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Valentin Mihăilă
Valentin Mihai Mihăilă (; born 2 February 2000) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Turkish Süper Lig club Çaykur Rizespor and the Romania national football team. Mihăilă began his professional career at Universitatea Craiova in 2017, appearing in over 60 Liga I matches before signing with Italian team Parma for €8.5 million three years later. After representing Romania at under-18, under-19, and under-21 levels, Mihăilă recorded his full debut in a 3–2 win over North Macedonia in March 2021. He competed for the country in the UEFA Euro 2024, where they won their group and reached the round of 16. Club career Universitatea Craiova Mihăilă made his senior debut for Universitatea Craiova on 24 October 2017, aged 17, in a 2–0 away victory over Sepsi OSK counting for the Cupa României. He did not appear in any other match during that season, but on 9 August 2018 started in a 3–1 away defeat to RB Leipzig in the UEFA Europa Leagu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Târgoviște
Târgoviște (, alternatively spelled ''Tîrgoviște'') is a Municipiu, city and county seat in Dâmbovița County, Romania. It is situated north-west of Bucharest, on the right bank of the Ialomița (river), Ialomița River. Târgoviște was one of the most important cities in the history of Wallachia, as it was its capital from 1418 to 1659. At the 2021 Romanian census, 2021 census, the city had a population of 66,965 people, making it the 27th largest in the country. Etymology The name ''Târgoviște'' is a Slavic name which the city acquired in the Middle Ages. It is derived from the old Slavonic word for "marketplace", referring to the place rather than the market itself. The name is found in placenames not only in South Slavic areas (Bulgarian , Serbian and Croatian '), but also in West Slavic such as Slovak ''Trhovište'', Czech ''Trhoviště'' or Polish ''Targowica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Targowica''. Additionally, places with the same name are found in Romania, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Euro 2024
The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2024 (stylised as UEFA EURO 2024) or simply Euro 2024, was the 17th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international Association football, football championship organised by UEFA for the List of men's national association football teams#UEFA (Europe), European men's national teams of their member associations. Germany hosted the tournament, which took place from 14 June to 14 July 2024. The tournament involved 24 teams, with Georgia national football team, Georgia making their European Championship debut. It was the third time that European Championship matches were played on German territory, and the second time in German reunification, reunified Germany, as West Germany hosted the UEFA Euro 1988, 1988 tournament, and four matches of the multi-national UEFA Euro 2020, Euro 2020 were played in Munich. It was the first time the competition was held in what was formerly East Germany, with L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FCSB
Fotbal Club FCSB (), formerly named and still sometimes referred to as FC Steaua București, is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest. It has spent its entire history in the Liga I, the top flight of the Romanian football league system. The original ''Steaua București'' football team was founded in 1947 and belonged to the Ministry of National Defence, through the namesake CSA Steaua București sports club. In 1998, the football department and its facilities were separated from the latter and taken over by a group of shareholders in a post-Ceaușescu privatisation scheme, leading to one of the shareholders acquiring full ownership five years later. However, CSA Steaua București has been in conflict with the football club since 2011, claiming that it was a new and separate entity; this resulted in multiple court cases and the forced change of the name from ''FC Steaua București'' to ''FC FCSB'' in early 2017. Domestically, when taken together with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Pițurcă
Victor Pițurcă (; born 8 May 1956) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player. Club career Victor Pițurcă was born on 8 May 1956 in Orodel, Dolj County, Romania, starting to play football in 1964 at the youth center of Universitatea Craiova, being loaned in 1974 for one year to Dinamo Slatina in Divizia B, where he started his senior career. When he returned to "U" Craiova, coach Constantin Cernăianu gave him Divizia A debut on 19 November 1975 in a 4–0 home win over Argeș Pitești. However, during his two seasons spent at Craiova, he played rarely, so he went to play again in Divizia B, this time at Pandurii Târgu Jiu under coach Constantin Oțet for whom in his first season from the total of 37 goals scored by the team, Pițurcă scored over half but the team relegated to Divizia C. In the 1978–79 Divizia C season, Pițurcă scored 46 goals of the team's total of 98, helping it promote back to Divizia B after one year. In 1979 he went back t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018–19 Liga I
The 2018–19 Liga I (also known as Liga 1 Betano for sponsorship reasons) was the 101st season of the Liga I, the top professional league for Romanian association football clubs. The season began on 20 July 2018 and ended on 2 June 2019, being the fourth to take place since the play-off/play-out rule has been introduced. FC Dunărea Călărași, Dunărea Călărași and FC Hermannstadt, Hermannstadt joined as the promoted clubs from the 2017–18 Liga II. CFR Cluj managed to defend the title for the first time in their history, while FCSB became the first team in the country to finish as runners-up for four consecutive seasons. Teams The league consists of 14 teams: twelve teams from the 2017–18 Liga I and two new teams from the 2017–18 Liga II. Teams promoted to the Liga I The first club to be promoted was FC Dunărea Călărași, Dunărea Călărași, following their 3–1 win against FC Ripensia Timișoara, Ripensia Timișoara on 5 May 2018. Dunărea will play in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digi Sport (Romania)
Digi Sport is a Romanian sports television that was launched on 23 July 2009, available only on the Digi TV platform. It is offered as a set of sports channels, called Digi Sport 1, Digi Sport 2, Digi Sport 3 and Digi Sport 4. On 23 November 2018 Digi 4K was launched just for main events. Genre Digi Sport is one of the sports television in Romania. There are a variety of sports competitions such as football, tennis, handball, basketball, volleyball or kickboxing. Digi Sport is also one of the broadcasters of Formula 1 for Romania. Football Liga 1 Digi Sport will show 270 live Liga 1 matches from 2019 to 2024. These games are played on Friday nights, Saturday and Sunday evenings and nights and Monday nights. Before the game, at half-time and after the game all Liga 1 games have dedicated programmes including Fotbal Club and Digi Sport Special presented by Radu Naum and Valentin Moraru and with special guests like Gabi Balint, Ilie Dumitrescu, Helmut Duckadam, Florin B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurosport
Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia, owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through its WBD Sports unit, it operates two main channels—Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territories, and streams on Max (streaming service), Max and Discovery+. Originally a joint venture between the European Broadcasting Union and Sky Television (1984–1990), Sky established in 1989, it was briefly shut down in 1991 following complaints by competitor Screensport. It was subsequently acquired by TF1 Group, and later merged with Screensport. For a period, it was a joint venture between TF1, Canal+ Group, and Havas Images. TF1 Group later bought out the other owners' shares. In 2012, Discovery, Inc., Discovery Communications began to take an ownership in Eurosport, eventually leading to a full buyout in 2015. Eurosport is the main rights holder of the Olympic Games in most of Europe, as well as, with some exceptions, the tennis Grand S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018–19 UEFA Europa League Qualifying Phase And Play-off Round (Main Path)
This page summarises the Main Path matches of 2018–19 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round. Times are Central European Summer Time, CEST (UTC+02:00, UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses). Preliminary round Summary Matches ''Prishtina won 6–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Gżira United won 4–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Engordany won 3–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''2–2 on aggregate; B36 won 4–2 on penalties.'' ---- ''KÍ won 3–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Tre Fiori won 3–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Trakai won 2–1 on aggregate.'' First qualifying round Summary Matches ''Stjarnan won 3–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Slavia Sofia won 3–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Žalgiris won 3–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''0–0 on aggregate; Fola Esch won 5–4 on penalties.'' ---- ''Molde won 6–3 on aggregate.'' ---- ''DAC Dunajská Streda won 3–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Apollon Limassol won 2–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Europa League
The UEFA Europa League (UEL), usually known simply as the Europa League, is an annual association football, football club competition organised since 1971 by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. It is the second-tier competition of UEFA competitions, European club football, ranking below the UEFA Champions League and above the UEFA Conference League. Introduced in 1971 as the UEFA Cup, it replaced the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. From the 2004–05 UEFA Cup, 2004–05 season a group stage was added before the knockout phase. The competition took on its current name in 2009–10 UEFA Europa League, 2009, following a change in format. The 2009 re-branding included a merge with the UEFA Intertoto Cup, producing an enlarged competition format, with an expanded group stage and a change in qualifying criteria. In the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League, 2024–25 season, the group stage was replaced with an expanded league phase of 36 te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RB Leipzig
RasenBallsport Leipzig e.V. (), commonly known as RB Leipzig or informally as Red Bull Leipzig, is a German professional association football, football club based in Leipzig, Saxony. The club was founded in 2009 by the initiative of the company Red Bull GmbH, which purchased the playing rights of fifth-tier side SSV Markranstädt with the intent of advancing the new club to the top-flight Bundesliga within eight years. The men's professional football club is run by the spin-off organization RasenBallsport Leipzig GmbH. RB Leipzig plays its home matches at the Red Bull Arena (Leipzig), Red Bull Arena. The club nickname is . After its foundation, RB Leipzig quickly rose through the ranks of German football, starting in the fifth-tier NOFV-Oberliga Süd. The club achieved successive promotions the following years, eventually being promoted to the Bundesliga in 2015–16 2. Bundesliga, 2015–16. In their debut 2016–17 Bundesliga, top-flight season, they qualified to the UEFA Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017–18 Liga I
The 2017–18 Liga I (also known as Liga 1 Betano for sponsorship reasons) was the 100th season of the Liga I, the top professional league for Romanian association football clubs. The season began on 14 July 2017 and ended on 2 June 2018, being the third to take place since the play-off/play-out format has been introduced. Defending champions Viitorul Constanța came fourth. CFR Cluj became the new champions in the last fixture of the play-off, clinching their fourth league title after finishing one point above FCSB. Juventus București and Sepsi OSK entered as the promoted teams from the 2016–17 Liga II, but only the latter managed to avoid relegation. Since Romania dropped from 15th to 17th in the UEFA association coefficient rankings, only the title winner qualified for the UEFA Champions League. Teams The league consists of 14 teams: twelve teams from the 2016–17 Liga I and two new teams from the 2016–17 Liga II. Teams promoted to the Liga I The first club t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cupa României
The Cupa României () 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. It is the Romania, country's main cup competition, being open to all clubs affiliated with the Romanian Football Federation (FRF) and the county football associations regardless of the league they belong to. Currently, the winner of the competition is granted a place in the UEFA Europa League qualifiers and plays the Supercupa României. Most finals have been held at the Stadionul Național (1953), Stadionul Național (formerly known as "23 August"), and occasionally at other stadiums in Bucharest. During the construction of the Arena Națională, new Stadionul Național, the final was staged each year in a different major city of the country. In 2007, the final was held in Timișoara at the Stadionul Dan Păltinișanu, Dan Păltinișanu stadium, this bein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
