2013–14 FC Steaua București season

The 2013–14 season was FC Steaua București's 66th season since its founding in 1947.

Steaua București

2013–14 season
President	Valeriu Argăseală
Manager	Laurențiu Reghecampf
Stadium	Arena Națională Stadionul Steaua
Liga I	Champions
Cupa României	Runners-up
Supercupa României	Winners
Champions League	Group stage, 4th
Top goalscorer	League: Federico Piovaccari (10) All: Federico Piovaccari (16)
Average home league attendance	9,611
Home colours Away colours

Season notes

During the season Alexandru Aldea changed his shirt number 18 with the number 31.

Alexandru Bourceanu was Steaua captain until was transferred to Trabzonspor, from round 20 to final season captain was Mihai Pintilii.

Players

First-team squad

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ROU Florin Niță 2 DF  ROU Cornel Râpă 4 DF  POL Łukasz Szukała 5 MF  ROU Mihai Pintilii (captain) 6 DF  ROU Florin Gardoș (3rd vice-captain) 7 MF  ROU Alexandru Chipciu (2nd vice-captain) 8 MF  ROU Lucian Filip 10 MF  ROU Cristian Tănase (vice-captain) 11 MF  ROU Andrei Prepeliță 12 GK  ROU Ciprian Tătărușanu 14 DF  ROU Iasmin Latovlevici 16 DF  ROU Gabriel Matei 17 DF  MKD Daniel Georgievski 18 MF  ROU Lucian Sânmărtean 22 DF  ROU Paul Pârvulescu

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 MF  ROU Nicolae Stanciu 25 FW  ITA Federico Piovaccari (on loan from Sampdoria) 26 MF  ROU Ionuț Neagu 27 MF  ROU Răzvan Grădinaru 28 FW  ROU Claudiu Keșerü 29 MF  ROU Alexandru Târnovan 30 MF  ROU Mihai Răduț 31 MF  ROU Alexandru Aldea 33 DF  CPV Fernando Varela 35 FW  GRE Pantelis Kapetanos 77 MF  ROU Adrian Popa 80 FW  ROU Gabriel Iancu 86 GK  MKD Martin Bogatinov 95 GK  ROU Valentin Cojocaru 97 MF  ROU Robert Vâlceanu

Youth players with first-team appearances

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ROU Alexandru Mitriță[1] (on loan from Viitorul Constanța)

In

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
—	MF		Mihai Onicaș	23	EU	Viitorul Constanța	Loan return	Summer	2014	—
1	GK		Florin Niță	25	EU	Concordia Chiajna	Free transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	—
23	MF		Nicolae Stanciu	20	EU	Vaslui	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	€700,000
30	MF		Mihai Răduț	23	EU	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Loan return	Summer	Undisclosed	—
25	FW		Federico Piovaccari	28	EU	Sampdoria	Loan	Summer	2014	Undisclosed
19	MF		Adrian Cristea	29	EU	Petrolul Ploiești	Free transfer	Summer	2015	—
33	DF		Fernando Varela	25	EU	Vaslui	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	€1,250,000	FCSB
26	MF		Ionuț Neagu	23	EU	Oțelul Galați	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	€620,000	FCSB
35	FW		Pantelis Kapetanos	30	EU	CFR Cluj	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	Free	FCSB
29	FW		Alexandru Târnovan	18	EU	Viitorul Constanța	Transfer	Winter	Undisclosed	Undisclosed	FCSB
28	FW		Claudiu Keșerü	27	EU	Bastia	Transfer	Winter	Undisclosed	Free	FCSB
31	MF		Alexandru Aldea	18	EU	Youth system	Promoted	Winter	Undisclosed	—
27	MF		Răzvan Grădinaru	18	EU	Youth system	Promoted	Winter	Undisclosed	—
97	MF		Robert Vâlceanu	16	EU	Youth system	Promoted	Winter	Undisclosed	—
86	GK		Martin Bogatinov	27	Non-EU	Karpaty Lviv	Free transfer	Winter	Undisclosed	—
18	MF		Lucian Sânmărtean	33	EU	Vaslui	Transfer	Winter	2015	€150,000

