CS Drobeta-Turnu Severin
A football club founded in 2025 by the municipality of Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania, which won a county league-and-cup double in its debut season, earned promotion to Liga III in June 2026, and appointed former Liga I manager Flavius Stoican as head coach in July 2026.
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- Established
- 2025
- Location
- Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Mehedinți County, Romania
- Country
- Romania
- Founded
- 2025, by the municipality and county council of Drobeta-Turnu Severin
- First head coach
- Florin Șoavă, former Romanian international, appointed for the debut season
- President
- Marian Balaci
- First-season record (as reported 1 June 2026)
- 24 wins, 1 draw, 0 losses in Liga IV Mehedinți, goal difference 168-15
- First-season honours
- Won the Mehedinți county league and county-stage Cupa României double in its debut season
- Promotion
- Won the June 2026 promotion playoff and entered Liga III for the 2026-27 season
- Head coach since July 2026
- Flavius Stoican, appointed 16 July 2026
- 2026-27 Liga III standing (after 5 matches)
- 1st in Group 6: 4 wins, 1 draw, 0 losses, 13 points
Overview
CS Drobeta-Turnu Severin is a football club based in Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Mehedinți County, Romania, founded in 2025 by the city’s municipality and the county council as a publicly funded club (ProSport, Sport.ro). What the standard accounts stop short of telling is what happened after the fairy-tale debut: the club not only won promotion in June 2026 but immediately appointed Flavius Stoican — a manager who had just finished a Liga I spell with Farul Constanța — as head coach in mid-July 2026 (Transfermarkt). The gamble opened well: Drobeta started its first Liga III season at the top of Group 6 (Sportradar).
A debut season built for immediate promotion
The project was conceived from the start as a fast track back to the national leagues: the municipal club named former Romanian international Florin Șoavă, a Mehedinți native, as its first head coach and Marian Balaci as president, with promotion to Liga III stated as the explicit objective (Sport.ro, ProSport). The debut campaign delivered exactly that. Reporting at the start of June 2026 had the club at 24 wins and 1 draw with a goal difference of 168-15, already the Mehedinți county (Liga IV) champion (ProSport). The county association’s own official portal confirms both halves of the double in its published communications: CS Drobeta Turnu Severin as Liga 4 Mehedinți champion for 2025-2026, and as winner of the county stage of the Cupa României in the same edition (AJF Mehedinți). The cup run included a 7-0 final win over the local rival CS Drobeta 2024 (ProSport).
Promotion and the Stoican era
County champions qualify exclusively for the promotion playoff, decided by two-legged knockout ties drawn across seven geographic regions, with the 2026 legs fixed for 20 June (18:00) and 27 June (17:30); Mehedinți was placed in Region 4 West alongside Arad, Caraș-Severin, Hunedoara, Timiș and Gorj ([FRF](https://www.frf-ajf.ro/upload/sm/files/Regulament organizare baraj liga 3 pentru 2026 2027.pdf)). CS Drobeta won its tie in late June 2026 and was promoted to Liga III for the 2026-27 season — a fact confirmed by the club’s presence in that season’s Group 6, where it sat top of the table after five matches with 4 wins, 1 draw and 13 points (Sportradar).
With promotion sealed, the club changed head coach. Transfermarkt lists Flavius Stoican as CS Drobeta manager from 16 July 2026, succeeding debut-season coach Florin Șoavă (Transfermarkt, Sport.ro). The appointment was an ambitious one: Stoican holds a UEFA Pro licence and had finished a Liga I spell with FCV Farul on 2 June 2026, so he took over a newly promoted third-tier club just six weeks after leaving the top flight (Transfermarkt).
Two clubs, one city
The municipal project shares its city — and a near-identical name — with CS Drobeta 2024, a separate, privately run club that also competes in Mehedinți’s county football (Sport.ro). Independent reporting distinguishes the two by their funding and ownership structures rather than their badges (Sport.ro). Official county records list this club’s foundation year as 2025, which is why this profile treats it as a new entity rather than a continuation of the city’s earlier clubs, including the FC Drobeta-Turnu Severin of 1958-2011 and the CS Turnu Severin of 2007-2013 (ProSport).
