zone in the 1990s. Another memorable episode in the "Ștefan's era" at Piatra Neamț was in 2000 before the first match from the third round of UEFA Intertoto Cup, against Austria Wien, when he tried to offer prostitutes to the match referees, the club being suspended for a year from UEFA Competitions. "Pinalti" would defend himself by stating that the girls were just members of a folk ensemble. First signs of the "Football Cooperative" have been noticed since 1993 when it was suspected that Ceahlăul offered suitcases with money for the teams in the first series to pull hard against opponents or to let it easier in direct matches with them. Gelu Crăcană, one of the most passionate supporters of the team and a man who always found in its entourage stated in 2016: Mergeam cu genţi cu bani în majoritatea deplasărilor. Am mai cărat şi eu genţile, ţin minte că am purtat banii la mine când am mers la Autobuzul București ("We went with money bags in most of the trips. I've also carried these bags, I remember that I took the money with me when we went to Autobuzul București."). Also Iulian Țocu, one of the directors of the club in that period made some important revelations about how, many matches had been fixed in that season. ABBA period (2004–2016) In this period the team was known as an "ABBA team" (a nickname used in Romania for clubs that used to alternate the presences between the first and the second league). After the relegation Florin Marin was hired as the new coach and despite the fact that the squad has kept a large part of the players Ceahlăul finished only on the 5th place, far away from the expectations considered at the beginning of the season. 18 points away from the promotion place, occupied by FC Vaslui and 22 from the first relegation place, occupied by FC Ghimbav. Marin Barbu replaced Florin Marin for the next season and the team below Pietricica Mountain promoted without major problems, 7 points over the second place, occupied by Forex Brașov and 8 points over FC Brașov. In this period the club changed its logo, the old one with the black goat and the Ceahlău Massif on the background being replaced by the one with a bear, also the orange color, used as well in the past, became the first color, the