FC Steaua Bucureşti (pronounced [ˈste̯awa]) is a Romanian professional football club from Ghencea, south-west Bucharest. They are the most successful Romanian football team in European competitions as well in the Romanian Liga I (23 championship wins). They became the first Eastern European team to win the UEFA Champions League being victorious in the 1986 European Cup final.
The club is historically known as the Romanian Army sports club. The football department separated, however, in 1998. [read more...]