2013–14 FC Steaua București season

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)
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This page covers all relevant details regarding FC Steaua București for all official competitions inside the 2013–14 season.

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. Position Player 1 GK Florin Niță 2 DF Cornel Râpă 4 DF Łukasz Szukała 5 MF Mihai Pintilii (captain) 6 DF Florin Gardoș (3rd vice-captain) 7 MF Alexandru Chipciu (2nd vice-captain) 8 MF Lucian Filip 10 MF Cristian Tănase (vice-captain) 11 MF Andrei Prepeliță 12 GK Ciprian Tătărușanu 14 DF Iasmin Latovlevici 16 DF Gabriel Matei 17 DF Daniel Georgievski 18 MF Lucian Sânmărtean 22 DF Paul Pârvulescu

No. Position Player 23 MF Nicolae Stanciu 25 FW Federico Piovaccari (on loan from Sampdoria) 26 MF Ionuț Neagu 27 MF Răzvan Grădinaru 28 FW Claudiu Keșerü 29 MF Alexandru Târnovan 30 MF Mihai Răduț 31 MF Alexandru Aldea 33 DF Fernando Varela 35 FW Pantelis Kapetanos 77 MF Adrian Popa 80 FW Gabriel Iancu 86 GK Martin Bogatinov 95 GK Valentin Cojocaru 97 MF 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. Position Player — MF Alexandru Mitriță[1] (on loan from Viitorul Constanța)

Transfers

In

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Ref.
—	MF		Onicaș, MihaiMihai Onicaș	23	EU	Viitorul Constanța	Loan return	Summer	2014	—
1	GK		Niță, FlorinFlorin Niță	25	EU	Concordia Chiajna	Free transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	—
23	MF		Stanciu, NicolaeNicolae Stanciu	20	EU	Vaslui	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	€700,000
30	MF		Răduț, MihaiMihai Răduț	23	EU	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Loan return	Summer	Undisclosed	—
25	FW		Piovaccari, FedericoFederico Piovaccari	28	EU	Sampdoria	Loan	Summer	2014	Undisclosed
19	MF		Cristea, AdrianAdrian Cristea	29	EU	Petrolul Ploiești	Free transfer	Summer	2015	—
33	DF		Varela, FernandoFernando Varela	25	EU	Vaslui	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	€1,250,000	FCSB
26	MF		Neagu, IonuțIonuț Neagu	23	EU	Oțelul Galați	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	€620,000	FCSB
35	FW		Kapetanos, PantelisPantelis Kapetanos	30	EU	CFR Cluj	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	Free	FCSB
29	FW		Târnovan, AlexandruAlexandru Târnovan	18	EU	Viitorul Constanța	Transfer	Winter	Undisclosed	Undisclosed	FCSB
28	FW		Keșerü, ClaudiuClaudiu Keșerü	27	EU	Bastia	Transfer	Winter	Undisclosed	Free	FCSB
31	MF		Aldea, AlexandruAlexandru Aldea	18	EU	Youth system	Promoted	Winter	Undisclosed	—
27	MF		Grădinaru, RăzvanRăzvan Grădinaru	18	EU	Youth system	Promoted	Winter	Undisclosed	—
97	MF		Vâlceanu, RobertRobert Vâlceanu	16	EU	Youth system	Promoted	Winter	Undisclosed	—
86	GK		Bogatinov, MartinMartin Bogatinov	27	Non-EU	Karpaty Lviv	Free transfer	Winter	Undisclosed	—
18	MF		Sânmărtean, LucianLucian Sânmărtean	33	EU	Vaslui	Transfer	Winter	2015	€150,000

Out

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
99	FW		Rocha, AdiAdi Rocha	27	Non-EU	Gamba Osaka	End of contract	Summer	—	Gamba
—	MF		Onicaș, MihaiMihai Onicaș	23	EU	ASA Târgu Mureș	Loan	Summer	Free
1	GK		Stanca, RăzvanRăzvan Stanca	33	EU	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Mutual termination	Summer	—	Pandurii
24	FW		Rusescu, RaulRaul Rusescu	25	EU	Sevilla	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	FCSB
19	DF		Lupu, ValeriuValeriu Lupu	22	EU	Săgeata Năvodari	Loan	Summer	Free
28	MF		Roșu, IulianIulian Roșu	19	EU	Clinceni	Loan	Summer	Free
25	MF		Pușcaș, CristianCristian Pușcaș	19	EU	Clinceni	Loan	Summer	Free
27	MF		Năstăsie, IonuțIonuț Năstăsie	21	EU	Viitorul Constanța	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed
21	DF		Chiricheș, VladVlad Chiricheș	23	EU	Tottenham Hotspur	Transfer	Summer	€9,500,000	Tottenham
3	DF		Bratu, DoruDoru Bratu	24	EU	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Transfer	Winter	Free
19	MF		Cristea, AdrianAdrian Cristea	30	EU	Concordia Chiajna	Released	Winter	—	FCSB
9	FW		Costea, MihaiMihai Costea	27	EU	Voluntari	Out of team	Winter	—
20	FW		Tatu, LeandroLeandro Tatu	31	Non-EU	Bangkok United	Mutual termination	Winter	—
90	FW		Nikolić, StefanStefan Nikolić	23	Non-EU	Incheon United	Mutual termination	Winter	—
55	MF		Bourceanu, AlexandruAlexandru 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) (Q)	34	22	11	1	71	20	+51	77	2014–15 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Astra Giurgiu	34	22	6	6	70	28	+42	72	2014–15 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
3	Petrolul Ploiești	34	18	14	2	53	20	+33	68	2014–15 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round

Updated to games played on 20 May 2014 (UTC).
Source: Liga I
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) = 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 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.), Tatu  85'	R28: 3–0	Latovlevici  39', Iancu  40', Keșerü  50'	6

Cupa României

Results

Steaua București v Avântul Bârsana

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

Steaua București v Poli Timișoara

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

Steaua București v Oțelul Galați

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

Steaua București v Dinamo București

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

Dinamo București v Steaua București

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

Steaua București v Astra Giurgiu

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[2] Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan
		Penalties
	Keșerü Varela Pintilii Szukała		Laban Júnior Morais Cristescu Budescu Yazalde

Supercupa României

Results

Steaua București v Petrolul Ploiești

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

Steaua București v Vardar Skopje

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[3] Referee: Radek Příhoda (Czech Republic)

Vardar Skopje v Steaua București

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

Dinamo Tbilisi v Steaua București

30 July 2013 First leg	Dinamo Tbilisi	0–2	Steaua București	Tbilisi
19:00	Xisco 61'	Report	64', 80' Iancu	Stadium: Dinamo Arena Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)

Steaua București v Dinamo Tbilisi

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

Steaua București v Legia Warsaw

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)

Legia Warsaw v Steaua București

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

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Chelsea	6	4	0	2	12	3	+9	12
Schalke 04	6	3	1	2	6	6	0	10
Basel	6	2	2	2	5	6	−1	8
Steaua București	6	0	3	3	2	10	−8	3

Results

Schalke 04 v Steaua București

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

Steaua București v Chelsea

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

Steaua București v Basel

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

Basel v Steaua București

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

Steaua București v Schalke 04

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

Chelsea v Steaua București

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	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	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. Giurgiuvenii, la primul trofeu din istorie!
3. "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.