2007–08 FC Steaua București season

Steaua București
2007–08 season
Owner	George Becali
President	Valeriu Argăseală
Head coach	Gheorghe Hagi; Massimo Pedrazzini; Marius Lăcătuș
Stadium	Stadionul Steaua
Liga I	2nd
Cupa României	Round of 16
Champions League	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: ; Nicolae Dică (9); All: ; Nicolae Dică (10)
Home colours	Away colours
	← 2006–07 2008–09 →

The 2007–08 season was the 60th season in the existence of FC Steaua București and the club's 60th consecutive season in the top flight of Romanian football. In addition to the domestic league, Steaua București participated in this season's edition of the Cupa României and the UEFA Champions League.^[1]

Players

Transfers

In

Total spending: €11,06M
Player	From	Fee
Eric Bicfalvi	Jiul Petroșanii	€0.3M
Valentin Bădoi	Rapid București	€0.55M
Mihai Guriță	Farul Constanța	€0.1M
Cosmin Vâtcă	Oțelul Galați	€0.5M
Adrian Neaga	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	€0.61M
Ifeanyi Emeghara	Politehnica Știința Timișoara	€1.2M
Paweł Golański	Korona Kielce	€1.3M
Alexandru Iacob	Corvinul Hunedoara	€0.4M
Emil Ninu	Progresul București	€0.2M
Róbinson Zapata	Cúcuta Deportivo	€0.5M
Ionuț Rada	Rapid București	€0.8M
Dorel Zaharia	Gloria Bistrița	€0.5M
Mihăiță Pleșan	Politehnica Știința Timișoara	€1.5M
Romeo Surdu	CFR Cluj	€1M
Habib Habibou	Charleroi	Loan
Dino Eze	Gloria Buzau	€0.2M
Pepe Moreno	Independiente	Loan
Andrés Mendoza	Metalurh Donetsk	Free
Dayro Moreno	Once Caldas	€1.4M
Răzvan Ochiroșii	Gloria Buzău	Back from loan
Alexandru Iacob	Gloria Buzău	Back from loan
Alin Lițu	Gloria Buzău	Back from loan
Emil Ninu	Gloria Buzău	Back from loan
Alexandru Tudose	Gloria Buzău	Back from loan
Eric Bicfalvi	Gloria Buzău	Back from loan
Dino Eze	Gloria Buzău	Back from loan
André Nunes	Gloria Buzău	Back from loan
Valentin Simion	Gloria Buzău	Back from loan
Vasilică Cristocea	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	Back from loan
Marius Croitoru	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	Back from loan

Out

Total income: €5,06M
Player	New team	Fee
Daniel Oprița	Dinamo București	Free
Stelian Stancu	Politehnica Știința Timișoara	€0.2M
Sorin Paraschiv	Rimini	€0.5M
Élton	Al-Nasr	€0.5M
Cyril Théréau	Anderlecht	€2.9M
Klemi Saban	Maccabi Netanya	Free
Gigel Coman	Universitatea Cluj	€0.1M
Gabriel Boștină	Dinamo București	€0.1M
Mihai Guriță	Farul Constanța	Free
Andrey	Cruzeiro	Released
Valentin Bădoi	Politehnica Știința Timișoara	Free
Dorel Zaharia	UTA Arad	€0.26M
Victoraș Iacob	Kaiserslautern	€0.5M
Vasilică Cristocea	Steaua II București	Second team
Marius Croitoru	Steaua II București	Second team
Alexandru Iacob	Steaua II București	Second team

Loan out

Player	Team
Alexandru Iacob	Gloria Buzău
Alin Lițu	Gloria Buzău
Emil Ninu	Gloria Buzău
Alexandru Tudose	Gloria Buzău
Eric Bicfalvi	Gloria Buzău
Dino Eze	Gloria Buzău
André Nunes	Gloria Buzău
Valentin Simion	Gloria Buzău
Vasilică Cristocea	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
Marius Croitoru	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț

