Franco-Româna Brăila

Full name	AS Brăilița 1928 Franco-Româna Brăila
Founded	1928; 97 years ago (1928) 2022; 3 years ago (2022) (refounded)
Ground	Stadionul Progresul, Brăila
Capacity	2000
Home colours Away colours

Franco-Româna Brăila (AS Brăilița) is a football team from Brăila, Romania.

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.

Liga II:

• Winners (2): 1935–36, 1939–40
• Runners-up (2): 1934–35, 1940–41

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Quarter-finals in Cupa României (1): 1935–36 ^[7]

• Hardy Grüne (2000), Enzyklopädie der europäischen Fußballvereine (in German) (1. ed.), Kassel: AGON Sportverlag, p. 337, ISBN 3-89784-163-0

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