CFR Cluj

CFR Cluj
Basic data
Surname	Căile Ferate Române 1907 Cluj
Seat	Cluj-Napoca
founding	1907
Colours	purple / white
president	Marian Bagacean
Website	cfr1907.ro
First soccer team
Head coach	Dan Petrescu
Venue	Dr. Constantin Rădulescu Stadium
Places	23,500
league	League 1
2019/20	1st place master
home Away Alternatively

CFR Cluj is a Romanian football club from Cluj-Napoca . He has been playing in the highest Romanian football league, Liga 1 , since 2004 and won the Romanian Championship in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2018 and 2019 and the Romanian Cup in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2016.

history

Changes to the club name

1907: Kolozsvári Vasutas Sport Club 1919: CFR Cluj 1950: Locomotiva Cluj 1957: CFR Cluj 1960: CSM Cluj 1964: Clujeana Cluj 1967: CFR Cluj 1982: Steaua CFR Cluj 1990: CFR Ecomax Cluj 2006: CFR 1907 Cluj

CFR Cluj is the city's oldest football club and was founded in 1907 as Kolozsvári Vasutas Sport Club ( Hungarian for Cluj- Napoca Railway Sports Club ). In 1919, after Transylvania was awarded to Romania, the association was renamed CFR (abbreviated for Romanian Railway Company) Cluj .

In 1975 and 2006 CFR Cluj came fifth in the Romanian league 1 . In 2007 CFR Cluj reached 3rd place in the Romanian League 1 - so they were eligible to qualify for the UEFA Cup . In the second qualifying round they had to give up under the new coach Ioan Andone at home on August 16, 2007 with 1: 3 against the Cypriot club Anorthosis Famagusta , which they no longer on Cyprus on August 30, 2007 by a 0: 0 could make up for.

2008 and 2010: Twice the double

After the first half of the 2007/08 season , CFR Cluj was unbeaten and had a seven point lead over second placed Rapid Bucharest . In the spring, Steaua caught up with Bucharest and took the lead on the third from last game day. Nevertheless, CFR Cluj became Romanian champions for the first time in the club's history with a 1-0 win on the last match day against city rivals Universitatea Cluj , two points ahead of runner-up Steaua Bucharest. This qualified them for the group stage of the Champions League 2008/09 .

On May 10, 2008, CFR Cluj won the Romanian Cup final against Unirea Valahorum Urziceni 2-1 and was the first in the club's history to win the Romanian Cup. The starting eleven of the season was Nuno Claro ( Stăncioiu ) - Tony , Cadú , Galiassi , Panin - Trică , Dani , Leão , Culio - Semedo , Fabbiani . Didi often played (only before the winter break), as well as Ruiz and Dubarbier (additions during the winter break).

CFR Cluj played in the group stage of the 2008/09 Champions League against Chelsea , AS Roma and Girondins Bordeaux .

Right at its first appearance in the Champions League, the club achieved a small sensation by landing a 2-1 away win at three-time Italian champions and current runner-up AS Roma. In addition, they achieved a 0-0 win against Chelsea (last year's finalist) on the second match day of the group stage. However, the rest of the season was not very successful and with Ioan Andone , Maurizio Trombetta , Aleš Jindra and Toni four head coaches replaced one another. From November 15, 2009 to September 12, 2010, the Italian Andrea Mandorlini was the coach of CFR Cluj, who led the club to another double: the championship and the Romanian cup victory. The coaching post then took over Sorin Cârțu , who was released on November 25, 2010, whereupon Alin Minteuan rose to head coach. After the last game day of the 2010/11 season , Jorge Costa was presented on May 22, 2011 as the successor to Minteuan in the office of head coach.

2012: Another title win

Although CFR was leader of the table, Costa was dismissed on April 8, 2012 after the 5-0 home defeat in the championship game against Rapid Bucharest and replaced by returnees Ioan Andone . This led the team to their third league title one game before the end of the season. After poor results at the beginning of the 2012/13 season , Andone broke his contract on October 24, 2012 after the 1-1 draw at Galatasaray Istanbul in the Champions League .

In 2016, Cluj won the Romanian Cup for the fourth time.