Statistics

Player stats

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Liga I		Cupa României		UEFA Champions League
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	COL	Róbinson Zapata	42	0	33	0	0	0	9	0
3	DF	ROU	Dorin Goian	31	5	23	2	0	0	8	3
4	DF	POL	Paweł Golański	27	1	21	1	2	0	4	0
5	DF	ROU	Ionuț Rada	28	1	17	1	1	0	10	0
6	MF	ROU	Mirel Rădoi	19	0	16	0	0	0	3	0
8	MF	ROU	Ovidiu Petre	35	3	26	2	0	0	9	1
9	FW	ROU	Valentin Badea	24	4	16	2	2	1	6	1
10	FW	ROU	Nicolae Dică	40	10	30	9	0	0	10	1
11	FW	CAF	Habib Habibou	8	1	8	1	0	0	0	0
12	GK	ROU	Cornel Cernea	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
13	DF	NGA	Ifeanyi Emeghara	18	0	12	0	1	0	5	0
15	DF	ROU	Mihai Neșu	26	0	21	0	0	0	5	0
16	MF	ROU	Bănel Nicoliță	35	4	27	3	0	0	8	1
17	DF	ROU	Eugen Baciu	17	0	14	0	2	0	1	0
18	DF	ROU	Petre Marin	26	0	18	0	1	0	7	0
20	MF	ROU	Florin Lovin	32	0	24	0	0	0	8	0
21	FW	ROU	Răzvan Ochiroșii	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	FW	COL	Pepe Moreno	15	5	15	5	0	0	0	0
23	MF	ROU	Mihăiță Pleșan^{[notes 1]}	15	2	14	2	0	0	1	0
24	DF	ROU	Sorin Ghionea	12	1	12	1	0	0	0	0
25	FW	ROU	Adrian Neaga	35	4	26	3	1	0	8	1
27	FW	COL	Dayro Moreno	11	5	11	5	0	0	0	0
29	FW	PER	Andrés Mendoza	15	2	15	2	0	0	0	0
82	GK	ROU	Cosmin Vâtcă	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
84	FW	ROU	Romeo Surdu	20	0	12	0	2	0	6	0
Players sold or loaned out during the season
2	DF	ROU	Emil Ninu	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
7	MF	ROU	Eric Bicfalvi	15	1	9	1	2	0	4	0
11	MF	ROU	Gabriel Boștină	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
14	MF	ROU	Vasilică Cristocea	13	0	8	0	2	0	3	0
19	FW	ROU	Victoraș Iacob	12	2	7	2	1	0	4	0
26	MF	ROU	Marius Croitoru	21	0	12	0	1	0	8	0
26	FW	NGA	Dino Eze	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	MF	ROU	Valentin Bădoi	17	0	10	0	2	0	5	0
30	FW	ROU	Dorel Zaharia	22	7	14	1	2	3	6	3
31	DF	ROU	Alexandru Iacob	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	FW	ROU	Mihai Guriță^{[notes 2]}	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Sources:^[2]^[3]^[1]

Competitions

Overall record

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Liga I	27 July 2007	7 May 2008	Matchday 1	2nd	34	23	6	5	51	19	+32	067.65
Cupa României	26 September 2007	6 December 2007	Round of 32	Round of 16	2	1	0	1	4	2	+2	050.00
UEFA Champions League	31 July 2007	12 December 2007	Second qualifying round	Group stage	10	3	2	5	11	13	−2	030.00
Total					46	27	8	11	66	34	+32	058.70

Source: Competitions

Liga I

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	CFR Cluj (C)	34	23	7	4	52	22	+30	76	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Steaua București	34	23	6	5	51	19	+32	75	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Rapid București	34	18	7	9	52	31	+21	61^[a]	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Dinamo București	34	17	10	7	55	36	+19	61^[a]
5	Unirea Urziceni	34	16	13	5	42	24	+18	61^[a]

Source: LT (in Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c RAP: 7 pts; DIN: 5 pts; UNI: 3 pts

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	23	6	5	51	19	+32	75	14	3	0	31	5	+26	9	3	5	20	14	+6

