2001–02 Divizia A

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The 2001–02 Divizia A was the eighty-fourth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania. Season began in August 2001 and ended in May 2002. Dinamo București was crowned as champion for the 16th time.

Team changes

Relegated

The teams that were relegated to

Divizia B at the end of the previous season (note that although FCM Bacău lost the relegation play–off, it remained in the Divizia A, after it bought the first division place from the promoted team FC Baia Mare
):

The teams that were promoted from

Divizia B
at the start of the season:

Venues

Steaua București
FC U Craiova
 Rapid București FCM Bacău
Steaua Ion Oblemenco Giulești-Valentin Stănescu
Dumitru Sechelariu
Capacity: 28,365 Capacity: 25,252 Capacity: 19,100 Capacity: 17,500
Farul Constanța
 Dinamo București Argeș Pitești Sportul Studențesc
Gheorghe Hagi
Dinamo
 Municipal
Regie
Capacity: 15,520 Capacity: 15,032 Capacity: 15,000 Capacity: 15,000
Național București
Rapid
Sportul
Steaua
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Location of Bucharest teams. 		Petrolul Ploiești
Cotroceni
 Ilie Oană
Capacity: 14,542 Capacity: 14,000
Oțelul Galați
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
Oțelul
Ceahlăul
Capacity: 13,500 Capacity: 12,500
FC Brașov UM Timișoara Gloria Bistrița Astra Ploiești
Tineretului
 UMT
Gloria
 Astra
Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 9,900 Capacity: 7,800 Capacity: 7,000

Personnel and kits

Team Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt Sponsor
Argeș Pitești Romania Florin Halagian Romania Cristian Bălașa Erreà Dacia
Astra Ploiești Romania Gheorghe Mulțescu Romania Marin Dună Valsport Kronos
Brașov Romania Ferenc Bajkó Romania Cosmin Bodea Valsport Prescon
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
 Romania Marin Barbu Romania Florin Axinia Ancada Rifil
Dinamo București Romania Cornel Dinu Romania Ioan Lupescu / Giani Kiriță Lotto
Cosmorom
Farul Constanța
 Romania Petre Grigoraș Romania Vasilică Cristocea Erreà Cuget Liber
FC U Craiova
 Romania Florin Marin Romania Flavius Stoican Erreà Vincon
FCM Bacău Romania Gheorghe Poenaru Romania Radu Ciobanu Legea Sonoma
Gloria Bistrița Romania Constantin Cârstea Romania Vasile Popa Umbro Darimex
Național București
 Romania Cosmin Olăroiu Romania Ovidiu Petre Kappa —
Oțelul Galați
 Romania Marius Lăcătuș Romania Bogdan Andone Adidas Sidex
Petrolul Ploiești Romania Victor Roșca Romania Dinu Todoran Adidas Petrom
Rapid București Romania Mircea Rednic Romania Adrian Iencsi Erreà Connex
Sportul Studențesc Romania Ioan Andone Romania Romeo Pădureț Valsport Omniasig
Steaua București Romania Victor Pițurcă Romania Marius Baciu Adidas BCR
UM Timișoara Romania Gheorghe Staicu Romania Florian Călin Valsport UMT

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dinamo București (C) 30 17 9 4 63 33 +30 60 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2
Național București
 30 16 10 4 44 20 +24 58 Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
3 Rapid București[a] 30 15 6 9 50 31 +19 50[b]
4 Steaua București 30 15 5 10 47 31 +16 50[b]
5
Oțelul Galați
 30 14 7 9 34 24 +10 49
6 Bacău 30 14 4 12 43 40 +3 46
7
Universitatea Craiova
 30 12 8 10 40 35 +5 44
8
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
 30 13 4 13 35 37 −2 43
9 Gloria Bistrița 30 13 2 15 29 41 −12 41 Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
10 Argeș Pitești 30 11 7 12 36 39 −3 40
11 Brașov 30 10 9 11 33 34 −1 39
12
Astra Ploiești
 30 9 10 11 29 28 +1 37
13 Sportul Studențesc București 30 9 7 14 40 53 −13 34 Qualification to relegation play-offs
14
Farul Constanța
 30 8 8 14 32 44 −12 32
15 Petrolul Ploiești (R) 30 5 10 15 30 48 −18 25 Relegation to Divizia B
16 UM Timișoara (R) 30 3 6 21 24 71 −47 15
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. ^ Rapid București had 1 point deducted for walking off in round 13.
  2. ^ a b RAP 3-0 STE; STE 2-1 RAP

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
Național București
10159366554443222322332222111112
Rapid București222111111111334443223333443453
Sportul Studențesc București374947101112131515151315151414151514141414141414131313
Steaua București613422222334443234456766534334
UMT Timișoara151616161616161616161616161416161616161616161616161616161616
Source: LT
(in Romanian)

