U Craiova 1948, commonly known as FC U Craiova 1948, FC U Craiova, or rarely as U Craiova 1948, is a Romanian professional football team based in Craiova, Dolj County, currently playing in Liga I. It is—along with CS Universitatea Craiova—one of the two entities asserting the history of the original Universitatea Craiova football team, which was founded in 1948 as a section of the CSU Craiova sports club. During 1991, after the sports club dissolved its football department, FC Universitatea Craiova took its place in the Romanian first division. Generally considered the same entity with the old club, it continued its tradition for the next two decades, but was reorganised several times and retroactively deemed an unofficial successor. Most notably, under the ownership of , FC Universitatea