Current squad 2018/19

As of October 16, 2018

No. position Surname 1 TW Jesús Fernández 5 MF Mate Maleš 6th FROM Cristian Manea 7th MF Alexandru Păun 8th MF Damjan Đoković 9 ST Billel Omrani 10 MF Ciprian Deac 11 ST Júlio Baptista 14th MF Thierry Moutinho 17th FROM Andrei Radu 18th MF Valentin Costache 19th MF Emmanuel Culio 20th ST George Țucudean 21st ST Urko Vera 22nd FROM Ádám Lang

No. position Surname 27 MF Sebastian Mailat 28 MF Ovidiu Hoban 30th FROM Andrei Mureșan 31 MF Alexandru Ioniță 33 TW Adrian Rus 37 MF Mihai Bordeianu 45 FROM Camora 55 FROM Paulo Vinícius 77 FROM Andrei Peteleu 87 TW Giedrius Arlauskis 88 ST Robert Ndip Tambe 91 ST Giuseppe De Luca 98 TW Horațiu Moldovan 99 ST George Ganea

Former players

goalkeeper  Eduard Stăncioiu  Lars Hirschfeld  Beto  Mário Felgueiras

Defender  Cristian Panin  Ionuț Rada  Lucian Goian  Cadu  Tony  Ivo Pinto  Álvaro Pereira  Ousmane Viera  Felice Piccolo  Hugo Alcântara

midfield player  Ioan Hora  Alin Minteuan  Bogdan Mara  Gabriel Mureșan  Eugene Trica  Emmanuel Culio  Sixto Peralta  Sebastián Dubarbier  Dani  Davide Petrucci  Roberto De Zerbi

striker  Adrian Anca  Grégory Tadé  Pantelis Kapetanos  Modou Sougou  Yssouf Koné  Lacina Traoré

Former trainers

• George Ciorceri (2003)
• Aurel Șunda (April 2004 to summer 2005)
• Dorinel Munteanu (summer 2005 to October 2006)
• Cristiano Bergodi (October 2006 to May 2007)
• Ioan Andone (May 25, 2007 to August 2008, April 9, 2012 to October 24, 2012)
• Maurizio Trombetta (August 2008 to January 2009)
• Aleš Jindra (January 2009 to April 5, 2009)
• Toni (April 5, 2009 to November 11, 2009)
• Andrea Mandorlini (November 15, 2009 to September 12, 2010)
• Sorin Cârțu (September 12, 2010 to November 25, 2010)
• Alin Minteuan (November 25, 2010 to May 22, 2011)
• Jorge Costa (May 22, 2011 to April 8, 2012)
• Ioan Andone (April 2012 to October 2012)
• Francisc Dican (interim coach) (October 2012)
• Paulo Sérgio (October 2012 to April 2013)
• Eugen Trică (April 2013 to summer 2013)
• Mircea Rednic (summer 2013 to August 2013)
• Petre Grigoraș (August 2013 to December 2013)
• Vasile Miriuță (December 2013 to November 2014)
• Francisc Dican (interim trainer) (November 2014 to January 2015)
• Eugen Trică (January 2015 to April 2015)
• Francisc Dican (interim trainer) (since April 2015)
• Toni (December 2015 to June 2016)
• Vasile Miriuță (June 2016 to June 2017)
• Dan Petrescu (June 2017 to June 2018)
• Eduard Iordănescu (June 2018 to July 2018)
• Toni (July 2018 to February 2019)
• Alin Minteuan (February 2019 to April 2019)

successes

• Romanian champions (5): 2007/08 , 2009/10 , 2011/12 , 2017/18 , 2018/19
• Romanian Cup Winner (4): 2007/08 , 2008/09 , 2009/10 , 2015/16
• Romanian Super Cup winner (3): 2009, 2010, 2018

Web links

Commons : CFR Cluj  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• CFR Cluj on romaniansoccer.ro (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ProSport of September 13, 2010 , accessed on September 16, 2010 (Romanian)
2. ↑ Kicker from November 25, 2010 , accessed on November 25, 2010
3. ↑ Gazeta Sporturilor of May 22, 2011 , accessed on May 22, 2011 (Romanian)
4. ↑ ProSport of April 8, 2012 , accessed on April 20, 2012 (Romanian)
5. ↑ ManUnited hunter Cluj separates from coach Andone , accessed October 24, 2012
6. ↑ http://adevarul.ro/news/sport/livetext-dinamo-cfr-cluj-fata-fata-cea-de-a-78-a-finala-cupei-1_573b3d645ab6550cb807eacc/index.html