2005–06 Divizia A

The 2005–06 Divizia A was the eighty-eighth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania. The Season began in August 2005 and ended in June 2006. Steaua București became champions on 7 June, 2006.

Divizia A

Season	2005–06
Champions	Steaua București[1]
Relegated	Bacău Sportul Studențesc București
Champions League	Steaua București
UEFA Cup	Rapid București Dinamo București
Intertoto Cup	Farul Constanța
Matches played	240
Goals scored	553 (2.3 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ionuț Mazilu (22)
Biggest home win	Dinamo 6–0 Bacău
Biggest away win	Argeș 0–5 Oțelul
Highest scoring	Dinamo 4–5 Sportul
Longest winning run	Sportul (6)
Longest unbeaten run	Rapid (15)
Longest losing run	Bacău (13)
← 2004–05 2006–07 →

Team changes

Relegated

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

• Apulum Alba Iulia
• Brașov
• Universitatea Craiova

Promoted

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

• Vaslui
• Pandurii Târgu Jiu
• Jiul Petroșani

Venues

Politehnica Timișoara	Steaua București	Rapid București	FCM Bacău
Dan Păltinișanu	Steaua	Giulești-Valentin Stănescu	Municipal
Capacity: 32,972	Capacity: 28,365	Capacity: 19,100	Capacity: 17,500
Farul Constanța	Jiul Petroșani	Dinamo București	Argeș Pitești
Farul	Jiul	Dinamo	Nicolae Dobrin
Capacity: 15,520	Capacity: 15,500	Capacity: 15,032	Capacity: 15,000
Național București	Bucharest Argeș Bacău CFR Farul Gloria Jiul Oțelul Pandurii Poli Iași Poli Timișoara Vaslui Bucharest teams Dinamo Național Rapid Sportul Steaua 2005–06 Divizia A (Romania) Dinamo Național Rapid Sportul Steaua Location of Bucharest teams.		Oțelul Galați
Cotroceni			Oțelul
Capacity: 14,542			Capacity: 13,500
Politehnica Iași			Sportul Studențesc
Emil Alexandrescu			Regie
Capacity: 11,390			Capacity: 10,020
CFR Cluj	FC Vaslui	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Gloria Bistrița
CFR	Municipal	Tudor Vladimirescu	Gloria
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 9,240	Capacity: 9,200	Capacity: 7,800

Personnel and kits

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt Sponsor
Argeș Pitești	Vasile Stan	Alin Chița	Erreà	Pic
CFR Cluj	Dorinel Munteanu	Vasile Jula	Erreà	EnergoBit, Opel Ecomax
Dinamo București	Florin Marin	Florentin Petre	Lotto	Omniasig
Farul Constanța	Momčilo Vukotić	Ion Barbu	Lotto	SNC
FCM Bacău	Cristian Popovici	Daniel David	Erreà	Letea
Gloria Bistrița	Ioan Sabău	Sandu Negrean	Erreà	Rombat
Jiul Petroșani	Aurel Șunda	Cornel Mihart	Nike	Atomis
Național București	Cristiano Bergodi	Ovidiu Burcă	Nike	top birotic
Oțelul Galați	Petre Grigoraș	Viorel Tănase	Lotto	Mittal Steel
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Nicolae Ungureanu	Cătălin Trofin	Lotto	USMO
Politehnica Iași	Ionuț Popa	Bogdan Onuț	Umbro	Iulius Mall
Politehnica Timișoara	Iosif Rotariu	Ovidiu Petre	Converse	Balkan Petroleum
Rapid București	Răzvan Lucescu	Vasile Maftei	Lotto	Lukoil
Sportul Studențesc	Gheorghe Mulțescu	Tiberiu Bălan	Lotto	—
Steaua București	Cosmin Olăroiu	Mirel Rădoi	Nike	RAFO
Vaslui	Mircea Rednic	Marius Croitoru	Umbro	Racova

