Back to Divizia B, with new leadership and several experiments in the technical staff, including the Italian coach Gian Pio del Monaco, FC Bihor had poor results and finished only 5th at the end of the 1991–92 season. In the summer of 1992, football agent Ioan Codoban was hired as the new chairman of the club, the goal being Divizia A promotion, as always for the club from the banks of Crișul Repede river. "The Red and Blues" missed the target by one point, one point behind its bitter rival, UTA Arad.