Romanian National League 22/23

5th round:

Minaur Baia Mare - Dunarea Braila 27:25

Magura Cisnadie - Rapid Bucuresti 25:34

SCM Rm. Valcea - CSM Bucharest 30:34

SCM Rm. Valcea: Hosu, Roch - Hansson 1, Lupei 3, Fujita 5, Levchenko 1, Coman, Rus, Asanin, Bucur 2, Glibko 5, Kovacevic 4, De Jong 2, Bacaoanu 1, Dascalete , Elghaoui 6
CSM Bucharest: Glauser, Davidsen, Eriksson - Aune 3, Sudakova 1, Dembele 10, Dindiligan - Klikovac, Gogarla, Omoregie 4, Zaadi 2, Niakate 1, Arntzen, Neagu 6, Pintea 7, Ramusovic

5th round:

CSM Galati - Gloria Bistrita 25:41
HC Zalau - Gloria Buzau 24:30
SCM Craiova - CS Mioveni 31:27
Targu Jiu - CSM Slatina 21:22

Rankings:

1. Gloria Buzau 15p
2. CSM Bucuresti 13p
3. Gloria Bistrita 13p

Sorry for not keeping this thread updated, I am/was kinda busy lately.

So round 7:

Minaur Baia Mare - CSM Bucuresti 20:26

Still round 7, the game ended few minutes ago:

SCM Rm. Valcea - Rapid Bucuresti 37:36

Very enjoyable game, Valcea won with a late goal. Congrats to both teams.

you are right, they parted ways.

Round 7:

HC Zalau - Targu Jiu 27:24
Gloria Bistrita - Dunarea Braila 25:24
CSM Galati - CS Mioveni 26:30
Magura Cisnadie - CSM Slatina 30:28

SCM Craiova - Gloria Buzau 23:27

Top 3:

1. Gloria Buzau 21p
2. CSM Bucuresti 19p
3. Gloria Bistrita 19p

2 more arenas open in Romania. Unfortunately, their best teams are the basketball ones. The same thing as in Cluj Napoca.

There are still many other ongoing projects, and others in advanced starting status.

Oradea (5,300)




Pitești (4,800)

After a break of 10 years, Oltchim is back! SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea concluded sponsorship partnership with Chimcomplex

Who is the new sponsor of SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea?
In 2018, Chimcomplex SA acquired the most important assets of SC Oltchim, in the largest transaction of the last 30 years in the chemical industry, worth 130 million euros. In 2021, Chimcomplex recorded a turnover of 2,244 billion lei.

"We believe that the signing of this partnership is a first step for the return of handball from Vâlcea to the top, both at the national and European level. Chimcomplex supports innovation in everything it does and we trust that this joining of forces will bring another dynamic to the club" , said the director of SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea , Marius Țuca.

The president of Chimcoplex, Ștefan Vuza, announces that he will have ambitious goals with the handball team.

"We joined with the idea of ​​continuing a historic partnership and at the same time building step by step, this story, just like in chemistry. The potential is great, a team of historical value, a club of tradition, supported by strong funding partners and passionate supporters will continue to win. We are setting ambitious goals regarding this partnership, our vision goes very far and we are confident that together we will achieve remarkable results and a constant evolution of which we can be proud day by day" , declared Ștefan Vuza.

https://www.prosport.ro/alte-sporturi/sponsor-nou-la-scm-rm-valcea-cine-se-alatura-echipei-de-handbal-19576210

Rankings halfway:

1. CSM Bucuresti    37p
2. Rapid Bucuresti  31p
3. Gloria Bistrita      31p
4. SCM Rm Valcea 29p
5. Gloria Buzau       28p

Rapid București won Women's Team of the Year 2022 at the Romanian Athlete of the Year awards

Former FC Barcelona captain Gheorghe Popescu awarded Carlos Viver and Eliza Buceschi the trophies.

After spending a total of over €1 billion between 2011 and 2026 to build 17 stadiums (11 having already been completed), the National Investment Company (CNI) has allocated:

* 400 million euros for the construction of 9 indoor arenas
* 130 million euros for the construction of another 44 swimming pools throughout Romania

UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Blaj 75% (2,000)
Turda 90% (3,200)
Tulcea 25% (4,450)
Constanța 50% (5,000)
Brașov 1% (10,100)

PLANNED
Suceava 2023- (5,000)
Iași 2023- (10,200)
Timișoara 2023- (16,000)
Craiova II N/A (4,000)

Gazeta Sporturilor

COMPLETED
Mioveni 2021 (2,500)
Bistrița 2022 (3,000)
Pitești 2022 (4,100)
Oradea 2022 (5,200)

Budgets 2022/2023

1. CSM București – 3,8 million euros
2. Gloria Bistrița – 2,5 million euros
3. SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea – 1,9 million euros
4. Rapid București – 1,5 million euros (the budget will be increased if the team wins the title)
5. Gloria Buzău – 1,5-1,7 million euros
6. Dunărea Brăila – 1,5-1,7 million euros
7. Minaur Baia Mare – 1,3-1,4 million euros

Next season Vâlcea will grow a lot, they have a new main sponsor. Former Oltchim. Rapid's will also increase. Gloria's budget will probably decrease a bit.

