2000–01 Divizia A

The 2000–01 Divizia A was the eighty-third season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania. Season began in August 2000 and ended in May 2001. Steaua București was crowned as champion for the 21st time.

Divizia A

Season	2000–01
Champions	Steaua București[1]
Relegated	Rocar București Gaz Metan Mediaș
Champions League	Steaua București
UEFA Cup	Dinamo București Brașov Rapid București
Intertoto Cup	Gloria Bistrița Universitatea Craiova
Matches played	240
Goals scored	626 (2.61 per match)
Top goalscorer	Marius Niculae (20)
Biggest home win	Național 5–0 Foresta Steaua 5–0 Oțelul
Biggest away win	Ceahlăul 0–3 Steaua Ceahlăul 1–4 Craiova Național 0–3 Bistrița Oțelul 1–4 Rapid Rocar 1–4 Ceahlăul
Highest scoring	Dinamo 4–5 Foresta Rocar 4–5 Steaua
Longest winning run	Brașov, Rapid, Gloria (4)
Longest unbeaten run	Steaua (8)
Longest losing run	Gaz Metan (5)
← 1999–2000 2001–02 →

Team changes

Relegated

The teams that were relegated to Divizia B at the end of the previous season:

• Farul Constanța
• FC Onești
• CSM Reșița
• Extensiv Craiova

Promoted

The teams that were promoted from Divizia B at the start of the season:

• Foresta Fălticeni
• Gaz Metan Mediaș

Venues

Steaua București	Universitatea Craiova	Rapid București	FCM Bacău
Steaua	Ion Oblemenco	Giulești-Valentin Stănescu	Municipal
Capacity: 28,365	Capacity: 25,252	Capacity: 19,100	Capacity: 17,500
Dinamo București	Argeș Pitești	Național București	Petrolul Ploiești
Dinamo	Municipal	Cotroceni	Ilie Oană
Capacity: 15,032	Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 14,542	Capacity: 14,000
Oțelul Galați	Bucharest Argeș Astra Bacău Brașov Ceahlăul Craiova Foresta Gaz Metan Gloria Oțelul Petrolul Bucharest teams Dinamo Național Rapid Rocar Steaua 2000–01 Divizia A (Romania) Dinamo Național Rapid Rocar Steaua Location of Bucharest teams.		Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
Oțelul			Ceahlăul
Capacity: 13,500			Capacity: 12,500
Foresta Fălticeni			FC Brașov
Areni			Tineretului
Capacity: 12,500			Capacity: 10,000
Gloria Bistrița	Astra Ploiești	Gaz Metan Mediaș	Rocar București
Gloria	Astra	Gaz Metan	Rocar
Capacity: 7,800	Capacity: 7,000	Capacity: 6,000	Capacity: 6,000

Personnel and kits

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt Sponsor
Argeș Pitești	Marian Bondrea	Cristian Bălașa	Erreà	Dacia
Astra Ploiești	Marin Ion	Bogdan Nicolae	Joma	Astra Română, Asirom
Brașov	Gabriel Stan	Cosmin Bodea	Valsport	Prescon
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	Florin Marin	Radu Lefter	Ancada	Rifil
Dinamo București	Cornel Dinu	Cătălin Hâldan / Adrian Mihalcea	Lotto	Cosmorom
Universitatea Craiova	Nicolae Ungureanu	Claudiu Niculescu	Erreà	Vincon
FCM Bacău	Gheorghe Poenaru	Marius Gireadă	Legea	Sonoma
Foresta Suceava	Marin Barbu	Ovidiu Ciobanu	Ancada	—
Gaz Metan Mediaș	Silviu Dumitrescu	Flavius Șomfălean	Joma	Transgaz
Gloria Bistrița	Constantin Cârstea	Vasile Popa	Ancada	Darimex
Național București	Cosmin Olăroiu	Cătălin Liță	Kappa	—
Oțelul Galați	Ilie Dumitrescu	Cătălin Tofan	Adidas	Sidex
Petrolul Ploiești	Victor Roșca	Dinu Todoran	Adidas	Petrom
Rapid București	Mircea Rednic	Nicolae Stanciu	Erreà	Connex
Rocar București	Dumitru Dumitriu	Cornel Cristescu	Erreà	Fulbier
Steaua București	Victor Pițurcă	Miodrag Belodedici	Adidas	BCR

