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123-593: The stadium was inaugurated in 1923, being considered at the time a very modern one. It was the stadium of the team with the same name, founded by Ettore Brunelli, that in 1924 merged with Triumf and the result was Juventus București , the new tenant of the stadium. This was the pitch were the first floodlit matches were played in Romania. On 13 and 14 September 1933, Újpest Budapest played friendly matches against CFR București and Venus București . The floodlit installation, as Ioan Chirilă described it in one of his books,

246-531: A Divizia A match against Dinamo Bacău . One week later after his death Petrolul won the 1962–63 Cupa României with 6–1 against Siderurgistul Galați and before the game, at the team photo, the place from the down row in front of goalkeeper Mihai Ionescu was left free in the memory of Tabarcea. In 1965, head coach Ilie Oană left Petrolul for the Romania national team , and assistant Constantin Cernăianu took over

369-509: A Mycenaean Greek settlement on the Palatine even earlier than Romulus and Remus, at some time during the 12th century BC. Modern scholars disregard most of the traditional accounts as myths. There is no persuasive archaeological evidence for either the Romulan foundation or for the idea of an early Greek settlement. Even the name Romulus is now generally believed to have been retrojected from

492-405: A "resuscitation" ( 1972–73 , 15th place occupied after five rounds, the 4th place at the beginning of the winter break), 1973 was quite weak year. In 1974, the people from Ploiești suspected a match fixed between Argeş Pitești and CFR Cluj , in favor of the team from Cluj-Napoca , it was supposed that Petrolul officials have tried to financially stimulate the host, but the authorities discovered

615-580: A 3–1 on the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium and a 0–0 draw in Ploiești . In the league Petrolul ended again in the top half of the table, on the 6th place and in the cup, was eliminated in the quarter-finals, by Național București , at the penalty shootout . In the following years Petrolul occupied the following positions at the end of the championship: 1996–97 – 9th, 1997–98 – 14th, 1998–99 – 8th and 1999–2000 – 11th. The late 1990s have been marked by

738-644: A cult to Hercules had been established at the Ara Maxima in Rome during the archaic period. By the early fifth century BC, these stories had become entrenched in Roman historical beliefs. These cults, along with the early – in literary terms – account of Cato the Elder , show how Italians and Romans took these Greek histories seriously and as reliable evidence by later annalists, even though they were speculations of little value. Much of

861-529: A general melee. Wiseman and some others attribute the aspects of fratricide to the 4th-century BC Conflict of the Orders , when Rome's lower-class plebeians began to resist excesses by the upper-class patricians . Romulus, after ritualistically ploughing the generally square course of the city's future boundary , erects its first walls and declares the settlement an asylum for exiles, criminals, and runaway slaves. The city becomes larger but also acquires

984-615: A local magnate called Latinus and marries his daughter Lavinia , joining the two into a new group called the Latini; they then found a new city, called Lavinium . After a series of wars against the Rutuli and Caere , the Latins conquer the Alban Hills and its environs. His son Ascanius then founds the legendary city of Alba Longa , which became the dominant city in the region. The later descendants of

1107-562: A long period, but it was definitely occupied by the middle of the Bronze Age . Core samples have shown that the terrain of Bronze-Age Rome differed greatly from what is present now. The area of the Forum Boarium north of the Aventine Hill was a seasonally dry plain that simultaneously provided a safe inland port for the era's seafaring ships, a wide area for watering horses and cattle, and

1230-449: A mediocre league result (10th place), coached by the same Marin Ion , Petrolul won the 1994–95 Cupa României after defeating their rivals, Rapid București , at the penalty shootout and qualified for the 1995–96 UEFA Cup . The team included the following players: Preda – D.Chiriță , Grigore , Răchită (C), Bălăceanu – Leahu , Grama, Pârlog, Abăluţă – Zmoleanu, Zafiris. 1995–96 season

1353-674: A merger between Petrolul Ploieşti and Astra Ploieşti . Astra Ploieşti changed its name to Petrolul Ploieşti and in July 2003 Petrolul Ploiești was unaffiliated from the Romanian Football Federation , leaving a vacant place in the first league, which was finally occupied by Oțelul Galați , team that lost in that summer a relegation play-out against the second league team FC Oradea . On 28 July 2003, Astra Ploieşti changed its name to FC Petrolul Ploieşti, with Florin Bercea and Ioan Niculae as

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1476-457: A mixing ground between Etruscan , Apennine , and Greek civilizations . It also served as a measure of societal control , with the patricians partially justifying their long dominance of Roman institutions by their supposed descent from Alba Longan nobility and other legendary figures. The Romans took the foundation of their own new cities seriously, undertaking many rituals and attributing many of them to remote antiquity. They long maintained

1599-637: A mostly male population. When Romulus' attempts to secure the women of neighbouring settlements by diplomacy fail, he uses the religious celebration of Consualia to abduct the women of the Sabines . According to Livy, when the Sabines rally an army to take their women back, the women force the two groups to make peace and install the Sabine king Titus Tatius as comonarch with Romulus. The story has been theorised by some modern scholars to reflect anti-Roman propaganda from

1722-529: A new city at the location where they had been rescued. The twins then come into conflict during the foundation of the city, leading to the murder of Remus. The dispute is variously said to have been over the naming of the new city, over the interpretation of auguries , whether to place it on the Palatine or Aventine Hill, or concerned with Remus's disrespect of the new town's ritual furrow or wall. Some accounts say Romulus slays his brother with his own hand, others that Remus and sometimes Faustulus are killed in

1845-469: A new town but quarrelled over some details, ending with Remus's murder and the establishment of Rome on the Palatine Hill . Most modern historians doubt the existence of a single founder or founding event for the city, and no material evidence has been found connecting early Rome to Alba or Troy. Most modern historians also dismiss the putative Aeneid dynasty at Alba Longa as fiction. The legendary account