Results

Home \ Away ARG
AST
 BAC BRA
CEA
UCR
 DIN
FAR
 GBI
OȚE
 PET
NAT
 RAP SPO STE UMT
Argeș Pitești — 2–0 3–3 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–2 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–1 0–4 1–0 5–1 0–4 4–1
Astra Ploiești
 1–0 — 1–0 3–0 3–0 2–2 1–1 1–0 1–0 0–0 2–1 0–1 1–2 0–0 1–1 1–0
Bacău 2–0 2–1 — 2–0 1–1 0–0 4–2 3–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 1–5 1–0 2–2 0–1 1–0
Brașov 2–0 1–0 1–0 — 2–0 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 4–1 1–1 3–0 2–0 3–2 6–1
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 — 0–1 1–2 1–0 4–1 2–1 1–3 1–1 1–0 2–1 0–1 5–1
Universitatea Craiova
 1–0 1–0 3–0 0–0 0–1 — 0–2 3–0 4–0 1–0 0–2 2–1 2–2 3–0 2–0 0–0
Dinamo București 2–1 1–1 4–2 4–0 3–1 2–0 — 1–1 1–0 2–2 4–1 0–0 3–2 5–1 2–0 5–1
Farul Constanța
 1–0 3–2 2–3 1–1 1–2 5–3 2–2 — 1–0 0–2 2–1 0–3 1–3 0–0 0–2 3–0
Gloria Bistrița 2–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 2–0 1–2 1–2 2–1 — 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–1 4–1 2–1 3–1
Oțelul Galați
 2–1 0–0 2–1 3–0 0–0 2–1 2–1 0–0 1–0 — 0–0 2–0 2–0 4–2 1–0 2–1
Petrolul Ploiești 1–1 1–0 0–1 2–2 3–0 2–0 1–2 1–1 0–1 1–2 — 0–0 0–2 1–1 1–1 0–2
Național București
 1–2 2–1 2–1 1–0 3–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 1–1 2–2 — 1–0 1–1 3–2 3–0
Rapid București 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–1 1–3 3–2 2–2 2–1 5–0 2–1 4–1 0–0 — 1–0 3–0 6–0
Sportul Studențesc București 3–3 1–2 1–3 1–0 3–1 2–3 1–0 0–3 2–0 2–1 3–0 0–1 0–1 — 3–1 3–0
Steaua București 0–1 1–0 2–1 4–0 1–0 4–1 2–2 3–0 1–1 2–0 4–1 0–0 2–1 1–2 — 1–0
UMT Timișoara 1–1 1–1 2–4 2–1 0–1 1–1 0–3 0–2 4–1 0–1 2–2 0–1 0–3 3–3 0–3 —
Source: LT (in Romanian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion / relegation play-off

The teams placed on the 13th and 14th place in the

FC Baia Mare will still play in Liga II in the 2002–03 season.[2]

Team 1
Agg.
Tooltip Aggregate score 		Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Cimentul Fieni
 1–5
Sportul Studențesc
 		0–3 1–2
Farul Constanța
 		1–0
FC Baia Mare
 1–0 0–0
8 June 2002 Leg 1
Stadionul Cimentul
Bălan 36'
Mazilu 40'
Diniță 90'
8 June 2002 Leg 1
FC Baia Mare
Stadionul Farul
Voicu 35'
12 June 2002 Leg 2
Stadionul Regie
Bălan 24'
Diniță 54'		 Albulescu 44'
12 June 2002 Leg 2
Stadionul Viorel Mateianu

Top goalscorers

Position[3] Player Club Goals
1 Cătălin Cursaru Bacău 17
2 Claudiu Niculescu Dinamo București 15
Daniel Pancu Rapid București
4 Claudiu Răducanu Steaua București 14
5 Gheorghe Bucur
Sportul Studențesc
 13

Champion squad

Dinamo București[4]

Goalkeepers: Bogdan Lobonț (22 / 0); Florin Prunea (6 / 0); Alexandru Iliuciuc (2 / 0).
Defenders: Mugur Bolohan (26 / 5); Adrian Iordache (1 / 0); Sorin Iodi (11 / 0); Giani Kiriță (28 / 2); Valentin Năstase (13 / 2); Bogdan Onuț (27 / 2); Iosif Tâlvan (26 / 0); Marian Vătavu (11 / 0); Dorin Semeghin (13 / 1); Cristian Pulhac (1 / 0).
Midfielders: Romulus Buia (9 / 0); Constantin Ilie (10 / 0); Ioan Lupescu (7 / 0); Vlad Munteanu (19 / 5); Florin Pârvu (20 / 1); Răzvan Pădurețu (1 / 0); Florentin Petre (10 / 1); Cătălin Rață (1 / 0); Ovidiu Stîngă (18 / 0); Iulian Tameș (29 / 6); Ianis Zicu (16 / 2).
Forwards: Bogdan Aldea (1 / 0); Alexandru Bălțoi (4 / 0); Ionel Dănciulescu (13 / 3); Claudiu Drăgan (23 / 4); Sabin Ilie (7 / 3); Adrian Mihalcea (14 / 11); Claudiu Niculescu (28 / 15); Ciprian Marica (2 / 0).
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

Manager: Cornel Dinu / Marin Ion.

References

  1. ^ 2001–02 Divizia A at RomanianSoccer
  2. ^ 2001–02 Divizia A at RSSSF
  3. ^ "Top Scorers". www.romaniansoccer.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
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