2004–05 FC Steaua București season

The 2004–05 season was the 57th season in the existence of FC Steaua București and the club's 57th consecutive season in the top flight of Romanian football. In addition to the domestic league, Steaua București participated in this season's editions of the Cupa României and the UEFA Cup.[1]

Steaua București
2004–05 season
OwnerGeorge Becali
PresidentMihai Stoica
Head coachWalter Zenga
Dumitru Dumitriu
StadiumStadionul Steaua
Divizia A1st (champions)
Cupa RomânieiFirst round
UEFA CupRound of 16
Top goalscorerLeague:
Nicolae Dică (11)

All:
Nicolae Dică (13)

First-team squad

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Squad at end of season[2][3][1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
12 GK   ROU Martin Tudor
23 GK   ROU Florin Dobre
33 GK   BLR Vasil Khamutowski

2 DF   ROU Florentin Dumitru
3 DF   ROU Dorin Goian
4 DF   ROU Tiberiu Curt
6 DF   ROU Mirel Rădoi (captain)
15 DF   ROU Mihai Neșu
17 DF   ROU Eugen Baciu
18 DF   ROU Petre Marin
20 DF   ROU George Ogăraru
24 DF   ROU Sorin Ghionea

8 MF   ROU Dorinel Munteanu
No. Pos. Nation Player
11 MF   ROU Gabriel Boștină
14 MF   ROU Nicolae Dică
16 MF   ROU Bănel Nicoliță
22 MF   ROU Sorin Paraschiv
28 MF   ROU Florin Lovin
29 MF   ROU Cristian Ciocoiu
MF   BIH Boris Keca

9 FW   ROU Laurențiu Diniță
19 FW   ROU Daniel Oprița
21 FW   ROU Andrei Cristea
FW   ROU Alin Lițu
FW   ROU Valentin Simion

Competitions

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Overall record

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Competition First match Last match Starting round Final position Record
Pld W D L GF GA GD Win %
Divizia A 1 August 2004 11 June 2005 Matchday 1 Winners 30 19 6 5 47 18 +29 063.33
Cupa României 13 October 2004 Round of 32 Round of 32 1 0 0 1 0 1 −1 000.00
UEFA Cup 12 August 2004 20 March 2005 Second qualifying round Round of 16 12 5 2 5 17 15 +2 041.67
Total 43 24 8 11 64 34 +30 055.81

Source: Competitions

Divizia A

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League table

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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
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
Notes:
  1. ^ a b RAP 3–0 PRO; PRO 3–3 RAP

Results summary

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Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
30 19 6 5 47 18  +29 63 13 1 1 31 6  +25 6 5 4 16 12  +4

Source: LT

Results by round

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Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
GroundHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH
ResultWLWWWDWWLWWWDWDWDDWWWLWDLWLWWW
Position175532222111111111111111111111
Source: Matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

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1 August 2004 1 Steaua București 2–0 Gloria Bistrița Bucharest
20:15 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Viorel Anghelinei
8 August 2004 2 Rapid București 2–1 Steaua București Bucharest
20:15 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Giulești-Valentin Stănescu
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Ionică Serea
22 August 2004 4 Dinamo București 0–1 Steaua București Bucharest
20:15 EEST (UTC+3) Report
Stadium: Dinamo
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Alexandru Tudor
29 August 2004 5 Steaua București 5–0 Universitatea Craiova Bucharest
19:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Ionică Serea
12 September 2004 6 Argeș Pitești 2–2 Steaua București Piteşti
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Nicolae Dobrin
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Augustus Constantin
19 September 2004 7 Steaua București 3–1 Farul Constanța Bucharest
20:15 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Marian Salomir
25 September 2004 8 Sportul Studențesc 1–2 Steaua București Bucharest
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Regie
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Alexandru Tudor
3 October 2004 9 Steaua București 0–1 Politehnica Iași Bucharest
20:15 EEST (UTC+3) Report
Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Tiberiu Lajos
17 October 2004 10 Steaua București 1–0 Oțelul Galați Bucharest
20:15 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Sebastian Colțescu
24 October 2004 11 CFR Cluj 0–2 Steaua București Cluj-Napoca
15:00 EEST (UTC+3)
  • Goia   41'   58'
Report
Stadium: Dr. Constantin Rădulescu
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Cristian Balaj
31 October 2004 12 Steaua București 5–1 Național București Bucharest
20:15 EET (UTC+2)
Report
Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Alexandru Tudor
7 November 2004 13 FCM Bacău 2–2 Steaua București Bacău
20:15 EET (UTC+2)
Report
Stadium: Municipal
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Robert Dumitru
20 November 2004 14 Steaua București 3–2 FC Brașov Bucharest
20:15 EET (UTC+2)
Report
Stadium: Național
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Ionică Serea
28 November 2004 15 Politehnica Timișoara 1–1 Steaua București Timișoara
17:00 EET (UTC+2)
Report
Stadium: Dan Păltinișanu
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Cristian Balaj
4 December 2004 3 Steaua București 3–0 Apulum Alba Iulia Bucharest
14:00 EET (UTC+2)
Report Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Robert Dumitru
3 April 2005 18 Apulum Alba Iulia 1–1 Steaua București Alba Iulia
14:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Cetate
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Augustus Constantin
6 April 2005 16 Gloria Bistrița 0–2 Steaua București Bistrița
16:15 EEST (UTC+3) Report
Stadium: Gloria
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Cristian Balaj
10 April 2005 19 Steaua București 1–0 Dinamo București Bucharest
20:15 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)
14 April 2005 17 Steaua București 0–0 Rapid București Bucharest
20:15 EEST (UTC+3) Report Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Tom Henning Øvrebø (Norway)
17 April 2005 20 Universitatea Craiova 0–1 Steaua București Craiova
20:15 EEST (UTC+3) Report
Stadium: Ion Oblemenco
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Marian Salomir
23 April 2005 21 Steaua București 2–0 Argeș Pitești Bucharest
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 0
Referee: Vasile Bratu
27 April 2005 22 Farul Constanța 1–0 Steaua București Constanța
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Gheorghe Hagi
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Sorin Corpodean
30 April 2005 23 Steaua București 1–0 Sportul Studențesc Bucharest
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Alexandru Tudor
4 May 2005 24 Politehnica Iași 0–0 Steaua București Iași
16:30 EEST (UTC+3) Report Stadium: Emil Alexandrescu
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Marian Salomir
8 May 2005 25 Oțelul Galați 1–0 Steaua București Galați
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Dunărea
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Sebastian Colțescu
14 May 2005 26 Steaua București 1–0 CFR Cluj Bucharest
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 11,000
Referee: Robert Dumtriu
18 May 2005 27 Național București 1–0 Steaua București Bucharest
19:30 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Cotroceni
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Alexandru Tudor
21 May 2005 28 Steaua București 2–0 FCM Bacău Bucharest
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Lucian Dan
28 May 2005 29 FC Brașov 0–1 Steaua București Brașov
18:00 EEST (UTC+3) Report
Stadium: Tineretului
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Cristian Balaj
11 June 2005 30 Steaua București 2–1 Politehnica Timișoara Bucharest
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Sebastian Colțescu

