CFR Cluj Logo

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CFR Cluj is the name of a Romanian football club, which was established in 1907. The strongest and most experienced team in the country today is owned by Marian Bagacean and managed by Dan Petrescu.

Meaning and history

CFR Cluj is a Romanian professional football club that was founded in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, in 1907. And if now everything is clear with the “Cluj” part of the name, CFR requires clarification. This abbreviation is from “Caile Ferate Romane”, which stands for Romanian Railways.

At home, the club is considered one of the legendary ones, because CFR Cluj is the first club not from Bucharest to become the Romanian champion and make it to the group stage of the Champions League. All this happened in 2008.

However, until the 2000s, CFR Cluj had little to boast about. The team never achieved serious success and spent most of its history in the second and third divisions. The club managed to get into the highest football division of Romania only in the season 1947/48, but they stayed there for only two years, returning only in 1969.

However, during the next thirty years, the team was constantly threatened with relegation from the first division, and by the end of the 1990s, the team from Cluj-Napoca was playing in the third division. Everything changed only in the early 2000s when CFR Cluj got a stable sponsor.

Already in 2004, the club managed to return to the top echelon of Romanian football, and four years later Cluj became the Romanian football champion. In the same year, 2008 CFR Cluj made a very decent debut in the Champions League, beating Roma and drawing with Chelsea. And 2010 was even more successful for the team. CFR Cluj became the Romanian champion, won the national cup, and also won the Super Cup of the country.

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CFR Cluj logo

The nickname of CFR Cluj is “The Railwaymen”, and the “CFR” part of the club’s official name is an abbreviation for “Caile Ferate Romane”, which means “Romanian Railways”. So no wonder, that the main symbol of the club’s emblem apart from the football, is an old-style locomotive, drawn in a very strong and sleek way.

The CFR Cluj logo is composed of a wide elegant shield with its sides arched from the center. The shield has a royal burgundy color and a thin black outline. Along the sides of the badge, there are two wide white lines placed vertically and is split into four small segments into their middle points.

The main part of the crest is given to a stylized locomotive, executed in white and black contours, with a massive white circular emblem on it. The circle contains the outlined burgundy “CFR” inscription set in the middle and executed in a traditional serif font with smooth curved lines.

Under the lettering, the “1907” wordmark is written in white on a burgundy background. The rest part of the wordmark is placed around the white circular framing and executed in black simple sans-serif.

The monochrome football in a white outline in placed above the circular emblem, in the very top part of the shield. As a crown, it shows the team’s purpose and celebrates sports.

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