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Steaua București (C)	30	17	9	4	56	32	+24	60	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Dinamo București	30	15	6	9	56	44	+12	51	Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
3	Brașov	30	15	5	10	33	25	+8	50
4	Rapid București	30	13	10	7	38	25	+13	49
5	Argeș Pitești	30	12	10	8	42	42	0	46
6	Gloria Bistrița	30	13	4	13	44	42	+2	43[a]	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
7	Național București	30	13	4	13	40	40	0	43[a]
8	Universitatea Craiova	30	11	8	11	34	38	−4	41	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
9	Petrolul Ploiești	30	12	4	14	34	36	−2	40[b]
10	Astra Ploiești	30	11	7	12	41	36	+5	40[b]
11	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	30	9	11	10	36	41	−5	38[c]
12	Oțelul Galați	30	10	8	12	33	39	−6	38[c]
13	Foresta Fălticeni (R)	30	8	12	10	39	43	−4	36	Qualification to relegation play-offs
14	Bacău	30	9	7	14	38	45	−7	34[d]
15	Rocar București (R)	30	10	4	16	41	56	−15	34[d]	Relegation to Divizia B
16	Gaz Metan Mediaș (R)	30	3	9	18	21	42	−21	18

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. GLO 3-0 PRO; PRO 0-3 GLO
2. AST 0-0 PET; PET 3-1 AST
3. OTE 1-1 CEA; CEA 0-0 OTE
4. BAC 3-0 ROC; ROC 2-0 BAC

Promotion / relegation play-off

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Farul Constanța	3–3 (4–3 p)	FCM Bacău	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
FC Baia Mare	2–2 (a)	Foresta Fălticeni	1–0	1–2

Note: FC Baia Mare sold their 2001–02 Divizia A place to FCM Bacău.

Positions by round

Team ╲ 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
Argeș Pitești	15	11	5	9	6	10	6	7	7	7	5	6	5	3	3	2	2	3	6	3	2	3	2	2	3	4	4	4	5	5
Astra Ploiești	13	16	13	14	12	12	13	14	12	10	10	8	9	9	10	11	11	12	10	9	10	10	10	9	10	7	9	9	11	10
Bacău	9	8	7	4	2	4	7	9	10	12	12	14	11	14	15	15	15	15	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	13	14
Brașov	10	10	4	3	5	8	5	5	5	3	6	3	4	7	5	7	8	8	5	5	6	5	6	4	4	2	2	3	3	3
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	16	15	15	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	12	14	13	13	12	12	11	12	14	11	8	10	11	9	11
Universitatea Craiova	8	6	3	2	3	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	4	6	5	5	5	7	8	9	8	9	8	9	10	11	8	10	8
Dinamo București	3	2	11	13	9	7	8	10	9	5	4	5	8	6	4	4	3	2	2	2	3	2	3	3	2	3	3	2	2	2
Foresta Fălticeni	5	3	9	5	11	9	10	11	11	11	11	9	6	5	7	8	6	6	9	11	11	12	11	13	12	13	13	13	15	13
Gaz Metan Mediaș	2	7	6	10	14	14	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
Gloria Bistrița	14	14	16	12	15	13	14	12	13	13	13	11	13	10	11	10	9	9	4	7	8	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	6
Oțelul Galați	1	9	12	8	4	6	3	4	4	6	7	10	12	13	12	13	12	10	11	10	7	9	8	10	8	11	12	12	12	12
Petrolul Ploiești	11	13	10	7	10	5	4	3	3	4	3	4	3	2	2	3	4	7	3	6	5	6	5	6	6	9	7	10	7	9
Național București	12	12	14	15	13	15	12	13	14	14	14	12	14	11	13	14	13	14	15	14	14	14	13	11	13	12	8	7	8	7
Rapid București	4	4	8	11	8	11	11	8	8	9	8	7	7	8	8	6	7	4	8	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	4	4
Rocar București	6	1	2	6	7	3	9	6	6	8	9	13	10	12	9	9	10	11	12	13	13	13	14	12	14	14	14	15	14	15
Steaua București	7	5	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Source: LT (in Romanian)