Out

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
99	FW		Adi Rocha	27	Non-EU	Gamba Osaka	End of contract	Summer	—	Gamba
—	MF		Mihai Onicaș	23	EU	Târgu Mureș	Loan	Summer	Free
1	GK		Răzvan Stanca	33	EU	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Mutual termination	Summer	—	Pandurii
24	FW		Raul Rusescu	25	EU	Sevilla	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	FCSB
19	DF		Valeriu Lupu	22	EU	Săgeata Năvodari	Loan	Summer	Free
28	MF		Iulian Roșu	19	EU	Clinceni	Loan	Summer	Free
25	MF		Cristian Pușcaș	19	EU	Clinceni	Loan	Summer	Free
27	MF		Ionuț Năstăsie	21	EU	Viitorul Constanța	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed
21	DF		Vlad Chiricheș	23	EU	Tottenham Hotspur	Transfer	Summer	€9,500,000	Tottenham
3	DF		Doru Bratu	24	EU	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Transfer	Winter	Free
19	MF		Adrian Cristea	30	EU	Concordia Chiajna	Released	Winter	—	FCSB
9	FW		Mihai Costea	27	EU	Voluntari	Out of team	Winter	—
20	FW		Leandro Tatu	31	Non-EU	Bangkok United	Mutual termination	Winter	—
90	FW		Stefan Nikolić	23	Non-EU	Incheon United	Mutual termination	Winter	—
55	MF		Alexandru Bourceanu	28	EU	Trabzonspor	Transfer	Winter	€1,300,000

Statistics

Goalscorers

Last updated on 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Player	Liga I	Cupa României	Supercupa României	Champions League	Total
Federico Piovaccari	10	2	0	4	16
Claudiu Keșerü	8	1	0	0	9
Adrian Popa	7	0	0	0	7
Alexandru Chipciu	6	1	0	0	7
Nicolae Stanciu	5	0	0	1	6
Fernando Varela	4	1	0	0	5
Łukasz Szukała	4	0	1	0	5
Pantelis Kapetanos	3	2	0	0	5
Iasmin Latovlevici	3	1	0	1	5
Cristian Tănase	2	2	0	1	5
Gabriel Iancu	2	0	0	2	4
Andrei Prepeliță	3	0	0	0	3
Florin Gardoș	2	0	0	0	2
Lucian Filip	2	0	0	0	2
Lucian Sânmărtean	2	0	0	0	2
Daniel Georgievski	1	1	0	0	2
Leandro Tatu	1	0	0	1	2
Mihai Răduț	0	2	0	0	2
Mihai Pintilii	0	0	1	1	2
Adrian Cristea	1	0	0	0	1
Robert Vâlceanu	1	0	0	0	1
Paul Pârvulescu	1	0	0	0	1
Alexandru Târnovan	0	1	0	0	1
Stefan Nikolić	0	0	1	0	1
Alexandru Bourceanu	0	0	0	1	1
Own goals
Adrian Puțanu	2	0	0	0	2
Collins Fai	1	0	0	0	1
Igor Pavlović	0	0	0	1	1

Competitions

Liga I

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Steaua București (C)	34	22	11	1	71	20	+51	77	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Astra Giurgiu	34	22	6	6	70	28	+42	72	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
3	Petrolul Ploiești	34	18	14	2	53	20	+33	68	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
4	Dinamo București	34	17	8	9	52	34	+18	59	[lower-alpha 1]
5	CFR Cluj	34	13	12	9	44	33	+11	51	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round

Source: Liga I (in Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion.
Notes:

1. Vaslui did not receive a license for financial reasons.[2] Dinamo București filed for insolvency, thus didn't get an UEFA licence. Cluj got their Europa League spot.[3]

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	22	11	1	71	20	+51	77	12	4	1	45	9	+36	10	7	0	26	11	+15

