CFR Cluj

Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj ('CFR' stands for Căile Ferate Române, meaning Romanian Railways) is a Romanian association football club from Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania. The club spent most of its history in the lower divisions. Great financial gains in 2002 led them to reach the Liga I in 2004. The following season, the CFR Cluj took part in the UEFA Intertoto Cup and finished as runners-up. For the first time in their history, the club won the Liga I in 2008. That season, they took the title away from the teams of Bucharest for the first time in 17 years. Since 2004, they have won the Liga I 3 times, the Romanian Cup 3 times and the Romanian Supercup twice.

CFR Cluj in 2008.

CFR Cluj fans showing the team's main colours: purple and white.

The teams colours are purple and white, and their biggest rival is Universitatea Cluj.

Honours

Liga I

• Winners (3): 2007–08, 2009–10, 2011–12

Liga II

• Winners (2): 1968–69, 2003–04
• Runners-up (1): 1977–78

Liga III

• Winners (7): 1946–47, 1982–83, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1995–96, 2001–02
• Runners-up (3): 1936–37, 1958–59, 1987–88

Romanian Cup

• Winners (4): 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2015–16
• Runners-up (1): 2012–13

Romanian Supercup

• Winners (2): 2009, 2010
• Runners-up (1): 2012

European competitions

Their most recent appearance in a European competition was in the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League, in which they reached the third qualifying round.

Season	Competition	Round	Opponents	Home	Away	Aggregate
2005	UEFA Intertoto Cup	First round	Vėtra	3–2	4–1	7–3
		Second round	Athletic Bilbao	1–0	(aet) 0–1	1–1 (5–3 p)
		Third round	Saint-Étienne	1–1	2–2	(a) 3–3
		Semi–finals	Žalgiris Vilnius	5–1	2–1	7–2
		Finals	Lens	1–1	1–3	2–4
2007–08	UEFA Cup	Second qualifying round	Anorthosis	1–3	0–0	1–3
2008–09	UEFA Champions League	Group A	Roma	1–3	2–1	4th place
			Chelsea	0–0	1–2
			Bordeaux	1–2	0–1
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	Play-off round	Sarajevo	2–1	1–1	3–2
		Group K	Copenhagen	2–0	0–2	4th place
			PSV Eindhoven	0–2	0–1
			Sparta Prague	2–3	0–2
2010–11	UEFA Champions League	Group E	Basel	2–1	0–1	4th place
			Roma	1–1	1–2
			Bayern Munich	0–4	2–3
2012–13	UEFA Champions League	Third qualifying round	Slovan Liberec	1–0	2–1	3–1
		Play-off round	Basel	1–0	2–1	3–1
		Group H	Braga	3–1	2–0	3rd place
			Manchester United	1–2	1–0
			Galatasaray	1–3	1–1
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	Round of 32	Internazionale	0–3	0–2	0–5
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	Second qualifying round	Jagodina	0–0	1–0	1–0
		Third qualifying round	Dinamo Minsk	0–2	0–1	0–3

Other websites

• Official website (in Romanian)