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Steaua București (C)	30	19	7	4	49	16	+33	64	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Rapid București	30	17	8	5	47	23	+24	59	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Dinamo București	30	17	5	8	56	32	+24	56[a]
4	Sportul Studențesc București (R)	30	17	5	8	54	35	+19	55[a]	Relegation to Liga II[b]
5	CFR Cluj	30	14	8	8	36	27	+9	50
6	Național București	30	13	7	10	32	37	−5	46
7	Farul Constanța	30	14	3	13	39	38	+1	45	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
8	Politehnica Timișoara	30	10	10	10	34	31	+3	40
9	Oțelul Galați	30	10	9	11	35	37	−2	39[c]
10	Gloria Bistrița	30	11	6	13	27	34	−7	39[c]
11	Politehnica Iași	30	11	6	13	28	31	−3	39[c]
12	Argeș Pitești	30	8	8	14	27	37	−10	32
13	Jiul Petroșani	30	7	9	14	28	39	−11	30
14	Vaslui	30	6	11	13	23	37	−14	29
15	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	30	6	7	17	22	44	−22	25	Spared from relegation[b]
16	Bacău (R)	30	3	5	22	16	55	−39	14	Relegation to Liga II

Source: LPF (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. DIN 4-5 SPO; SPO 0-2 DIN
2. Sportul Studențesc was denied the right to participate for next season of Liga I because it failed to meet the licensing requirements, therefore Pandurii Lignitul Târgu Jiu (15th place) was spared from relegation.
3. OȚE: 8 pts; GLO: 5 pts; POL: 2 pts

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	11	12	8	9	9	8	6	8	7	8	5	8	6	4	6	7	6	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	10	11	12	12	12	12
Bacău	12	7	11	6	8	11	11	11	11	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
CFR Cluj	8	11	5	7	4	4	3	4	5	6	3	3	4	6	5	5	7	5	4	5	6	6	5	5	5	5	6	7	5	5
Dinamo București	1	1	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	4	4	4	4	3	3
Farul Constanța	4	4	2	2	3	3	4	3	3	3	7	10	8	7	8	8	9	9	9	8	8	7	6	8	6	6	5	5	6	7
Gloria Bistrița	3	3	9	11	14	13	14	15	14	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	9	9	9	9	9	10
Jiul Petroșani	14	14	14	14	13	14	13	12	12	12	12	13	12	12	13	13	12	13	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	14	13	14	13
Oțelul Galați	15	8	12	12	12	12	12	14	13	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	12	13	14	13	13	13	12	12	12	11	10	10	9
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	10	15	16	16	16	16	15	13	15	15	13	12	13	13	12	12	13	14	14	13	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Politehnica Iași	16	16	13	13	11	9	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	10	10	11	11	11
Național București	5	9	4	4	6	5	5	5	8	4	8	5	7	5	3	4	4	7	7	7	4	5	8	6	8	7	7	6	7	6
Rapid București	6	5	10	10	10	7	9	7	6	7	4	7	5	9	7	6	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	3	2	2	2
Sportul Studențesc București	9	10	6	5	5	6	7	6	4	5	9	6	10	8	9	9	8	6	5	4	5	4	4	4	3	2	2	3	4	4
Steaua București	7	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Politehnica Timișoara	2	6	7	8	7	10	8	9	9	9	6	4	3	3	4	3	3	3	6	6	7	8	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	8
Vaslui	13	13	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	14	14	14	14	13	14	13	14

Source: LT (in Romanian)

Results

Home \ Away	ARG	BAC	CFR	DIN	FAR	GBI	JIU	OȚE	PAN	PIA	NAT	RAP	SPO	STE	TIM	VAS
Argeș Pitești	—	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–2	2–0	2–1	0–5	0–1	3–0	2–3	1–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–0
Bacău	3–2	—	0–2	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–4	1–0	0–1	2–2	0–1	1–2	0–2	1–0	0–2
CFR Cluj	2–2	4–0	—	1–0	3–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–3	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–0
Dinamo București	1–2	6–0	5–0	—	0–1	3–1	1–1	0–3	3–0	1–1	2–1	5–2	4–5	1–1	1–0	1–2
Farul Constanța	2–0	2–0	1–2	0–1	—	3–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	4–0	1–2	2–2	1–4	4–2	2–1
Gloria Bistrița	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–0	—	0–0	0–0	4–0	1–0	0–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1
Jiul Petroșani	0–1	2–0	5–1	1–3	3–1	0–2	—	0–3	1–1	0–2	2–0	3–0	1–3	1–2	1–1	0–0
Oțelul Galați	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–4	0–1	1–0	0–0	—	1–1	0–0	2–0	3–3	2–3	0–3	0–2	1–1
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–2	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	—	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	3–2	0–0
Politehnica Iași	3–2	4–0	1–0	0–2	3–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	—	2–3	1–4	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–0
Național București	0–1	1–0	0–4	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–2	3–2	1–1	—	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–1
Rapid București	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	4–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	—	3–0	0–0	0–0	1–1
Sportul Studențesc București	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–2	3–1	2–1	4–0	4–0	4–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	—	1–2	3–1	3–0
Steaua București	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	3–0	0–1	1–0	4–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	0–2	4–1	—	2–1	2–2
Politehnica Timișoara	0–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	3–2	4–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–3	0–0	0–0	—	2–0
Vaslui	3–0	1–1	0–3	1–2	0–2	2–0	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–3	0–4	1–1	—

