The players of the football team AFK Csikszereda Miercurea Ciuc. Photo source: Agerpres
The promotion of Csikszereda in the Romanian SuperLiga made it to the short list of Hungary's most important sporting achievements in 2025, GSP.ro informs on Thursday.
The terminal of the Miercurea Ciuc club, with a strong Hungarian identity, was included among the ten most important candidate sequences for the title of “Sporting Moment of the Year”, within the National Sports Gala in Budapest, scheduled for January 12.
Important moments were also nominated in the category in which the success of the Harghitans was placed, such as the free-kick goal of Dominik Szoboszlai, the Liverpool player, against Arsenal, which became viral, but also the one in the last seconds, with Portugal, in Lisbon, in the World Cup preliminaries, also by the offensive midfielder.
FK Csikszereda mathematically promoted to the Romanian SuperLiga for the first time in the club's history after the draw between CSM Reșița and Metaloglobus, from League 2 2024-2025, securing their place in the first echelon with four stages before the end of the play-offs. A year before, Ciucani lost the promotion barrier to Dinamo.
The club and its academy are part of a large project, supported by partnership with Puskas Akademia FC and external funding since 2013-2014, to improve its infrastructure and youth programs.
Csikszereda, financed from Budapest
The football club from Miercurea Ciuc has received huge sums of money from the Hungarian Government, led by Viktor Orban, in recent years. In the fall of 2018, in an official response to Gazeta Sporturilor, the Budapest executive revealed that it had awarded the Csikszereda and Sepsi teams no less than 1 billion forints, around 3.2 million euros.
Funding continued afterwards, the sums from Hungary being used for the development of the infrastructure, but also of the centers and academies for children and juniors.
In 2025, the investments of the Hungarian Government for Sepsi and Csikszereda clubs were estimated at around 40 million euros.
