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FC Rapid București
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association football club in Bucharest, Romania
Key facts
- Full name
- Fotbal Club Rapid SA
- Nicknames
- Rapidiștii Giuleștenii (The people of Giulești ) Alb-vișiniii (The White-Burgundies) Feroviarii (The Railwaymen) Echipa de sub Podul Grant , (The Team below Grant Bridge)
- Short name
- Rapid
- Founded
- 25 June 1923 ; 102 years ago ( 1923-06-25 ) , as CFR București , 2016 ; 10 years ago ( 2016 ) (refounded) , as Mișcarea Feroviară CFR București
- Ground
- Rapid-Giulești
- Capacity
- 14,048
- Owners
- Dan Șucu (80%) , Victor Angelescu (20%)
- Chairman
- Victor Angelescu
- Head coach
- Daniel Pancu
- League
- Liga I
- 2025 26
- Liga I, 5th of 16
- Website
- www .fcrapid .ro
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Current season
Fotbal Club Rapid, commonly known as Rapid București ( Romanian pronunciation: [raˈpid bukuˈreʃtʲ]) or simply as Rapid, is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest, that competes in the Liga I, the top tier of Romanian football. It was founded in 1923 by employees of the Grivița workshops as the Asociația Culturală și Sportivă CFR (lit. 'CFR Cultural and Sports Association').
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “FC Rapid București” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.