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U Olimpia Cluj
Universitatea Cluj logo.png
Full nameFotbal Club U Olimpia
Cluj-Napoca
Nickname(s)Studentele (The Students)
Founded7 July 2010;14 years ago (2010-07-07)
Ground Clujana / Cluj Arena
Capacity1,300 / 30,335
OwnerRadu Munteanu
ChairmanAlin Cioban
Manager Ioana Bortan
League Liga I
2023–24 Liga I, 2nd
Website Club website

Fotbal Club U Olimpia Cluj-Napoca, commonly known as FCU Olimpia Cluj, or simply as U Olimpia Cluj, is a women's football team from Cluj-Napoca in Romania. It is Romania's top women's football club, having won all league titles since its inception, and thus represents Romania year by year in the UEFA Women's Champions League. The club also gives a majority of the Romania women's national football team players.

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History

Founded on 7 July 2010 [1] at the initiative of Mirel Albon, Clujana's coach, due to increasingly divergent views with his club's owners, [2] [3] Olimpia started directly in Romania's top level women's league, as there was no second-level league at the time, and convincingly won the championship in its very first season. The team won all of its 24 matches which totaled a goal difference of 253–11 and wins as high as 26–0 and 27–0. [4] The title qualified them for the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League. In addition they won the Romanian cup that year too. [5] They went on to win all of the league titles since, and most of the domestic cups.

Olimpia had a partnership with the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, its rector, Radu Munteanu being for a period of time also Olimpia's chairman (president). [6] This partnership reflected in the team's name between 2012 and 2015. Since the 2018–19 season, the teams signed a partnership with FC Universitatea Cluj and has rebranded as "U" Olimpia Cluj. [7]

Chronology of names

PeriodFull Club NameShort name
2011–2012Clubul de Fotbal Feminin Olimpia Cluj-Napoca [8] Olimpia Cluj
2012–2015Clubul de Fotbal Feminin Olimpia Universitatea Tehnică Cluj-Napoca [9] [10] Olimpia UT Cluj
2015–2018Clubul de Fotbal Feminin Olimpia Cluj-NapocaOlimpia Cluj
2018–presentAsociația Fotbal Club Universitatea Olimpia Cluj [1] U Olimpia Cluj

Football Academy

Together with the club in 2010 the Olimpia Women's Football Academy was established, supported by a partnership with the city and the council. [11] The goal of south-east Europe's first female football academy is to advance women's football in Romania.

Honours

Leagues

Cups

Season by season

  Champions  Runners-up  Third place  Promoted  Relegated

SeasonDivisionTierPlace Cup WCL
1 2010–11 Liga I 11st W –
2 2011–12 Liga I, Seria Vest 11st W R32
3 2012–13 Liga I, Seria Vest 11st W R16
4 2013–14 Superliga 11st W Grp
5 2014–15 Superliga 11st W Grp
6 2015–16 Superliga 11st F R32
7 2016–17 Superliga 11st W Grp
8 2017–18 Liga I 11st QF R32
9 2018–19 Liga I 11st SF Grp
10 2019–20 Liga I 11st [lower-alpha 1] QF* Grp
11 2020–21 Liga I 11st W 2QR
12 2021–22 Liga I 11st W 1R
13 2022–23 Liga I 11st F 1R
14 2023–24 Liga I 12nd W 2R
15 2024–25 Liga I 1 –
  1. ↑ not crowned as Champions

Current squad

As of August 2021 [12]

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
2 DF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Sonia Bumbar
3 DF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Cristina Botojel
4 MF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Ioana Bortan (Captain)
7 MF Flag of Moldova.svg  MDA Carolina Țabur
9 MF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Mihaela Ciolacu
10 MF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Roxana Mirea
11 FW Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Mara Bâtea
12 GK Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Sara Câmpean
14 FW Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Adina Borodi
15 MF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Andreea Pînzariu
16 DF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Anamaria Salagean
17 DF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Varo Helga
No.Pos.NationPlayer
18 GK Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Alesia Moldovan
19 DF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Noemi Vincze
20 DF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Karina Bede
21 DF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Simona Sigheartau
22 DF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Maria Stamate
23 MF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Oana Negrea
31 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Erin Louise Seppi
44 DF Flag of France.svg  FRA Cloe Macuiba
77 MF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Florentina Iancu
88 DF Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Daiana Onet
90 FW Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Carmen Marcu
99 FW Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Ioana Nicoleta Balaceanu

Club officials

FC U Olimpia Cluj in Europe

In their first participation they started in the qualifying round of the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League. Already after two wins against Bosnian and Lithuanian opposition they qualified for the round of 32. [15]

UEFA Women's Cup / UEFA Women's Champions League
SeasonPreliminary stageRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemi-finalsFinal
2011–12 Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Sarajevo 1 Flag of France.svg Olympique
2012–13 Flag of Portugal.svg 1º Dezembro 1 Flag of Austria.svg Neulengbach Flag of Italy.svg Torres
2013–14 Flag of Serbia.svg Spartak 1
2014–15 Flag of Ireland.svg Raheny 1
2015–16 Flag of Slovenia.svg Pomurje 1 Flag of France.svg PSG
2016–17 Flag of Poland.svg Medyk 1
2017–18 Flag of Scotland.svg Hibernian 1 Flag of Sweden.svg Rosengård

1 Group stage. Highest-ranked eliminated team in case of qualification, lowest-ranked qualified team in case of elimination.

Notable former players

The footballers enlisted below have been called up or had international cap(s) for their respective countries at junior and/or senior level and/or more than 50 caps for U Olimpia Cluj.

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  2. ↑ "A câştigat 8 titluri cu o echipă feminină de fotbal şi are un mesaj pentru cei care trimit femeile la cratiţă. "Fetele obţin rezultate pentru că sunt mai ambiţioase"" [He won 8 titles with a women's football team and has a message for people who send their women to the kitchen: „Girls obtain results because they are more ambitious”]. adevarul.ro. 21 June 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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  9. ↑ "Archived official website" (in Romanian). 24 June 2013. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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  13. ↑ Board of directors
  14. ↑ Current staff
  15. ↑ "Rayo Vallecano and Olimpia Cluj celebrate". UEFA. 13 August 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
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