Significant Dates
1933
- ILSA swimming and water polo club is established
- MTK Budapest's Ravasz Pal becomes the club's first coach
1933-1938
- ILSA athletes train and compete at the Igiena pool, the city's only usable facility
- Timisoara's 1st national champions in swimming: Bohunitzky Laszlo, Sallai Zsuzsa, Püllök Jenő, Fisher Dezső
- ILSA water polo team among Romania's strongest
1938
- Igiena pool shuts down, leaving ILSA without a place to train
- ILSA withdraws from all competitions
- ILSA decides to build its own pool
1939
- ILSA's inaugurates its own swimming pool
- Freund Emerich assumes coaching duties
1940
- Bohunitzky Laszlo wins four national champion titles
1941-1945
- The Second World War severely limits ILSA's athletic activities
- ILSA competes in the 1943 national championships with a smaller team
1945
- Freund Emerich leaves ILSA to become the Secretary General of Romania's Swimming Federation
- ILSA makes contact with Hungarian transplant Török Gabor
1946
- Török Gabor joins ILSA's water polo team as a coach and player
- ILSA wins its first national championship
1947-1951
- ILSA wins five more national championship titles
- Key players: Török Gabor, Norman Zoltan, Adalbert Stănescu, Weinreich Lazăr, Retscher Adalbert, Novak Jozsef, Octavian Iosim, Bohunitzky Laszlo, Molnar Endre, Balint Adalbert
1952
- Using several players poached from ILSA, CCA Bucharest ends ILSA's winning streak
- Helsinki Olympiad: Török, Norman, Iosim and Hoszpodar are part of Romania's water polo team
- Helsinki Olympiad: Novak Jozsef becomes Romania's first ever swimmer to compete in the Olympics
1945-1955
- ILSA swimmers win multiple national champion titles and represent Romania in international competitions
- ILSA water polo players form the backbone of Romania's national team
- Top swimmers: Novak Jozsef, Lucian Bagiu, Lovas Peter, Titus Groza, Greiner Dolfi, Octavian Iosim, Mozes Simon, Wiener Margareta (Weinreich), Reiser Margareta
1955
- Török Gabor quits ILSA, joins Voința Timisoara's water polo team
1956
- Melbourne Olympiad: Hoszpodar Zoltan, albeit no longer with ILSA, participates in his second Olympic Games
1957
- ILSA water polo is relegated to Divizia B for the first time
- Adalbert Stănescu becomes the coach of the water polo team
1957-1973
- Water polo team navigates between Divizia A and Divizia B
1960
- Voința Timisoara wins promotion to Divizia A
- Voința Timisoara is dismantled, its best players transfer to ILSA
- Török Gabor retires from playing and coaching
1960
- Török Gabor retires from playing and coaching
- Coached by former ILSA player Balint Adalbert, Romania finishes fifth at the Rome Olympic Games
1960-1964
- Swimmers Ladner Robert, Gerhard Götter, Codruța Sala, Baneth Peter Ivan and Doina Penția win national champion titles
1964
- Koszta Ladislau wins his first national champion title
- Koszta Ladislau is renamed Vasile Costa by the national press (without his consent)
- Koszta's made-up name remains in use until after his retirement from swimming in 1972
1967
- Adalbert Stănescu is removed from his coaching position, the result of the decline of ILSA's water polo team
- Török Gabor named the new coach
1968
- Adalbert Stănescu back at the helm of the water polo team
1965-1972
- Koszta Ladislau wins multiple national championships and sets many Romanian national records
- The national record set in 1968 in the 100 m breaststroke remains unbeaten for 18 years
1968
- Koszta Ladislau, along with coach Lovas Peter, participate in the Mexico City Olympics
- Koszta reaches the semifinals of the 100 meter breaststroke event
1969-1972
- Koszta Ladislau wins three gold medals at the Balkan Games
- Koszta Ladislau reaches the semifinals of the European swimming championships
1967-1972
- The Rolik Brothers win multiple national champion titles and represent Romania in international competitions
1970
- An enclosure is built around the ILSA pool
- Indoor pool inaugurated in January 1971
1971
- Coach Lovas Peter defects to Germany
- Codruța Sala and Doina Penția take over the swim team
1972
- Koszta Ladislau retires from active competition
1972-1974
- Backstroker Karin Parutsch wins a national champion title and a gold medal at the Balkan Games
1975
- The Circumvalațiunii indoor swimming pool is inaugurated. Some ILSA swimmers move there.
1968-1983
- Swimmers Toth Timea, Toth Andrei, Carmen Alexe, Christine Seidl, Holger Habetler, Daniela Roșca, Kerezsi Ildiko, Charlotte Cioclei, Areti Costa, Stern Aurica, Mirela Lupu, Friedman Alexandru and Szabo Gabriel win multiple national champion titles and some of them represent Romania in international competitions.
1981
- The last swim team still training at the old ILSA pool moves to the Circumvalațiunii pool
1973-1984
- Coach Alexandru Cinteanu at the helm of the water polo team
1984-1999
- Coach Iuliu Olac at the helm of the water polo team
1973-1999
- Water polo team continues to navigate between Divizia A and Divizia B
1999
- ILSA's water polo team folds permanently
