The Potaissa Turda Handball Club Association

The Turda Club was established by Puiu Vălean in the year 2000. The games were played on the asphalt field at the "Liviu Rebreanu" high school, and the club progressed in lower leagues.

In 2003, the club's founder left for abroad, leaving Potaissa Turda in the hands of Flaviu Sâsâeac, a young lawyer passionate about handball.

In 2006, the FRH banned games from being played on asphalt and outside of halls, so without proper playing conditions in Turda, the club moved to Cluj Napoca, but kept its name and continued to represent the city.

Everything changed in 2009 when brothers Horațiu and Ovidiu Gal returned to Turda. This was the moment when Flaviu Sâsâeac and the Gal brothers presented a project to the Turda City Hall that received support from local authorities.

After receiving funding, approximately 500 children showed up for the selection process, confirming that handball in Turda had a chance of success.

The team returned to Turda and began to play in the sports hall of the "George Barițiu" school, which later became the "Teodor Murășanu" school, and kept its name. In the second year of the project, Potaissa Turda was promoted to the first league and won all the games in that season. The 2011-2012 season was the first in which Potaissa Turda played on the first stage of Romanian handball, with a draw result of 28-28 in their debut game against Dinamo Bucharest. 

 

In the 2013-2014 season, Potaissa Turda finished the National League championship in 3rd place, thereby winning its first ever medal at the senior level and qualifying for European cups for the first time. Starting from that season and until now, Potaissa Turda has consistently finished within the top 4. The Turda club has also won the bronze medal three times in the National League (2016-2017, 2017-2018, and 2018-2019).

In the 2019-2020 season, at the time the championship was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Potaissa Turda was in 2nd place in the standings.

In the 2020-2021 season, for the first time in the club's history, Potaissa Turda won the silver medals in the Lynx League.

In 2018, Potaissa Turda won the Challenge Cup after defeating teams from Kosovo (KH Trepca), Belgium (HC Vise), Norway (FyllingenBergen), Iceland (IBV Vestmannaeyr) and Greece (AEK Athens). One year earlier, Potaissa Turda played in the final of the competition alongside Sporting Lisbon.