CS Chinezul

Infobox Football club
clubname = CHINEZUL


fullname = Chinezul Timişoara
founded = 1910
dissolved = 1946
ground = Banatul,
Timişoara, Romania
capacity = 7000 CS Chinezul Timişoara ( _hu. Kinizsi Temesvár) was a football club based in Timişoara, Romania. The club was established in 1910 with the support of the Timişoara Rail Workers' Association. The club was named after Pavel Chinezul, a general in the army of king Matthias Corvinus and Comes of Timişoara. This name is derived from the Slavic word knyaz and isn't related to the modern Romanian word "chinez" which means "Chinese".

The crest of the club featured an arm holding a mill stone. This was related to old Hungarian and Romanian folk tales which stated that "Pavel Chinezul" was a very strong miller.

The club's colours were white and violet.

The team played at the "Banatul" stadium which was opened on October 13, 1913. Nowadays this stadium, which can hold a crowd of 7000, is being used by the CFR Timişoara Liga II team.

In Romania Chinezul Timişoara is most famous for its record 6 consecutive national title wins between the 1921-22 and 1926-27 seasons. This record will only be matched 71 years later by Steaua Bucureşti. Despite its succes the club entered a financial crisis in the autumn of 1927, which was further aggravated when then president Dr. Cornel Lazăr decided to leave the club. Lazăr went on to found Ripensia Timişoara football club. The club never fully recovered from this crisis; in August 1936 Chinezul Timişoara merged with another local club - ILSA Timişoara - and in 1939 made its last appearance in Romania's top flight of football.

After World War II another merger followed, this time with C.A.M. Timişoara. For a brief period the new club was named "Chinezul C.A.M. Timişoara" and from 1946 it was named simply "C.A.M.T." This last merger was also synonymous with its official disappearance from Romanian football.

Former managers

* Béla Guttmann