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 ; hu, kincses város) , official_name=Cluj-Napoca , native_name= , image_skyline= , subdivision_type1 = Counties of Romania, County , subdivision_name1 = Cluj County , subdivision_type2 = Subdivisions of Romania, Status , subdivision_name2 ...

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

. 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 UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–2009), is a European women's association football competition. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA. The ...

. The club also gives a majority of the

Romania women's national football team The Romania women's national football team represents Romania in international women's football. Their most recent competition is qualification for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. Despite not gaining as much success as the men's, the women's ...

players.

History

Founded on 7 July 2010Despre noi
u-olimpiacluj.ro at the initiative of Mirel Albon, Clujana's coach, due to increasingly divergent views with his club's owners, 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. The title qualified them for the

2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League The 2011−12 UEFA Women's Champions League was the eleventh edition of the European women's championship for football clubs. The final was held in the Olympiastadion in Munich, Germany on 17 May 2012. As in the past two Champions League seasons, ...

. In addition they won the Romanian cup that year too. 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 The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN short for ro, Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca) is a public university located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It was founded in 1948, based on the older ''Industrial College'' (1920). The Technical U ...

, its rector, Radu Munteanu being for a period of time also Olimpia's chairman (president). 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 Fotbal Club Universitatea Cluj (), commonly known as Universitatea Cluj or simply as U Cluj, is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the Liga I, the first tier of the Romanian ...

and has rebranded as "U" Olimpia Cluj.

Chronology of names

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. The goal of south-east Europe's first female football academy is to advance women's football in Romania.

Honours

Leagues

Liga I 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 ...

**Winners (11): 2010–11, 2011–12,

2012–13 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19,

2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...

, 2021–22 **First place, not declared Winners (1): 2019–20

Cups

Romanian Women's 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 ...

**Winners (8): 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17,

, 2021–22 **Runners-up (1): 2015–16

Season by season

Current squad

Club officials

Board of directors

* Last updated: 13 January 2019 * Source:

Current technical staff

* Last updated: 13 January 2019 * Source:

FCU Olimpia Cluj in Europe

In their first participation they started in the qualifying round of the

. Already after two wins against Bosnian and Lithuanian opposition they qualified for the round of 32. 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 Cosmina Anișoara Dușa (born 4 March 1990) is a Romanian footballer who plays as a forward for Beroe in Bulgaria and the Romanian national team. As a player she won the national championship, the national cup and was top scorer of the league. ...

* Maria Ficzay * Adina Giurgiu *

Daniela Gurz Daniela Gurz is a Romanian women's soccer, football defender (soccer), defender currently playing for ENP Famagusta FC. She has played the UEFA Women's Champions League, Champions League with CFF Clujana, FCM Târgu Mureș (feminin), FCM Târgu M ...

* Priscilla Hagan * Lidia Havriștiuc * Alexandra Iușan * Alexandra Lunca *

Christine Manie Christine Manie (born 4 May 1984) is a Cameroonian footballer who plays as a defender for French club Yzeure and the Cameroon women's national football team. At the 2014 African Women's Championship, Manie scored an extra-time winner in the se ...

* Isabelle Mihail *

Corina Olar Corina-Simona Olar-Corniciuc (born 27 August 1984) is a Romanian footballer. She currently plays for 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 ...

Olivia Oprea Olivia Maria Oprea (born 19 March 1987), commonly known in Spain as Oli, is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back and a defensive midfielder for Spanish Liga F club Alhama and the Romania national team. She has also pla ...

Andreea Părăluță Andreea Părăluță (born 27 November 1994) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Levante and the Romania women's national team. Honours Club ;ASA Târgu Mureș * Cupa României (1): 2015–16 ;Atletico Madr ...

Raluca Sârghe Monica Raluca Sârghe is a Romanian football midfielder. She played in the Turkish Women's First League for the Turkish club Konak Belediyespor in Izmir. Playing career Sârghe performed athletics before she switched over to football playing. ...

* Ekaterina Ulasevich *

Fanny Vágó Fanny Vágó (born 23 July 1991) is a Hungary, Hungarian women's soccer, football Striker (association football), striker, currently playing for Ferencvárosi TC (women's football), Ferencváros of the Női NB I. She has played for MTK Hungária ...

* Ștefania Vătafu

References

External links

Club's website
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