2004–05 Divizia A

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The 2004–05 Divizia A was the eighty-seventh season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania. Season began in July 2004 and ended in June 2005. Steaua București became champions on 11 June 2005.

Team changes

Relegated

The teams that were relegated to the

Divizia B
at the end of the previous season:

The teams that were promoted from the

Divizia B
at the start of the season:

Venues

Politehnica Timișoara Steaua București
Universitatea Craiova
 Rapid București
Dan Păltinișanu
 Steaua Ion Oblemenco Giulești-Valentin Stănescu
Capacity: 32,972 Capacity: 28,365 Capacity: 25,252 Capacity: 19,100
Apulum Alba Iulia
 FCM Bacău
Farul Constanța
 Dinamo București
Victoria-Cetate
Municipal
 Gheorghe Hagi
Dinamo
Capacity: 18,000 Capacity: 17,500 Capacity: 15,520 Capacity: 15,032
Argeș Pitești
Rapid
Sportul
Steaua
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Location of Bucharest teams.
Național București
Nicolae Dobrin
Cotroceni
Capacity: 15,000 Capacity: 14,542
Oțelul Galați
 Politehnica Iași
Oțelul
Emil Alexandrescu
Capacity: 13,500 Capacity: 11,390
Sportul Studențesc CFR Cluj FC Brașov Gloria Bistrița
Regie
CFR
Tineretului
Gloria
Capacity: 10,020 Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 7,800

Personnel and kits

Team Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt Sponsor
Apulum Alba Iulia
 Romania Marcel Rusu Romania Vasile Jercălău Lotto Bergenbier
Argeș Pitești Romania Sorin Cârțu Romania Marius Radu Erreà Pic
Brașov Romania Ferenc Bajkó Romania Cosmin Bodea Joma Prescon
CFR Cluj Romania Aurel Șunda Romania Vasile Jula Erreà EnergoBit, Opel Ecomax
Dinamo București Romania Ioan Andone Romania Florentin Petre Lotto Omniasig
Farul Constanța
 Romania Petre Grigoraș Romania George Curcă Lotto SNC
Universitatea Craiova
 Romania Eugen Neagoe Romania Corneliu Papură Erreà Golden Brau
FCM Bacău Romania Cristian Popovici Romania Ștefan Apostol Legea Letea, Sonoma
Gloria Bistrița Romania Constantin Cârstea Romania Cristian Coroian Erreà Darimex
Național București
 Italy Roberto Landi Romania Adrian Olah Nike Ford
Oțelul Galați
 Romania Mihai Stoichiță Romania Viorel Tănase Lotto Ispat Sidex
Politehnica Iași Romania Ionuț Popa Romania Dorel Bernard Lotto / Erreà Omniasig
Politehnica Timișoara Romania Cosmin Olăroiu Romania Cosmin Contra Lotto Balkan Petroleum
Rapid București Romania Răzvan Lucescu Romania Vasile Maftei Lotto Lukoil
Sportul Studențesc Romania Dan Petrescu Romania Tiberiu Bălan Lotto —
Steaua București Romania Dumitru Dumitriu Romania Mirel Rădoi Nike —

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Steaua București (C) 30 19 6 5 47 18 +29 63 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2 Dinamo București 30 20 2 8 60 30 +30 62 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3 Rapid București 30 16 9 5 51 27 +24 57[a] Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
4
Național București
 30 17 6 7 50 33 +17 57[a]
5
Farul Constanța
 30 15 7 8 42 28 +14 52
6
Politehnica Timișoara
 30 13 6 11 37 34 +3 45[b]
7 Sportul Studențesc București 30 12 9 9 37 27 +10 45[b]
8
Oțelul Galați
 30 12 4 14 33 44 −11 40
9 Politehnica Iași 30 10 8 12 28 41 −13 38
10 Argeș Pitești 30 8 12 10 32 37 −5 36[c]
11 CFR Cluj 30 9 9 12 31 32 −1 36[c] Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
12 FCM Bacău 30 8 9 13 20 28 −8 33
13 Gloria Bistrița 30 9 5 16 38 46 −8 32 Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
14
Apulum Alba Iulia
(R) 		30 6 8 16 28 62 −34 26 Relegation to Divizia B
15 Brașov (R) 30 5 6 19 28 45 −17 21
16
Universitatea Craiova
(R) 		30 4 8 18 24 54 −30 20
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 RAP 3–0 PRO; PRO 3–3 RAP
  2. ^ a b TIM 2–0 SPO; SPO 0–0 TIM
  3. ^ a b ARG 2–0 CFR; CFR 1–1 ARG

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
Politehnica Timișoara
13161615159111314111314121413121110797667666666
Source: LT
(in Romanian)

