Metaloglobus Bucuresti

Metaloglobus București was founded in 1923 as the football team of the Metaloglobus factory, a powerful factory that was founded in the same year by the Austrian industrialist Manfréd Weiss. The factory was further developed in the communist period and produced all kinds of objects made of steel and iron, from lanterns, bullets, boilers and from 1965 toys. After the 1989 Romanian Revolution, the factory began to undergo financial difficulties and in 1999 was bought by Syrian businessman Imad Kassas.

Metaloglobus competed in the amateur leagues of Bucharest throughout its existence, and by 2008 the club had been reduced to youth teams only, with the U19 side winning the Bucharest Municipal Championship that year, laying the foundations for the club’s revival at senior level.

In the 2010–11 season, they won the Liga IV Bucharest and qualified for the promotion play-off, where they were defeated 1–2 by Rapid Clejani, the champions of Giurgiu County. However, after many teams withdrew that summer, Metaloglobus was invited to join Liga III.

In their first season in Liga III, Metaloglobus played at Clinceni Arena’s second ground and ranked 9th in Series IV under Octavian Ștefan and Adrian Matei, who took over in April 2012.

Over the next four consecutive seasons, the team consistently finished in the top half, achieving 3rd place in Series II in the 2012–13 season under Matei and Leonard Strizu from the second half, and 4th place in Series III in 2013–14.

In the 2014–15 season, the team was moved again to Series II, and following a modest run of results, Leonard Strizu was replaced at the end of the first half by Sorin Colceag, who led the team to a 5th-place finish and then to another 3rd-place finish in the 2015–16 season.

In 2016, Bogdan Vintilă was appointed head coach and led the team to 1st place in Series III, securing promotion to Liga II with five rounds to spare in the 2016–17 season, ending 11 points ahead of 2nd-placed Viitorul Domnești.

Their first season in the second tier was a difficult one under Vintilă, who also led Metaloglobus to the Round of 32 in the Cupa României, where they lost 1–2 to Gaz Metan Mediaș. He was replaced during the winter break by Alin Chița, as the team were unable to avoid the relegation zone, finishing 16th, but they were spared from relegation following the withdrawal of 5th-placed Afumați.

The 2018–19 season began with Bogdan Andone as head coach, but he left in October after ten rounds. After a brief interim under assistant Gigel Coman, Cristian Popovici took over, earning only four points in seven matches, far below expectations, and parted ways by mutual agreement. He was succeeded by László Balint, who guided Metaloglobus to a 9th-place finish.

In June 2019, Marius Măldărășanu was appointed as head coach, leading the Bucharest-based side from the Pantelimon neighbourhood to the Round of 32 of the Cupa României, where they faced FCSB and were defeated 0–2, with Gavrilaș, Ciubotaru, Plămadă, Lung, Sava, Ghenovici, Coman, Chiriac, Ciocâlteu, Ovidiu Herea and Claudiu Herea in the starting lineup. While the team was in 7th place in the 2019–20 Liga II campaign at the time the season was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On 1 June 2025, Metaloglobus got promoted to the Superliga for the first time in their history after beating Politehnica Iași in the promotion playoffs.