FCU Olimpia Cluj

Fotbal Club U Olimpia Cluj-Napoca, commonly known as FCU Olimpia Cluj, or simply as U Olimpia Cluj, is a women's football team from Cluj-Napoca in Romania. It is Romania's top women's football club, having won all league titles since its inception, and thus represents Romania year by year in the UEFA Women's Champions League. The club also gives a majority of the Romania women's national football team players.

U Olimpia Cluj

Full name	Fotbal Club U Olimpia Cluj-Napoca
Nickname(s)	Studentele (The Students)
Founded	7 July 2010; 15 years ago (2010-07-07)
Ground	Clujana / Cluj Arena
Capacity	1,300 / 30,335
Owner	Radu Munteanu
Chairman	Alin Cioban
Manager	Ioana Bortan
League	Liga I
2024–25	Liga I, 4th
Website	https://u-olimpiacluj.ro
Home colours Away colours

History

Founded on 7 July 2010^[1] at the initiative of Mirel Albon, Clujana's coach, due to increasingly divergent views with his club's owners,^[2][3] 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.^[4] The title qualified them for the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League. In addition they won the Romanian cup that year too.^[5] 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).^[6] 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.^[7]

Chronology of names

Period	Full Club Name	Short name
2011–2012	Clubul de Fotbal Feminin Olimpia Cluj-Napoca[8]	Olimpia Cluj
2012–2015	Clubul de Fotbal Feminin Olimpia Universitatea Tehnică Cluj-Napoca[9][10]	Olimpia UT Cluj
2015–2018	Clubul de Fotbal Feminin Olimpia Cluj-Napoca	Olimpia Cluj
2018–present	Asociația Fotbal Club Universitatea Olimpia Cluj[1]	U Olimpia Cluj

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.^[11] 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

  Champions   Runners-up   Third place   Promoted   Relegated

Season		Division	Tier	Place	Cup	WCL
1	2010–11	Liga I	1	1st	W	–
2	2011–12	Liga I, Seria Vest	1	1st	W	R32
3	2012–13	Liga I, Seria Vest	1	1st	W	R16
4	2013–14	Superliga	1	1st	W	Grp
5	2014–15	Superliga	1	1st	W	Grp
6	2015–16	Superliga	1	1st	F	R32
7	2016–17	Superliga	1	1st	W	Grp
8	2017–18	Liga I	1	1st	QF	R32
9	2018–19	Liga I	1	1st	SF	Grp
10	2019–20	Liga I	1	1st[a]	QF*	Grp
11	2020–21	Liga I	1	1st	W	2QR
12	2021–22	Liga I	1	1st	W	1R
13	2022–23	Liga I	1	1st	F	1R
14	2023–24	Liga I	1	2nd	W	2R
15	2024–25	Liga I	1	4th		–

1. not crowned as Champions

Current squad

As of August 2021^[12]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  ROU Sonia Bumbar 3 DF  ROU Cristina Botojel 4 MF  ROU Ioana Bortan (Captain) 7 MF  MDA Carolina Țabur 9 MF  ROU Mihaela Ciolacu 10 MF  ROU Roxana Mirea 11 FW  ROU Mara Bâtea 12 GK  ROU Sara Câmpean 14 FW  ROU Adina Borodi 15 MF  ROU Andreea Pînzariu 16 DF  ROU Anamaria Salagean 17 DF  ROU Varo Helga

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 GK  ROU Alesia Moldovan 19 DF  ROU Noemi Vincze 20 DF  ROU Karina Bede 21 DF  ROU Simona Sigheartau 22 DF  ROU Maria Stamate 23 MF  ROU Oana Negrea 31 GK  USA Erin Louise Seppi 44 DF  FRA Cloe Macuiba 77 MF  ROU Florentina Iancu 88 DF  ROU Daiana Onet 90 FW  ROU Carmen Marcu 99 FW  ROU Ioana Nicoleta Balaceanu

Club officials

Board of directors Role Name President Radu Munteanu Honorary President Erika Hristea Executive President Alin Cioban Vice-president Eugen Cocan General Manager Mirel Albon Administrative Manager Ioan Vlas Last updated: 13 January 2019 Source:[13]

Current technical staff Role Name Manager Ioana Bortan Assistant Managers Tiberiu Stranyezky Goalkeeping Coach Mirela Ganea Pop Last updated: 13 January 2019 Source:[14]

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.^[15]

UEFA Women's Cup / UEFA Women's Champions League
Season	Preliminary stage	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semi-finals	Final
2011–12	Sarajevo 1	Olympique
2012–13	1º Dezembro 1	Neulengbach	Torres
2013–14	Spartak 1
2014–15	Raheny 1
2015–16	Pomurje 1	PSG
2016–17	Medyk 1
2017–18	Hibernian 1	Rosengård

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.

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