1968-411: A period of decline and although the club remained in the first division for many years later, only the 1995 Romanian Cup final reminded their supporters about the years of glory. In 1970, the oilmen finished the first part of the championship on the 2nd place, but it lost that place until the end of the season. 1969–70 , 1971–72 were seasons in which Petrolul was at only one step from relegation. After

2091-492: A process of synoikismos was complete and there had been formed a unified Rome – reflected in the production of a central forum area, public monumental architecture, and civic structures – can be spoken of. By the late Republic , the usual Roman origin myth held that their city was founded by a Latin named Romulus on the day of the Parilia Festival (21 April) in some year around 750   BC. Important aspects of

2214-465: A proof of the dissolution of Petrolul, but such an interpretation is wrong because this club took over, according to FRF , Petrolul brand and record. At the end of the 2003–04 Divizia A season, Petrolul relegated to Divizia B , and due to some differences in the ownership, Ioan Niculae gives up the 50% that he held within the club, these were split between Liviu Luca, Florin Bercea and Eduard Alexandru. Subsequently, Ioan Niculae refounded Astra and

2337-514: A safe ford of the Tiber with shallow and slow-flowing water even if Tiber Island had not yet formed, one of the river's major fords between Etruria and Campania . This advantageous but exposed location was closely flanked by the Capitoline, which at that time rose sharply from the more easterly bank of the Tiber and provided a ready citadel for defense and for control of the salt production along

2460-450: A sponsor from the 2021–22 season , a position from which it also withdrew at the start of 2022. In spite of the economic issues that arose from Veolia's departure, the squad led by head coach Nicolae Constantin managed to end the Liga II campaign as champions. Petrolul finished on the eighth place in the regular season of the 2022–23 Liga I , and thus started the relegation play-outs from

2583-592: A story of Aeneas's son founding the city of Alba Longa and establishing a dynasty there, which eventually produced Romulus. In Livy's first book he recounts how Aeneas, a demigod of the Trojan royal Anchises and the goddess Venus , leaves Troy after its destruction during the Trojan War and sailed to the western Mediterranean. He brings his son – Ascanius – and a group of companions. Landing in Italy, he forms an alliance with

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2706-652: A team in the National Senior Championship. In order to ensure obtaining the necessary license to participate in the 2022-2023 season, Petrolul Ploiești has signed a partnership with ACS Student Sport Alba Iulia, which will play in Women's 3rd League under the name of Petrolul Ploiești in Ighiu. Meanwhile, in Ploiești, coach Cristian Iordache made the selection for the senior and junior teams that played only friendly matches in

2829-524: A very good season and finished in the top 5, more exactly on the 5th place, one point over Farul Constanța , at the same number of points with 4th place ( Rapid București ), two points behind 3rd place ( Dinamo București ) and three points behind 2nd place ( FC U Craiova ). In the Romanian Cup, "the Yellow Wolves" were eliminated in the second round proper by Inter Sibiu . In the 1994–95 season, despite

2952-485: A very weak season, finishing only 10th in the top flight and in the Romanian Cup, the squad was eliminated again in the second round proper, this time by FC U Craiova . At the end of the season FC Ploiești changed its name back to Petrolul Ploiești. "The Oilmen" saved from relegation in the last moment at the end of the 1992–93 season, finishing 16th out of 18, with two points over Selena Bacău and four over CSM Reșița . Next season, coach Marin Ion and his players made

3075-615: Is a Romanian professional football club based in Ploiești , Prahova County , that competes in the Liga I . Founded in 1924 in capital Bucharest as Juventus , following the merger of Triumf and Romcomit , it won its first league championship in the 1929–30 season . In 1952, the team was relocated north to the industrial city of Ploiești, and five years later settled on the name of Petrolul. Shortly after, it achieved three more national titles—in 1957–58 , 1958–59 and 1965–66 . Domestically, its honours also include three national cups ,

3198-471: The 1930 World Cup , Constantin Rădulescu to be the first coach that brought modern training sessions on the fields of Bucharest . Their first national title came six years after their establishment, being led in the first half of the season by coach Gyula Feldmann and in the second by Hlavay , as the team won another Bucharest regional championship, qualifying for the 1929–30 Divizia A where they won

3321-524: The 1958–59 Divizia A saw Petrolul on the fourth place in the table, but with several good results which followed the team clinched its second consecutive league championship. They were once again unable to go further than the preliminary round of the European Cup, Austrian side Wiener Sport-Club defeating them 1–2 on aggregate. On 14 July 1963 Petrolul's player Constantin Tabarcea collapsed and died during

3444-400: The 2004–05 season the club finished on the 4th place at 7 points from the promotion place, occupied at that time by Pandurii Târgu Jiu . 2005–06 season brought an extra chance, as a result of the restructuring of the first league from 16 to 18 teams, from the second league could also promote the 2nd place via a play-off tournament, but Petrolul finished only on the 3rd place at 3 points from

3567-468: The 2010–11 season with important changes, the young squad has been completed with some experienced players as Pompiliu Stoica , Florentin Dumitru or Daniel Oprița and moved for its home matches on Conpet Stadium from Strejnicu , near Ploiești, facilitating easier access for the supporters, new Ilie Oană Stadium , being still in construction, also the team was moved from the first to the second series of

3690-495: The AUC calendar era . The conventional division of pre-Roman cultures in Italy deals with cultures which spoke Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages. The Italic languages , which include Latin , are Indo-European and were spoken, according to inscriptions, in the lower Tiber Valley . It was once thought that Faliscan – spoken north of Veii on the right bank of the Tiber – was a separate language, but inscriptions discovered in

3813-471: The Bucharest regional championship, the team finished on the 1st place, qualifying for the 1925–26 Divizia A where they lost the final in front of Chinezul Timișoara , being led in the first half of the season by coach Motoroi and in the second by György Hlavay who according to journalist Ioan Chirilă 's book, "Zile și nopți pe stadion" (Days and nights at the stadium) is considered by Romania 's coach at

