The club was founded in 1917, but it played its entire history in the lower county leagues of Romanian football until the summer of 2009.
At the end of the 2008–09 season it finished 1st in the Timiș County Championship and participated at the play-off for the promotion to the Liga III.
It was drawn against Partizan Satu Mare, the champion of the Arad County Championship, whom they beat, 7–0, and promoted for the very first time in history to the Liga III.
ACS finished the first half of the championship 1st in the table, surpassing all expectations and having a great chance to promote to the Liga II.
[3] After this move the club will continue Poli Timișoara's history[4] thus ending its own, after 95 years of existence and a premiere promotion to the Liga II.