# 2019–20 CS Universitatea Craiova season

The 2019–20 season was the 44th season in Universitatea Craiova's history, and the 34th in the top-flight of Romanian football. Universitatea Craiova competed in Liga I, the Cupa României and the Europa League.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 12 January 2020
| N | Pos. | Name | Age | EU | Since | App | Goals | Ends | Transfer fee |
| 13 | GK | Mirko Pigliacelli | 31 | EU | 2019 | 66 | 1 | 2022 | €300k |
| 1 | GK | Laurențiu Popescu | 27 | EU | 2016 | 19 | 0 | 2021 | Youth system |
| 25 | GK | Andrei Marinescu | 39 | EU | 2019 | 0 | 0 | 2021 | Free |
| 5 | DF | Bogdan Vatajelu (4th captain) | 31 | EU | 2019 | 132 | 11 | 2023 | €350k |
| 2 | DF | Tiago Ferreira | 31 | EU | 2017 | 74 | 0 | 2020 | Free |
| 18 | DF | Ștefan Vlădoiu | 25 | EU | 2016 | 12 | 0 | Not known | Youth system |
| 27 | MF | Ivan Martić | 34 | EU | 2017 | 70 | 5 | 2020 | Free |
| 11 | DF | Nicusor Bancu (captain) | 32 | EU | 2014 | 200 | 21 | 2020 | €80k |
| 24 | DF | Florin Gardos | 35 | EU | 2018 | 11 | 1 | 2020 | Free |
| 26 | DF | Stephane Acka | 34 | Non-EU | 2019 | 109 | 1 | Not known | Free |
| 33 | DF | Mihai Balasa | 29 | EU | 2019 | 17 | 2 | 2023 | €100k |
| 15 | DF | Uros Cosic | 31 | Non-EU | 2019 | 10 | 1 | 2022 | Undisclosed |
| 30 | DF | Alexandru Matel | 34 | EU | 2019 | 6 | 0 | 2022 | €50k |
| 8 | MF | Alexandru Mateiu (vice-captain) | 34 | EU | 2014 | 180 | 10 | Not known | €500k |
| 21 | MF | Antoni Ivanov | 29 | EU | 2019 | 28 | 2 | 2022 | €150k |
| 14 | MF | Kamer Qaka | 29 | Non-EU | 2019 | 16 | 0 | 2023 | €200k |
| 22 | MF | Cristian Bărbuț | 29 | EU | 2017 | 80 | 7 | 2021 | €100k |
| 10 | MF | Alexandru Cicâldău (3rd captain) | 27 | EU | 2018 | 71 | 15 | 2022 | €1.0M |
| 23 | MF | Vasile Constantin | 26 | EU | 2019 | 7 | 2 | Not known | Youth system |
| 16 | MF | Dan Nistor | 36 | EU | 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2022 | €260k |
| 28 | FW | Valentin Mihăilă | 24 | EU | 2018 | 54 | 7 | 2021 | Youth system |
| 19 | FW | Elvir Koljić | 32 | Non-EU | 2017 | 27 | 15 | 2020 | €450k |
| 7 | FW | Mihai Roman | 30 | EU | 2017 | 40 | 4 | 2020 | €125k |
| 17 | FW | Ștefan Baiaram | 21 | EU | 2019 | 6 | 0 | 2024 | Youth system |
| 9 | FW | Andrei Ivan | 27 | EU | 2019 | 116 | 21 | 2023 | €1.5M |
| 38 | FW | Luis Nitu | 23 | EU | 2019 | 10 | 3 | 2024 | Youth system |
| 4 | DF | Claude Dielna | 36 | EU | 2020 | 70 | 19 | Unknown | Free |
| | FW | Gustavo | 32 | Non-EU | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 2021 | Free |
* Last updated: 17 February 2020
* Source: , Players in / out, Wikipedia players'
articles

### Out
## Preseason and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss

### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Liga I | July 2019 | – | Matchday 1 | – | 25 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 41 | 26 | +15 | 056.00 |
| Cupa României | October 2019 | – | Round of 32 | - | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 100.00 |
| Europa League | July 2019 | – | First Qualifying Round | Third Qualifying Round | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | +0 | 033.33 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 33 | 18 | 7 | 8 | 53 | 34 | +19 | 054.55 |
Last updated: 17 February 2020 Source: Competitions

### Liga I

The Liga I fixture list was announced in July 2019.

