In 1936, along with the foundation of Liga III, it was created the first football club from Sighetu Marmației, named Maramureșul.

[2] At the end of 1967–68 season, the team wins the promotion to Liga III, changing for the last time its name, to CIL Sighetu Marmației, after the wood-processing factory based in the town.

The first Liga II season after twenty-seven years seals the club's best performance ever: the fifth position in the Romanian second tier.

After the Romanian Revolution, which sealed the fall of communism, the team lost its financial support and struggled to survive for a year and a half.

At the beginning of 1991–92 season, CIL Sighet, alongside Oaşul Negrești-Oaș and Rapid Jibou, retired from the championship and disappeared.