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Divizia A 1953
The 1953 Divizia A was the thirty-sixth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania. Teams League table Results Top goalscorers Champion squad See also * 1953 Divizia B References {{1953–54 in European football (UEFA) Liga I seasons Romania Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ... 1 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divizia A
The Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1, is a Romanian professional league for men's association football clubs. Currently sponsored by betting company Superbet, it is officially known as the SuperLiga. It is the country's top football competition, being contested by 16 clubs which take part in a promotion and relegation system with the Liga II. The teams play 30 matches each in the regular season, before entering the championship play-offs or the relegation play-outs according to their position in the regular table. The Liga I was established in 1909 and commenced play for the 1909–10 campaign, being currently on the 29th place in UEFA's league coefficient ranking list. It is administered by the Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal, also known by the acronym LPF. Before the 2006–07 season, the competition was known as ''Divizia A'', but the name had to be changed following the finding that someone else had registered that trademark. The best performer to date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Dinamo București
Fotbal Club Dinamo București (), commonly known as Dinamo București or simply Dinamo, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in Bucharest. Founded in 1948, they have spent almost List of unrelegated association football clubs, their entire history in Romanian football league system, Romania's top tier, the Liga I. Domestically, Dinamo București is one of the two most successful teams in the country, having won 18 Liga I, 13 Cupa României, two Supercupa României, and one Cupa Ligii. In the European Cup 1983-84, 1983–84 season, they became the first Romanian club to reach the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League, European Cup. Dinamo's traditional home colours are white and red, while the current crest is a modified version of the one adopted in the 1998. Their home venue is Stadionul Dinamo, although significant matches are also played at Arena Națională. Their bitter rivals are neighbouring FC Steaua București, with the matches between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandru Karikaș
Alexandru Karikaş (10 May 1931 – 14 April 2007) was a Romanian footballer who played for CA Câmpulung Moldovenesc, CCA București, Progresul Oradea and Progresul București between 1953 and 1964. Honours Club ;CCA București *Romanian League: 1953 *Romanian Cup: 1955 ;Progresul Oradea *Romanian Cup: 1956 ;Progresul București *Romanian Cup Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language ***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditional ...: 1959–60 Notes References External links * 1931 births 2007 deaths Romanian footballers Romania international footballers Association football defenders Liga I players FC Steaua București players CA Oradea players FC Progresul București players Sportspeople from Satu Mare {{Romania-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Dumitrescu
Victor Dumitrescu (25 September 1924 – 15 March 1997) was a Romanian footballer who played as left back. Dumitrescu began his football career at the age of 10, in the neighbour city of Deva. He played ten years for Corvinul Deva, beginning as a youth and finishing as a senior. In 1946, he moved to Sebeş, playing well for Surianul, and after two years he signed with Flacăra Mediaş. After three years in Mediaş, Dumitrescu joined Steaua București. He played eight years for his side, being a part of Steaua's Golden Team of the 1950s. He is the single player of the Golden Team who had never played for Romania national football team. Honours Club ;Steaua București *Liga I (3): 1952, 1953, 1956 * Cupa României (2): 1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ..., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traian Ivănescu
Traian Ivănescu (5 May 1933 – 29 July 2019) was a Romanian football player and manager. Career Born in Bucharest, Ivănescu played youth football with Militari București and Flamura Roşie București, before making his senior debut in 1951 with Flacăra București. He later played for CCA Steaua București, Progresul București, Siderurgistul Galați and Jiul Petroşani, before retiring in 1966. He was married to Doina Ivănescu a former volleyball player who represented her country at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He also earned one cap for Romania in 1954. Ivănescu later became a coach. He died on 29 July 2019, aged 86. Honours Player ;Steaua București *Divizia A (5): 1952, 1953, 1956, 1959–60, 1960–61 *Cupa României (3): 1952, 1955, 1961–62 ;Siderurgistul Galați * Romanian Second Division (1): 1964–65 ;Jiul Petroșani * Romanian Second Division (1): 1965–66 Manager ;Jiul Petroșani *Cupa României The Cupa României ( en, Romanian Cup) is a As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandru Apolzan
Alexandru Apolzan (6 February 1927 – 23 December 1982) was a Romanian footballer, who played as a defender, mainly for Steaua București and also for Romania. He has been credited with the invention of the sweeper role and is considered one of the best sweepers in the history of Romanian football, with only Miodrag Belodedici and Gheorghe Popescu, in recent years, being able to play at a similar level. Playing career It was the Romanian Apolzan who first played as sweeper, while at Steaua București. However, Apolzan played during the darkest period in the history of Romania, when the connections with the outside world were almost cut completely. Apolzan signed his first contract with Şoimii, a local team from Sibiu, in 1941. After the war he joins the squad of CFR Bucharest and then between 1949 and 1962, he played for Steaua București until his retirement. Hungarian coach Gusztáv Sebes, the builder of the Hungarian team from the first half of the 1950s – the ''Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasile Zavoda
