CFR Cluj
Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj ('CFR' stands for Căile Ferate Române, meaning Romanian Railways) is a Romanian association football club from Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania. The club spent most of its history in the lower divisions. Great financial gains in 2002 led them to reach the Liga I in 2004. The following season, the CFR Cluj took part in the UEFA Intertoto Cup and finished as runners-up. For the first time in their history, the club won the Liga I in 2008. That season, they took the title away from the teams of Bucharest for the first time in 17 years. Since 2004, they have won the Liga I 3 times, the Romanian Cup 3 times and the Romanian Supercup twice.
The teams colours are purple and white, and their biggest rival is Universitatea Cluj.
Honours
change- Winners (7): 1946–47, 1982–83, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1995–96, 2001–02
- Runners-up (3): 1936–37, 1958–59, 1987–88
European competitions
changeTheir most recent appearance in a European competition was in the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League, in which they reached the third qualifying round.
Season | Competition | Round | Opponents | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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2005 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | First round | Vėtra | 3–2 | 4–1 | 7–3 |
Second round | Athletic Bilbao | 1–0 | (aet) 0–1 | 1–1 (5–3 p) | ||
Third round | Saint-Étienne | 1–1 | 2–2 | (a) 3–3 | ||
Semi–finals | Žalgiris Vilnius | 5–1 | 2–1 | 7–2 | ||
Finals | Lens | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2–4 | ||
2007–08 | UEFA Cup | Second qualifying round | Anorthosis | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–3 |
2008–09 | UEFA Champions League | Group A | Roma | 1–3 | 2–1 | 4th place |
Chelsea | 0–0 | 1–2 | ||||
Bordeaux | 1–2 | 0–1 | ||||
2009–10 | UEFA Europa League | Play-off round | Sarajevo | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 |
Group K | Copenhagen | 2–0 | 0–2 | 4th place | ||
PSV Eindhoven | 0–2 | 0–1 | ||||
Sparta Prague | 2–3 | 0–2 | ||||
2010–11 | UEFA Champions League | Group E | Basel | 2–1 | 0–1 | 4th place |
Roma | 1–1 | 1–2 | ||||
Bayern Munich | 0–4 | 2–3 | ||||
2012–13 | UEFA Champions League | Third qualifying round | Slovan Liberec | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 |
Play-off round | Basel | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | ||
Group H | Braga | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3rd place | ||
Manchester United | 1–2 | 1–0 | ||||
Galatasaray | 1–3 | 1–1 | ||||
2012–13 | UEFA Europa League | Round of 32 | Internazionale | 0–3 | 0–2 | 0–5 |
2014–15 | UEFA Europa League | Second qualifying round | Jagodina | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
Third qualifying round | Dinamo Minsk | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–3 |
Other websites
change- Official website (in Romanian)