2002–03 FC Dinamo București season

FC Dinamo București
2002–03 season
ManagerCornel Dinu
Ion Moldovan (rounds 1-3)
Florin Marin (rounds 4-7)
Cornel Dinu (rounds 8-18)
Ioan Andone
Liga I6th
Romanian CupWinner
UEFA Champions League2nd qual. round
Top goalscorerIonel Dănciulescu (16 goals)

The 2002–03 season was FC Dinamo București's 54th season in Divizia A. In this season, Dinamo was affected again by the big number of players who left the team, which became a tradition for the bosses of the club to sell players after winning a title. Thus, Dinamo was again facing another reconstruction. They started the season badly, losing the two games in the UEFA Champions League qualifying phase, and leaving early the European competitions. Cornel Dinu was sacked after this two losses. In Divizia A Dinamo had hard times, changing a lot of managers and losing seven consecutive games. The team finished the season on the sixth position. A momentum of the season came in November, in the Romanian Cup, last 16, where Dinamo met the biggest rival Steaua. Dinamo won 3-0 the game played at the Cotroceni stadium.[1] After Ioan Andone came to the team, Dinamo played a spectacular semifinal with Astra Ploieşti. They lost the first game, 2–1 in Ploieşti in the middle of the crisis, but then the team beat Astra in Bucharest 3-1 after extra time. They then went on to win the Romanian Cup, after beating FC Naţional in the final 1–0 on a goal scored by Iulian Tameş.

Results

Divizia A
Round Date Opponent Stadium Result
1 17 August 2002 Ceahlăul H 5–0
2 22 August 2002 Astra A 2–4
3 31 August 2002 FCM Bacău H 1–1
4 15 September 2002 Steaua București A 1–1
5 21 September 2002 FC Argeș H 3–0
6 28 September 2002 Rapid București A 1–3
7 5 October 2002 Gloria Bistriţa H 0–2
8 20 October 2002 Naţional București A 2–0
9 26 October 2002 UTA H 5–0
10 3 November 2002 Farul Constanţa A 1–0
11 10 November 2002 Sportul Studenţesc H 3–1
12 16 November 2002 Oţelul Galaţi A 0–2
13 24 November 2002 FC Brașov H 1–0
14 30 November 2002 Poli Timişoara A 3–2
15 8 December 2002 U Craiova H 1–0
16 19 March 2003 Ceahlăul A 2–3
17 8 March 2003 Astra H 0–3
18 15 March 2003 FCM Bacău A 1–3
19 23 March 2003 Steaua București H 2–4
20 5 April 2003 FC Argeș A 0–2
21 13 April 2003 Rapid București H 0–2
22 16 April 2003 Gloria Bistriţa A 0–1
23 19 April 2003 Naţional București H 1–1
24 26 April 2003 UTA A 0–0
25 3 May 2003 Farul Constanţa H 2–0
26 7 May 2003 Sportul Studenţesc A 6–5
27 10 May 2003 Oţelul Galaţi H 1–0
28 17 May 2003 FC Brașov A 2–2
29 24 May 2003 Poli Timişoara H 2–1
30 28 May 2003 U Craiova A 1–3
Cupa României
Round Date Opponent Stadium Result
Last 32 6 November 2002 UM Timişoara Timişoara 1–0
Last 16 27 November 2002 Steaua București București 3–0
QF-1st leg 12 March 2003 Farul Constanţa Constanţa 1–0
QF-2nd leg 2 April 2003 Farul Constanţa București 2–2
SF-1st leg 23 April 2003 Astra Ploieşti Ploieşti 1–2
SF-2nd leg 14 May 2003 Astra Ploieşti București 3–1
Final 31 May 2003 Naţional București București 1–0
Cupa României 2002–03 Winners
Dinamo București
10th Title

UEFA Champions League

Second qualifying round

Club Brugge Belgium3–1Dinamo București
Lange 25'
Mendoza 44', 85'		 Alexa 43'
Attendance: 15,000
Dinamo București0–1Belgium Club Brugge
Lange 19'
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Leif Sundell (Sweden)

Club Brugge KV won 4–1 on aggregate

Squad

Goalkeepers: Cristian Munteanu (20/0), Daniel Tudor (6/0), Ştefan Preda (7/0).

Defenders: Angelo Alistar (1/0), Ovidiu Burcă (12/0), Alexandru Marius Dragomir (3/0), Cornel Frăsineanu (17/1), Bogdan Onuț (21/1), Gheorghe Popescu (8/0), Dorin Semeghin (1/0), Flavius Stoican (21/0), Iosif Tâlvan (10/0), Gabriel Tamaş (21/3).

Midfielders: Dan Alexa (24/0), Mugur Bolohan (6/0), Ciprian Danciu (4/0), Ştefan Grigorie (23/2), Giani Kiriţă (23/1), Vlad Munteanu (21/2), Florin Pârvu (19/0), Florentin Petre (25/2), Iulian Tameş (20/2).

Forwards: Cosmin Bărcăuan (23/12), Ionel Dănciulescu (26/16), Claudiu Drăgan (12/0), Ciprian Marica (10/1), Nicolae Mitea (9/0), Claudiu Niculescu (2/5).

Transfers

New players: Gh.Popescu (Lecce), Alexa, Grigorie, Stoican, Bărcăuan (all from U.Craiova).

Left team: Prunea, Bolohan (FCM Bacău), O.Stângă (U.Craiova), Zicu (Farul)

References

  1. ^ "Romanian_Cup – statistics". Romaniansoccer.ro. 27 November 2003. Retrieved 12 June 2012.