Source: LT

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H
Result	W	W	W	D	D	L	D	D	W	W	W	L	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	W
Position	5	1	1	2	4	7	7	8	7	7	6	7	7	7	5	5	5	4	4	5	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	1	2	2

Source: Matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

27 July 2007 Round 1	Steaua București	2–1	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	București
20:30	Dică 14' (pen.), 62'		12' (pen.) Vranjković	Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 0 (closed doors)^{[notes 3]} Referee: Sebastian Colțescu

3 August 2007 Round 2	Farul Constanța	0–1	Steaua București	Constanța
20:30			62' Dică	Stadium: Farul Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Alexandru Tudor

11 August 2007 Round 3	Steaua București	1–0	Politehnica Iași	București
20:45	Bicfalvi 79'			Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Cristian Balaj

19 August 2007 Round 4	CFR Cluj	0–0	Steaua București	Cluj-Napoca
20:30				Stadium: Dr. Constantin Rădulescu Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Augustus Constantin

2 September 2007 Round 6	Unirea Urziceni	1–0	Steaua București	Urziceni
17:00	Galamaz 90+1'			Stadium: Tineretului Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Tiberiu Lajos

16 September 2007 Round 7	Steaua București	0–0	Rapid București	București
20:30				Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Alexandru Deaconu

22 September 2007 Round 8	UTA Arad	1–1	Steaua București	Arad
17:00	Edson 82' (pen.)		57' Nicoliță	Stadium: Francisc von Neumann Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Teodor Crăciunescu

29 September 2007 Round 9	Steaua București	1–0	Vaslui	București
20:45	Rada 65'			Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 7,472 Referee: Aurel Bogaciu

7 October 2007 Round 10	Dacia Mioveni	1–2	Steaua București	Mioveni
20:30	Rada 35' (o.g.)		45+2', 90' Iacob	Stadium: Dacia Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Victor Berbecaru

27 October 2007 Round 12	Universitatea Cluj	2–1	Steaua București	Cluj-Napoca
15:00	Jovanović 34' Goga 85'		21' Nicoliță	Stadium: Ion Moina Attendance: 7,000 Referee: István Kovács

31 October 2007 Round 13	Steaua București	3–1	Oțelul Galați	București
20:30	Dică 7' (65), pen.' Semeghin 32' (o.g.)		52' Székely	Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Ionel Ivan

4 November 2007 Round 14	Politehnica Știința Timișoara	2–0	Steaua București	Timișoara
20:30	Rušič 13' Mansour 90+1'			Stadium: Dan Păltinișanu Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Augustus Constantin

10 November 2007 Round 15	Steaua București	1–0	FC U Craiova	București
20:45	Nicoliță 27'			Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Alexandru Tudor

12 November 2007 Round 5 (P)	Steaua București	0–0	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	București
20:30				Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 7,249 Referee: Alexandru Ioniță

24 November 2007 Round 16	Steaua București	1–0	Dinamo București	București
20:30	Neaga 67'			Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 23,552 Referee: Alexandru Deaconu

30 November 2007 Round 17	Gloria Buzău	1–1	Steaua București	Buzău
13:00	Bunică 90+1'		78' Dică	Stadium: Crâng Attendance: 11,000 Referee: ștefan Erdei

3 December 2007 Round 11 (P)	Steaua București	1–0	Gloria Bistrița	București
20:45	Toma 78' (o.g.)			Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Marius Avram

9 December 2007 Round 18	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	0–1	Steaua București	Piatra Neamț
19:00			19' Badea	Stadium: Ceahlăul Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Aurelian Bogaciu

16 December 2007 Round 19	Steaua București	3–0	Farul Constanța	București
17:00	Zaharia 17' Dică 78' Șchiopu 84' (o.g.)			Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Ionel Ivan

24 February 2008 Round 20	Politehnica Iași	2–1	Steaua București	Iași
20:30	Nicoliță 3' (o.g.) Onuț 60'		47' Mendoza	Stadium: Emil Alexandrescu Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Teodor Crăciunescu

