second league glory after a 4th place occupied at the end of the 1983–84 season. After this result, which was the best in the history of the club, until then, Ceahlăul started to re-establish itself in the area that seemed to best characterize it, the middle of the ranking: 1984–85 – 11th, 1985–86 – 11th, 1986–87 – 8th, 1987–88 – 9th and 1988–89 – 11th. The midlife of the team in the second half of the 1980s was almost to turn into a new relegation at the end of the 1989–90 season, when "the Yellow and Blacks" finished only on the 14th place, just above the relegation line, at the same number of points (31) with Siretul Pașcani, first team located in the red zone. That season was a disconcerting one for the most of the teams in Romania, due to the 1989 Romanian Revolution and the fall of communism, facts that changed all the structures in the country. If for many teams, representatives of the ruling communist forces, such as: Victoria București, Flacăra Moreni or Olt Scornicești, among others, the 1989 revolution was the beginning of the end, for Ceahlăul it was a real restart. From an already mediocre Divizia B team, "the Yellow and Blacks" started to battle with their old records, knocking more and more on the first league's door. First signs that Ceahlăul was no more a middle rank team was in the 1990–91 season when they finished 3rd at only 3 points from the second place. They would equalize their record again, a season later, another 3rd place, even if this time in the third series of the second league, at 3 points from the 2nd place (FC Baia Mare) and 10 points over Metrom Brașov. In the summer of 1992 Ioan Sdrobiș, the one who is nicknamed "The Father", a coach who is well known for promoting young players in his teams, was hired as the new manager of the team below Pietricica Mountain. Also Gheorghe Ștefan has become the new president and the team was moved again in the first series, where FC Argeș, ASA Târgu Mureș, Gloria Buzău or Politehnica Iași were announced as redoubtable opponents in the fight for promotion. The fight was hard with the remark that in the fight appeared two teams closely related to the former political regime: Steaua Mizil (Steaua București satellite team at that moment) and