CSA Steaua București (handball)

CSA Steaua București is a Romanian professional handball club based in Bucharest, Romania. It competes in the Romanian Handball League. They are part of the CSA Steaua sports organization.

History
Founded in the late 1940s as part of the CSA Steaua army sports club. The handball section has won a record 28 national championships and 9 Romanian cups. Steaua won two EHF Champions League titles as well as reaching two further finals.

In 2006, they won the EHF Challenge Cup with Vasile Stîngă as their coach. The club played under various names throughout the years for sponsorship reasons.

Their biggest rival is Dinamo Bucharest with whom they contest the Bucharest derby.

Honours

 * Double
 * Winners (6): 1980–81, 1984–85, 1989–90, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2007–08

Team

 * Squad for the 2024–25 season

Technical staff

 * Head coach: 🇫🇷 Stephane Plantin
 * Assistant coach: 🇷🇴 Ionuţ Georgescu
 * Goalkeeping coach: 🇷🇴 Ionuţ Ciobanu
 * Fitness coach: 🇷🇴 Marius Tudor

Transfers

 * Transfers for the 2024–25 season


 * Joining [[Image:Arrow-up.png]]


 * Leaving [[Image:Arrow-down.gif]]

Notable former players

 * 🇷🇴 Silviu Băiceanu (1999–2003)
 * 🇷🇴 Ciprian Beșta (1991–1994)
 * 🇷🇴 Ștefan Birtalan (1970–1985)
 * 🇷🇴 Octavian Bizău (2017–2019)
 * 🇷🇴 Sebastian Bota (1991–1997)
 * 🇷🇴 Alexandru Buligan (1981–1982)
 * 🇷🇴 Ionuț Ciobanu (2005–2010, 2021-)
 * 🇷🇴 Alexandru Dedu (1991–1996)
 * 🇷🇴 Cristian Gațu (1968–1978)
 * 🇷🇴 Gheorghe Gruia (1961–1973)
 * 🇷🇴 Javier Humet (2018–2020)
 * 🇷🇴 Ionuț Iancu (2021–)
 * 🇷🇴 Josef Jakob (1963–1971)
 * 🇷🇴 Andrei Mihalcea (2018–)
 * 🇷🇴 Marius Novanc (2005–2010)
 * 🇷🇴 Alin Șania (2005–2009)
 * 🇷🇴 Ciprian Șandru (2021–)
 * 🇷🇴🇩🇪 Hansi Schmidt (1961–1963)
 * 🇷🇴 Tudor Stănescu (2016–)
 * 🇷🇴 Marius Stavrositu (2007–2010, 2017-2019)
 * 🇷🇴 Vasile Stîngă (1977–1989)
 * 🇷🇴 Werner Stöckl (1969–1981)
 * 🇷🇴 Marius Szőke (2011–2017)
 * 🇷🇴 Radu Voina (1972–1991)
 * 🇧🇦 Marin Vegar (2018–2019)
 * 🇧🇾 Ivan Matskevich (2015–2017)
 * 🇧🇷 João Pedro Silva (2019-2020)
 * 🇧🇷 Guilherme Valadão Gama (2019-2020)
 * Rodrigo Salinas Muñoz (2014-2015)
 * Nikola Kedžo (2017-2019)
 * 🇨🇺 Guillermo Corzo (2014–2015)
 * 🇪🇬 Ahmed Khairy (2020-2021)
 * 🇮🇷 Mohsen Babasafari (2017-2019)
 * 🇮🇷 Alireza Mousavi (2022-)
 * 🇲🇪 Nemanja Grbović (2018-2019, 2020-)
 * 🇲🇪 Milan Popović (2021-)
 * 🇷🇺 Samvel Aslanyan (2017-2021)
 * 🇷🇸 Miloš Kostadinović (2016-2018)
 * 🇷🇸 Krsto Milošević (2018-)
 * 🇷🇸 Stefan Vujić (2017-2019)
 * 🇹🇳 Mosbah Sanaï (2020-2021)
 * 🇷🇸 Obrad Ivezic (2007-2010)