CS Luceafărul Oradea

Luceafărul Oradea

Full name	Clubul Sportiv Luceafărul Oradea
Nickname(s)	Luceferii
Short name	Luceafărul
Founded	2001 (2001)
Ground	Iuliu Bodola
Ground Capacity	18,000 (11,155 seated)
Owners	Ioan Blidaru Gavrilă Ghilea
Chairman	Dumitru Ghilea
Manager	Cornel Țălnar
League	Liga II
2016–17	Liga II, 10th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

CS Luceafărul Oradea is a Romanian professional football club from Oradea, Bihor County, founded in 2001. The team currently plays in Liga II.

History

Founded in 2001, at the initiative of several parents whose children had no future at FC Bihor, Luceafărul was grown by the former Prefect of Bihor County, Gavrilă Ghilea, former boss of FC Bihor. The Oradea team grew step by step, and from the training of children they have now reached a professional status. Four seasons ago Luceafărul merged with Lotus Băile Felix and after a perfect season, they managed to promote to the Liga II. The miracle did not last long, because the lack of money lead to the withdrawal of the team from the championship.

Started in the 2007–08 season with head coach Lucian Ciscan, Luceafărul Lotus Băile Felix had earned the promotion to the Liga II at the end of the season, but they announced their withdrawal due to financial reasons. A group of businessmen from Bacău decided to form a new team to occupy the vacant spot. Thus, Ştiinţa Bacău was born.^[1]

In February 2009 business man Giani Nedelcu joined with Mircea Crainiciuc and refunded back the club dissolved last summer, Luceafărul Lotus Băile Felix, and took Ştiinţa's place in the championship. But until the end of the season, they continued to play under the name of Ştiinţa Bacău.^[2]

On June 3, Mircea Crainiciuc announced that the club withdrew from the championship because of financial reasons. They will lose their remaining 3 matches from the Liga II 2008-09 season with 3–0 and will be relegated to the Liga III.^[3] But we will have to see if Luceafărul Lotus will start in the championship next season, if not, this means the club's 2nd dissolution in less than a year.

After two seasons the club promoted back to the Liga II, at the end of the 2010–11 Liga III season. A new head coach was hired in summer 2011, the Brașov born Călin Moldovan. On December 9, 2011 he was fired^[4] and replaced with Leontin Grozavu.^[5]

It finished 6th in the 2011–12 Liga II and 10th in the 2012–13 Liga II.

On July 10, 2013 it was announced that Luceafărul withdrew from the Liga II and will enroll in the Liga IV for the 2013–14 season.^[6]

At the end of the 2014–2015 Liga IV season, Luceafărul promoted back to Liga III.^[7]

At the end of the 2015–16 Liga III season, Luceafărul promoted to Liga II, after a single Liga III season.^[8]

Stadiums

Stadionul Iuliu Bodola

The club used to play its home matches on Stadionul Luceafărul from Sânmartin, Bihor, with a capacity of 2,200 seats.

In April 2017 the club moved for its official matches from Stadionul Luceafărul to Stadionul Iuliu Bodola from Oradea a stadium with a capacity of 11,155, the biggest of Bihor County and with not so much activity after the dissolution of FC Bihor Oradea. Stadionul Luceafărul is still used for trainings, friendly matches or matches of the youth academy teams.^[9]

Honours

Liga III

Winners (3): 2007–08, 2010–11, 2015–16

Runners-up (1): 2006–07

Liga IV-Bihor County

Winners (2): 2008–09, 2014–15

Players

First team squad

As of 11 August 2017

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Ionuț Poiană (on loan from Steaua) 2 DF Lucian Asanache (on loan from Concordia) 3 DF Marius Tomozei 4 DF Ionuţ Ban 5 MF Paul Chiş-Toie 6 DF Alin Mutu 7 DF Adrian Balea 8 MF Marius Feher 9 FW Marius Matei 10 MF Claudiu Codoban 11 FW Constantin Roşu (Captain) 12 GK Răzvan Began 13 MF Iulian Cuc

No. Position Player 14 FW Andrei Herghelegiu 16 DF Daniel Groza (on loan from Dinamo) 17 MF Petre Goge 18 DF Alexandru Iacob 19 DF Andrei Cordoș 20 MF Alin Ţegle 21 MF Adrian Bedea 22 MF Paul Păcurar 29 GK Alin Goia — DF Sergiu Bactăr — DF Flaviu Drăgan — MF Christopher Sas

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Club Officials

Board of directors Role Name Owners Ioan Blidaru Gavrilă Ghilea President Dumitru Ghilea Executive Director Cristian Sabău Sporting Director Cristian Lupuț Organizer of Competitions Cristian Pirtea

Current technical staff Role Name Manager Cornel Țălnar Assistant Manager Florentin Petre Goalkeeping Coach Ioan Pap-Deac Kinetotherapist Cristian Gurău

References