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3936-454: The Divizia A , from 1933 to 1940. Following World War II , they were promoted once again to the top tier, having finished first in the final Divizia B season prior to the outbreak of war. The club played its last campaign as Juventus in 1946–47, after which the name was changed numerous times to Distribuția , Petrolul , Competrol , Partizanul and Flacăra respectively. Flacăra București

4059-649: The Europa League third qualifying round . After a draw in Ploiești, Petrolul impressively beat Viktoria scoring four goals and conceding only one. However, Petrolul yet again missed the chance of advancing to the group stage after losing the play-off against Dinamo Zagreb . In September 2014, head coach Lucescu was sacked and Mutu left the club as a free agent . On 25 November, president Daniel Capră, general director Marius Bucuroiu and five other persons faced preventive detention for 24 hours, being suspected of tax evasion and money laundering. The criminal offences made by

4182-583: The Hut of Romulus , a primitive dwelling on the Palatine attributed to their founder, although they had no firm basis for associating it with him specifically. While the Romans believed that their city had been founded by an eponymous founder at a specific time, when that occurred was disputed by the ancient historians. The earliest dates placed it c.  1100   BC out of a belief that Romulus had been Aeneas's grandson. This moved Rome's foundation much closer to

4305-518: The Iliad 's prophecy that Aeneas's descendants would one day return and rule Troy once more. Greeks by 550 BC had begun to speculate, given the lack of any clear descendants of Aeneas, that the figure had established a dynasty outside the proper Greek world. The first attempts to tie this story to Rome were in the works of two Greek historians at the end of the fifth century BC, Hellanicus of Lesbos and Damastes of Sigeum , likely only mentioning off hand

4428-583: The Parilian Festival celebrated annually on April 21. This festival was originally concerned with the purification of shepherds and herds of sheep in the countryside around Rome, but eventually became so associated with Rome's foundation myth that it was restructured as the urban Romaea in AD   121. The association with Romulus may have arisen from the twins' supposed foster parents Faustulus and Acca Larentia , who initially raised them as shepherds. In

4551-519: The UEFA Cup along with Universitatea Craiova and Politehnica Timișoara . "The Yellow Wolves" played against Belgian club Anderlecht , which won both legs. At the end of the 1990–91 season, Petrolul finished 7th and in the Romanian Cup they were eliminated in the second round proper by their bitter rivals Steaua București . In the summer of 1991 the club changed its name to FC Ploiești , but made

4674-412: The fall of Troy , dated by Eratosthenes to 1184–83 BC; these dates are attested as early as the 4th century   BC. Romulus was later chronologically connected to Aeneas and the time of the Trojan War by introducing a line of Alban kings , which scholars consider to be entirely spurious. Ancient attempts to date the foundation of the city were based on the length of the republic, counted by

4797-406: The 1980s indicate that Latin was spoken more generally in the area. Etruscan speakers were concentrated in modern Tuscany with a similar language called Raetic spoken on the upper Adige (the foothills of the eastern Italian Alps ). When drawing a connection between peoples and their languages, a reconstruction emerges with Indo-European peoples arriving in various waves of migrations during

4920-480: The 1st League championship must meet the requirement to register a minimum of 20 players to play in the U15 Women's National Championship. This is a mandatory condition for receiving a license to play in the 1st League. Teams have the opportunity to sign a collaboration protocol with a women's football club in 1st League 1, 2nd League or 3rd League, in which case the team will participate in the competitions of juniors with

5043-462: The 1st place, and "the referee" was Metalul Plopeni, who won in Bucharest against Rapid and lost against Progresul. In 1980, Petrolul brought a new coach in the person of Traian Ionescu , a very experienced coach with teams like Dinamo București or Fenerbahçe in his CV, but another thing would ruin the promotion dreams, CS Târgoviște succeeded in that year a sensational transfer, nicknamed as The Gander or The Prince of Trivale and being one of

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5166-476: The 1st place, far away from the 2nd place occupied by Metalul Plopeni, another team from Prahova County . Unfortunately, the players born in the Prahova County did not have enough experience and at the end of the 1977–78 Divizia A season it was ranked only 17th and relegated back. The immediate promotion was forbidden by Viitorul Scorniceşti , the football club from the native town of Nicolae Ceaușescu , which

5289-461: The 2nd place, occupied by Unirea Urziceni , team that would promote and write history in the Romanian football. In 2006, Petrolul ownership decided that the home games should be played on Flacăra Stadium from Moreni or Mogoșoaia Stadium , motivating the move by the fact that the old Ilie Oană Stadium required repair and modernization work. On 12 October 2006, the supporters organized a protest in

5412-460: The 4th place in its first season, helped also by the dissolution (in the winter of 1990) of Victoria București , club sponsored by the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs (the "Miliția", Police), institution under the former Communist regime. Petrolul finished the 1989–90 Divizia A on the fourth place, after having just returned from the second division in 1989. Therefore, it qualified for

5535-621: The FRF, Petrolul Ploiesti was invited to play in the 2nd League. Founding of Rome The founding of Rome was a prehistoric event or process later greatly embellished by Roman historians and poets. Archaeological evidence indicates that Rome developed from the gradual union of several hilltop villages during the Final Bronze Age or early Iron Age . Prehistoric habitation of the Italian Peninsula occurred by 48,000 years ago , with

5658-499: The Greek east or Mesopotamia, inasmuch as the story of virgin birth, intercession by animals and humble stepparents, with triumphant return expelling an evil leader are common mythological elements across Eurasia and even into the Americas. The indigenous tradition of Romulus was also combined with a legend telling of Aeneas coming from Troy and travelling to Italy. This tradition emerges from