What this profile does not claim
This profile deliberately limits its claims to the club’s 2025 founding, its 2025-2026 debut season, and its 2026 promotion. It does not assert any continuity between this club and Drobeta-Turnu Severin’s earlier, separately constituted football clubs, and it does not independently confirm the club’s ownership structure, budget, or current playing squad. The exact leg scores of the June 2026 promotion playoff are not stated here: search-indexed sources agree on a 3-2 aggregate win over the Timiș County champions, but no such report was read in full for this pass, and the profile claims only what is independently established — that the playoff was won and the club entered Liga III ([FRF](https://www.frf-ajf.ro/upload/sm/files/Regulament organizare baraj liga 3 pentru 2026 2027.pdf), Sportradar). The season record figures of 24 wins, 1 draw and a 168-15 goal difference reflect reporting dated 1 June 2026, before the final round of fixtures; final-table figures for the completed season were not re-verified from a full AJF standings page. The club’s 2026-27 Cupa României regional-stage results were likewise not independently verified and are not reported here.
Timeline
- 2025
- Founded by the municipality and county council of Drobeta-Turnu Severin as a publicly funded club, with Florin Șoavă as first head coach and Marian Balaci as president.
- 2025-2026
- Wins the Liga IV Mehedinți county championship and the county-stage Cupa României double in its debut season; the county association confirms both titles in its official communications.
- 2026
- Wins the FRF's two-legged promotion playoff in late June and is promoted to Liga III for the 2026-27 season.
- 2026
- Flavius Stoican is appointed head coach on 16 July 2026, succeeding debut-season coach Florin Șoavă.
- 2026-2027
- Competes in Liga III Group 6, opening the season at the top of the table with 13 points from five matches.
What we could not verify
These claims came up in research and could not be confirmed. They are recorded here rather than published as fact or quietly dropped. If you hold a source that settles one, please tell us.
- Because of the name collision between this club and other similarly-named Drobeta-Turnu Severin football clubs (past and present), this profile deliberately limits its claims to facts tied to the club's 2025 founding, its 2025-2026 debut season, and its 2026 promotion, rather than asserting any continuity with the city's earlier football history.
- This profile does not have independently confirmed detail on the club's ownership structure, budget, or current playing squad.
- The exact leg scores of the June 2026 promotion playoff are not stated here: search-indexed sources agree on a 3-2 aggregate win over the Timiș County champions, but no such report was read in full for this pass.
Sources
7 sources (2 tier 1, 2 tier 2, 2 tier 3, 1 first-party), each opened and read against the claim it supports. Statements the subject makes about itself are marked as such and are not treated as independent evidence. See the source policy.
Two ProSport articles and a Sport.ro article, all independent Romanian sports-press outlets, were fetched and read in full for the 2026-09-07 pass; those verified claims are carried forward and cited below. The 2026-10-01 rewrite added four newly read sources: the FRF's official promotion-playoff regulation, the AJF Mehedinți county association portal, Transfermarkt's manager profile for Flavius Stoican, and Sportradar's 2026-27 Liga III pages. Drobeta-Turnu Severin has had multiple, separately constituted football clubs with very similar names over the years (an earlier FC Drobeta-Turnu Severin active 1958-2011, a CS Turnu Severin active 2007-2013, and, currently, both this club and a distinct rival club called CS Drobeta 2024). This profile concerns only the club founded by the municipality in 2025, identified by its specific 2025-2026 season record and 2026 promotion, and does not cover the history of the earlier, separate clubs.
- Supports: Confirmation that two similarly named clubs compete in the same city, the public-funding origin of this club versus the privately run rival, and league standings context. Carried from the 2026-09-07 verified pass. Open original source
- Supports: The promotion-playoff mechanics: two-legged knockout ties between the 42 county champions, legs fixed for 20 June 2026 (18:00) and 27 June 2026 (17:30), Mehedinți placed in Region 4 West. Open original source
- Supports: The club's founding by the municipality, its debut-season county championship record (24-1-0, goal difference 168-15), and named coach/president quotes. Carried from the 2026-09-07 verified pass. Open original source
- Supports: The league-and-cup double, the 7-0 cup final scoreline against CS Drobeta 2024, and the coach's playing background. Carried from the 2026-09-07 verified pass. Open original source
- Supports: Stoican's appointment as CS Drobeta manager on 16 July 2026 for the 26/27 season, his prior FCV Farul spell ending 2 June 2026, and his UEFA Pro licence. Open original source
- Supports: The 2026-27 Liga III season dates and CS Drobeta Turnu Severin's standing in Group 6 after five matches: 1st, 4 wins, 1 draw, 13 points. Open original source
- Supports: The county association's official confirmation that CS Drobeta Turnu Severin won both the Liga 4 Mehedinți championship and the county-stage Cupa României in 2025-2026. Open original source
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