Results

Home \ Away	ARG	AST	BAC	BRA	CEA	UCR	DIN	FOR	GAZ	GBI	OȚE	PET	NAT	RAP	ROC	STE
Argeș Pitești	—	4–2	2–2	1–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	0–2	1–0	1–1
Astra Ploiești	2–0	—	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	4–3	3–0	3–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–2	3–0
Bacău	3–1	2–1	—	1–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	4–2	1–2	3–2	0–2	3–0	0–2
Brașov	0–0	1–0	2–0	—	1–1	1–2	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–2	1–0	2–0	2–2
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	3–0	0–0	3–0	2–1	—	1–4	3–3	1–1	1–1	3–2	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–3
Universitatea Craiova	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	—	1–3	1–0	2–1	2–4	3–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	3–1	1–0
Dinamo București	2–1	3–2	2–0	2–0	2–2	3–1	—	4–5	4–2	3–1	1–2	2–3	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0
Foresta Fălticeni	2–2	4–2	1–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	0–1	—	0–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	0–1	1–0	4–1	1–1
Gaz Metan Mediaș	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	3–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	—	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–3
Gloria Bistrița	2–2	4–3	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	3–2	1–0	—	2–0	2–0	3–0	0–1	2–0	1–1
Oțelul Galați	4–1	1–0	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	3–0	2–0	—	0–2	1–2	1–4	2–1	0–1
Petrolul Ploiești	2–3	3–1	3–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	—	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–1
Național București	3–0	2–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–3	5–0	1–0	0–3	1–0	2–0	—	2–1	2–1	1–2
Rapid București	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	2–2	4–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	3–1	2–2	—	2–3	1–1
Rocar București	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–4	2–0	1–3	3–2	2–1	4–3	1–3	4–1	2–2	0–2	—	4–5
Steaua București	3–3	1–3	4–3	1–0	3–0	3–1	4–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	5–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	—

Source: LT (in Romanian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Position[2]	Player	Club	Goals
1	Marius Niculae	Dinamo București	20
2	Cătălin Cursaru	Bacău	15
3	Claudiu Niculescu	Universitatea Craiova	14
	Robert Niță	Foresta Fălticeni / Rapid București
5	Constantin Bârsan	Gloria Bistrița	13
	Daniel Pancu	Rapid București
7	Claudiu Răducanu	Steaua București	12

Champion squad

Steaua București[3]

Goalkeepers: Martin Tudor (30 / 0); Tiberiu Lung (1 / 0); Eugen Nae (1 / 0). Defenders: Marius Baciu (23 / 1); Daniel Bălan (9 / 0); Miodrag Belodedici (14 / 1); Valeriu Bordeanu (5 / 0); Florentin Dumitru (28 / 1); Albert Duro (3 / 0); Dumitru Mitriță (14 / 0); Iulian Miu (16 / 0); Mirel Rădoi (25 / 1); Pompiliu Stoica (29 / 1); Marius Vintilă (1 / 0). Midfielders: Sorin Paraschiv (23 / 2); Eugen Trică (26 / 7); Stelian Carabaș (11 / 0); Nana Falemi (25 / 3); Ovidiu Iacov (2 / 1); Erik Lincar (21 / 1); Cătălin Liță (14 / 1). Forwards: Cristian Ciocoiu (24 / 3); Ionel Dănciulescu (27 / 6); Radu Niculescu (10 / 3); Claudiu Răducanu (24 / 12); Ion Vlădoiu (13 / 10); Alexandru Pițurcă (1 / 1); Daniel Oprița (1 / 0). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Victor Pițurcă.