Last updated: 20 May 2014 (UTC).
Source: FCSB

Results by opponent

Team	Results				Points
	Home	Steaua goals	Away	Steaua goals
Astra Giurgiu	R19: 3–1	Ad. Popa  16', Gardoș  75', Piovaccari  82'	R2: 1–1	Varela  45+1'	4
Botoșani	R25: 4–0	Ad. Popa  12', Piovaccari  54', Pârvulescu  64', Tănase  68'	R8: 2–1	Szukała  22', Piovaccari  27'	6
Brașov	R29: 3–0	Latovlevici  43', Chipciu  77', Szukała  86'	R12: 2–1	Kapetanos  2', Gardoș  47'	6
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	R1: 2–1	Ad. Popa  20', Georgievski  27'	R18: 2–0	Ad. Popa  8', Stanciu  44'	6
CFR Cluj	R5: 3–0	Piovaccari  12', Ad. Popa  8', Tănase  60'	R22: 1–0	Chipciu  83'	6
Concordia Chiajna	R3: 4–0	Varela  9', Chipciu  32', 60', Sânmărtean  44' (pen.)	R20: 4–1	Chipciu  6', Sânmărtean  17' (pen.), Stanciu  50', Piovaccari  81'	6
Corona Brașov	R30: 3–0	Piovaccari  18', Chipciu  79', Keșerü  90+1'	R13: 1–1	Stanciu  72' (pen.)	4
Dinamo București	R21: 1–1	Keșerü  89'	R4: 2–1	Latovlevici  5', Fai  38' (o.g.)	4
Gaz Metan Mediaș	R23: 3–0	Keșerü  13', Piovaccari  66', Vâlceanu  90+2'	R6: 2–2	Filip  74', 82'	4
Oțelul Galați	R34: 2–2	Keșerü  68', 88'	R17: 1–1	Varela  37'	2
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	R32: 2–2	Keșerü  8' (pen.), Iancu  17'	R15: 1–1	Szukała  49'	2
Petrolul Ploiești	R16: 1–1	Prepeliță  45+3'	R33: 0–0	—	2
Poli Timișoara	R9: 3–0	Piovaccari  27', Stanciu  40', Ad. Popa  76'	R26: 0–0	—	4
Săgeata Năvodari	R7: 5–0	Piovaccari  4', Prepeliță  20', Ad. Cristea  41', Kapetanos  72' (pen.), 82'	R24: 2–1	Keșerü  33' (pen.), Varela  55'	6
Universitatea Cluj	R14: 2–0	Ad. Popa  45', Szukała  81'	R31: 1–0	Prepeliță  45+2'	6
Vaslui	R27: 0–1	—	R10: 1–0	Piovaccari  47'	3
Viitorul Constanța	R11: 4–0	Stanciu  9', Puțanu  11' (o.g.), 65' (o.g.), Leandro Tatu  85'	R28: 3–0	Latovlevici  39', Iancu  40', Keșerü  50'	6

Cupa României

Results

26 September 2013 Round of 32	Steaua București	4–0	Avântul Bârsana	Berceni
20:30	Răduț  19', 69' Kapetanos  63', 90'			Stadium: Berceni Referee: Dan Botescu

30 October 2013 Round of 16	Steaua București	2–0	Poli Timișoara	Bucharest
20:00	Georgievski  11' Piovaccari  74'			Stadium: Steaua Referee: Cătălin Găman

5 December 2013 Quarterfinals	Steaua București	2–0	Oțelul Galați	Bucharest
20:30	Piovaccari  46' Târnovan  84'			Stadium: Steaua Referee: Marius Avram

27 March 2014 Semifinals	Steaua București	5–2	Dinamo București	Bucharest
20:30	Latovlevici  22' Varela  39' Chipciu  43' Tănase  45+2' Keșerü  76'		32' Rotariu  53' Lazăr	Stadium: Arena Națională Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan

17 April 2014 Semifinals	Dinamo București	1–1 (3–6 agg.)	Steaua București	Bucharest
20:30	Matei  87'		22' Tănase	Stadium: Arena Națională Referee: István Kovács

23 May 2014 Final	Steaua București	0–0 (a.e.t.) (2–4 p)	Astra Giurgiu	Bucharest
21:00				Stadium: Arena Națională Attendance: 48,201[4] Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan
	Penalties
	Keșerü Varela Pintilii Szukała		Laban Júnior Morais Cristescu Budescu Yazalde

Supercupa României

Results

10 July 2013 Final	Steaua București	3–0	Petrolul Ploiești	Bucharest
20:45	Nikolić  21' Bourceanu 29' Szukała  32' Pintilii  41'	Report		Stadium: Arena Națională Attendance: 29,459 Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan

UEFA Champions League

Qualifying rounds

Second qualifying round

16 July 2013 First leg	Steaua București	3–0	Vardar Skopje	Bucharest
20:45	Tănase  12' Pintilii  21' Pavlović  45+2' (o.g.)	Report		Stadium: Arena Națională Attendance: 40,725[5] Referee: Radek Příhoda (Czech Republic)

23 July 2013 Second leg	Vardar Skopje	1–2 (1–5 agg.)	Steaua București	Skopje
21:45	Kostovski  45+1'	Report	24' Piovaccari  72' Bourceanu	Stadium: Philip II Arena Referee: Oleksandr Derdo (Ukraine)

Third qualifying round

30 July 2013 First leg	Dinamo Tbilisi	0–2	Steaua București	Tbilisi
19:00		Report	64', 80' Iancu	Stadium: Dinamo Arena Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)