5781-503: The Iron age saw a gradual increase in social complexity and population that led to the emergence of proto-urban settlements in central and northern Italy writ large. These proto-urban agglomerations were normally clusters of smaller settlements that were insufficiently distant to be separated communities; over time, they would unify. There is archaeological evidence of human occupation of the area of modern Rome from at least 5,000 years ago , but

5904-755: The Liga I in 1998 and played in Ploiești until September 2012, when it was moved to Giurgiu . Even after relocation, the rivalry continued between the governances of the clubs. Petrolul fans also hold grudges against the other historically prosperous Bucharest teams, namely FCSB and Dinamo . They sometimes chant against them even outside of direct matches. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Petrolul Ploiești has participated in eight editions of

6027-562: The Palatine, the Capitoline, the Quirinal and Viminal, and the Caelian, Oppian, and Velia. There is, however, no evidence linking any settlement on the Quirinal hill with the Sabines, as is alleged by some ancient accounts. The area of the Forum also was converted at this time into a public space. Burials there discontinued and portions of it were paved over. Votive offerings appear in the comitium in

6150-481: The Second Stand of the stadium. Before and during matches, they sing the club's chant , whose lyrics were written by George Nicolescu . Petrolul Ploiești fans have recently established close friendships with the supporters of fellow league club Oțelul Galați , as well as with the ones of foreign clubs Vitesse , Salernitana , and Genk . Petrolul Ploiești's traditional rival is Rapid București . They faced for

6273-546: The Secular Games celebrated at Rome's 900th and 1000th anniversaries under Antoninus Pius and Philip   I , meanwhile, used dates computed from a foundation a year later in 752   BC. Despite known errors in Varro's work, it is the former date that has become the most repeated in modernity and is still used for computing the AUC calendar era . By the late Republic , the founding had also become closely associated with

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6396-415: The Trojan foundation myth instead. Nilsson further speculates that the name of Romos was changed by some Romans to the native name Romulus, but the same name Romos (later changed to the native Remus) was never forgotten by many of the people, so both these names were used to represent the founders of the city. Another story, attributed to Hellanicus of Lesbos by Dionysius of Halicarnassus , says that Rome

6519-412: The absence of further evidence, with the arguments made by Carandini and others appearing to rest on highly tendentious interpretations of what is currently known with certainty from scientific excavations. The Romans' origin myths , however, provide evidence of how the Romans conceived of themselves as a mixture of different ethnic groups and foreign influences, reflecting the reality of Latium being

6642-431: The ancient cult of Jupiter Feretrius . Other offerings discovered indicate Rome's connections outside Latium, with imported Greek pottery from Euboea and Corinth . The first evidence of a wall appears in the middle or late eighth century on the Palatine, dated between 730 and 720 BC. It is possible that the circuit of the wall marked out what later Romans believed to be the original pomerium (sacred boundary) of

6765-607: The area of Rome being settled by around 1600 BC. Some evidence on the Capitoline Hill possibly dates as early as c.  1700 BC and the nearby valley that later housed the Roman Forum had a developed necropolis by at least 1000   BC. The combination of the hilltop settlements into a single polity by the later 8th century   BC was probably influenced by the trend for city-state formation emerging from ancient Greece . Roman myth held that their city

6888-423: The best known form of the legend, Romulus and Remus are the grandsons of Numitor , the king of Alba Longa. After Numitor is deposed by his brother Amulius and his daughter Rhea Silvia is forced to become a Vestal virgin , she becomes pregnant – allegedly raped by the war god Mars  – and delivers the two illegitimate brothers. Amulius orders that the children be left to die on

7011-566: The chance to qualify for their second consecutive Cupa României final , but lost the semi-final against rivals Astra Giurgiu 2–1 on aggregate. Petrolul came third in the Liga I once more, while the fans challenged Răzvan Lucescu , considering that he wasn't a suitable replacement for Contra, who left Petrolul in March to join Spanish side Getafe . In the next season's European participation, "the Yellow Wolves" confronted Czech club Viktoria Plzeň in

7134-508: The city center of Ploiești , asking for the team to be transferred from the private ownership to the Ploiești Municipality and to return on its own home ground. Despite these internal problems Petrolul made a good season, but ended again just below the promotion line, on the 3rd place. The end of the 2007–08 season found the yellow and blues on the 3rd place again, increasing the frustration among supporters and players, 5 points split

7257-457: The city to an eponymous founder, usually "Rhomos" or "Rhome" rather than Romulus. One story told how Romos , a son of Odysseus and Circe , was the one who founded Rome. Martin P. Nilsson speculates that this older story was becoming a bit embarrassing as Rome became more powerful and tensions with the Greeks grew. Being descendants of the Greeks was no longer preferable, so the Romans settled on

7380-461: The city's name – glossed as "Mr Rome" by the classicist Mary Beard – rather than reflecting a historical or actual figure. Some scholars, particularly Andrea Carandini , have argued that it remains possible that these foundation myths reflect actual historical events in some form and that the city and Roman Kingdom were in fact founded by a single actor in some way. This remains a minority viewpoint in present scholarship and highly controversial in

7503-510: The city. The discovery of gates and streets connected to the wall, with the remains of various huts, suggest that Rome had by this time: acquired a defined boundary ... [and] a more sophisticated level of social and political organisation ... the use of the Forum as a public space point[s] to the development of [a] shared civil and ritual space[] for the inhabitants of all communities, demonstrating an increasing level of centralisation. Like other Villanovan proto-urban centres, this archaic Rome

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7626-418: The club competitions governed by UEFA , the chief authority for football across Europe, and 12 editions of European competitions overall. The footballers enlisted below have had international caps for their respective countries at junior and/or senior level and/or more than 100 caps for FC Petrolul Ploiești. Starting with the 2024-2025 season, Petrolul Ploiesti will once again have a second team. This