FANATIK

Good news or bad news? I didn't pay attention but it seems Craiova wasn't satisfied with the new arena, which was on an old skeleton that was not completed many years ago.

So the works for a new arena have started. So they put in the excavators in March. 6000 seats, it's a complex with many including a velodrome. https://www.sport.ro/sporturi/proiect-grandios-in-craiova-investitie-de-73-milioane-de-euro-pentru-un-ozn-multifunctional-imagini-ce.html

I hope they speed up because with the arenas were are behind. Their football is anyway dead.

We will have one of the best infrastructures even in the whole Europe at some point.



Oh, situation in Brașov!

So CSM Bucharest had a great season in the domestic competitions, winners of SuperCup, Romanian Cup and also the Championship.
To sum up, these teams will play next season in Europe representing Romania:

- CSM Bucharest (EHF CL)
- Rapid Bucharest (EHF CL if awarded a WC)
- CSM Tg Jiu (EHF European Cup as Cup runner up)
- Gloria Bistrita (EHF European Cup)
- Dunarea Braila (EHF European Cup if Rapid is awarded an upgrade)

I don't believe in that, but it's true there is a (small) chance...

swarthofole wrote:- CSM Tg Jiu (EHF European Cup as Cup runner up)
- Gloria Bistrita (EHF European Cup)
- Dunarea Braila (EHF European Cup if Rapid is awarded an upgrade)

1., All of them will (or may) participate in EHF European League, not in the European Cup (ex Challenge Cup). No club from the top nations may participate in that competition.
2., Whether Braila may participate in EL does not depend on Rapid's upgrade but is a separate decision.

European League, Cup, EHF confuses me...
But I know you know what I meant.
About Rapid and Braila, it is not yet the proper time to open the discussion, but it's very likely that Rapid will be awarded a wildcard. If not, they will end up participating in European League which means Braila are out. As far as I remember Romania is granted 3 spots, one of them being thw winner of the Cup (Tg Jiu in this case as runner up). But I might be wrong with spot allocation if EHF changed something since last year.

swarthofole wrote: As far as I remember Romania is granted 3 spots, one of them being thw winner of the Cup (Tg Jiu in this case as runner up). But I might be wrong with spot allocation if EHF changed something since last year.

Romania has 4 international places in 2023/24. Basically 1 in CL and 3 in EL.
There is no such a thing as a wild card for the CL. The process, called officially as "upgrade" is called in everyday speech, inofficially, often "wild card", but there is a serious reason why it is called upgrade: it does not increase the amount of international starting places a nation* has, but only upgrades, changes 1 EL place into a CL place. So if Rapid will be granted an upgrade, it would mean unchanged 4 places to Romania, but 2+2 instead of 1+3, i.e. 1 EL place could be converted to a CL place, and no place added.
However, there are Wild Cards for the European League, 1 Romanian club may apply. If this wild card will be granted (what is very likely), it could increase the amount of international starting places from 4 to 5. But this decision is not connected to the decision about Rapid's upgrade. It is possible (unlikely, but possible) that Rapid's application will be denied and Brailas in the EL accepted, so Romania could have 1 club in CL and 4 in EL.
Once again: I expect both application being accepted, so actually Romania having 2 clubs in CL and 3 in EL. I only wanted to explain that it's about two separate applications and separate decisions.

* actually a handball federation but in most cases it's the same

This is precisely what I said, but with different words and not getting through all those details. So I really don't get why starting this discussion right now. Rapid will apply for upgrade (100% sure they will and 100% sure will be accepted), so that basically means Braila would be accepted as well as 3rd Romanian team (with 3 allocated spots). I have no info about the 4th Romanian team applying for an upgrade for European League (maybe Buzau will), but I know for sure Tg Jiu were asked if they would like to apply for CL upgrade (which I don't think they will).
But like I said, let's not get into these details now, all I wanted to say is that most probably those 5 teams are representing Romania during next season.
Let's not forget about what Anol said, but I didn't even mention that because it will get more complicated and it's useless at the moment.

swarthofole wrote:This is precisely what I said

No.
You wrote Braila's participation in EL is depending on Rapid's upgrade:

Dunarea Braila (EHF European Cup if Rapid is awarded an upgrade)

And it's wrong. Period.