1953 Regional Championship

The 1953 Regional Championship was the 12th season of the Regional Championship, 3rd as the third tier of Romanian football. The champions of each regional championships play against each other in the playoffs to earn promotion to Divizia B.

Regional championships

 * Arad (AR)
 * Bacău (BC)
 * Baia Mare (BM)
 * Bârlad (BD)
 * Bucharest Municipality (B)


 * Bucharest Region (B)
 * Cluj (CJ)
 * Constanța (CT)
 * Craiova (CR)
 * Galați (GL)


 * Hunedoara (HD)
 * Iași (IS)
 * Mureș (MS)
 * Oradea (OR)
 * Pitești (PI)


 * Ploiești (PL)
 * Stalin (ST)
 * Suceava (SV)
 * Timișoara (TM)

Promotion play-off
Twenty teams participate in the promotion tournament. The teams were divided into two groups of four, and the first ranked teams from each group promoted to second division. The matches was played on neutral grounds at Ploiești, Iași, Sibiu and Arad.

However, the second division was expanded from the next season and, along with the four group winners, another eight teams were promoted to the 1954 Divizia B.

Series I (Ploiești)

 * Results

Series II (Iași)

 * Results

Series III (Sibiu)

 * Results

Series IV (Arad)

 * Results

Ploiești Region

 * Series A


 * Series B

The championship final was contested between the winners of the two series of the regional championship and was played over six play-off matches. The first three matches was played on 8, 12 and 15 October 1953.
 * Championship final

The next matches was played on 19 October 1953 at Băicoi and on 22 and 23 October 1953 at București on Spartac Finanțe-Bănci Stadium.

Metalul 1 Mai Ploiești won the Ploiești Regional Championship and qualify for promotion play-off in Divizia B.