CFF Clujana is an
association football
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club from
Cluj-Napoca in
Romania
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. Clujana's women's football team played in the top domestic league and has won seven consecutive
Romanian national championships and four
domestic cups.
History
CFF Clujana was founded in 2001 by the businessman Florin Chelaru in collaboration with Mirel and
Teodora Albon. The team manages to win its first title in 2003 and proceeded to establish itself as the most successful Romanian women's football team of the 2000s, being champions for seven consecutive years between 2003 and 2009, and winning four
Romanian Cups.
In 2009, the coach, Mirel Albon, the brain behind the team's success, left the club due to increasingly divergent views with Chelaru. Next year, Albon proceeded to form his own club, taking with him a significant part of Clujana's top players. In the two seasons that followed, rivals Olimpia won the title, while Clujana finished in the bottom part of the championship.
The women's football side ceased in 2012. The parent club was still active in 2018, having a male futsal team since 2005 under the same name CFF Clujana, even though CFF is short for "Women's Football Club",
as Chelaru did not bother to officially change the name.
The full name of the club is "Clubul de Fotbal Feminin Clujana Cluj-Napoca", or CFF Clujana Cluj-Napoca. For a while, it was known as CFF Clujana Protherm Cluj-Napoca for sponsorship reasons.
Honours
Leagues
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Liga I
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**Winners (7):
2002–03,
2003–04,
2004–05,
2005–06,
2006–07,
2007–08,
2008–09
Cups
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Romanian Women's Cup
**Winners (4): 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08
**Runners-up (2): 2006–07, 2009–10
Season by season
Notable former players
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Teodora Albon
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Mara Bâtea
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Georgiana Birțoiu
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Ioana Bortan
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Cosmina Dușa
*
Maria Ficzay
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Adina Giurgiu
*
Daniela Gurz
*
Andreea Laiu
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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 ...
*
Elena Pavel
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Florentina Spânu
Florentina Olar-Spânu (born 6 August 1985), née Spânu, is a Romanian footballer who plays as a forward for Danish Elitedivisionen club Fortuna Hjørring and the Romania women's national team.
Career
Spânu has been a member of the Romania ...
*
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. ...
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Ștefania Vătafu
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Andreea Voicu
References
External links
CFF Clujana- official website
{{Football in Romania
Sport in Cluj-Napoca
Association football clubs established in 2001
Women's football clubs in Romania
2001 establishments in Romania
Association football clubs disestablished in 2012
2012 disestablishments in Romania
Defunct football clubs in Romania