Ion Dumitru

Ion Dumitru (born 2 January 1950), commonly known as Liță Dumitru, is a Romanian former professional football player and manager who is technical director at Liga II club Concordia Chiajna. He played as a midfielder.

Liță Dumitru

Dumitru with Steaua Bucharest
Personal information
Full name	Ion Dumitru
Date of birth	(1950-01-02) 2 January 1950 (age 75)
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Concordia Chiajna (technical director)
Youth career
1963–1964	Confecția București
1964–1967	Rapid București
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1967–1972	Rapid București	110	(11)
1972–1980	Steaua București	213	(47)
1980–1982	Politehnica Timişoara	46	(2)
1982–1983	Universitatea Craiova	4	(0)
1983–1984	CFR Timişoara
1984–1985	Politehnica Timişoara	33	(1)
1986–1988	Rapid București	37	(3)
1988–1989	Würzburger Kickers
Total		443	(64)
International career
1971–1976	Romania Olympic[1]	7	(2)
1970–1980	Romania[2]	50	(10)
Managerial career
1985	Politehnica Timişoara (player/coach)
1987–1988	Rapid București (player/coach)
1989–1993	Würzburger Kickers
1994–1995	Național București
1995–1996	Jiul Petroșani
1996–1997	Rapid București
1998	Rocar București
1999	Al-Jaish Damascus
2000	Al-Ta'ee
2000–2001	Politehnica Iași
2001	Callatis Mangalia
2001–2002	Romania U19
2002–2003	VfR Heilbronn
2003–2005	Rapid București (youth)
2007–2008	Concordia Chiajna
2009–2010	Concordia Chiajna
2011	Steaua II București
2013–2014	Romania U18
2015–2017	Concordia Chiajna (youth)
2016–2017	Concordia II Chiajna
2017–2024	Kalonji Soccer Academy (youth)
2024–	Concordia Chiajna (technical director)
2024–2025	Concordia Chiajna (caretaker)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

A Romanian international, Dumitru represented his country at the 1970 FIFA World Cup.^[3] Regarded as one of Romania's greatest players he won the Romanian Footballer of the Year in 1973 and 1975.^[4]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Romania	1970	9	0
	1971	4	0
	1972	7	0
	1973	5	2
	1974	4	1
	1975	7	1
	1976	2	0
	1977	8	5
	1978	1	0
	1979	2	1
	1980	1	0
Total		50	10

Scores and results table. "Score" indicates the score after the player's goal:

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	6 May 1973	Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, Tirana, Albania	Albania	1–0	4–1	1974 FIFA World Cup qualification
2	14 October 1973	Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest, Romania	Finland	1–0	9–0	1974 FIFA World Cup qualification
3	23 July 1974	Stadionul 1 Mai, Constanța, Romania	Japan	2–0	4–1	Friendly
4	24 September 1975	Kaftanzoglio Stadio, Thessaloniki, Greece	Greece	1–0	1–1	1973–76 Balkan Cup
5	23 March 1977	Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest, Romania	Turkey	2–0	4–0	1977–80 Balkan Cup
6	27 April 1977	Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest, Romania	East Germany	1–1	1–1	Friendly
7	21 September 1977	Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest, Romania	Greece	1–0	6–1	Friendly
8				3–1
9				5–1
10	21 March 1979	Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest, Romania	Greece	1–0	3–0	Friendly

Honours

Player

Rapid București

• Cupa României: 1971–72

Steaua București

• Divizia A: 1975–76, 1977–78
• Cupa României: 1975–76, 1978–79

Politehnica Timișoara

• Cupa României runner-up: 1980–81

Universitatea Craiova

• Cupa României: 1982–83

Individual

• Romanian Footballer of the Year: 1973, 1975;^[4] runner-up 1971; fifth place 1972

Coach

Würzburger Kickers

• Landesliga Bayern-Nord: 1989–90

Jiul Petroșani

• Divizia B: 1995–96

Al-Jaish

• Syrian League: 1999
• Arab Club Championship runner-up: 1999