CFF Clujana

CFF Clujana is an association football club from Cluj-Napoca in Romania. Clujana's women's football team played in the top domestic league and has won seven consecutive Romanian national championships and four domestic cups.

CFF Clujana
Full nameClubul de Fotbal Feminin Clujana Cluj-Napoca
Short nameClujana
Founded2001
Dissolved2012
GroundStadionul Clujana,
Cluj-Napoca
Capacity2,000
ChairmanRomania Florin Chelaru
LeagueLiga I
2011-12Liga I, Seria Vest, 8th (16th overall)

History

CFF Clujana was founded in 2001 by the businessman Florin Chelaru in collaboration with Mirel and Teodora Albon.[1] 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.[2] 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",[3] 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

Cups
  • Romanian Women's Cup
    • Winners (4): 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08
    • Runners-up (2): 2006–07, 2009–10

Season by season

  Champions   Runners-up   Third place   Promoted   Relegated

SeasonDivisionTierPlaceCupWCL
12001–02Divizia A14th––
22002–03Divizia A11st––
32003–04Divizia A11stW2Grp
42004–05Divizia A11stW1Grp
52005–06Divizia A11stW1Grp
62006–07Liga I11stF1Grp
72007–08Liga I11stW1Grp
82008–09Liga I11stSF1Grp
92009–10Liga I13rdFGrp
102010–11Liga I19th1R–
112011–12Liga I, Seria Vest116thR16–

Notable former players

References
  1. Paul-Daniel Zaharia (19 September 2007). "Cljuana know only success". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on August 3, 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  2. Ştefan Lică (21 June 2018). "A câştigat 8 titluri cu o echipă feminină de fotbal şi are un mesaj pentru cei care trimit femeile la cratiţă. "Fetele obţin rezultate pentru că sunt mai ambiţioase"" [He won 8 titles with a women's football team and has a message for people who send their women to the kitchen: "Girls obtain results because they are more ambitious"] (in Romanian). Adevarul Holding. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
    - Vlad Măcicășan (3 August 2014). "Olimpia Cluj, fabrica de fotbal feminin. Cu un buget de 750.000 de lei, campioanele sunt invincibile" [Olimpia Cluj, the women's football factory. With a budget of 750.000 lei, the champions are invincible]. Pro Sport (in Romanian). Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  3. Patrice Podină (5 April 2018). "Primăria "finanțează" o echipă dispărută" [City township is "financing" an extinct team]. Transilvania Reporter (in Romanian). Retrieved 10 March 2021.
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