After one year of inactivity the football club was re-founded as Academica Recea and enrolled in the Liga IV.

The team was in tight relation with Dinamo București,[2] having a fulminating ascent and promoting in the second league at the end of the 1959–60 season.

[3][4] The club was founded in 2013, under the name of AS Comuna Recea and was enrolled in the fourth tier, Liga IV, South series.

In its first season Comuna Recea finished 3rd after FCM Baia Mare's second squad and Speranța Coltău.

[6] The final was played on Viorel Mateianu Stadium in Baia Mare and Recea won 2–1 after extra time and qualified for the Liga III promotion play-off where after a two-legged tie against Voința Cetate, champions of Bistrița-Năsăud County, won 5–4 and promoted for the first time in its history in the Liga III.