7749-558: The club playing its first European match since 1995. After defeating Víkingur Gøta and Vitesse Arnhem , they were eliminated in the play-off round by Swansea City . The team received consistent media attention after signing former Romanian internationals Adrian Mutu and Ianis Zicu in January 2014, a move which would later be considered a "failure". During the same month, it was announced that German automobile manufacturer Opel would become Petrolul's shirt sponsor. Petroliștii had

7872-407: The club's officials caused Petrolul to lose important players and face a period of instability. In February 2015, the club went into administration and eventually finished the season on the sixth place in Liga I. More players left the club in the summer of 2015 and coach changes became frequent. Petrolul quickly landed on the last place in the league table, where it stayed until the last game of

7995-507: The dense layer of much younger debris obscures any Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites . Traces of occupation have been found in the general region – including Lavinium and the coast near Ardea  – going back to the 15th century BC. The area was home to the Apennine and Proto-Villanovan cultures before the advent of the more regional Latial culture . Archaeological evidence suggests that Rome developed over

8118-551: The early Iron Age c.  900 BC , graves started to be placed into the ground. Other cemeteries appear on the Esquiline , Quirinal , and Viminal Hills by the 9th century, containing pottery, imported Greek wares, fibulae, and bronze objects. Remains from huts on the Palatine have been found that date to the 9th or 8th centuries BC, with accelerating development by the early to middle 8th century BC. By this time, four major settlements emerged in Rome. The nuclei appeared on

8241-412: The eighth century, indicating a more central religious cult, and other public buildings appear to have been erected around that time. One of those buildings was the domus publica (the official residence of the pontifex maximus ), which is now believed to have been constructed between 750 and 700 BC. Religious activity started also in this period on the Capitoline hill, suggesting a connection to

8364-558: The event was published on 4 January 1925 in the Gazeta Sporturilor newspaper, under the title "Juventus – A sensational merger" ( Juventus – O fuziune senzațională ). In their first season of existence being led by president Ettore Brunelli and player-coach Ion Motoroi, the team finished on the 4th place in the Bucharest championship, the first game taking place on 8 March 1925 in a 3–0 victory against Colțea București with goals scored by Bebe Rollea, Antofiloiu ( o.g. ) and Török,

8487-535: The fierce rivalry with Astra Ploiești , a team that promoted in the first league in 1998. In the early 2000s, Petrolul entered under the ownership of Petrom 's trade union president, Liviu Luca, and ploieștenii have a peak at the end of the 2000–01 Divizia A , when the team finished on the 2nd place. But the collapse followed. In 2002, the yellow and blues relegated to Divizia B and the city of Ploiești , which had 2 teams in Divizia A between 1998 and 2002, remained in

8610-482: The final with a 3–0 victory against Gloria Arad with goals scored by László Raffinsky , Ion Maior and Carlo Melchior, the team used being: Dumitru Bacinschi – Constantin Deleanu, Sile Georgescu – Ștefan Wetzer, Emerich Vogl , Tibor Remeny – Gyula Dobo, Carlo Melchior, Rudolf Wetzer , László Raffinsky , Ion Maior. After the reorganization of the Romanian division structure, the club played seven consecutive campaigns in

8733-556: The financial partner of the club by joining the association. In June 2017, ACS Petrolul 52 leased the club brand identity from the Municipality of Ploiești for €30,000 and began using the former name of FC Petrolul Ploiești . The team managed back-to-back promotions and reached the second division in the summer of 2018. After three failed attempts to return to the Liga I and with worsening competitive results each year, Veolia stopped fully financing Petrolul and only offered to become

8856-603: The first and second millennia BC: first a western Italic group (including Latin), followed by a central Italic group of Osco-Umbrian dialects, with a late arrival of Greek and Celtic on the Italian peninsula, from across the Adriatic and Alps, respectively. These migrations are generally believed to have displaced speakers of Etruscan and other pre-Indo-European languages; although it is possible that Etruscan arrived also by migration, almost certainly before 2000 BC. The start of

8979-400: The first league only with Astra , a club which had no presence in the top-flight of the Romanian football until 1998. The oilmen promoted back to Divizia A in 2003, after only one season in the second league, but only at one month after promotion, the club's management announced that the funding of the club is under question. In less than 30 days supporters have been announced that there will be

9102-469: The first time on 11 November 1931, when Juventus București tied CFR București 3–3 at home, on the Stadionul Romcomit , and have maintained a strong rivalry despite long periods of not meeting when one or the other were playing in the second division. In the 1965–66 season , Petrolul won the Liga I while Rapid finished second. The following year, Rapid won its first national title after a match played on

9225-560: The foundation of a settlement on the Palatine hill by Evander (originally hailing also from Arcadia) and Hercules , whose labour with the cattle of Geryon was placed in the Forum Boarium by the Romans. The introduction of Aeneas follows a trend across Italy towards Hellenising their own early mythologies by rationalising myths and legends of the Greek Heroic Age into a pseudo-historical tradition of prehistoric times; this

9348-538: The late fourth century BC, but more likely reflects an indigenous Roman tradition, given the Capitoline Wolf which likely dates to the sixth century BC. Regardless, by the third century, it was widely accepted by Romans and put onto some of Rome's first silver coins in 269 BC. In his 1995 Beginnings of Rome , Tim Cornell argues that the myths of Romulus and Remus are "popular expressions of some universal human need or experience" rather than borrowings from

9471-504: The latest in the 2012–13 campaign . Petrolul recorded its European debut in the 1958–59 season , when it was drawn against Wismut Karl Marx Stadt in the preliminary round of the European Cup . The club has participated in 12 editions of European competitions overall, of which eight governed by UEFA . In recent history, Petrolul became insolvent in February 2015 and dissolution followed

9594-512: The most important names ever given by the Romanian football, Nicolae Dobrin came in Târgoviște after 19 years spent in Pitești , making a decisive contribution for the promotion of his team and ruining the plans of the yellow wolves. In 1982, after 4 years in the second league and 7 out of 8 last years, Petrolul exceeded his great rival, Rapid and returned to Divizia A . 1982–83 Divizia A season

