PHOTO GALLERY FROM “TEAPA” BANCOREX, 2.4 billion, to giants such as Orange or ArcelorMittal “which are the companies that” took the title “in Liga 1, after the Revolution
Sometimes, in football, not only the teams, but also the sponsors, are not in football. Gazeta has proposed a unique analysis: which were the former companies that sponsored the champions in Liga 1?
How was the situation in the years after the revolution? We were interested in the main sponsors, those who stayed on the players' chest and occupied the most visual space on the shirts. An interesting note is that there were 5 champions with names that did not have the main sponsor on the shirt.
What sponsors had champions in Romania: from names such as Connex or Cosmorom, to the big bookmakers
Many of the companies that sponsored the champions of Romania have disappeared from the Romanian market, changed their names or gave up involvement in football.
There were names such as dialogue, Cosmorom or Connex, Bancorex, Ladorna or Omiasig, but also companies such as Interagro, ArcelorMittal or Alexandrion.
Photo: The full list of companies that sponsored the champions after the revolution
- 1990: Dinamo – Saniplast: Italian company that produces plastic or PVC sanitary ware.
- 1991: U craiova – without sponsor
- 1992: Dinamo– No sponsor
- 1993: Steaua – Philips: Dutch company of electronic and home appliances
- 1994: Steaua – BCCE: The Romanian Foreign Trade Bank
- 1995: Steaua – BCCE: The Romanian Foreign Trade Bank
- 1996: Steaua – Bancorex: This is how the Romanian Foreign Trade Bank was renamed
- 1997: Steaua – Bancorex
- 1998: Steaua – Dialog: Mobile Telephony Company, later Orange
- 1999: Quick – Connex: Mobile Telephony Company later became Vodafone
- 2000: Dinamo – Cosmorom: mobile phone company, passed through several sales and renamings (Cosmote, Telekom). It now belongs to Orange
- 2001: Steaua – BCR (Romanian Commercial Bank)
- 2002: Dinamo – Cosmorom
- 2003: Quick – Ladorna: company producing dairy products. It currently belongs to the Lactalis group, owned by Jean Valvis, former shareholder at Rapid
- 2004: Dinamo – Omniasig: Insurance Company
- 2005: Fcsb – No sponsor
- 2006: Fcsb – RAFO: Former Oil Refinery in Onești. Went bankrupt in 2016. It works now, after several transactions, under the name of Roserv Green Energy
- 2007: Dinamo – Omniasig
- 2008: CFR Cluj – Polus Cluj: Commercial Center in Cluj-Napoca, which has been operating under the name of Vivo from 2016! Cluj Napoca
- 2009: Unirea Urziceni – Alexandrion Group: producer and distributor of spirits and wines from Romania
- 2010: CFR Cluj – Sigma Tower: Real estate project in Cluj-Napica
- 2011: OţeluL – ArcelorMittal: Steel producer who took over in 2004 the Galati steel combination, Sidex
- 2012: CFR Cluj – Energobit: company in the field of electricity, established in Cluj-Napoca. It offers energy services, equipment and design. One of the shareholders of the company is a minor shareholder at CFR Cluj: Stefan Gadola
- 2013: Fcsb – He played largely without a sponsor. In some matches he had on the chest “Mihai Neșu Foundation”
- 2014: Fcsb – City Insurance: insurance company left without operating authorization in 2021
- 2015: Fcsb – City Insurance
- 2016: astral – Interagro: company owned by Ioan Niculae, then the team's owner. The company has activities in areas such as: cereal and technical plant culture or food industry.
- 2017: The future – No sponsor
- 2018: CFR Cluj – NTT Date: Japanese company offering technology and consulting services in the field
- 2019: CFR Cluj – NTT Date
- 2020: CFR Cluj – NTT Date
- 2021: CFR Cluj – NTT Date
- 2022: CFR Cluj – Etoro: Israeli company that offers trading and financial investment services
- 2023: lighthouse – Petrom: Oil and gas company
- 2024: Fcsb – Betano: Betting House
- 2025: Fcsb – Betano
Saniplast, the first sponsor in Dinamo's history. How did they get on t -shirts
Just before '89, the band from Stefan cel Mare had on T -shirts, as a sponsor, Saniplast. This collaboration meant free equipment every year, plus 50,000 brands per season.
“It is a company that produces objects to arrange the bathrooms. It was owned by the owner of Brescia, Luigi Corioni. The first match in which Dinamo played with the sponsor on the shirts was in a match with Dundee United.
After the Revolution, the players received the money abroad, so they could buy from there what they did not have in Romania. The first was 200 player brands, all from Saniplast and Corioni. The intermediary of bringing Saniplast to Dinamo I was also, “explained Ermanno Zacchini, a former Italian agent.
Steaua and Dinamo, the same sponsor but with different names
A unique detail: the two rivals Bucharest had the same sponsor, but with a different name. Between 1997 and 1999, Steaua played on the chest with dialogue, one of the two mobile companies at that time.
In 2002, the company changed its name and became Orange. Later, since 2007, he became a sponsor at Dinamo. And the partnership lasted 12 years.
Scandal tied to Bancorex
In the 1990s, when Steaua dominated the championship, the red-blue team signed with a strong sponsor. Since 1994, the “military” had the Romanian Foreign Trade Bank on the chest, which after two years became Bancorex. The partnership lasted until 1997, when legal issues appeared.
Bancorex was the most important bank on the Romanian market since then, and the contract has signed thanks to Viorel Hrebenciuc. In 1997, the Court of Accounts discovered serious irregularities at Bancorex. The bank grants loans with fictitious guarantees to companies or large companies. A year later he went bankrupt, with a debt of $ 2.4 billion.
