2007–08 FC Steaua București season

Steaua București

2007–08 season
President	Valeriu Argăseală
Manager	Gheorghe Hagi Massimo Pedrazzini Marius Lăcătuș
Liga I	2nd
Cupa României	Round of 16
UEFA Champions League	Group stage, 4th
Top goalscorer	League: Nicolae Dică (9) All: Nicolae Dică (10)
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

This page covers all relevant details regarding FC Steaua București for all official competitions inside the 2007–08 season.

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
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Róbinson Zapata	42	0	33	0	0	0	9	0
3	DF		Dorin Goian	31	5	23	2	0	0	8	3
4	DF		Paweł Golański	27	1	21	1	2	0	4	0
5	DF		Ionuț Rada	28	1	17	1	1	0	10	0
6	MF		Mirel Rădoi	19	0	16	0	0	0	3	0
8	MF		Ovidiu Petre	35	3	26	2	0	0	9	1
9	FW		Valentin Badea	24	4	16	2	2	1	6	1
10	FW		Nicolae Dică	40	10	30	9	0	0	10	1
11	FW		Habib Habibou	8	1	8	1	0	0	0	0
12	GK		Cornel Cernea	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
13	DF		Ifeanyi Emeghara	18	0	12	0	1	0	5	0
15	DF		Mihai Neșu	26	0	21	0	0	0	5	0
16	MF		Bănel Nicoliță	35	4	27	3	0	0	8	1
17	DF		Eugen Baciu	17	0	14	0	2	0	1	0
18	DF		Petre Marin	26	0	18	0	1	0	7	0
20	MF		Florin Lovin	32	0	24	0	0	0	8	0
21	FW		Răzvan Ochiroșii	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	FW		Pepe Moreno	15	5	15	5	0	0	0	0
23	MF		Mihăiță Pleșan[1]	15	2	14	2	0	0	1	0
24	DF		Sorin Ghionea	12	1	12	1	0	0	0	0
25	FW		Adrian Neaga	35	4	26	3	1	0	8	1
27	FW		Dayro Moreno	11	5	11	5	0	0	0	0
29	FW		Andrés Mendoza	15	2	15	2	0	0	0	0
82	GK		Cosmin Vâtcă	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
84	FW		Romeo Surdu	20	0	12	0	2	0	6	0
Players sold or loaned out during the season
2	DF		Emil Ninu	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
7	MF		Eric Bicfalvi	15	1	9	1	2	0	4	0
11	MF		Gabriel Boștină	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
14	MF		Vasilică Cristocea	13	0	8	0	2	0	3	0
19	FW		Victoraș Iacob	12	2	7	2	1	0	4	0
26	MF		Marius Croitoru	21	0	12	0	1	0	8	0
26	FW		Dino Eze	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	MF		Valentin Bădoi	17	0	10	0	2	0	5	0
30	FW		Dorel Zaharia	22	7	14	1	2	3	6	3
31	DF		Alexandru Iacob	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	FW		Mihai Guriță[2]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Competitions

Liga I

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	CFR Cluj (C)	34	23	7	4	52	22	+30	76	2008–09 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Steaua București	34	23	6	5	51	19	+32	75	2008–09 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3	Rapid București	34	18	7	9	52	31	+21	61	2008–09 UEFA Cup First round	RAP: 7 pts DIN: 5 pts UNI: 3 pts
4	Dinamo București	34	17	10	7	55	36	+19	61
5	Unirea Urziceni	34	16	13	5	42	24	+18	61

Source: (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
notes
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Results

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Round 10 7 October 2007	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

Round 12 27 October 2007	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

Round 13 31 October 2007	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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Round 19 16 December 2007	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

Round 20 24 February 2008	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

Round 21 2 March 2008	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

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

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

Round 24 20 March 2008	Rapid București	0 – 3 Match awarded 3 – 0 to Steaua București due to forfeiture.	Steaua București	București
20:30				Stadium: Giulești Valentin Stănescu Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Alexandru Deaconu

Round 25 23 March 2008	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

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

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

Round 28 10 April 2008	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

Round 29 14 April 2008	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

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

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

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

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

Round 34 7 May 2008	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

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

Round of 16 6 December 2007	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

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

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

Third qualifying round

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

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

Group stage

Group H standings

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sevilla	6	5	0	1	14	7	+7	15
Arsenal	6	4	1	1	14	4	+10	13
Slavia Prague	6	1	2	3	5	16	-11	5
Steaua București	6	0	1	5	4	10	-6	1

Results

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

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

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

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

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

Matchday 6 12 December 2007	Arsenal	2 – 1	Steaua București	London
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 Naghi, 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

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%)^[4]

Youth Centre Staff

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

Notes and references

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