Sportclub

History

Ice sports became established in our town in the 1870s, as Lajos Molnár, CFO, made ice with the water of the stream flowing through his own plot.

Hockey started later at the foot of Harghita. It all started with a newscast played during a silent movie in the only cinema in the city, the Great Hall of the Old Vigado. The youngsters watched the news several times, giving them a brief insight into a real hockey match played by Canada and Austria in Vienna.

Molnár Lajos

Lajos Vákár's reaction to this was a short, concise sentence: "We could do the same!"

The next day they went out to the ice and began to chase the frosty horse manure with willow hooks, which were later exchanged for a box of shoe polish. Soon some wealthy merchants stood by them.

After the first disc, a box of horse manure and shoe polish, it became the eraser of Vákár's book and stationery shop, and the rest of the equipment was obtained from perfume dealer Irén Adler from Vienna.

The team played its first match on January 4, 1931, in Sinaia, according to evidence in the newspaper's archives.

The first hockey team from Miercurea Ciuc

The Szeklers fought well against the Romanian Tennis Club in Bucharest for two thirds, but in the last act Cantacuzino was able to hit János Dóczy's gate 4 times.

The rematch took place on January 24-25 in Miercurea Ciuc, where the first day was again a 4-0 victory in the capital, and the next day the clash ended with a 1-1 draw. The first goal of the Csíki hockey team was scored by Jenő Császár.

The following year, the team registered for the Romanian national championship, and in its first season, a team called the Miercurea-Skating Association finished 2nd in the national championship.

Memorable shots of photographer Zoltan Andory Aladics

In 1935, the team, already playing in blue and white at that time, changed its name and now competed in the Romanian point hunt under the name C.S.C., ie Clubul Sportiv Miercurea Ciuc / Miercurea Ciuc Sport Club.

Match scene from 1933

In 1940, during the second Vienna decision, Northern Transylvania was returned to Hungary, so the Sport Club participated in the Hungarian rural championship and won the rural championship title 3 times until 1944, and also boasted a bronze medal 3 times during the round robin matches in Budapest.

Csikszereda's first championship team

Beginning in the 1948-49 season, the team of the Sport Club was transferred to the I.P.E.I.L. from this year, I.P.E.I.L. was named. This season, for the first time, the Csíki team became the final winner of the 6-team championship. The final clash took place in Târgu Mureş, attended by an army of 600-700 Csík fans, leading theirs to victory.

In 1951, the hockey team took over the management of Momentum, so it continued to compete under that name, and in 1952 it won the championship again. This year, our city already had three teams: Momentum, Progress, and Spartans.

We had to wait for 5 years for the third championship title, the Csíki team, which underwent another name change, delighted its more and more enthusiastic fans under the name Termés.

The fourth gold was followed by a bronze and then a silver medal, while in 1963 the Will again managed to lead the championship. At that time, however, no one would have thought it would be 34 years before the most valuable medal would be hung around the neck of the hockey players of Csík again at the end of the league season.

The finals match against C.C.A.

The Sports School was established as an independent institution in 1969, and in 1971 the covered ice rink with a 60 m long, 30 m wide, 1,800 seating and 1,200 standing facilities, an independent cooling center with a capacity of 480000 Kcal, an electric scoreboard, a gym and offices was handed over, in the construction of which the local enthusiasts helped a great deal.

Model of the artificial ice rink in Miercurea Ciuc

A year later, the ice rink hosted the Group C World Championships, where Austria, Italy, China, Hungary, Bulgaria, Denmark and the Netherlands clashed.

For the 1972-1973 season, the team from Csík again made it known as the Sport Club in Division A. Class B also featured a striking team from Miercurea Ciuc, Lyceum, who soon made it to the top group. The Lyceum team consisted of students from the then No. 1 Lyceum (today Márton Áron High School).

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of hockey in Miercurea Ciuc, the hockey statue, still standing in the old place, made by the sculptor Gábor Tőrös from Nagybánya, was unveiled.

Statue of Gábor Tőrös

After the change of regime, the strength of the Csíki team could finally be seen in the final league rankings: in 1997, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 , In 2013 and 2018, the most beautiful glittering medal was hung around the necks of blue-and-whites.

In the 2006-2007 season, HC Miercurea Ciuc was formed from local young talented players, who soon became the biggest rival of the Sports Club, and in the 2008-2009 season, the teams of the county seat were able to play two finals against each other: In the international point hunt in Hungary and Romania, in the MOL League, the players of the HC and in the Romanian championship, the players of the Sportklub collected the trophy. At the end of the successful season, HC ceased to exist, and after a less successful season, one of the main supporters of the Hockey Club sided with the blacks and whites to launch the city’s history in blue and white to end the controversy between the two teams ’fan base. most productive team. The squad, which has played with renowned legionnaires and talented Hungarian players, has won the MOL League Cup, won the Romanian Cup and is the Romanian champion, but also advanced from Group C of the Maribor Continental Cup, after defeating the Slovenian and Kazakh champions in Group B Asiago. he was ashamed of the Danish, Italian and Ukrainian champions.

The most successful team in Miercurea Ciuc

2015, the Miercurea Ciuc team will once again compete in the point hunt under the name Sportklub, and recently, thanks to the exemplary collaboration of local supporters, legionaries with great pedigrees and local young people with significant knowledge and experience have won the fourth MOL / Erste Liga gold. unabashed.

A significant fan base has been built around the team since the beginning, the Drukers have a house and a fantastic atmosphere at almost all domestic meetings, and since the first MOL League season of 2008-2009, the Transylvanians who have settled in their homeland have recruited a group of foreign fans. they are able to create the atmosphere of a home field even in clashes.