CSA Steaua București (handball)
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CSA Steaua București is a Romanian professional handball club based in Bucharest, Romania. It competes in the Romanian Handball League. They are part of the CSA Steaua sports organization.
Bucuresti
Location of Steaua București
History
Founded in the late 1940s as part of the CSA Steaua army sports club. The handball section has won a record 28 national championships and 9 Romanian cups. Steaua won two EHF Champions League titles as well as reaching two further finals.
In 2006, they won the EHF Challenge Cup with Vasile Stîngă as their coach. The club played under various names throughout the years for sponsorship reasons.
Their biggest rival is Dinamo Bucharest with whom they contest the Bucharest derby.
Club name history
Honours
- Double
- Winners (6): 1980–81, 1984–85, 1989–90, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2007–08
First-team
Current squad
- Squad for the 2024–25 season
Technical staff
- Head coach:
Nedeljko Matic - Assistant coach:
Ştefan Laufceac - Goalkeeping coach: Ionuţ Ciobanu
- Fitness coach: Marius Tudor
Transfers
- Transfers for the 2025–26 season
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European record
European Cup and Champions League
EHF Challenge Cup
EHF ranking
- As of 14/07/2022
Former club members
Notable former players
- Silviu Băiceanu (1999–2003)
- Ciprian Beșta (1991–1994)
- Ștefan Birtalan (1970–1985)
- Octavian Bizău (2017–2019)
- Sebastian Bota (1991–1997)
- Alexandru Buligan (1981–1982)
- Ionuț Ciobanu (2005–2010, 2021-)
- Alexandru Dedu (1991–1996)
- Cristian Gațu (1968–1978)
- Gheorghe Gruia (1961–1973)
Javier Humet (2018–2020)- Ionuț Iancu (2021–)
- Josef Jakob (1963–1971)
- Andrei Mihalcea (2018–)
- Marius Novanc (2005–2010)
- Alin Șania (2005–2009)
- Ciprian Șandru (2021–)
Hansi Schmidt (1961–1963)- Tudor Stănescu (2016–)
- Marius Stavrositu (2007–2010, 2017-2019)
- Vasile Stîngă (1977–1989)
- Werner Stöckl (1969–1981)
- Marius Szőke (2011–2017)
- Radu Voina (1972–1991)
- Dan Rosescu (1944–2004)
Marin Vegar (2018–2019)
Ivan Matskevich (2015–2017)
João Pedro Silva (2019-2020)- Guilherme Valadão Gama (2019-2020)
Rodrigo Salinas Muñoz (2014-2015)
Nikola Kedžo (2017-2019)
Guillermo Corzo (2014–2015)
Ahmed Khairy (2020-2021)
Mohsen Babasafari (2017-2019)- Alireza Mousavi (2022-)
Nemanja Grbović (2018-2019, 2020-)- Milan Popović (2021-)
Samvel Aslanyan (2017-2021)- Miloš Kostadinović (2016-2018)
- Krsto Milošević (2018-)
- Stefan Vujić (2017-2019)
Mosbah Sanaï (2020-2021)- Obrad Ivezic (2007-2010)