FCU Olimpia Cluj

History

Founded on 7 July 2010 at the initiative of Mirel Albon, Clujana's coach, due to increasingly divergent views with his club's owners, Olimpia started directly in Romania's top level women's league, as there was no second-level league at the time, and convincingly won the championship in its very first season. The team won all of its 24 matches which totaled a goal difference of 253–11 and wins as high as 26–0 and 27–0. The title qualified them for the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League. In addition they won the Romanian cup that year too. They went on to win all of the league titles since, and most of the domestic cups.

Olimpia had a partnership with the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, its rector, Radu Munteanu being for a period of time also Olimpia's chairman (president). This partnership reflected in the team's name between 2012 and 2015. Since the 2018–19 season, the teams signed a partnership with FC Universitatea Cluj and has rebranded as "U" Olimpia Cluj.

Chronology of names

Football Academy

Together with the club in 2010 the Olimpia Women's Football Academy was established, supported by a partnership with the city and the council. The goal of south-east Europe's first female football academy is to advance women's football in Romania.

Honours

Leagues

• Liga I
  • Winners (12): 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
  • First place, not declared Winners (1): 2019–20

Cups

• Romanian Women's Cup
  • Winners (8): 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2020–21, 2021–22
  • Runners-up (1): 2015–16

Season by season

Current squad

Club officials

Board of directors

• Last updated: 13 January 2019
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Current technical staff

• Last updated: 13 January 2019
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FC U Olimpia Cluj in Europe

In their first participation they started in the qualifying round of the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League. Already after two wins against Bosnian and Lithuanian opposition they qualified for the round of 32.

1 Group stage. Highest-ranked eliminated team in case of qualification, lowest-ranked qualified team in case of elimination.

Notable former players

The footballers enlisted below have been called up or had international cap(s) for their respective countries at junior and/or senior level and/or more than 50 caps for U Olimpia Cluj.

• ROU Cosmina Dușa
• ROU Maria Ficzay
• ROU Adina Giurgiu
• ROU Daniela Gurz
• GHA Priscilla Hagan
• ROU Lidia Havriștiuc
• KAZ Nazym Ismailova
• ROU Alexandra Iușan
• ROU Alexandra Lunca
• CMR Christine Manie
• ROU Isabelle Mihail
• ROU Corina Olar
• ROU Olivia Oprea
• ROU Andreea Părăluță
• ROU Raluca Sârghe
• RUS Ekaterina Ulasevich
• HUN Fanny Vágó
• ROU Ștefania Vătafu

References

References

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