Cristi Pustai, confirmed at Gloria Bistrița! News about the stadium, the right of promotion and track records
Article by Daniel Grigore – published Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 15:19 / Updated Wednesday, June 18, 2025 15:21
Eugen Cosma, the director of CS Gloria Bistrița, confirmed in the dialogue with GSP.ro that Professor Cristi Pustai (57 years) will continue on the technical bench in the second step and reveals that he is already discussing the “privatization” of the football team, for the moment blocked in Liga 2 of organization.
Bistrița will have a team again in Liga 2. Under the command of Cristi Pustai, CS Gloria won her series in Liga 3, ended in the first place and the play-off, then won the dam with SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea, 3-3 overall, 5-4 at the break.
Pustai, a coach with great experience in the elite of Romanian football – hundreds of matches trained in the first two leagues – will remain on the Gloria's bench and for the Liga 2 season. The confirmation came from the director Eugen Cosma:
“We will continue with Mr. Pustai. He obtained the promotion, deontologically we would follow the course. Understanding has been understanding, we really will not give up collaboration but we will also make a periodic evaluation opposite the team into the second league”.
Cristi Pustai continues at CS Gloria Bistrița. The club's director: “We want to make a beautiful figure in Liga 2”
Belonging to a public law club, co-financed by the Bistrița-Năsăud County Council and by Bistrița City Hall, Gloria will not be able to promote superlig in 2026 regardless of the place it will occupy.
In this context, the director of the club says that the objective will be “to make a beautiful figure, to be a tradition team in the second league, with perspectives of promotion in superlig. In case we will be able to attract private partners, to help us in the financial support of the team. Then, of course, the way of organizing will change”.
About the transformation of the football team into a joint stock company or an NGO association, Eugen Cosma says:
“For now, we are a public law club, the legislation allows us to evolve only to the second league. But in general, if we had performance, we have always tried to exploit it and play on the highest level. They are football consumers [în Bistrița] And they want a quality football.
We keep in touch with our sponsors and there have been preliminary discussions. If we find support, then it will certainly change the form of organization will only be a matter of procedureas was the modification of the name of the club ”.
For now, we are in the period when we sit after the promotion we very much wanted. Now we are sitting, we are in discussions with the players, we are preparing the new season in terms of pre-communication period: cantonments, friendly games.
– Eugen Cosma, Director of CS Gloria Bistrița
Eugen Cosma, first from left to right, celebrating promotion of glory // Photo: Facebook @ Gloria Bistrița
Other news offered by the director of Gloria Bistrița aims …
… the stadium they will play in Liga 2: “For now, we play on the” Jean Pădureanu “stadium, the playing surface is a very good one and we make efforts to maintain it. During this period, my colleagues are dealing with cosmetization and everything that means improving the game conditions. And last year we authorized the stadium in the minimum conditions for Liga 2, because the girls from women's football are in Superliga and the stadium must meet the conditions of Liga 2 [la fotbal masculin]”.
… promised stadium in Bistrița, in the context of discussions about cutting the financing of new sports arena: “We also asked us to question the statements in the media, but so far we have not been notified, we have no knowledge that they would have stopped the course of the investment. There are certain preliminary procedures, carried out by the CNI, together with the Government of Romania, with those who have submitted offers to participate in the auction. The investment we need a stadium, we have sports consumers.
… the acquisition of the palmares of the former team, ACF Gloria 1922 Bistrița: “I am not aware of the case about such an approach, I have only read the statements made at the town hall. [a stadionului „Jean Pădureanu”]again Later they will probably take the necessary steps, together with us, to acquire that track”.
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The historical team won the Romanian Cup in 1994, in 2000 the League Cup, and in 2007 it played the final of the Intetoto Cup. In 2003, Jean Pădureanu's glory ranked 3rd in Division A.