9717-548: The myth concerned Romulus's murder of his twin Remus , the brothers' descent from the god Mars and the royal family of Alba Longa , and that dynasty's supposed descent from Aeneas , himself supposedly descended from the goddess Aphrodite and the royal family of Troy . The accounts in the first book of Livy 's History of Rome and in Vergil 's Aeneid were particularly influential. Some accounts further asserted that there had been

9840-503: The name of the men's 1st League club. Also, starting from the 2021-2022 season, 1st League clubs must enter a women's football team in the senior championship (1st League, 2nd League, 3rd League) and still have a minimum of 20 players registered in the U15 National Championship. And from the 2022-2023 season, clubs must register a minimum of 20 players to play in the U15 National Championship, a minimum of 15 U13 players and enter

9963-554: The neighboring valley that later became the Roman Forum from 1350–1120 BC. Some 13th century   BC structures indicate that the Capitoline was already being terraced to manage its slope. Evidence in the Final Bronze Age around 1200–975 BC is clearer, showing occupation of the Capitoline, Forum, and adjacent Palatine. Excavations near the modern Capitoline Museums suggest the construction of fortifications and some scholars have speculated that settlements also existed on

10086-400: The new club is considered by LPF as the legal successor of the club before the 2003 merger, strengthening the idea that the 2003 merger result is the successor of the old Petrolul, not Astra. Petrolul also moved back to its old ground, Ilie Oană Stadium , in the summer of 2004. The 2004 relegation was followed by a black period for the yellow wolves, with seven consecutive Liga II season. In

10209-518: The new stadium, all of these brought a great enthusiasm among the Petrolul supporters, players and staff. Under the management of Cosmin Contra , their second season since return saw them finishing third in the league table, as well as claiming the national cup for the third time in their history. Consequently, Petrolul earned a spot in the second qualifying round of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League , with

10332-481: The next year, however supporters and club legends promptly refounded and enrolled it in the fourth division . The team colours are yellow and dark blue, hence the nickname of the players and fans being "the Yellow Wolves". Petrolul plays its home games at the 15,073-seater Ilie Oană Stadium , and its most notable rivalry is the one against Rapid București . Petrolul also had a local rivalry with Astra Giurgiu , which had been based in Ploiești until 2012. The team

10455-491: The number of consuls, followed by subtracting of an estimated regal period. Modern scholars, however, largely reject the estimates of the length of the regal period as synthetic calculations. From Claudius 's Secular Games in AD   47 to Hadrian 's Romaea in AD   121, the official date seems to have used the chronology established by Varro in the late 1st century   BC, placing Rome's founding in 753   BC. Augustus 's Fasti running to AD   13 and

10578-459: The old Ilie Oană Stadium; these events are believed to have ignited the rivalry further. Due to the fact that this rivalry is the oldest for Romanian teams still active, it entered into the collective consciousness as the Primvs derby ( Latin for "first" or "foremost"). Petrolul maintained a milder rivalry with the defunct Astra Giurgiu , its former local enemy. Astra promoted for the first time to

10701-459: The other hills, especially the Janiculum , Quirinal , and Aventine . The Capitoline currently seems to have been the earliest settled but it is debated whether the settlements on the other hills were independent, colonies of the Capitoline settlement, or formerly separate villages already consolidated into a single polity. By 1000 BC, a necropolis existed in the Forum for cremation graves. By

10824-469: The owners of the newly formed entity and also the new home becoming Astra Stadium . This alternative was chosen because at that time Petrolul Ploieşti was a nonprofit association and according to the Law of Sport it should have been transformed into SA and a merger with Astra Ploieşti in order to create a new company would have lasted at least seven months. These legal formalities have sometimes been interpreted as

10947-404: The plan and the team has discreetly relegated to Divizia B , this happened in the conditions in which in 1963 Prahova Ploiești and Carpați Sinaia, other two teams from Prahova County were relegated by the Romanian Football Federation to Divizia B due to match-fixing. Arrived in the second league, the most valuable footballers of the club, Crângaşu and Rămureanu left and after 3 rounds the team

11070-486: The possibility of a Roman connection; a more assured connection only emerged at the end of the fourth century BC when Rome started having formal dealings with the Greek world. The ancient Roman annalists, historians, and antiquarians faced an issue tying Aeneas to Romulus, as they believed that Romulus lived centuries after the Trojan War, which was dated at the time c.  1100 BC . For this, they fabricated

11193-472: The river and at its mouth. The other hills and the marshes between them provided similarly defensible points for settlement. Accordingly, thick deposits of manure and ancient pottery shards have been discovered in the Forum Boarium from the middle of the Bronze Age. Current evidence suggests that there were three separate bronze-using settlements on the Capitoline during the period 1700–1350 BC and in

11316-421: The royal lineage of Alba Longa eventually produce Romulus and Remus, setting up the events of their mythological story. Dionysius of Halicarnassus similarly attempted to show a Greek connection, giving a similar story for Aeneas, but also a previous series of migrations. He describes migrations of Arcadians into southern Italy some time in the 18th century BC, migrations into Umbria by Greeks from Thessaly, and

11439-544: The same season. In the 2023-2024 season, the partnership with ACS Student Sport Alba Iulia ended, and Petrolul Ploiești enrolled in the Women's 3rd League the first official women's football team in the club's history, which will play at the Vega stadiums in Ploiești, Soceram in Pleașa and Chimia in Brazi. In the 2024-2025 season, following the restructuring of the women's football leagues by

11562-521: The season. Finally, in the summer of 2016 the team was declared bankrupt. After the team was dissolved in 2016 as a result of the SC FC Petrolul SA joint-stock company bankruptcy, club legends and supporter groups associated to promptly reestablish it under the name of ACS Petrolul 52 Ploiești and enroll it in the Liga A Prahova ( Liga IV ), the fourth tier of the Romanian league system. During early 2017, French transnational company Veolia became