#### Regular season
##### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | CFR Cluj | 26 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 51 | 16 | +35 | 52 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 2 | Universitatea Craiova | 26 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 41 | 28 | +13 | 46 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 3 | Botoșani | 26 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 36 | 30 | +6 | 45 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 4 | FCSB | 26 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 37 | 29 | +8 | 44 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 5 | Gaz Metan Mediaș | 26 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 34 | 30 | +4 | 43 | Qualification for the Championship round |

##### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | W | W | W | L | L | D | W | W | L | W | W | D | L | D | W | D | W | L | W | L | W | L | W | W | W | L |
| Position | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |

##### Matches

Win  Draw  Loss

### Cupa României

Universitatea Craiova will enter the Cupa României at the Round of 32.

#### Quarter-finals
### UEFA Europa League

As Universitatea Craiova finished 4th in the 2018–19 Liga I, they entered the Europa League at the first qualifying round.

#### First qualifying round

The draw for the first round took place on 18 June. Universitatea Craiova was drawn to play against Azerbaijan 3rd place Sabail.

#### Second qualifying round

Universitatea Craiova advanced to the second qualifying round. The draw for the second round took place on 19 June. Universitatea Craiova was drawn to play against Hungarian 4th place Honvéd.

#### Third qualifying round

Universitatea Craiova advanced to the third qualifying round. The draw for the third round took place on 22 July. Universitatea Craiova was drawn to play against Greek 3rd place AEK Athens.
Notes: ^1 On 5 August 2019 UEFA banned Universitatea Craiova to attend two home games without fans following the incidents against Honved Budapest in the Second qualifying round of Europa League. In the match against AEK Athens only kids under 14 were allowed

## Statistics
### Squad appearances and goals

    Last updated on 17 February 2020.
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Liga 1 | Liga 1 | Europa League | Europa League | Cupa Romaniei | Cupa Romaniei |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | ROU | Laurențiu Popescu | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | GK | ITA | Mirko Pigliacelli | 37 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | GK | ROU | Andrei Marinescu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | GK | ROU | Catalin Predut | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | POR | Tiago Ferreira | 12 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ROU | Marius Briceag | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ROU | Florin Borța | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Claude Dielna | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | ROU | Bogdan Vătăjelu | 31 | 3 | 23 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | CRO | Renato Kelić | 15 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | DF | ROU | Nicușor Bancu | 40 | 5 | 31 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | SRB | Uroš Ćosić | 21 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | ROU | Ștefan Vlădoiu | 21 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | ROU | Florin Gardoș | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | CIV | Stephane Acka | 35 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | SUI | Ivan Martić | 22 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | ROU | Alexandru Mățel | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | ROU | Mihai Bălașa | 23 | 3 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||
| 8 | MF | ROU | Alexandru Mateiu | 36 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | ROU | Alexandru Cicâldău | 41 | 16 | 33 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 14 | MF | ALB | Kamer Qaka | 19 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | ROU | Dan Nistor | 15 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 | MF | BUL | Antoni Ivanov | 32 | 2 | 26 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | ROU | Cristian Bărbuț | 36 | 2 | 28 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | ROU | Vasile Constantin | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | ROU | Alexandru Ioniță | 10 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||
| 7 | FW | ROU | Mihai Roman | 20 | 4 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | ROU | Andrei Ivan | 24 | 2 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | ROU | Jovan Marković | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | FW | ROU | Ștefan Baiaram | 13 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | BIH | Elvir Koljić | 18 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | BIH | Goran Zakarić | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | FW | ROU | Valentin Mihăilă | 31 | 9 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 34 | FW | ROU | Raoul Baicu | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | FW | ROU | Luis Nitu | 13 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 99 | FW | POR | Carlos Fortes | 14 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |

