Two newly promoted received more public money than ALL the teams in the Superliga!

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Article by Daniel Grigore – Published Tuesday, 02 June 2026, 08:19 / Updated Tuesday, 02 June 2026 08:21

Sepsi OSK and FC Voluntari, two of the newly promoted, received more public money in 2025 than any other team in the first league.

Under the command of Ovidiu Burcă, the one who also brought Dinamo back to the first league, Sepsi OSK promoted directly in Superliga, after only one year of “B”.

Ranked 3rd in the second league play-off, FC Voluntari was forced to play a tie with the 14th place in the Superliga, occupied by Hermannstadt. The team from Ilfov prevailed, 5-3 overall, and celebrated the return to the first echelon.

Both promotions were built on substantial budgets, considerably above the second division level. The most recent financial data published by the clubs reveal expenses and income in the order of millions of euros.

Sepsi OSK and FC Voluntari, more than any Superliga team in terms of public money accessed in 2025

In 2025, the year in which Sepsi OSK was a team of the first league for 5 months, the rest in “B”, the Covasne players had current expenses in the amount of 9.29 million euros and recorded close revenues, 9.02 million, of which 4.23 marked as subsidies / donations from the authorities – in other words, public money.

It is an amount far more than any team marked as subsidies in the 2025/2026 season of the Superliga. The maximum is found in the case of FC Argeș, 3.29 million euros.

And Voluntari was above this value, with 3.44 million euros marked as subsidies from the authorities.

If Sepsi collected substantial sums from other sources as well, such as sponsorship and advertising contracts, at Voluntari public money represented 88.5% of the total income!

The Csikszereda dilemma

The only Superliga team that could surpass the two in terms of public money collected is Csikszereda.

A question mark remains here, because the management of the team from Miercurea Ciuc “masked” a good part of the income from 2025, passing 7.76 million euros to “other expenses”, without their provenance being publicly specified.

Asked if it was money received from the Hungarian Government, the president of the club denied, claiming that the financial support from Budapest would amount to only 3 million euros.