11685-407: The second league and after a heavy fight in 3 teams, against FC Bihor Oradea and CS Mioveni , Petrolul promoted from the 1st place, 1 point ahead FC Bihor, team that also occupied a promotable place after 7 consecutive Liga II seasons and 2 points ahead CS Mioveni, which subsequently promoted by taking advantage of the financial problems of FC Bihor. The promotion coincided with the inauguration of

11808-550: The second place. In March 2023, the association of former players which controlled the club stepped down and former CFR Cluj and Universitatea Craiova president Marian Copilu was announced as the new owner. Petrolul also finished the 2022–23 season on the eighth place overall. Petrolul Ploiești plays its home matches at the Ilie Oană Stadium . Ranked as a UEFA Category 4 stadium, it can host UEFA Europa League semi-finals and UEFA Champions League group stage matches. It

11931-687: The slopes of the Palatine or in the Tiber River , but they are suckled by a she-wolf at the Lupercal and then discovered by the shepherd Faustulus and taken in by him and his wife Acca Larentia . (Livy combines Larentia and the she-wolf, considering them most likely to have referred to a prostitute , also known in Latin slang as a lupa or she-wolf.) Faustulus eventually reveals the brothers' true origins, and they depose or murder Amulius and restore Numitor to his throne. They then leave or are sent to establish

12054-416: The squad the players who won against Steaua București or Liverpool in the glory times and Petrolul relegated back to the second league. September 1988 brought Ion Radu as the new chairman, helped by Mihai Cristache. The two were often criticized of the post- revolutionary press, but they did some performances like in the times of Mircea Dridea and Mihai Ionescu . Petrolul promoted in 1989 and finished on

12177-485: The stadium was demolished to provide a site for the University of Bucharest . 44°26′07″N 26°04′56″E  /  44.43523°N 26.082117°E  / 44.43523; 26.082117 Juventus Bucure%C8%99ti (1924) Asociația Clubul Sportiv Petrolul 52 , commonly referred to as FC Petrolul Ploiești ( Romanian pronunciation: [peˈtrolul ploˈjeʃtʲ] ), Petrolul Ploiești or simply Petrolul ,

12300-417: The stands. FCM Galaţi then strengthened his nickname as an "ABBA" team (a nickname used in Romania for clubs that used to alternate the presences between the first and the second league), promoting in front of Petrolul that year and relegating after only a season in the top-flight of the Romanian football. Instead, Petrolul had an exceptional 1976–77 season with 15 wins and 2 draws in 17 matches and finished on

12423-468: The syncretism, however, may simply reflect Roman desires to give themselves a prestigious backstory: claim of Trojan descent proved politically advantageous with the Greeks by justifying both claims of common heritage and ancestral enmity. By the time of the Pyrrhic War (280–275 BC), there were some sixty different myths for Rome's foundation that circulated in the Greek world. Most of them attributed

12546-472: The team from the 2nd place, a promotable one. Next season, 2008–09 was a disastrous one, Petrolul finished on 4th place, but at great distance from the 2nd ( Astra , named FC Ploiești at that time) and 1st place ( Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț ), 22 points respectively 23 points, also with a tense situation at the administrative level and with not many options on the horizon. In 2009 the team was taken over by Ploiești Municipality and Valeriu Răchită , former player of

12669-505: The team used being: Căpșuneanu – Constantin Vețianu, Sile Georgescu – Schaller, Ion Motoroi, Grigore Grigoriu , Sergiu Petrovici, Victor Block, Bebe Rollea, Török, Aurel Schei. Before the start of the new season, president Brunelli wanted to test the value of his squad, organizing the club's first matches at international level, friendlies which ended with victories against Slavia Prague (2–1), Slavia Sofia (3–0) and Vasas Budapest (5–2). In

12792-430: The team, was reconfirmed as the head coach, the squad being also restructured with many young players and after a great campaign in which the hope of promotion was alive until the last second, Petrolul finished 3rd, at only 1 point from the promotion spot, occupied by Sportul Studențesc , which led to a terrible disappointment, making the Ploiești people to wonder whether the team was followed by bad luck. Petrolul started

12915-563: The two dates seeming to be officially sanctioned were the Varronian chronology 's 753 BC (used by Claudius 's Secular Games and Hadrian 's Romaea ) and the adjacent year of 752 BC (used by the Fasti and the Secular Games of Antoninus Pius and Philip I ). Despite known errors in Varro 's calculations, it is the 753   BC date that continues to form the basis for most modern calculations of

13038-643: The ups and downs. The biggest ultras group is called Lupii Galbeni ("the Yellow Wolves") since 1996, and there are two stands with groups like Peluza Latină ("The Latin Stand"), with subgroups like Knot04, United or Maniacs, and the Peluza 1 Ilie Oană ("Peluza 1 Ilie Oană stand") with subgroups like Hooligans, Young Hooligans, Contrasens, Lethalgang or Zona Vest. Other supporter associations, such as Liga Suporterilor Constantin Tabarcea (LSCT) , Asociația Diaspora Galben Albastră (ADGA) , T2 or Young Wolves are located in

13161-560: The vacant place. At his first season , Cernăianu achieved the club's fourth Divizia A trophy after finishing six points ahead of Rapid București . 12 October 1966 has remained an important date in the history of the team; after a 0–2 away defeat, Petrolul won 3–1 at home against the champions of England, Liverpool . The third match in Brussels was difficult, and "the Reds" went ahead in the European Cup. After that period of great form, Petrolul began

13284-440: Was a direct or collateral descendant of Aeneas. Myths of the early third century also differed greatly in the claimed genealogy of Romulus or the founder, if an intermediate actor was posited. One tale posited that a Romus, son of Zeus, founded the city. Callias posited that Romulus was descended from Latinus and a woman called Roma who was the daughter of Aeneas and a homonymous mother. Other authors depicted Romulus and Romus, as