Results

Home \ Away
AAI
 ARG BAC BRA CFR
FCU
 DIN
FAR
 GBI
OȚE
 PIA
NAT
 RAP SPO STE
TIM
Apulum Alba Iulia
 — 1–3 0–0 1–0 2–4 1–0 1–3 2–3 1–1 0–4 2–1 0–1 1–1 0–4 1–1 2–1
Argeș Pitești 1–1 — 0–0 0–1 2–0 1–1 0–1 1–1 4–3 1–1 3–0 0–1 0–0 2–2 2–2 0–0
Bacău 0–0 1–0 — 0–0 2–0 1–1 0–2 1–0 3–0 1–0 0–1 1–0 2–1 1–1 2–2 2–1
Brașov 4–1 0–1 0–0 — 2–2 1–3 1–1 1–0 1–3 2–1 1–2 1–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
CFR Cluj 2–1 5–1 2–0 2–1 — 3–1 4–2 2–0 3–2 1–0 2–1 4–1 3–1 6–1 3–2 2–1
Universitatea Craiova
 1–2 1–2 1–1 1–3 3–2 — 0–1 0–0 1–1 0–6 0–0 3–0 2–0 0–1 0–1 0–1
Dinamo București 4–2 4–0 3–0 3–1 4–0 5–0 — 2–0 4–1 4–0 2–0 0–1 2–2 2–1 0–1 1–0
Farul Constanța
 4–0 3–0 1–0 3–2 0–1 2–1 1–0 — 1–0 2–0 2–1 2–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 4–0
Gloria Bistrița 6–1 3–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 4–3 0–1 1–2 — 3–0 2–2 0–0 0–2 0–5 0–2 0–0
Oțelul Galați
 2–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 1–2 0–0 2–0 1–0 2–1 — 1–0 0–2 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–0
Politehnica Iași 1–0 1–1 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 2–3 2–2 1–0 1–0 — 1–2 1–2 1–3 0–0 3–2
Național București
 3–0 2–1 2–1 2–1 2–2 3–1 5–1 2–2 1–0 0–0 6–0 — 3–3 2–1 1–0 1–2
Rapid București 2–2 3–2 2–0 2–0 3–0 4–0 2–1 3–1 3–1 3–0 2–0 3–0 — 3–0 2–1 0–3
Sportul Studențesc București 1–2 0–0 1–0 2–0 2–1 2–0 0–1 1–1 1–0 3–2 1–1 1–0 0–0 — 1–2 0–0
Steaua București 3–0 2–0 2–0 3–2 1–0 5–0 1–0 3–1 2–0 1–0 0–1 5–1 0–0 1–0 — 2–1
Politehnica Timișoara
 1–1 0–2 2–1 2–1 3–0 2–0 2–3 1–0 2–1 2–1 2–0 1–4 1–1 2–0 1–1 —
Source: LT (in Romanian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Attendances

Pos Team Total High Low Average Change
1 Politehnica Timișoara 270,000 40,000 5,000 18,000 −22.6%†
2 Steaua București 227,000 25,000 0 15,133 +26.1%2,5
3
Universitatea Craiova
 163,650 30,000 150 10,910 −8.7%4
4 Politehnica Iași 131,000 15,000 4,000 8,733 n/a1
5 Rapid București 119,000 15,000 0 7,933 −6.7%6
6 CFR Cluj 102,000 12,000 1,000 6,800 n/a1
7
Apulum Alba Iulia
 80,500 14,000 1,500 5,366 −34.0%†
8 Dinamo București 76,500 15,000 1,000 5,100 −33.5%†
9 Argeș Pitești 73,000 17,000 500 4,866 +23.3%†
10
Farul Constanța
 71,950 20,000 150 4,796 +24.2%†
11
Oțelul Galați
 57,400 14,000 400 3,826 −40.5%3
12 FC Brașov 48,800 15,000 300 3,253 −30.3%†
13 Sportul Studențesc București 46,400 15,000 400 3,093 n/a1
14
Național București
 40,000 12,000 200 2,666 +18.0%†
15 FCM Bacău 38,150 7,000 150 2,543 −58.8%†
16 Gloria Bistrița 30,000 10,000 300 2,000 −25.7%†
League total 1,575,350 40,000 0 6,563 −9.7%†

Updated to games played on 16 August 2019
Source: League matches: Divizia A 2004/2005
Notes:
1: Played last season in Divizia B.
2: Steaua București played 1 match out of their stadium.
3: Oțelul Galați played 1 match out of their stadium.
4: Universitatea Craiova played 1 match out of their stadium.
5: Steaua București played 1 game behind closed doors.
6: Rapid București played 1 game behind closed doors.

Top goalscorers

Position[2] Player Club Goals
1 Gheorghe Bucur
Sportul Studențesc
 21
Claudiu Niculescu Dinamo București
3 Daniel Niculae Rapid București 14
4 Cristian Coroian Gloria Bistrița 13
Victoraș Iacob
Oțelul Galați
6 Gabriel Caramarin
Politehnica Timișoara
 12
7 Adrian Anca CFR Cluj 11
Ionel Dănciulescu Dinamo București
Nicolae Dică Steaua București

Champion squad

Steaua București[3]

Goalkeepers: Vasil Khamutowski Belarus (12 / 0); Martin Tudor (21 / 0).
Defenders: Eugen Baciu (17 / 1); Daniel Bălan (1 / 0); Sorin Ghionea (26 / 0); Dorin Goian (4 / 0); Petre Marin (25 / 0); Mihai Neșu (7 / 1); George Ogăraru (28 / 2); Valeriu Răchită (1 / 1); Mirel Rădoi (20 / 1); Pompiliu Stoica (1 / 0).
Midfielders: Marian Aliuță (2 / 0); Gabriel Boștină (26 / 5); Nicolae Dică (29 / 11); Florentin Dumitru (20 / 0); Boris Keca Bosnia and Herzegovina (1 / 0); Florin Lovin (11 / 1); Dorinel Munteanu (28 / 1); Nana Falemi Cameroon (5 / 0); Bănel Nicoliță (14 / 2); Sorin Paraschiv (26 / 2); Adrian Pitu (4 / 0).
Forwards: Cristian Ciocoiu (4 / 0); Andrei Cristea (28 / 7); Laurențiu Diniță (19 / 2); Alin Lițu (5 / 0); Adrian Neaga (15 / 6); Daniel Oprița (12 / 5); Valentin Simion (3 / 0).
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

Manager: Walter Zenga Italy / Dumitru Dumitriu.

References

  1. ^ 2004–05 Divizia A
  2. ^ "Top Scorers". www.romaniansoccer.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
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