FC Progresul Caracal

Răsăritul Caracal was founded in the year 1924. Among the founding members of this sports association were: Mircea Botoi, Gheorghe Dumitrescu, Tudor Voiculescu, Ștefan Săndulescu, supported by a few people with financial possibilities, including: Stavarache Borcescu, Ionică Brătașanu or Tudor Popescu.[1]

The first major competition at which Răsăritul Caracal starts was the 1926–1927 season of the Oltenia Regional Championship, together with Rovine Grivița, Craiu-Iovan, Tinerimea, Generală, all from Craiova and Oltul Slatina and where it has been a constant presence for two decades.[2]

The club is taken over by the management of the site that built the Bucharest-Craiova railway, changing its name to CFR Caracal and participating in the first season of Divizia B, 1946–47, after the Second World War, finishing 14th.

After escape from relegation, at the end of the 1978–1979 championship, the next season brings for the football from Caracal a new name for the first team of the city, Sportul Muncitoresc Caracal,[3] and a 3rd place at the end of the 1979–1980 season. It is the best result from the second place at the beginning of the 1970s.
The 1983–1984 season begins on August 28th, 1983. Sportul Muncitoresc Caracal defeats the Dacia Pitești team 1–0 in the first round, through the goal scored by the goal scorer Marin Boscor, which turns a penalty. Coach Ion Pârvulescu starts the championship with the following team: Mantoc - Pâstee, Boscor, V. Roșca, Dumitrescu - Marinescu, Antonescu (Mitran), Lăcătuș (Plotoagă) - Năuiu, Nedelcu, Nițu. The autumn season will be a demanding one for the players from Caracal, they try and succeed in joining the round of 32 of the Cupa României for the second consecutive time, where they will lose in front of the first division club Corvinul with 1–0. In the championship, nothing spectacular, the Caracal team finishes the championship in 10th place.

In the autumn of 1985, Caracal's football qualifies for the fourth time in the round of 32 of the Cupa României. Four consecutive editions in this competition, for a team in the third division, can be a record. It is unlikely that another third division club will do that. The good evolutions in the Cupa României predicted, like the jump of Caracal football in a higher echelon. In the summer of 1987 Sportul Muncitoresc Caracal managed to win the competition and promote in Divizia B after four decades of regional, county or third division championship.