13407-542: Was a one full of emotions, avoiding the relegation was the target in the mind of everyone at each of the games played by the team. 1983–84 season send Petrolul back to Divizia B again, but promotion came after a victory at Galați against Dunărea , former FCM, the team which forbidding the promotion of the oilmen, ten years earlier. In 1987, the yellow and blues signed another coach, a former team player from years of glory, Constantin Moldoveanu . But Moldoveanu did not have in

13530-527: Was also the season when the present-day name of Petrolul Ploiești was adopted. In the autumn of 1958 , Petrolul made its debut in the European Cup and faced Wismut Karl Marx Stadt of East Germany in the preliminary round. After a 4–2 away loss in Aue , the club managed to level on aggregate with a 2–0 victory in Romania. Wismut Karl Marx Stadt qualified further after winning the play-off 4–0 in Kyiv . The first part of

13653-581: Was established as a partnership between Petrolul Ploiesti and Daniel Chirita who owns the 4th league team Petrolul 95 Ploiesti. The team was enrolled in the 3rd League and will play at the Conpet stadium in Strejnic. Starting with the 2020-2021 season, in order to receive the license from the Romanian Football Federation, 1st League clubs must establish women's football teams. All teams that will play in

13776-618: Was founded by Romulus , son of the war god Mars and the Vestal virgin Rhea Silvia , fallen princess of Alba Longa and descendant of Aeneas of Troy . Exposed on the Tiber river, Romulus and his twin Remus were suckled by a she-wolf at the Lupercal before being raised by the shepherd Faustulus , taking revenge on their usurping great-uncle Amulius , and restoring Alba Longa to their grandfather Numitor . The brothers then decided to establish

13899-466: Was founded by a woman named Rhome, one of the followers of Aeneas, after landing in Italy and burning their ships. That by the middle of the fifth century Aeneas was also allegedly the founder of two or three other cities across Italy was no object. These myths also differed as to whether their eponymous matriarch Roma was born in Troy or Italy – i.e. before or after Aeneas's journey – or otherwise if their Romus

14022-445: Was founded in Bucharest in late 1924, when Romcomit and Triumf merged into what would become one of the most notable clubs of the capital during the interwar period , Juventus București . Its Latin identity was illustrated by the crest, which was based on the legend of the founding of Rome , where a she-wolf nursed Romulus and Remus . Juventus inherited the stadium and the red and blue colors of Romcomit . An article relating

14145-455: Was in part due to Greek historians' eagerness to construct narratives purporting that the Italians were actually descended from Greeks and their heroes. These narratives were accepted by non-Greek peoples due Greek historiography's prestige and claims to systematic validity. Archaeological evidence shows that worship of Aeneas had been established at Lavinium by the sixth century BC. Similarly,

14268-456: Was inaugurated in September 2011 and has a current capacity of 15,073 spectators. The construction was raised on the site of the former Ilie Oană Stadium , which was completed in 1937, and is named after Ilie Oană , the most important coach in Petrolul's history. Petrolul Ploiești has a large and steady fan base in Prahova County and its attachment to the team is renowned in Romania, in spite of

14391-539: Was likely organised around clans that guarded their own areas, but by the later eighth century had confederated. The development of city-states was likely a Greek innovation that spread through the Mediterranean from 850 to 750 BC. The earliest votive deposits are found in the early seventh century on the Capitoline and Quirinal hills, suggesting that by that time a city had formed with monumental architecture and public religious sanctuaries. Certainly, by 600 BC,

14514-441: Was moved to Ploiești in 1952, and renamed accordingly. Coach Ilie Oană took charge of the team at the half of the 1952 season , but he couldn't manage to spare his team from relegation. He would, however, reach the cup final , lost against CCA București 0–2. In 1957–58 , the team became champion of Romania for the second time in its history, despite having the same number of points as CCA București and Știința Timișoara . That

14637-449: Was rudimentary and was formed by bulbs pinned by several rows of ropes hanged over the pitch. So at high throws, the ball "got caught" into the dark or it damaged some of the bulbs and the game had to be stopped so that a worker could replace the damaged bulbs. The Romania national football team played two games on this stadium in 1925 against Turkey (1-2) and Bulgaria (6-1). At the beginning of 1934, upon orders from King Carol II ,

14760-581: Was started by "the Yellow and Blues" on 3 fronts, League, Cup and UEFA Cup. In the European competition they eliminated Welsh side Wrexham , in the first round, after a 0–0 on the Racecourse Ground and 1–0 victory on the Ilie Oană Stadium , goal scored by Pârlog in the 60th minute. The slow start would announce the early elimination, in the second round, when Austrian side Rapid Wien won 3–1 on aggregate after

14883-503: Was still much discussed and celebrated in Roman times. The Parilia Festival on 21 April was considered to commemorate the anniversary of the city's founding during the late Republic and that aspect of the holiday grew in importance under the Empire until it was fully transformed into the Romaea in AD   121. The year of the supposed founding was variously computed by ancient historians, but

15006-430: Was strongly pushed forward to Divizia A by the communist authorities, in power at the time, a concrete proof being that FC Olt promoted from Divizia C after an 18–0 victory against the team ranked 15th, while Flacăra Moreni won only 2–1, in a match played at the same hour, against Rova Roşiori. 1979–80 season was also not a very good one for the yellow and blues, Rapid București and Progresul București fought for

15129-549: Was the last. The yellow wolves recovered later, but the local coaches did not have the value of Ilie Oană , who also went to Politehnica Iași , then to Universitatea Craiova , Petrolul remaining in some kind of mediocrity. At the end of 1975, the club brought Valentin Stănescu to be the coach and the team tried to promote, but lost a home game against FC Brăila , after the game the supporters showed their dissatisfaction about Dinulescu's refereeing, throwing with various objects from

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