2010–11 FC Timișoara season

FC Timișoara

2010–11 season
President	Gheorghe Chivorchian
Manager	Vladimir Petrović (Rounds 1-7) Cosmin Contra (Rounds 7-18) Dušan Uhrin, Jr. (Rounds 18-)
Ground	Dan Păltinişanu (Capacity: 32,972)
Liga I	2nd
Cupa României	Quarterfinals
Europa League	Play-off round
Top goalscorer	League: Zicu (18) All: Zicu (19)
Highest home attendance	28,000 vs Manchester City (19 August 2010)
Lowest home attendance	1,000 vs Voinţa Sibiu (27 October 2010)
Average home league attendance	12,375
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

The 2010–11 season saw FC Timișoara participate in Liga I, the Romanian Cup, and the UEFA Europa League.

In November 2010, a Romanian Court of Appeal returned the name, the colors and the record of AEK Politehnica Timișoara to FC Timișoara.^[1] Due to rules that forbid changes of team names during a season, the team used the name FC Timișoara until the end of 2010-11 season.

Team kit

The team kit is produced by Lotto and the shirt sponsor is Balkan Petroleum.

Previous season positions

	Competition	Position
	UEFA Europa League	4th / Group Stage
	Liga I	5th
	Cupa României	Round of 16

Players

Squad information

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Since	App	Goals	Ends	Transfer fee	Notes
1	GK		Cobliș	27	EU	2008	0	0	2014	50.000€
4	CB		Luchin	30	EU	2005	59	3	2014	Youth Academy
5	MF		Alexa	37	EU	2006	106	3	2013	Free
7	RW		Curtean	33	EU	2009	20	1	2013	€1.5	Also plays as LW
8	LB		Sepsi	30	EU	2010	17	0	2014	€2.5M
9	FW		Axente	29	EU	2006	4	0	2013	Free
10	MF		Tameş	37	EU	2010	0	0	2012	Free
11	FW		Mansour	30	Non-EU	2005	81	17	2012	Free
13	CB		Scutaru	29	EU	2005	20	0	2014	200k
14	CB		Mera	29	EU	2005	18	2	2014	Youth Academy
15	RW		Chiacu	30	EU	2009	15	4	2014	100.000€
17	FW		Magera	33	EU	2008	56	13	2012	€1.5
20	CB		Popović	33	EU	2010	0	0	2012	Free
21	FW		Goga	32	EU	2008	47	15	2013	€1.5	Also plays as LW
22	MF		Contra	40	EU	2010	13	3	2011	Free
24	DF		Dukić	30	EU	2010	0	0	2013	Free
27	LW		Zicu	33	EU	2010	1	0	2015	500.000€	Also play RW
28	CB		Čišovský	37	EU	2008	39	3	2012	€1.0
29	GK		Pantilimon	29	EU	2005	62	0	2014	Free
30	LW		Sandu	29	EU	2007	1	0	2013	500k
31	MF		Poparadu	29	EU	2006	1	0	2013	Youth Academy
33	MF		Popovici	28	EU	2006	3	0	2013	Youth Academy
55	MF		Bourceanu	31	EU	2009	29	1	2013	€1.0M
99	GK		Taborda	38	EU	2008	21	0	2012	600k

Transfers

In

Date	Player	Previous Club	Cost
1 June 2010	Dukić	Hajduk Kula	Undisclosed[2]
5 June 2010	Popović	Spartak Subotica	Undisclosed[3]
5 June 2010	Tameş	Argeş Piteşti	Undisclosed[4]
20 July 2010	Chiacu	Dinamo Bucureşti	[5]
21 July 2010	Zicu	Dinamo Bucureşti	€500.000[6]
10 August 2010	Burcă	Energie Cottbus	Free[7]