2 March 2008 Round 21	Steaua București	3–1	CFR Cluj	București
20:30	Hirschfeld 26' (o.g.) Dayro Moreno 56' Ov. Petre 90+1'		4' Trică	Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Alexandru Tudor

8 March 2008 Round 22	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	0–1	Steaua București	Târgu Jiu
20:45			64' Ov. Petre	Stadium: Municipal Tudor Vladimirescu Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Sebastian Colțescu

16 March 2008 Round 23	Steaua București	1–0	Unirea Urziceni	București
20:30	Habibou 82'			Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 21,126 Referee: Ionel Ivan

20 March 2008 Round 24	Rapid București	0–3 (Awarded)	Steaua București	București
20:30	Săpunaru 68'			Stadium: Giulești Valentin Stănescu Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Alexandru Deaconu
Note: The match was interrupted in 72nd minute because the referee was hit with an object from the stands, by the fans of Rapid, even the hosts were leading with 1–0; the match was awarded with 3–0 for Steaua.

23 March 2008 Round 25	Steaua București	2–1	UTA Arad	București
20:30	Pepe Moreno 65' Badea 90+1'		7' Mihuț	Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Lucian Dan

30 March 2008 Round 26	Vaslui	0–1	Steaua București	Vaslui
16:00			66' Pepe Moreno	Stadium: Municipal Attendance: 10,000 Referee: István Kovács

6 April 2008 Round 27	Steaua București	2–0	Dacia Mioveni	București
20:30	Goian 49' Pepe Moreno 56'			Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Victor Berbecaru

10 April 2008 Round 28	Gloria Bistrița	1–3	Steaua București	Reghin
17:00	Toma 44'		19', 24' Dică 62' (o.g.) Hadzibulic	Stadium: Avântul Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Tiberiu Lajos

14 April 2008 Round 29	Steaua București	4–0	Universitatea Cluj	București
20:30	Pleșan 7' Golański 66' Neaga 90+1' Dayro Moreno 90+3'			Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Mugurel Drăgănescu

19 April 2008 Round 30	Oțelul Galați	0–1	Steaua București	Galați
17:00			76' Pleșan	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Cristian Balaj

22 April 2008 Round 31	Steaua București	1–1	Politehnica Știința Timișoara	București
20:30	Goian 49'		65' Bucur	Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Sebastian Colțescu

26 April 2008 Round 32	FC U Craiova	1–2	Steaua București	Craiova
17:00	Prepeliță 77'		75' Pepe Moreno 83' Dayro Moreno	Stadium: Extensiv Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan

4 May 2008 Round 33	Dinamo București	2–1	Steaua București	București
20:30	Bratu 30' Dănciulescu 52'		75' Ghionea	Stadium: Dinamo Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Alexandru Tudor

7 May 2008 Round 34	Steaua București	5–0	Gloria Buzău	București
17:00	Pepe Moreno 20' Dayro Moreno 62', 77' Neaga 67' Mendoza 72'			Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Cristian Balaj

Cupa României

Results

26 September 2007 Round of 32	Bacău	0–4	Steaua București	Bacău
20:30			38', 56', 83' Zaharia 61' (pen.) Badea	Stadium: Municipal Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Alexandru Tudor

6 December 2007 Round of 16	Unirea Urziceni	2–0	Steaua București	Urziceni
20:30	Petre 18' Negru 46'			Stadium: Tineretului Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan

UEFA Champions League

Qualifying rounds

Second qualifying round

31 July 2007 First leg	Zagłębie Lubin	0–1	Steaua București	Lubin, Poland
20:45			54' Goian	Stadium: Górniczy Ośrodek Sportu Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Selçuk Dereli (Turkey)

8 August 2007 Second leg	Steaua București	2–1 (3–1 agg.)	Zagłębie Lubin	București, Romania
20:30	Nicoliță 38' Zaharia 82'		29' Stasiak	Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

Third qualifying round

15 August 2007 First leg	BATE Borisov	2–2	Steaua București	Borisov, Belarus
20:00	Radzkow 40' Bliznyuk 90+3'		58' Goian 84' Dică	Stadium: City Stadium Attendance: 4,300 Referee: Matteo Trefoloni (Italy)

