# 2022–23 FC Rapid București season

The 2022–23 FC Rapid București season is the club's 100th season in existence and the second consecutive season in the top flight of Romanian football. In addition to the domestic league, FC Rapid București are participating in this season's edition of the Cupa României.. The season covers the period from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 8 September 2022
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | ROU | Codruț Sandu |
| 3 | DF | ROU | Florin Ștefan |
| 4 | MF | CRO | Ljuban Crepulja |
| 5 | DF | ROU | Cristian Ignat |
| 6 | DF | ROU | Paul Iacob |
| 7 | MF | ROU | Antonio Sefer |
| 8 | MF | ROU | Andrei Ciobanu |
| 9 | MF | ROU | Valentin Costache |
| 10 | MF | ROU | Alexandru Ioniță |
| 11 | FW | ROU | Andrei Ioniță |
| 13 | DF | BRA | Júnior Morais |
| 14 | MF | EST | Mattias Käit |
| 15 | DF | MTQ | Damien Dussaut |
| 16 | FW | ROU | Alexandru Despa |
| 17 | MF | ROU | Ștefan Pănoiu |
| 18 | MF | ROU | David Iordache |
| 19 | DF | ROU | Răzvan Onea |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | DF | ROU | Dragoș Grigore (3rd captain) |
| 22 | DF | ROU | Cristian Săpunaru (Captain) |
| 23 | MF | ROU | Alexandru Albu |
| 25 | MF | BEL | Xian Emmers |
| 26 | MF | ROU | Alexandru Crivac |
| 28 | MF | ROU | Alexandru Mățan (on loan from Columbus) |
| 29 | MF | ROU | Gabriel Gheorghe |
| 30 | FW | ROU | Alex Stan |
| 31 | GK | ROU | Horațiu Moldovan |
| 42 | FW | NED | Kevin Luckassen |
| 45 | FW | CRO | Marko Dugandžić |
| 57 | FW | MAR | Younes Marzouk |
| 71 | FW | SVK | Jakub Vojtuš |
| 77 | DF | ROU | Claudiu Belu |
| 90 | GK | ROU | Virgil Drăghia (Vice-captain) |
| 96 | MF | FRA | Jayson Papeau |
| 99 | GK | ROU | Bogdan Ungureanu |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | ROU | Ștefan Lefter (to Corvinul Hunedoara) |
| — | GK | ROU | Valentin Mărgărit (to Progresul Spartac) |
| — | GK | ROU | Sebastian Micu (to FC Brașov) |
| — | DF | ROU | Alexandru Catrici (to Tunari) |
| — | DF | ROU | Enrichi Finica (to Politehnica Iași) |
| — | MF | ROU | Antonio Bradu (to Corvinul Hunedoara) |
| — | MF | ROU | Alin Demici (to Dinamo București) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | MDA | Cazimir Drăgan (to Metaloglobus București) |
| — | MF | ROU | Luca Florică (to Progresul Spartac) |
| — | MF | ROU | Alexandru Gheorghe (to Metaloglobus București) |
| — | MF | ROU | Rareș Lazăr (to FC Brașov) |
| — | MF | ROU | Albert Stahl (to UTA Arad) |
| — | MF | ROU | Mario Tunsu (to Tunari) |
| — | FW | ROU | Daniel Dicianu (to Râmnicu Sărat) |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Liga I | 16 July 2022 | May 2023 | Matchday 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| Cupa României | 18 October 2022 | | Group stage | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
Last updated: 18 December 2022 Source: Soccerway

### Liga I
#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Liga 1

#### Results by round

* Round
* Ground
* Result
* Position

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 3 | FCSB | 30 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 51 | 35 | +16 | 57 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 4 | Universitatea Craiova | 30 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 37 | 27 | +10 | 54 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 5 | Rapid București | 30 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 40 | 26 | +14 | 52 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 6 | Sepsi OSK | 30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 47 | 30 | +17 | 42 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 7 | FC U Craiova 1948 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 34 | 33 | +1 | 40 | Qualification for the Play-out round |

##### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 1 July 2022.

#### Play-off round
##### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | FAR | FCS | CFR | CRA | RAP | SPS |
| 1 | Farul Constanța (C) | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 13 | +9 | 53 | Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round | | 3–2 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 7–2 | 2–1 |
| 2 | FCSB | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 46 | Qualification to Europa Conference League second qualifying round | 2–1 | | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–5 | 3–1 |
| 3 | CFR Cluj (O) | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 14 | −3 | 42 | Qualification to European competition play-offs | 1–2 | 1–1 | | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 |
| 4 | Universitatea Craiova | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 14 | +1 | 40 | | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | | 3–1 | 0–1 |
| 5 | Rapid București | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 20 | −3 | 38 | | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–3 | | 0–0 |
| 6 | Sepsi OSK | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 14 | −4 | 29 | Qualification to Europa Conference League second qualifying round | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–0 | |
* ↑ Cup winner