Out

Date	Player	To	Cost
1 June 2010	Supić	FC Timișoara II	Undisclosed[8]
1 June 2010	Costa	Free Agent	Undisclosed[9]
1 June 2010	Cociş	Al-Nassr	Undisclosed[10]
1 June 2010	Nibombé	FK Baku	Undisclosed[11]
8 July 2010	Latovlevici	Steaua Bucureşti	€600.0000[12]
12 July 2010	Ionescu	Free Agent	[13]
21 July 2010	Kozák	Free Agent	[14]
21 July 2010	Brezinský	Free Agent	.[15]
25 August 2010	Popović	Free Agent	Undisclosed.[16]

Spending

Summer: €0 million

Winter: €0 million

Total: €0 million

Income

Summer: €600.000k

Winter: €0 million

Total: €600.000k

Squad stats

				Total			UEFA Europa League		Liga I		Cupa României
No.	P	Nat.	Name	Sts	App	Gls	App	Gls	App	Gls	App	Gls
4	CB		Luchin	8	11		3		7		1
5	DM		Alexa	12	12		4		8
7	LW		Curtean	12	13	2	3		9	2	1
8	LB		Sepsi	10	11		4		7
9	FW		Axente	12	12	5	3	2	9	3
10	MF		Tameş	4	8	2	2	1	5		1	1
11	FW		Mansour	3	4	1	1		2		1	1
13	RB		Scutaru	11	11	2	4		6	2	1
14	CB		Mera	7	11		4		6		1
15	RW		Chiacu	1	4		1		2		1
17	FW		Magera	11	13	3	4		9	3
20	RW		Hélder	3	3	1			3	1
21	FW		Goga	7	13	2	4		8	1	1	1
22	MF		Contra	5	9	1	4	1	5
24	RB		Dukić	2	3		1		1		1
25	CB		Burcă	5	5		1		4
27	LW		Zicu	1	9	3	3	1	6	2
28	CB		Čišovský	3	10	1	3	1	6		1
29	GK		Pantilimon	11	11		5		5		1
55	MF		Bourceanu	14	13	1	4		9	1
99	GK		Taborda	2	4		2		2

Last updated: 08:37, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Source: Match reports in competitive matches, FCPT (Romanian)
Ordered by start team, game starts and position on pitch (from back right to front left)
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Goalscorers

Player	Liga I	Cupa României	Europa League	Fixture Total	Friendlies	Total
Mircea Axente	5	0	2	0	7	15
Iulian Tameş	0	1	1	0	3	5
Alexandru Curtean	2	0	0	0	3	5
Dorin Goga	1	1	0	1	3	5
Lukáš Magera	3	0	0	1	3	6
Adrian Poparadu	0	0	0	0	2	2
Ioan Mera	0	0	0	0	2	2
Alexandru Bourceanu	0	0	0	0	2	2
Gueye Mansour	0	1	0	0	1	2
Cosmin Contra	1	0	0	0	1	1
Alexandru Popovici	0	0	0	0	1	1
Dare Vršič	0	0	0	0	1	1
Ianis Zicu	7	0	1	0	0	8
Hélder	1	0	0	0	0	1
Cristian Scutaru	2	0	2	0	0	2
Own goals
	0	0	0	0	0	0

Last updated:09:41, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Source: FCPT (Romanian)

Start formations

Qnt	Formation	Match(es)
1	4-4-2	1,
2	4-2-2-2	2,

Last updated: 09:41, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Source: Match reports in Competitive matches
Only competitive matches.

Starting 11

No. Pos Nat Name MS Notes 29 GK Pantilimon 12 8 LB Sepsi 8 28 CB Čišovský 8 4 CB Luchin 7 13 RB Scutaru 8 27 LW Zicu 5 55 AM Bourceanu 10 5 DM Alexa 10 7 LW Curtean 10 9 FW Axente 10 17 FW Magera 9

Pantilimon Scutaru Luchin Čišovský Sepsi Goga Bourceanu Alexa Curtean Zicu Magera

Last updated: 15:05, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Source: Squad stats and Start formations.
Only competitive matches.
Using the most used start formation.
Ordered by position on pitch (from back right to front left).

