Valentin Bădoi

Valentin Emanoil Bădoi (born 16 December 1975) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, currently in charge at Liga III club Petrolul II Ploiești.^[1][2][3]

Valentin Bădoi

Personal information
Full name	Valentin Emanoil Bădoi
Date of birth	(1975-12-16) 16 December 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth	Turnu Măgurele, Romania
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Right back
Team information
Current team	Petrolul II Ploiești (head coach)
Youth career
	Chimia Turnu Măgurele
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1996–2000	Chimia Turnu Măgurele
1997–1998	→ Rulmentul Alexandria (loan)
2000–2002	FCM Bacău	59	(13)
2002–2007	Rapid București	151	(23)
2007	Steaua București	10	(0)
2008–2009	Politehnica Timişoara	45	(3)
2009–2010	Universitatea Craiova	15	(0)
2010	FC Brașov	11	(0)
2011–2012	Viitorul Domnești
2012	Conpet Ploiești
2014–2016	Sporting Turnu Măgurele
2016–2017	Voința Crevedia
Total		291	(39)
International career
2005–2007	Romania	10	(0)
Managerial career
2012–2014	Clinceni
2014–2016	Sporting Turnu Măgurele (player/coach)
2016	Academica Clinceni (assistant)
2016–2017	Voința Crevedia (player/coach)
2018–2019	Carmen București
2020	Comuna Recea (assistant)
2021–2023	Petrolul Ploiești (assistant)
2023–2024	Cetatea Turnu Măgurele
2024–2025	Gloria Buzău (assistant)
2025	Petrolul II Ploiești (assistant)
2025–	Petrolul II Ploiești
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

International career

Valentin Bădoi played 10 games for Romania, making his debut under coach Victor Pițurcă on 9 February 2005, when he came as a substitute and replaced Mirel Rădoi in the 81st minute of a friendly match, which ended 2–2 against Slovakia.^[4][5] His following two games were a 2–0 home victory against Czech Republic and a 1–0 away victory against Finland at the 2006 World Cup qualifiers.^[6][7] Bădoi's last appearance for the national team was on 16 August 2006 in a friendly against Cyprus which ended with a 2–0 victory.^[4][8]

Career statistics

International

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Romania
	2005	5	0
	2006	5	0
Total		10	0

Honours

Player

Rulmentul Alexandria

• Divizia C: 1997–98

Rapid București

• Divizia A: 2002–03^[1]
• Cupa României: 2005–06, 2006–07^[1]
• Supercupa României: 2002, 2003

Politehnica Timișoara

• Cupa României runner-up: 2009^[1]

Sporting Turnu Măgurele

• Liga IV – Teleorman County: 2014–15

Coach

Clinceni

• Liga III: 2011–12

Sporting Turnu Măgurele

• Liga IV – Teleorman County: 2014–15

Carmen București

• Liga IV – Bucharest: 2018–19