### Squad statistics

| | Liga I | Cupa României | Europa League | Home | Away | Total Stats |
| Games played | 26 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 34 |
| Games won | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 18 |
| Games drawn | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| Games lost | 8 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| Goals scored | 41 | 5 | 7 | 27 | 26 | 53 |
| Goals conceded | 28 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 20 | 36 |
| Goal difference | +13 | +4 | 0 | +11 | +6 | +17 |
| Clean sheets | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Goal by Substitute | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Total shots | 252 | 0 | 100 | 188 | 164 | 352 |
| Shots on target | 115 | 0 | 37 | 87 | 65 | 152 |
| Corners | 134 | 0 | 31 | 92 | 73 | 165 |
| Players used | 32 | 19 | 20 | 34 | 31 | 34 |
| Offsides | 48 | 0 | 20 | 39 | 29 | 68 |
| Fouls suffered | 433 | 0 | 90 | 269 | 254 | 523 |
| Fouls committed | 443 | 0 | 94 | 277 | 260 | 537 |
| Yellow cards | 70 | 1 | 13 | 35 | 49 | 84 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Winning rate | 56,00% | 100% | 33,33% | 66,6% | 41,17% | 54,54% |
Last updated: 17 February 2020 Source: Competitive matches
Notes: ^1 Data unavailable for 2019–20 Cupa României matches against CSM Reșița and FC Voluntari in the round of Round of 32 respectively Round of 16.

### Goals

    As of 17 February 2020
| Rank | Player | Position | Liga 1 | Cupa Romaniei | Europa League | Total |
| 1 | Alexandru Cicâldău | MF | 9 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| 2 | Valentin Mihaila | FW | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 | Nicusor Bancu | DF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Mihai Roman | FW | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Luis Nitu | FW | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Bogdan Vatajelu | DF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Mihai Balasa | DF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Andrei Ivan | FW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Carlos Fortes | FW | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Vasile Constantin | MF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Antoni Ivanov | MF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Elvir Koljić | FW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Cristian Bărbuț | MF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Ivan Martić | DF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Alexandru Ioniță | MF | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Alexandru Mateiu | MF | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | Uros Cosic | DF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |

### Goal minutes

| | 1'–15' | 16'–30' | 31'–HT | 46'–60' | 61'–75' | 76'–FT | Extra time | Forfeit |
| Goals | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Percentage | 13.21% | 20.75% | 15.09% | 15.09% | 15.09% | 20.75% | 0% | 0% |
Last updated: 2020 (UTC)
Source: Soccerway

### Hat-tricks

| Player | Against | Result | Date | Competition |

### Clean sheets

    As of 10 January 2020
| Rank | Name | Liga I | Cupa României | Europa League | Total | Games played |
| Total | Total | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 32 |

### Disciplinary record

As of 17 February 2020
| Number | Position | Name | Liga I | Liga I | Cupa României | Cupa României | Europa League | Europa League | Total | Total |
| 28 | GK | Valentin Mihaila | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 11 | DF | Nicusor Bancu | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | Mihai Bălașa | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 10 | DF | Alexandru Cicâldău | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 9 | DF | Andrei Ivan | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 6 | FW | Renato Kelic | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 5 | FW | Bogdan Vatajelu | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | Kamer Qaka | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | Mihai Roman | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | Cristian Barbut | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | Ivan Martić | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | FW | Uros Cosic | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 8 | DF | Alexandru Mateiu | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2 | MF | Tiago Ferreira | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | Antoni Ivanov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | Stephane Acka | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1 | MF | Laurențiu Popescu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | Vasile Constantin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | Goran Zakaric | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | Florin Borța | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | Ștefan Vlădoiu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | Alexandru Ioniță | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 99 | DF | Carlos Fortes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | | TOTALS | 69 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 83 | 0 |

### Attendances

    As of 17 February 2020
| | Matches | Attendances | Average | High | Low |
| Liga I | 13 | 169,282 | 11,690 | 30,000 | 4,236 |
| Cupa României | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Europa League | 3 | 40,427 | 13,475 | 22,134 | 2,530 |
| Total | 16 | 180,709 | 13,021 | 30,000 | 2,530 |