CFR Cluj

**Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj** ('CFR' stands for _Căile Ferate Române_, meaning Romanian Railways) is a Romanian association football club from Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania. The club spent most of its history in the lower divisions. Great financial gains in 2002 led them to reach the Liga I in 2004. The following season, the CFR Cluj took part in the UEFA Intertoto Cup and finished as runners-up. For the first time in their history, the club won the Liga I in 2008. That season, they took the title away from the teams of Bucharest for the first time in 17 years. Since 2004, they have won the Liga I 3 times, the Romanian Cup 3 times and the Romanian Supercup twice.

The teams colours are purple and white, and their biggest rival is Universitatea Cluj.

## Honours

**Liga I**
- **Winners (3):** 2007–08, 2009–10, 2011–12
**Liga II**
- **Winners (2):** 1968–69, 2003–04
- Runners-up (1): 1977–78
**Liga III**
- **Winners (7):** 1946–47, 1982–83, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1995–96, 2001–02
- Runners-up (3): 1936–37, 1958–59, 1987–88
**Romanian Cup**
- **Winners (4):** 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10,  2015–16
- Runners-up (1): 2012–13
**Romanian Supercup**
- **Winners (2):** 2009, 2010
- Runners-up (1): 2012

### European competitions

Their most recent appearance in a European competition was in the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League, in which they reached the third qualifying round.

|width="50" style="background:#DCDCDC"|Season|width="160" style="background:#DCDCDC"|Competition|width="140" style="background:#DCDCDC"|Round|width="140" style="background:#DCDCDC"|Opponents|width="67" style="background:#DCDCDC"|Home|width="67" style="background:#DCDCDC"|Away|width="67" style="background:#DCDCDC"|Aggregate|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=5 align=left|2005|rowspan=5 align=left|UEFA Intertoto Cup|align=left|First round|align=left|Vėtra|3–2|4–1|bgcolor=lightgreen|7–3|||
|align=left|Second round|align=left|Athletic Bilbao|1–0|0–1|bgcolor=lightgreen|1–1 (5–3 p)|||||||
|align=left|Third round|align=left|Saint-Étienne|1–1|2–2|bgcolor=lightgreen|(a) 3–3|||||||
|align=left|Semi–finals|align=left|Žalgiris Vilnius|5–1|2–1|bgcolor=lightgreen|7–2|||||||
|align=left|Finals|align=left|Lens|1–1|1–3|bgcolor=pink|2–4|||||||
|align=left|2007–08|align=left|UEFA Cup|align=left|Second qualifying round|align=left|Anorthosis|1–3|0–0|bgcolor=pink|1–3|||
|rowspan=3 align=left|2008–09|rowspan=3 align=left|UEFA Champions League|rowspan=3 align=left|Group A|align=left|Roma|1–3|2–1|rowspan="3" bgcolor=pink|4th place|||
|align=left|Chelsea|0–0|1–2|||||||||||
|align=left|Bordeaux|1–2|0–1|||||||||||
|rowspan=4 align=left|2009–10|rowspan=4 align=left|UEFA Europa League|align=left|Play-off round|align=left|Sarajevo|2–1|1–1|bgcolor=lightgreen|3–2|||
|rowspan=3 align=left|Group K|align=left|Copenhagen|2–0|0–2|rowspan="3" bgcolor=pink|4th place|||||||
|align=left|PSV Eindhoven|0–2|0–1|||||||||||
|align=left|Sparta Prague|2–3|0–2|||||||||||
|rowspan=3 align=left|2010–11|rowspan=3 align=left|UEFA Champions League|rowspan=3 align=left|Group E|align=left|Basel|2–1|0–1|rowspan="3" bgcolor=pink|4th place|||
|align=left|Roma|1–1|1–2|||||||||||
|align=left|Bayern Munich|0–4|2–3|||||||||||
|rowspan=5 align=left|2012–13|rowspan=5 align=left|UEFA Champions League|align=left|Third qualifying round|align=left|Slovan Liberec|1–0|2–1|bgcolor=lightgreen|3–1|||
|align=left|Play-off round|align=left|Basel|1–0|2–1|bgcolor=lightgreen|3–1|||||||
|rowspan=3 align=left|Group H|align=left|Braga|3–1|2–0|rowspan="3" bgcolor="#ccccff"|3rd place|||||||
|align=left|Manchester United|1–2|1–0|||||||||||
|align=left|Galatasaray|1–3|1–1|||||||||||
|align=left|2012–13|align=left|UEFA Europa League|align=left|Round of 32|align=left|Internazionale|0–3|0–2|bgcolor=pink|0–5|||
|rowspan=2 align=left|2014–15|rowspan=2 align=left|UEFA Europa League|align=left|Second qualifying round|align=left|Jagodina|0–0|1–0|bgcolor=lightgreen|1–0|||
|align=left|Third qualifying round|align=left|Dinamo Minsk|0–2|0–1|bgcolor=pink|0–3|||||||