Universitatea Cluj

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Universitatea Cluj
Logo Universitatea Cluj.svg
Basic data
Surname Fotbal Club Universitatea Cluj
founding September 1919
Colours White black
president RomaniaRomania Cristian Barabancea
Website universitateacluj.ro
First soccer team
Head coach RomaniaRomania Claudiu Niculescu
Venue Cluj Arena
Places 30,596
league League II
2019/20 14th place, League II
home
Away

Universitatea Cluj , or U Cluj for short , is a Romanian sports club from Cluj-Napoca . The club's football department won the Romanian Football Cup in 1965 and has been competing in the top division, League 1 , since 2010 . In addition to football, the most important departments of the club are rugby , basketball , handball , volleyball and athletics . The football players are called șepcile roșii (red hats) , as the medical students in Cluj used to wear red hats as part of their uniform.

history

Universitatea Cluj was founded in September 1919 by students from the universities in Cluj. The first president of the club was Professor Iuliu Hațieganu . In the first few years U Cluj played mostly in regional competitions before the club became a founding member of the new Romanian professional league, Divizia A , in the 1932/33 season . After initial successes (runner-up in 1933, participation in the cup final in 1934), the club fell back more and more in the league and in 1938 had to relegate to Divizia B for the first time .

After the Second Vienna Arbitration Award in 1940, the club had to move to Sibiu , as Cluj belonged to Hungary from then on (until 1947) . After the Second World War , the club returned to its hometown.

In 1948 U Cluj first changed its name to CSU Cluj , and one year later to Știința Cluj . From 1952 to 1959 Știința was coached by Ștefan Kovács , who later coached a top European club with Ajax Amsterdam as the first Romanian coach . In the 1964/65 season Știința celebrated its greatest club success when the Romanian Cup was won. The team then played in the European Cup Winners' Cup and reached the second round.

In 1966 there was another name change and the association took its old name again, Universitatea Cluj . In the 1971/72 season U Cluj managed the best placement in Divizia A by reaching third place. In the UEFA Cup , however, the team was eliminated in the first round.

At the end of the 1990s, there was relegation from Divizia A in 1999 and then another relegation to Divizia C in 2000, to which the club belonged for the first time in its history in the following season. After only a year under coach Ioan Sabău , who had started his football career in Cluj, the immediate resurgence. In the following season 2001/02 was Stelian Gherman for five games, but in which no victory could be won, coach of the team.

On June 30, 2006, Adrian Falub , another former player, took over the team and led U Cluj back to League 1 in the 2006/07 season. However, after the first ten championship games in which U Cluj remained without a win, Falub was placed on 6 Released October 2007 and replaced by Gheorghe Mulțescu on October 12, 2007 . On January 8, 2008 Mulțescu himself was replaced by Alpár Mészáros , whereby at the same time as Stelian Gherman the owner of a valid pro trainer license was also obliged as technical director. At the end of the 2007/08 season , Universitatea Cluj was relegated to Liga II and Gherman had to leave the club on July 11, 2008. After the home defeat on the first day of the new season, coach Mészáros was also dismissed on August 20, 2008 and the interim coach Marius Popescu replaced on August 26, 2008 by Dorinel Munteanu . On October 26, 2008, Munteanu left the club to join Steaua Bucharest . His previous assistant coach Gheorghe Mihali took over the coaching post until April 2009, when Munteanu returned to Universitatea Cluj as a coach for two months.

On July 8, 2009, the Italian Carmelo Palilla was hired to succeed Dorinel Munteanus, who had to vacate his coaching chair on August 25, 2009 after three official games. After sporting director Marius Popescu had jumped in as a coach again, on August 30, 2009 he was introduced to Cornel Țălnar as the new coach. But even Țălnar, who had looked after Universitatea Cluj in the 1997/98 season , could not meet expectations and so Cristian Dulca was committed on October 4, 2009, the fourth coach during the first half of the 2009/10 . In January 2010, Viorel joined Hizo as technical director. Under the leadership of the two, who had already worked together at FC Vaslui , the club managed to return to League 1 in 2010. After Florian Walter, the patron of Universitatea Cluj, hired Marian Pană as the new technical director in June 2010 immediately after the end of the season , he took over the training of the first team in mid-July 2010, as Dulca did not have the necessary UEFA Pro license. Dulca had to switch to the youth field and left the club in October 2010 in the direction of Delta Tulcea . Pană terminated his contract on November 8, 2010 and striker Claudiu Niculescu also took over as coach for two games before a new head coach was introduced on November 19, 2010 with Ionuț Badea . On March 13, 2012 Badea resigned after he had refused to withdraw the exclusion of Gabriel Boştină from the squad under pressure from patron Florian Walter. Claudiu Niculescu, who was also still active as a player, was appointed to his successor. In addition, Emil Ursu , the previous coach of the third division club CS Buftea , was hired as a manager because Niculescu did not have the necessary coaching license.

successes

  • Romanian Cup Winner: 1965
  • Romanian runner-up: 1933
  • Round of 16 in the European Cup Winners' Cup: 1966
  • Cup finalists: 1934, 1942, 1949, 2015

U Cluj is one of the best in Romania in the youth field and has already won several titles:

  • Romanian U21 champions: 1963, 1971, 1972
  • Romanian junior champions: 1955, 1956, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1974, 2001

Known players

Former trainers

Fans

U Cluj fans are spread all over Romania, especially in Transylvania . One reason for the large following is the fact that there are many universities in Cluj-Napoca: they attend home games while studying and are spread all over the country after graduation.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ziua de Cluj, January 7, 2008 , accessed February 3, 2012 (Romanian)
  2. ↑ Gazeta Sporturilor of October 13, 2007 , accessed November 7, 2011 (Romanian)
  3. ↑ Ziarul de Cluj, January 8, 2008 , accessed November 7, 2011 (Romanian)
  4. ↑ Ziua de Cluj, July 11, 2008 , accessed February 3, 2012 (Romanian)
  5. ↑ ProSport from August 20, 2008 , accessed on November 6, 2011 (Romanian)
  6. ↑ ProSport of August 27, 2008 , accessed on November 6, 2011 (Romanian)
  7. ↑ Gazeta Sporturilor of October 27, 2008 ( Memento of the original of December 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on November 6, 2011 (Romanian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gsp.ro
  8. ↑ Adevărul of July 8, 2009 , accessed November 27, 2011 (Romanian)
  9. ↑ Adevărul of August 26, 2009 , accessed November 27, 2011 (Romanian)
  10. ↑ Gazeta Sporturilor of August 30, 2009 , accessed November 27, 2011 (Romanian)
  11. ↑ Napoca News of October 5, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on November 27, 2011 (Romanian)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.napocanews.ro  
  12. ↑ Napoca News from January 4, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on November 27, 2011 (Romanian)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.napocanews.ro  
  13. ↑ ProSport of June 16, 2010 , accessed on July 27, 2011 (Romanian)
  14. ↑ ASport from July 16, 2010 ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 30, 2011 (Romanian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / asport.ro
  15. ↑ ProSport of August 24, 2010 , accessed on July 27, 2011 (Romanian)
  16. ↑ ProSport of October 27, 2010 , accessed on July 27, 2011 (Romanian)
  17. ↑ ProSport of November 8, 2010 , accessed on July 27, 2011 (Romanian)
  18. ↑ ProSport of November 19, 2010 , accessed on July 27, 2011 (Romanian)
  19. ↑ ProSport of March 14, 2012 , accessed on April 20, 2012 (Romanian)

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