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

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Politehnica Timișoara	220,000	32,000	3,000	14,666	−18.5%†
2	Steaua București	130,000	25,000	0	8,666	−42.7%7,9
3	FC Vaslui	122,500	10,000	4,000	8,166	n/a1
4	Politehnica Iași	101,500	13,000	4,000	6,766	−22.5%†
5	Jiul Petroșani	97,500	17,000	3,500	6,500	n/a1
6	Rapid București	97,000	16,000	0	6,466	−18.5%11
7	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	95,500	15,000	1,500	6,366	n/a1
8	CFR Cluj	81,800	12,000	300	5,453	−19.8%5
9	Dinamo București	74,500	12,000	0	4,966	−2.6%6,10
10	Sportul Studențesc București	65,300	15,000	500	4,353	+40.7%†
11	Oțelul Galați	64,400	16,000	400	4,293	+12.2%3
12	Farul Constanța	50,500	13,000	200	3,366	−29.8%†
13	Argeș Pitești	47,200	7,000	0	3,146	−35.3%2,8
14	Gloria Bistrița	42,100	10,000	300	2,806	+40.3%4
15	Național București	33,550	10,000	200	2,236	−16.1%†
16	FCM Bacău	31,050	13,000	200	2,070	−18.6%†
	League total	1,354,400	32,000	0	5,643	−14.0%†

Updated to games played on 27 August 2019
Source: League matches: Divizia A 2005/2006
Notes:
1: Played last season in Divizia B.
2: Argeș Pitești played 13 matches out of their stadium.
3: Oțelul Galați played 8 matches out of their stadium.
4: Gloria Bistrița played 2 matches out of their stadium.
5: CFR Cluj played 3 matches out of their stadium.
6: Dinamo București played 1 match out of their stadium.
7: Steaua București played 8 matches out of their stadium.
8: Argeș Pitești played 1 game behind closed doors.
9: Steaua București played 4 games behind closed doors.
10: Dinamo București played 2 games behind closed doors.
11: Rapid București played 3 games behind closed doors.

Top goalscorers

Rank[2][3]	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ionuț Mazilu	Sportul Studențesc	22
2	Nicolae Dică	Steaua București	15
3	Viorel Moldovan	Politehnica Timișoara / Rapid București	14
4	Claudiu Niculescu	Dinamo București	12
	Tiberiu Bălan	Sportul Studențesc
6	Ciprian Tănasă	Argeș Pitești	11
7	Alexandru Bălțoi	Dinamo București / Oțelul Galați	10
	Ștefan Grigorie	Dinamo București
9	Ionuț Bâlbă	Politehnica Iași	9
	Ianis Zicu	Dinamo București

Champion squad

Steaua București[4]

Goalkeepers: Carlos Fernandes (13 / 0); Cornel Cernea (2 / 0); Vasil Khamutowski (15 / 0). Defenders: Eugen Baciu (9 / 0); Daniel Bălan (6 / 0); Florentin Dumitru (7 / 0); Sorin Ghionea (26 / 0); Dorin Goian (23 / 2); Petre Marin (14 / 0); Mihai Neșu (19 / 0); George Ogăraru (28 / 1). Midfielders: Gabriel Boștină (27 / 4); Florin Lovin (23 / 1); Bănel Nicoliță (29 / 7); Daniel Oprița (24 / 1); Sorin Paraschiv (26 / 3); Mirel Rădoi (24 / 4); Răzvan Ochiroșii (1 / 0). Forwards: Andrei Cristea (24 / 3); Vasilică Cristocea (14 / 2); Nicolae Dică (29 / 15); Laurențiu Diniță (8 / 0); Victoraș Iacob (22 / 5). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Oleh Protasov / Cosmin Olăroiu.

See also

• 2005–06 in Romanian football