Overall

	Total	Home	Away
Games played	35	17	18
Games won	15	8	7
Games drawn	16	8	8
Games lost	3	1	2
Biggest win	4-0 vs. U Craiova	4-0 vs. U Craiova	3-1 vs. Juventus Bucureşti
Biggest lose	2-0 vs. Manchester City	0-1 vs. Manchester City	2-0 vs. Manchester City
Clean sheets	8	4	4
Goals scored	58	31	27
Goals conceded	42	23	19
Goal difference	+16	+8	+8
Top scorer	Zicu (18)	11	7

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International appearances

Player	Position	Country	Caps this season	Goals this season
László Sepsi	Left back	Romania	vs.  Honduras	vs.
Winston Parks	Forward	Costa Rica	vs.  France,   Switzerland,  Slovakia	vs.   Switzerland
Ján Kozák	Playmaker	Slovakia	vs.  Cameroon,  Paraguay	vs.
Costel Pantilimon	Goalkeeper	Romania	vs.  Macedonia,  Belarus,  France,  Italy,  Ukraine,  Bosnia and Herzegovina	vs.
Cosmin Contra	Right back	Romania	vs.  Belarus	vs.
Lukáš Magera	Forward	Czech Republic	vs.  Scotland	vs.
Ianis Zicu	Attacking Midfielder	Romania	vs.  France,  Ukraine,  Cyprus,  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Luxembourg	vs.  Luxembourg
Dan Alexa	Midfielder	Romania	vs.  Italy,  Ukraine,  Bosnia and Herzegovina	vs.  Ukraine,  Ukraine
Artur Pătraş	Winger	Moldova	vs.  Poland,  Andorra	vs.
Tosaint Ricketts	Forward	Canada	vs.  Greece,  Belarus	vs.

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Liga I	—	2nd	—	25 July 2010	—
Cupa României	Round of 32	Eliminated	Quarterfinals	22 September 2010	10 November 2010
Europa League	Third qualifying round	Eliminated	Play-off round	29 July 2010	26 August 2010

Liga I

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
8	Oțelul Galați !Oțelul Galați	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Rapid București !Rapid București	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	Steaua București !Steaua București	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Politehnica Timișoara !Politehnica Timișoara	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Unirea Urziceni !Unirea Urziceni	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: FCPT (Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th overall goal difference; 6th overall goals scored
¹The winners of the 2010–11 Cupa României will qualify for the play-off round of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Last updated: 09:41, 3 June 2010 (UTC).
Source: FCPT (Romanian)

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H
Result	D	D	W	D	W	D	D	W	W	W	W	D	D	W	D	W	D	D	W	W	W	W	D	D	W	D	L	D
Position	7	8	7	6	5	6	7	6	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2

Last updated: 09:41, 3 June 2010 (UTC).
Source: Matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Results

Kick off times are in EET and EEST.

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UEFA Europa League

Results

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Cupa României

Results

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Non competitive matches

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Goal scorers

Nation	Name	Goals
	Mircea Axente	7
	Dorin Goga	4
	Iulian Tameş	3
	Alexandru Curtean	3
	Lukáš Magera	3
	Adrian Poparadu	2
	Tosaint Ricketts	2
	Ioan Mera	2
	Alexandru Bourceanu	2
	Gueye Mansour	1
	Dare Vršič	1
	Cosmin Contra	1
	Alexandru Popovici	1
	Rafael Rocha	1

Staff

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head Coach	Cosmin Contra
Assistant Coach	Iosif Rotariu
Assistant Coach2	Valentin Velcea
General Manager	Daniel Stanciu
Team Manager	Daniel Stanciu
Goalkeeping Coach	Marius Bratu
Fitness Coach	Michele Bon
Fitness Coach	Zeljko Boljevic
Medic	Teymour Ahmadi
Medic Assistant	Catalin Balan
Masseur	Adrian Rus
Masseur	Adrian Blaj
Masseur	Marius Cristescu
Masseur	Mihai Preda

Notes and references

See also

• FC Politehnica Timișoara
• 2010–11 Liga I
• 2010–11 Cupa României