2000–01 Divizia A

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The 2000–01 Divizia A was the eighty-third season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania. Season began in August 2000 and ended in May 2001. Steaua București was crowned as champion for the 21st time.

Team changes

Relegated

The teams that were relegated to

Divizia B
at the end of the previous season:

The teams that were promoted from

Divizia B
at the start of the season:

Venues

Steaua București
Universitatea Craiova
 Rapid București FCM Bacău
Steaua Ion Oblemenco Giulești-Valentin Stănescu
Municipal
Capacity: 28,365 Capacity: 25,252 Capacity: 19,100 Capacity: 17,500
Dinamo București Argeș Pitești
Național București
 Petrolul Ploiești
Dinamo
 Municipal
Cotroceni
 Ilie Oană
Capacity: 15,032 Capacity: 15,000 Capacity: 14,542 Capacity: 14,000
Oțelul Galați
Rapid
Rocar
Steaua
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Location of Bucharest teams.
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
Oțelul
Ceahlăul
Capacity: 13,500 Capacity: 12,500
Foresta Fălticeni FC Brașov
Areni
Tineretului
Capacity: 12,500 Capacity: 10,000
Gloria Bistrița Astra Ploiești Gaz Metan Mediaș Rocar București
Gloria
 Astra
Gaz Metan
 Rocar
Capacity: 7,800 Capacity: 7,000 Capacity: 6,000 Capacity: 6,000

Personnel and kits

Team Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt Sponsor
Argeș Pitești Romania Marian Bondrea Romania Cristian Bălașa Erreà Dacia
Astra Ploiești Romania Marin Ion Romania Bogdan Nicolae Joma Astra Română, Asirom
Brașov Romania Gabriel Stan Romania Cosmin Bodea Valsport Prescon
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
 Romania Florin Marin Romania Radu Lefter Ancada Rifil
Dinamo București Romania Cornel Dinu
Cătălin Hâldan / Adrian Mihalcea
 Lotto
Cosmorom
Universitatea Craiova
 Romania Nicolae Ungureanu Romania Claudiu Niculescu Erreà Vincon
FCM Bacău Romania Gheorghe Poenaru Romania Marius Gireadă Legea Sonoma
Foresta Suceava Romania Marin Barbu Romania Ovidiu Ciobanu Ancada —
Gaz Metan Mediaș Romania Silviu Dumitrescu Romania Flavius Șomfălean Joma Transgaz
Gloria Bistrița Romania Constantin Cârstea Romania Vasile Popa Ancada Darimex
Național București
 Romania Cosmin Olăroiu Romania Cătălin Liță Kappa —
Oțelul Galați
 Romania Ilie Dumitrescu Romania Cătălin Tofan Adidas Sidex
Petrolul Ploiești Romania Victor Roșca Romania Dinu Todoran Adidas Petrom
Rapid București Romania Mircea Rednic Romania Nicolae Stanciu Erreà Connex
Rocar București Romania Dumitru Dumitriu Romania Cornel Cristescu Erreà Fulbier
Steaua București Romania Victor Pițurcă Romania Miodrag Belodedici Adidas BCR

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Steaua București (C) 30 17 9 4 56 32 +24 60 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2 Dinamo București 30 15 6 9 56 44 +12 51 Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
3 Brașov 30 15 5 10 33 25 +8 50
4 Rapid București 30 13 10 7 38 25 +13 49
5 Argeș Pitești 30 12 10 8 42 42 0 46
6 Gloria Bistrița 30 13 4 13 44 42 +2 43[a] Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
7
Național București
 30 13 4 13 40 40 0 43[a]
8
Universitatea Craiova
 30 11 8 11 34 38 −4 41 Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
9 Petrolul Ploiești 30 12 4 14 34 36 −2 40[b]
10
Astra Ploiești
 30 11 7 12 41 36 +5 40[b]
11
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
 30 9 11 10 36 41 −5 38[c]
12
Oțelul Galați
 30 10 8 12 33 39 −6 38[c]
13 Foresta Fălticeni (R) 30 8 12 10 39 43 −4 36 Qualification to relegation play-offs
14 Bacău 30 9 7 14 38 45 −7 34[d]
15 Rocar București (R) 30 10 4 16 41 56 −15 34[d] Relegation to Divizia B
16 Gaz Metan Mediaș (R) 30 3 9 18 21 42 −21 18
Source: LT (in Romanian)
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) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b GLO 3-0 PRO; PRO 0-3 GLO
  2. ^ a b AST 0-0 PET; PET 3-1 AST
  3. ^ a b OTE 1-1 CEA; CEA 0-0 OTE
  4. ^ a b BAC 3-0 ROC; ROC 2-0 BAC

Promotion / relegation play-off

Team 1
Agg.
Tooltip Aggregate score 		Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Farul Constanța
 		3–3 (4–3
p
) 		FCM Bacău 2–1 1–2 (
a.e.t.
)
FC Baia Mare
 2–2 (a) Foresta Fălticeni 1–0 1–2

