Franco-Româna Brăila
Romanian football team
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Franco-Româna Brăila (AS Brăilița) is a football team from Brăila, Romania.
History
Their best performance was reaching the Quarter-finals in Cupa României in 1935–36 season when they lost with 6–4 against Unirea Tricolor București.
Franco-Româna Brăila second team was founded in 1940 and was called AS Brăilița.[1]
Brăilița was also the neighbourhood and name of the stadium. The stadium was like a small English stadium looking same with the famous Highbury, but in a smaller size.[2]
Even they won twice Divizia B they never promoted in Divizia A, because they could not manage to win the Promotion play-off.
The biggest rival in their history was another local team Dacia Unirea Brăila. Franco-Româna Brăila was in the shadow of the rival team in all of their history.
After they fold in 1948, another team was created in Brăila to replace them, a team called Progresul Brăila.[3]
On 3 September 2022 the team was reestablished as AS Brăilița 1928 Franco-Româna. The team will perform only in Brăila County competitions. The current coach is Nuțulescu Ionuț-Adrian.