2003–04 Cupa României

For other uses, see 2004 Cupa României (women's football).

The 2003–04 Cupa României was the 66th edition of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition.

2003–04 Cupa României

Tournament details
Country	Romania
Final positions
Champions	Dinamo București
Runners-up	Oțelul Galați
← 2002–03 2004–05 →

The title was won by Dinamo București against Oțelul Galați.

Format

The competition is an annual knockout tournament.

First round proper matches are played on the ground of the lowest ranked team, then from the second round proper the matches are played on a neutral location.

If a match is drawn after 90 minutes, the game goes into extra time, where it works golden goal rule. If the match is still tied, the result is decided by penalty kicks.

In the quarter-finals and semi-finals, each tie is played as a two legs.

From the first edition, the teams from Divizia A entered in competition in sixteen finals, rule which remained till today.

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First round proper

Team 1	Score	Team 2
30 September 2003
Gaz Metan Mediaș (Div. B)	0–1	(Div. A) Gloria Bistrița
1 October 2003
Oașul Negrești (Div. B)	1–2	(Div. A) Naţional București
Petrolul Bolintin Vale (Div. C)	0–3	(Div. A) Argeș Pitești
CS Otopeni (Div. C)	3–3 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p)	(Div. A) Farul Constanța
Inter Gaz București (Div. B)	2–5	(Div. A) Dinamo București
Dacia Mioveni (Div. B)	0–2	(Div. A) Politehnica AEK Timișoara
Laminorul Roman (Div. B)	0–2	(Div. A) Oțelul Galați
Electrica Constanța (Div. B)	1–0	(Div. A) FCM Bacău
Petrolul Moinești (Div. B)	2–1	(Div. A) FC Brașov
Pandurii Târgu Jiu (Div. B)	0–3	(Div. A) Rapid București
Chimica Târnăveni (Div. C)	0–1	(Div. A) Apulum Alba Iulia
Dunărea Galați (Div. C)	0–2	(Div. A) Petrolul Ploiești
Chimia Craiova (Div. D)	0–4	(Div. A) Steaua București
Tricotaje Ineu (Div. B)	2–1	(Div. A) Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
Jiul Petroșani (Div. B)	1–0	(Div. A) FC U Craiova
8 October 2003
ACU Arad (Div. B)	1–2	(Div. A) FC Oradea

Second round proper

Team 1	Score	Team 2
21 October 2003
FC Oradea	0–1	Rapid București
22 October 2003
Petrolul Ploiești	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Steaua București
Apulum Alba Iulia	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Jiul Petroșani
Gloria Bistrița	3–1	Electrica Constanța
Tricotaje Ineu	2–11	Politehnica AEK Timișoara
Argeș Pitești	1–0	Petrolul Moinești
Dinamo București	5–1	CS Otopeni
Naţional București	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Oțelul Galați

Quarter-finals

The matches were played on 3 December 2003 and 17 March 2004.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gloria Bistrița	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Politehnica AEK Timișoara||1–0||1–1 (a.e.t.)
Dinamo București	9–1	Petrolul Ploiești||7–0||2–1
Oțelul Galați	2–1	Rapid București||2–0||0–1
Argeș Pitești	5–0	Apulum Alba Iulia||4–0||1–0

Semi-finals

The matches were played on 7 April and 21 April 2004.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Argeș Pitești	1–2	Dinamo București||1–0||0–2
Gloria Bistrița	0–5	Oțelul Galați||0–1||0–4

Final

Main article: 2004 Cupa României final

6 June 2004

19:00 EEST

Dinamo București	2–0	Oțelul Galați
Munteanu 66' Niculescu 77'	Report

Stadionul Cotroceni, Bucharest

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Cristian Balaj (Romania)

Cupa României 2003–04 winners
Dinamo București 11th title