Note:

FC Baia Mare sold their 2001–02 Divizia A place to FCM Bacău
.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
Național București
12121415131512131414141214111314131415141414131113128787
Rapid București448118111188987788674844445555544
Rocar București61267396689131012991011121313131412141414151415
Steaua București751111112211111111111111111111
Source: LT
(in Romanian)

Results

Home \ Away ARG
AST
 BAC BRA
CEA
UCR
 DIN FOR GAZ GBI
OȚE
 PET
NAT
 RAP ROC
STE
Argeș Pitești — 4–2 2–2 1–0 2–1 3–0 1–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 1–0 3–1 0–2 1–0 1–1
Astra Ploiești
 2–0 — 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–0 4–3 3–0 3–1 2–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–2 3–0
Bacău 3–1 2–1 — 1–1 1–0 3–1 1–1 1–1 2–1 2–0 4–2 1–2 3–2 0–2 3–0 0–2
Brașov 0–0 1–0 2–0 — 1–1 1–2 1–0 3–1 2–0 2–0 0–0 1–0 3–2 1–0 2–0 2–2
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
 3–0 0–0 3–0 2–1 — 1–4 3–3 1–1 1–1 3–2 0–0 1–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 0–3
Universitatea Craiova
 1–1 0–2 1–0 1–0 1–1 — 1–3 1–0 2–1 2–4 3–1 2–0 2–0 0–0 3–1 1–0
Dinamo București 2–1 3–2 2–0 2–0 2–2 3–1 — 4–5 4–2 3–1 1–2 2–3 1–0 0–0 2–0 1–0
Foresta Fălticeni 2–2 4–2 1–1 1–0 3–0 0–0 0–1 — 0–0 2–0 1–1 3–1 0–1 1–0 4–1 1–1
Gaz Metan Mediaș 2–2 0–0 0–0 0–1 3–0 1–0 0–2 1–1 — 2–1 0–0 0–1 1–2 0–0 1–1 1–3
Gloria Bistrița 2–2 4–3 2–1 1–0 2–0 1–1 3–1 3–2 1–0 — 2–0 2–0 3–0 0–1 2–0 1–1
Oțelul Galați
 4–1 1–0 2–1 3–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 3–0 2–0 — 0–2 1–2 1–4 2–1 0–1
Petrolul Ploiești 2–3 3–1 3–1 0–1 2–1 1–0 3–1 0–0 1–0 3–0 0–1 — 2–0 1–2 1–1 1–1
Național București
 3–0 2–0 2–1 0–1 1–0 1–1 1–3 5–0 1–0 0–3 1–0 2–0 — 2–1 2–1 1–2
Rapid București 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–3 1–1 1–1 2–2 4–1 2–1 1–0 2–1 3–1 2–2 — 2–3 1–1
Rocar București 1–0 1–0 2–0 1–2 1–4 2–0 1–3 3–2 2–1 4–3 1–3 4–1 2–2 0–2 — 4–5
Steaua București
 3–3 1–3 4–3 1–0 3–0 3–1 4–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 5–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–1 —
Source: LT (in Romanian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Position[2] Player Club Goals
1 Marius Niculae Dinamo București 20
2 Cătălin Cursaru Bacău 15
3 Claudiu Niculescu
Universitatea Craiova
 14
Robert Niță Foresta Fălticeni / Rapid București
5 Constantin Bârsan
Gloria Bistrița
 13
Daniel Pancu Rapid București
7 Claudiu Răducanu Steaua București 12

Champion squad

Steaua București[3]

Goalkeepers: Martin Tudor (30 / 0); Tiberiu Lung (1 / 0); Eugen Nae (1 / 0).
Defenders: Marius Baciu (23 / 1); Daniel Bălan (9 / 0); Miodrag Belodedici (14 / 1); Valeriu Bordeanu (5 / 0); Florentin Dumitru (28 / 1); Albert Duro Albania (3 / 0); Dumitru Mitriță (14 / 0); Iulian Miu (16 / 0); Mirel Rădoi (25 / 1); Pompiliu Stoica (29 / 1); Marius Vintilă (1 / 0).
Midfielders: Sorin Paraschiv (23 / 2); Eugen Trică (26 / 7); Stelian Carabaș (11 / 0); Nana Falemi Cameroon (25 / 3); Ovidiu Iacov (2 / 1); Erik Lincar (21 / 1); Cătălin Liță (14 / 1).
Forwards: Cristian Ciocoiu (24 / 3); Ionel Dănciulescu (27 / 6); Radu Niculescu (10 / 3); Claudiu Răducanu (24 / 12); Ion Vlădoiu (13 / 10); Alexandru Pițurcă (1 / 1); Daniel Oprița (1 / 0).
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

Manager: Victor Pițurcă.

References

  1. ^ 2000–01 Divizia A
  2. ^ "Top Scorers". www.romaniansoccer.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
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