CS Axiopolis Cernavodă
Clubul Sportiv Axiopolis Cernavodă, commonly known as Axiopolis Cernavodă, or simply as Axiopolis, is a Romanian football club based in Cernavodă, Constanța County, currently playing in the Liga III.
| Full name | Clubul Sportiv Axiopolis Cernavodă | |||
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| Short name | Axiopolis | |||
| Founded | 1927 as Mercur Cernavodă 1949 as Dunărea Cernavodă 2001 as Axiopolis Cernavodă | |||
| Ground | Ideal / Trust | |||
| Capacity | 721 / 5,000 (100 seated) | |||
| Owner | Cernavodă Town | |||
| Chairman | Adrian Turcu | |||
| Manager | Petre Grigoraș | |||
| League | Liga III | |||
| 2022–23 | Liga IV, Constanța County, 1st (promoted via play-offs) | |||
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Axipolis was originally founded in 1927, under the name of Mercur Cernavodă and played its first home ground match in 1930. After the end of World War II the club was re-founded as Dunărea Cernavodă and for the next approx. 20 years played mostly at county and regional level under various names, such as Ideal Cernavodă, Progresul Cernavodă, Constructorul Cernavodă or Dunărea Cernavodă. Dunărea promoted for the second time in the third tier in 1974, and remained at that level until 1984, when it relegated back. In this period, the team based in Cernavodă obtained its best ranking, a 3rd place at the end of the 1979–80 season. Renamed as Șoimii Cernavodă in 1976, the team remained at county level for the next 21 years, in 2005 promoting again, this time under the name of Axiopolis Cernavodă. Axiopolis relegated back after only one season and promoted again only 10 years later, now running its second best period in the history of the club.