of the first part of the 2008–09 season, under the command of the same Marius Șumudică, but then "the bleu and blues" have not been scheduled for two rounds in a row, 23 (against Dunărea Giurgiu) and 24 (against Concordia Chiajna) being excluded by Romanian Football Federation from the second tier and later being declared bankrupt. In 2008 the club was also evacuated from the Cotroceni Stadium because of its debts to the National Bank of Romania, owner of the complex, founder and former owner of the club, also. After the bankruptcy of FC Progresul (2009–present) On 11 August 2009 AS Progresul București was founded and enrolled in the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system. Tudor Iacov, brother of Constantin Iacov, the last president of the club in the second tier, was named the new chairman, the supporters immediately came back and even if the brand of the old club has been lost, AS Progresul București considered itself as the successor of the previous entity SC FC Progresul SA, although legally it was not. In the summer of 2014 due to financial precarious situation and tensions that occurred in the AS Progresul București club, Andrei Erimia, coach of a youth squad, took its team and supported financially by Gabriel Rădulescu, founded on 14 June 2014 a new club, AFC Progresul Spartac 1944 București. The new entity does not claim the record, logo or the succession of the old entity (FC Progresul), despite the fact that it uses some elements of the original brand (bleu and blue colors; the sycamore leaf), called itself "direct descendant of Progresul București" and its objective is "to revive the spirit of Progresul from Cotroceni". Also, the name of the new club is a combination of names "Progresul" (the most used name of the old club), "Spartac" (name used by FC Progresul between 1950 and 1954) and "1944" (foundation year of the original entity). In this complicated situation AS Progresul won unexpectedly Liga IV, Bucharest Series and qualified for 2015–16 promotion play-off, but unfortunately made two very weak legs and lost 1–6 on aggregate against Arsenal Malu, Giurgiu County champions. In the summer of 2015, another wing of the club split up from AS Progresul, the new entity called CS Progresul 2005 chose to start his own way, but the heavy blow was given by fans, which chose to support Progresul Spartac instead of