29 August 2007 Second leg	Steaua București	2–0 (4–2 agg.)	BATE Borisov	București, Romania
20:30	Zaharia 12' Neaga 54'			Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 24,254 Referee: Pieter Vink (Netherlands)

Group stage

Group H standings
Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	SEV	ARS	SLV	STE
1	Sevilla	6	5	0	1	14	7	+7	15	Advance to knockout stage	—	3–1	4–2	2–1
2	Arsenal	6	4	1	1	14	4	+10	13	Advance to knockout stage	3–0	—	7–0	2–1
3	Slavia Prague	6	1	2	3	5	16	−11	5	Transfer to UEFA Cup	0–3	0–0	—	2–1
4	Steaua București	6	0	1	5	4	10	−6	1		0–2	0–1	1–1	—

Source: RSSSF

Results

19 September 2007 Matchday 1	Slavia Prague	2–1	Steaua București	Prague, Czech Republic
20:45	Šenkeřík 13' Belaid 63'		33' Goian	Stadium: Evžena Rošického Attendance: 15,723 Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)

2 October 2007 Matchday 2	Steaua București	0–1	Arsenal	București, Romania
21:45			76' van Persie	Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 12,807 Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)

23 October 2007 Matchday 3	Sevilla	2–1	Steaua București	Seville, Spain
20:45	Kanouté 5' Luís Fabiano 17'		63' Ov. Petre	Stadium: Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Attendance: 28,945 Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)

7 November 2007 Matchday 4	Steaua București	0–2	Sevilla	București, Romania
21:45			25', 65' Renato	Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 11,027 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)

27 November 2007 Matchday 5	Steaua București	1–1	Slavia Prague	București, Romania
21:45	Badea 12'		78' Šenkeřík	Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Alain Hamer (Luxembourg)

12 December 2007 Matchday 6	Arsenal	2–1	Steaua București	London, England
19:45	Diaby 8' Bendtner 42'		68' Zaharia	Stadium: Emirates Attendance: 59,786 Referee: Yuri Baskakov (Russia)

Staff

Management

Manager: Gheorghe Hagi (resigned), Massimo Pedrazzini (sacked), Marius Lăcătuș
Assistant managers: Mihai Teja, Ioan Nagy, Massimo Pedrazzini
Goalkeeping coach: Andrei Speriatu
Fitness Coach: Horea Codorean
Medic: Radu Paligora
Masseur: Cătălin Fandel

Administration

President: Valeriu Argăseală
Vicepresident: Iulian Ghiorghișor
Scouting manager: Mario Branco
Marketing director: Andreea Chiriloiu
Press Officer: Cătălin Făiniși
Team Manager: Marius Ianuli
Sporting Director: Adrian Ilie

Board Room

Chairman: George Becali
Vice-Chairman: Teia Sponte
Board Room Members: Lucian Becali, Vasile Geambazi
Censor: Victor Manole, Mariana Istudor
Supplementary Censors: Virgil Laurențiu Găman, Maria Apostoiu
Stock Holders: Vasile Geambazi (37%), Constantin Geambazi (30%), Cătălin Ciubotă (26%), Tomaida Bădescu (4%), Marius Ianuli (3%)^{[notes 4]}

Youth Centre staff

General manager: Leonard Strizu
Coordinator: Gigel Gheorghe
Physiotherapist: George Mărculescu
Fitness Coach: Ciprian Prună

Notes and references

Notes

^ Mihăiță Pleșan played 2 games for Politehnica Știința Timișoara in Liga I before signing and scored 3 goals.
^ Mihai Guriță played 4 games for FC Gloria Buzău in Liga I as a loaned by Steaua București and scored 0 goals.
^ Following 2-matchday suspension from previous season
^ It is assumed though that, given George Becali's influence over the club, these stock holders have been elected by Becali himself as trustworthy people.

References

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^ "FCSB >> Squad 2007/2008". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
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