The red light of the third division, Astra Giurgiu, are just one step away from disappearing from the football scene altogether, after Giurgiu’s players on Tuesday submitted an application to the Romanian Football Federation to withdraw from the league, just 8 stages after the start. season

Astra Giurgiu, request to leave the third league

With many sporting and administrative problems, but especially financial ones, the club, which is currently in the third tier of Romanian football, is ready to give up everything that means sports activities.

With 8 defeats in as many matches and a goal difference of 0 scored with 78 goals conceded, Astra is on the brink of collapse.

The motivation of the club for such a decision would be primarily the ban on registration of players in the team, which does not allow the formation under the patronage of Ioan Nikulae to finally form its team for this competitive season.

At the same time, the residents of Giurgiu claim that FIFA unfairly forced them to pay the debts of several players, although they were not recorded in the credit table.

“Astra” did not play the last game of the championship on the field

In the last match of the championship, “Astra” in the company of “Puchioasa” entered the booths with a score of 0-12, and after the break, 4 “astral” football players did not want to leave the storage room. room.

Soon, another player was injured, so the referee had to blow the whistle to end the game.

Astra Giurgiu is the title holder in 2015/16 and also has the Romanian Cup (2014) and two Romanian Super Cups (2014, 2016).

The team became very famous at European level in the famous double with West Ham United (twice relegated from the Premier League), in the Europa League when they were managed by Marius Šumudika.