Vasile Zavoda, known as Zavoda II or Tigrul Akbar (26 July 1929 – 14 July 2014), was a Romanian football defender and manager. Between 1951 and 1962 he played 20 matches for Romania, including one at the 1952 Olympics. Domestically he competed through 1964 in the Romanian Divizia A, accumulating 257 games. After retiring from competitions he worked as an assistant coach for Steaua București in 1977–81. Overview Zavoda played for Metalul Baia Mare between 1947 and 1951, before joining Steaua București. In 1964, aged 35, Zavoda played his last season, for ASA Târgu Mureş. Zavoda played 257 games in Romania's Divizia A and scored two goals. He also won 20 caps for Romania, the first in 1951 against Czechoslovakia, the last one in 1962 against East Germany. He played for Romania at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was the younger brother of Francisc Zavoda. Until his death he lived in Bucharest, in the same block of flats with his great friend and former teammate Ion Voin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Voinescu
Ion "Țop" Voinescu (18 April 1929 – 9 March 2018) was a Romanian footballer, who is often considered one of the finest goalkeepers Romania has ever produced. Voinescu joined his first club, Olympia București, in 1939 just before the start of World War II, aged 10. After four years with Olympia, Voinescu left to join another club from Bucharest, ASPIM, but left again after the war's conclusion in 1945, in order to sign his first professional contract with Carmen București, which was one of the best Romanian football teams during the interbelic period. However, he ended up leaving the club a year later, where he joined Solvay Uioara. Voinescu left Solvay Uioara a year later to join RATA Târgu Mureș in 1947, where he remained at for a year before leaving in order to return to Bucharest, where he signed for Metalul București. Following a three-year spell with Metalul, Voinescu moved to Steaua București, which was where he remained at before his retirement from professi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costică Toma
Costică Toma (1 January 1928 – 13 May 2008) was a Romanian international football goalkeeper and later manager. Playing career He was born in Brăila Brăila (, also , ) is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of Brăila County. The ''Sud-Est'' Regional Development Agency is located in Brăila. According to the 2011 Romanian census there were 180,302 pe ..., into a family coming from Muralto, Switzerland. Toma began his football career in 1940, when he played for FC Suter as a striker. After a period when he played as a youth for Capșa București, he moved to Iași. He played only a season at CS ta, and after two months at Câmpulung Moldovenesc, he moved to FC Steaua București, Steaua București. He played twelve years for the Army club, and was a part of the Steaua Golden Team. He had at Steaua a famous and a fair-play rivalry with Ion Voinescu. It was said that Toma and Voinescu were the best couple of goalkeepers that a Romania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolae Dumitru (footballer)
Nicolae "Nicușor" Dumitru (12 December 1928 – 8 August 2005) was a Romanian striker and manager. He is the most successful Manager in Romania, winning the Romanian First League on 7 occasions, all with Dinamo București. Nicolae Dumitru also won two Romanian Cups, and went on to guide Dinamo to the European Cup semi-finals in the 1983–84 season. He has a total of 558 matches as manager in Divizia A. Club career Nicolae Dumitru was born on 12 December 1928 in Bucharest, Romania and he started playing football in 1945 at Sparta București in the regional championship and then in Divizia B, after two seasons going to play for Metalul București also in Divizia B, helping the team promote to Divizia A where he made his debut under coach Augustin Botescu on 22 August 1948 in a 6–1 loss against CFR Timișoara. He was transferred at Dinamo București in 1949 where he spent 10 seasons, in the 1955 Divizia A season helping the club win the first Divizia A title in its histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vichentie Birău
Vichentie Birău (1929 – 1992) was a Romanian football forward. International career Vichentie Birău played one game at international level for Romania in a friendly which ended with a 3–2 loss against East Germany. Honours UTA Arad *Divizia A: 1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ... References 1929 births 1992 deaths Romanian footballers Romania international footballers Association football forwards Liga I players Liga II players FC UTA Arad players {{Romania-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gheorghe Váczi
Gheorghe Váczi (4 August 1922 – 16 October 2006) was a Romanian football player who played as a striker. Career overview *''Total matches played in Romanian First League:'' 194 matches – 126 goals *''Total matches played in Hungarian First Division:'' 48 matches – 26 goals *''Topscorer of Romanian First League:'' 1949 and 1951. *''Winner of Liga I:'' 1949, 1954 *''Winner of Cupa României The Cupa României ( en, Romanian Cup) is a Association football, football cup competition for List of football clubs in Romania, Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1933–34 Cupa României, 1933–34, except during World War II. I ...:'' 1953 *''Romania B:'' 3 matches – 1 goal :1 The 1955 Second League goals and appearances made for Progresul Oradea are unavailable. External links * * * 1922 births 2006 deaths People from Mediaș Romanian footballers Romania international footballers Romanian expatriate footballers Liga I players Liga II playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