6 August 2013 Second leg	Steaua București	1–1 (3–1 agg.)	Dinamo Tbilisi	Bucharest
20:45	Latovlevici  6'	Report	48' Ustaritz	Stadium: Arena Națională Referee: Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland)

Play-off round

21 August 2013 First leg	Steaua București	1–1	Legia Warsaw	Bucharest
21:45	Piovaccari  34'	Report	53' Kosecki	Stadium: Arena Națională Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)

27 August 2013 Second leg	Legia Warsaw	2–2 (3–3 a agg.)	Steaua București	Warsaw
21:45	Radović  27' Rzeźniczak  90+4'	Report	7' Stanciu  9' Piovaccari	Stadium: Pepsi Arena Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

Group stage

Group E standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Chelsea	6	4	0	2	12	3	+9	12	Advance to knockout phase
2	Schalke 04	6	3	1	2	6	6	0	10
3	Basel	6	2	2	2	5	6	−1	8	Transfer to Europa League
4	Steaua București	6	0	3	3	2	10	−8	3

Source:

Results

18 September 2013 Matchday 1	Schalke 04	3–0	Steaua București	Gelsenkirchen
21:45	Uchida  67' Boateng  78' Draxler  85'	Report		Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 49,358 Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey) Man of the Match: Kevin-Prince Boateng

1 October 2013 Matchday 2	Steaua București	0–4	Chelsea	Bucharest
21:45		Report	Ramires  20', 55' Georgievski  44' (o.g.) Lampard  90'	Stadium: Arena Națională Attendance: 36,713 Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain) Man of the Match: André Schürrle

22 October 2013 Matchday 3	Steaua București	1–1	Basel	Bucharest
21:45	Leandro Tatu  88'	Report	Díaz  48'	Stadium: Arena Națională Attendance: 23,899 Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia) Man of the Match: Marcelo Díaz

6 November 2013 Matchday 4	Basel	1–1	Steaua București	Basel
21:45	Sio  90+1'	Report	Piovaccari  17'	Stadium: St. Jakob-Park Attendance: 30,704 Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal) Man of the Match: Alexandru Bourceanu

26 November 2013 Matchday 5	Steaua București	0–0	Schalke 04	Bucharest
21:45		Report		Stadium: Arena Națională Referee: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands) Man of the Match: Jermaine Jones

11 December 2013 Matchday 6	Chelsea	1–0	Steaua București	London
21:45	Ba  10'	Report		Stadium: Stamford Bridge Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy) Man of the Match: Willian

Non competitive matches

Date	Team	Results			Steaua scorers
		Home	Away	Neutral
22 June 2013	Rubin Kazan			0–0
25 June 2013	Videoton			0–1
30 June 2013	Livingston			4–1	M. Costea  37', 56', Iancu  43', Jones  47' (o.g.)
2 July 2013	Notts County			2–0	Latovlevici  4', M. Costea  61'
6 July 2013	Sheffield Wednesday			1–1	Ad. Popa  20'
11 October 2013	Shakhtar Donetsk			1–4	M. Costea  66'
14 January 2014	1. FC Nürnberg			1–5	Neagu  74'
16 January 2014	Werder Bremen			0–0
18 January 2014	Luzern			0–1
20 January 2014	Union Berlin			1–1	Piovaccari  49'
22 January 2014	Baku			0–2
28 January 2014	Dynamo Kyiv			0–0
30 January 2014	IFK Göteborg			0–0
1 February 2014	Lokomotiv Plovdiv			1–2	Chipciu  2'
3 February 2014	Korona Kielce			3–1	Gardoș  21', Piovaccari  45', Stanciu  69'
5 February 2014	Elfsborg			0–0
19 March 2014	Clinceni			2–1	Iancu  16', Răduț  25'

See also

• 2013–14 Cupa României
• 2013–14 Liga I
• 2013–14 UEFA Champions League

Notes and references

1. Steaua București – Avântul Bârsana
2. "Oficial! Cine nu a primit licența pentru sezonul viitor". Retrieved 4 May 2014.
3. http://www.sport.ro/liga-1/adio-europa-comisia-de-apel-a-respins-cererea-clubului-pentru-licenta-dinamo-nu-joaca-in-europa-league.html
4. Giurgiuvenii, la primul trofeu din istorie!
5. "VIDEO+FOTO Brazilia roş-albastră » Steaua a intrat în istorie, obţinînd aseară succesul cu numărul 100 în Europa, 3–0 cu Vardar" (in Romanian). Gazeta Sporturilor. 17 July 2013.