Colțea București was a football team from Bucharest, Romania established on 10 June 1913.
[1] Colțea București came from the desire to create a club at the time made up only of Romanian football.
The club was founded to oppose foreign American, English and German teams and to prove Romanian sporting abilities.
[3] In 1915 and 1916 the team won the Cup Harwester, Category II, using this team players: M. Stroescu – D.Georgescu – V. Cristescu, Rizescu – N. Secăreanu, Oancea, C. Iordănescu – Iacobescu, P.Pavel, Polieni, B. Grăjdănescu, Fl.
[6][7] Three of the team's players, Vintilă Cristescu, Puiu Pavel and Iacobescu founded in the year 1920 in Brașov another club with the same name, Colțea Brașov, which managed to win the national championship in the 1927–28 season.