liga IV - București.
Venus players are nicknamed Negrii (English: The Blacks) due to their all black shirts. Before being dissolved by the Communist authorities, Venus was the most successful football club in Romania, winning seven Liga I championships.
The club's colours are black and white, and the club crest is an eight-pointed white star.
History
PeriodName1915–1948Venus București1948–1949Venus UCB București2014–presentVenus București
The club was established in 1914 in the old neighborhood of Venus, Bucharest. The team played at the Venus stadium that opened in 1931. It had a capacity of 15,000 spectators and it became the first stadium in Romania to host a match under floodlights in 1935.
The club won 7 national titles which came in 1920, 1929, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939 and finally in 1940. It never managed to win the Romanian Cup having been beaten by local rivals Rapid București in the final in 1940 as well as losing to the same opponents in the semi-finals in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941 and 1942.
The club also took part in three editions of the Mitropa Cup: 1937 Mitropa Cup – Last 16: Venus București 4–6 Ujpest and Ujpest 4–1 Venus București 1939 Mitropa Cup – Quarterfinals: Venus București 1–0 Bologna and Bologna 5–0 Venus București 1940 Mitropa Cup – Quarterfinals: BSK Beograd 3–0 Venus București and Venus București 0–1 BSK Beograd
In 1948, due to communist regime norms that stated that all sport associations had to join a trade-union or a governmental institution, the team was forced to merge with "UCB" ("Uzinele Comunale București" – Administration of Sewerage Systems). In 1949 the league was dissolved and the team disbanded.
In 2014 the team was reestablished and competed in Liga IV, Bucharest, fourth tier of the Romanian football, finishing 7th in Seria II.
Stadium
The club plays its home matches on Stadionul Biruința in Bucharest due to demolition of the Venus Stadium in 1953.
Honours
Domestic
Leagues Liga I: Winners (7): 1919–20, 1928–29, 1931–32, 1933–34, 1936–37, 1938–39, 1939–40
Liga V – Bucharest Winners (1): 2021–22
Cups Cupa României: Runners-up (1): 1939–40
Former managers Franz Platko 1936–37 Béla Jánossy 1938–40
League history
Season Tier Division Place Notes 2026–27 5 Liga V (Bucharest) TBD In progress 2025–26 5 Liga V (Bucharest) 6th 2024–25 5 Liga V (Bucharest, Series I) 4th 2023–24 4 Liga IV (Bucharest) 9th 2022–23 4 Liga IV (Bucharest) 7th 2021–22 5 Liga V (Bucharest, Series II) 2nd Promoted 2020–21 — — — No senior league 2019–20 5 Liga V (Bucharest, Series I) — Season curtailed 2018–19 5 Liga V (Bucharest, Series I) 8th 2017–18 4 Liga IV (Bucharest) 15th (R) Relegated 2016–17 4 Liga IV (Bucharest) 12th 2015–16 4 Liga IV (Bucharest) 7th 2014–15 4 Liga IV (Bucharest, Series II) 7th Refounded 1949–2014 Not active 1948–49 3 Divizia C (Series IV) 11th Venus UCB; dissolved 1947–48 2 Divizia B 15th (R) Venus UCB 1946–47 2 Divizia B (Series I) 5th 1945–46 — — — No league 1944–45 — — — No league 1943–44 — Wartime championship 12th Abandoned 1942–43 — Wartime championship 4th Unofficial 1941–42 — Cupa Basarabiei — Wartime 1940–41 1 Divizia A 4th 1939–40 1 Divizia A 1st (C) Champions 1938–39 1 Divizia A 1st (C) Champions 1937–38 1 Divizia A (Group II) 2nd 1936–37 1 Divizia A 1st (C) Champions 1935–36 1 Divizia A 5th 1934–35 1 Divizia A 3rd 1933–34 1 Divizia A (Group I) 1st (C) Champions 1932–33 1 Divizia A (Group II) 4th 1931–32 1 Divizia A 1st (C) Champions 1930–31 2 Bucharest Regional Championship 5th 1929–30 2 Bucharest Regional Championship 2nd 1928–29 1 Divizia A 1st (C) Champions 1927–28 2 Bucharest Regional Championship 3rd 1926–27 2 Bucharest–Ploiești Regional Championship 3rd 1925–26 2 Bucharest–Ploiești Regional Championship 4th 1924–25 1 Divizia A Quarter-finals Regional champions 1923–24 1 Divizia A Quarter-finals Regional champions 1922–23 1 Divizia A Semi-finals Regional champions 1921–22 2 Bucharest–Ploiești Regional Championship 2nd 1920–21 Regional Bucharest competitions 2nd Cupa Harwester 1919–20 1 Divizia A 1st (C) Champions 1916–19 No championship because of World War I 1914–16 — — — Only friendly matches
References
External links Official website