The club was established in 1921 and played for the first time in the 1922–23 season of the Arad Regional Championship, where it managed to occupied the 5th place. In 1924, CS Vulcan merged with
CAMP to form
UCASP (Uniunea Cluburilor Sportive ale Societății Petroșani – Sports Club Association of Petroșani Society). From February 1926 the merger ceases, the team from Vulcan being renamed as Minerul. In 1927 another merger took place, this time the three teams from the
Jiu Valley (CAMP, Jiul Lupeni and Minerul Vulcan) were consolidated under the name of
Jiul Lupeni. The merger was abandoned In 1929, and the team from Vulcan would continue under the name of Minerul, but only for a short period because the mines in the locality closed, and thus football was also abandoned. In 1939, the Vulcan team resumed its activity under the name of Antigaz, but only until 1944, when the Antigaz factory was closed. In 1955, with the reopening of the mine in the locality, the football team reappeared, and a stadium was built for them in the Coroești area. Minerul was struggled to survive to third division, finishing the next three seasons in fourteenth place (
1977–78) one point ahead of second-bottom, eleventh (
1978–79) avoiding relegation by two points and eighth (
1979–80) at just one point above the relegation zone. In the summer of 1980, Minerul Vulcan merged with Știinta Petroșani to form Minerul Știinta Vulcan. ==Honours==