Dinamo Bucuresti

Dinamo București was founded on 14 May 1948, following the merger of Unirea Tricolor MAI and Ciocanul București as a multi-sport club under the Internal Affairs Ministry. In 1992, Fotbal Club Dinamo București was established as a distinct entity under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 1994, the football section was reorganized and all football activity was transferred to ACS FC Dinamo București which in 2000 obtained its Certificate of Sports Identity, fully detaching the football section from CS Dinamo and appointing Nicolae Badea as president.

Following this, the commercial company Dinamo 2001 SRL was registered to manage the football team. Minority stakes were transferred to several businessmen while ACS FC Dinamo retained the majority. Shortly afterwards the company was renamed SC Dinamo 1948 SA, which has since managed the professional football club in Romania’s top division. In 2017, ACS FC Dinamo enrolled its own senior team in the lower leagues. In 2014, the multi-sport club managed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs established a football academy, and in 2021 re-established its senior football team in Liga IV – Bucharest.

Under the guidance of Daniel Iftodi, Dinamo won the Bucharest Municipality Championship and subsequently promoted to Liga III after a play-off against Venus Independența, the winners of Liga IV Călărași County, winning 3–2 away and 1–0 at home. In the 2022–23 Liga III campaign, Iftodi was dismissed in November 2022 after twelve rounds, following a 2–3 away defeat to Flacăra Moreni. After an interim spell, Dănuț Lupu was replaced during the winter break by Marius Bratu, who led Dinamo to a 5th-place finish in the regular season and 6th place after the play-out stage of Series IV.

During the 2023–24 campaign, Marius Bratu led the White and Reds to a 1st-place finish in the regular season, but was dismissed in April 2024 after four rounds of the play-off stage of Series IV. He was replaced by Gheorghe Mihali, assisted by Bogdan Dobre, who guided the team to win the series and reach the promotion play-offs, where Dinamo eliminated Dunărea Călărași in the first round (3–1 away and 1–0 at home) before being knocked out in the second round by Afumați (0–1 away and 0–2 at home). Subsequently, an additional play-off for the sixth promotion place was held, in which Dinamo defeated Ghiroda 3–1 in the semi-final, which was to be the last match played at Dinamo Stadium before its demolition to make way for the new arena, but lost the final to Focșani 0–2 away at Milcovul Stadium.

Despite the ongoing demolition, the team continued to play its home matches at the old Dinamo Stadium during the 2024–25 Liga III campaign. In August 2024, Florin Bratu was appointed as the new head coach, and under his guidance, the White and Reds finished 3rd in the regular season of Series IV, went on to win the series after the play-off stage, and qualified for the promotion play-offs, in which Dinamo defeated Dunărea Călărași (4–2 away and 1–1 at home) in the first round, and secured promotion to Liga II after defeating Vedița Colonești (4–2 away and 1–1 at home) in the second round.

The White and Reds debuted in Liga II in the 2025–26 campaign with Florin Bratu as head coach, who led the team through the first nineteen rounds of the season during a difficult period marked by inconsistent results, while also guiding them to the Cupa României group stage, where they finished last in their group after three defeats against Dinamo 1948 (1–3), Concordia Chiajna (0–3), and Farul Constanța (0–4), before leaving two rounds prior to the end of the regular season after signing with first-tier side Metaloglobus București and being replaced by assistant Boris Keča, with the team sitting 19th at the end of the first stage. Although Ionel Dănciulescu was appointed head coach in April after the opening round of the play-out, Keča retained de facto control of the squad while serving as assistant, with Dănciulescu listed as head coach in match reports due to licensing regulations. Dinamo finished 6th in Group A of the play-out and qualified for the relegation play-off against 1599 Șelimbăr, where a 1–1 draw in the first leg was followed by a 0–2 defeat at Măgura Stadium in Cisnădie, resulting in relegation back to the third tier.