Ion Comșa Stadium

Călărași does not compete for European nights or record crowds; it competes for one thing, and it has it — the only senior stadium the town has ever needed. Ion Comșa opened in 1962 as Stadionul Tineretului, the youth stadium, and carried that name through most of its life before the 2013 renaming honoured Ion Comșa. For decades it was simply where Dunărea played, a natural-grass ground on Bulevardul Republicii with little to distinguish it from a dozen others in the second and third tiers.

Then, on 25 March 1992, more than 16,000 people came for a Romanian Cup quarter-final against Politehnica Timișoara — a crowd larger than the ground could properly hold, watching a third-division side beat a top-flight one 1-0. The result still stands as the stadium's single defining afternoon.

The bigger transformation came in 2018, when Dunărea reached Liga I for the first time in a century of trying. The ground was rebuilt to meet top-flight requirements in three months: new irrigated turf, rebuilt dressing rooms, a VIP stand, camera positions for broadcasters. Floodlights followed in 2020, transferred free of charge from the old Giulești stadium in Bucharest rather than bought new. Ion Comșa has since hosted at least one concert alongside its football, when the rock band Alternosfera played there in June 2024 — a rare use of a ground built, and rebuilt, for a club that spent a hundred years trying to reach the level its stadium now, briefly, matched.