Cupa României

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Results

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13 October 2004 Round of 32 Universitatea Cluj 1–0 Steaua București Cluj-Napoca
14:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Ion Moina
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Robert Dumitru

UEFA Cup

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Second qualifying round

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12 August 2004 First leg Železnik   2–4   Steaua București Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Report
Stadium: Partizan
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Knud Erik Fisker (Denmark)
26 August 2004 Second leg Steaua București   1–2
(5–4 agg.)
  Železnik Bucharest, Romania
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 23,000
Referee: Michael Weiner (Germany)

First round

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16 September 2004 First leg Steaua București   2–1   CSKA Sofia Bucharest, Romania
20:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)
30 September 2004 Second leg CSKA Sofia   2–2
(3–4 agg.)
  Steaua București Sofia, Bulgaria
17:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Report
Stadium: Balgarska Armia
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Espen Berntsen (Norway)

Group stage

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Group B standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Athletic Bilbao 4 3 0 1 11 4 +7 9 Advance to knockout stage
2   Steaua București 4 2 0 2 4 3 +1 6
3   Parma 4 2 0 2 5 6 −1 6
4   Beşiktaş 4 1 1 2 7 7 0 4
5   Standard Liège 4 1 1 2 4 11 −7 4
Source: RSSSF

Results

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21 October 2004 1 Steaua București   2–0   Standard Liège Bucharest, Romania
20:15 EEST (UTC+3)
Report Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 23,000
Referee: Tomasz Mikulski (Poland)
4 November 2004 2 Parma   1–0   Steaua București Parma, Italy
19:00 CET (UTC+1)
Report Stadium: Ennio Tardini
Attendance: 3,949
Referee: Ruud Bossen (Netherlands)
25 November 2004 3 Steaua București   2–1   Beşiktaş Bucharest, Romania
20:15 EET (UTC+2)
Report
Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Željko Širić (Croatia)
1 December 2004 4 Athletic Bilbao   1–0   Steaua București Bilbao, Spain
20:45 CET (UTC+1)
Report Stadium: San Mamés
Attendance: 32,000
Referee: Georgios Kasnaferis (Greece)

Knockout stage

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Round of 32
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16 February 2005 First leg Valencia   2–0   Steaua București Valencia, Spain
21:30 CET (UTC+1)
Report Stadium: Mestalla
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Domenico Messina (Italy)
24 February 2005 Second leg Steaua București   2–0 (a.e.t.)
(2–2 agg.)
(4–3 p)
  Valencia Bucharest, Romania
20:00 EET (UTC+2)
Report Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Johan Verbist (Belgium)
Penalties
Round of 16
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16 March 2005 First leg Steaua București   0–0   Villarreal Bucharest, Romania
20:00 EET (UTC+2) Report Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)
20 March 2005 Second leg Villareal   2–0
(2–0 agg.)
  Steaua București Villarreal, Spain
20:00 CET (UTC+1)
Report Stadium: El Madrigal
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

References

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  1. ^ a b "Steaua Bucuresti 2004/2005". Romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  2. ^ "FCSB >> Squad 2004/2005". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Steaua Bucarest 2004/2005". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 3 May 2021.