CSM promoted at the end of its first season in this new formula after a play-off match against CFR Simeria, won 3–2 on aggregate.

[4] Until 1997 the football teams from Caransebeș battled in the 4th league anonymity, then in 1997 the oldest club of the town, CFR promoted again to Divizia C, after 8 years of absence, but relegated at the end of the 1997–98 season.

In 2006 a new team was founded, FC Scorilo Caransebeș, that played at the 4th league level, being helped financially by Dan Alexa, former football player of Politehnica Timișoara and Dinamo București among other clubs.

In 2010 was founded Autocatania Caransebeș, the team was enrolled in Liga III and finished its first season on 4th place.

In the summer of 2015 Giovanni Pisano was named the coach of the team, bringing with him some Italian players and also some strange results.

In December 2015, Caransebeș Municipality refused to finance the team forwards after a penalty of 52 points dictated by the Romanian Football Federation as a result of the club's debts.

[8] As a result of the decision of Caransebeş Municipality, one of the club's owners, the team was retired from the championship and dissolved.

[10] Viitorul was a short story and in the end the club was dissolved once again in 2019, due to lack of funds, but re-established in the summer of 2024 as CSM Caransebeș.