ACS Comuna Recea

Founding and ascension of Recea (2013–present)

Even if the current club was founded in 2013, the history of football from Recea started back in 1959, when Dinamo Săsar, club based in the village of Săsar, Recea Commune, was founded. The team was in tight relation with Dinamo București, having a fulminating ascent and promoting in the second league at the end of the 1959–60 season. The club played for two years in the second tier, then relegated and never came back.

The club was founded in 2013, under the name of AS Comuna Recea and was enrolled in the fourth tier, Liga IV, South series. In its first season Comuna Recea finished 3rd after FCM Baia Mare's second squad and Speranța Coltău. In the second season Recenii won the series, four points ahead Viitorul Ulmeni and played the final of Maramureș County series against North series winners, Bradul Vișeu. The final was played on Viorel Mateianu Stadium in Baia Mare and Recea won 2–1 after extra time and qualified for the Liga III promotion play-off where after a two-legged tie against Voința Cetate, champions of Bistrița-Năsăud County, won 5–4 and promoted for the first time in its history in the Liga III.

After it was relegated in the summer of 2021, from the Liga II back to the Liga III it was dissolved, then after one year of inactivity the football club was re-founded as Academica Recea and enrolled in the Liga IV.