CFF Clujana

CFF Clujana

Full name	Clubul de Fotbal Feminin Clujana Cluj-Napoca
Short name	Clujana
Founded	2001
Dissolved	2012
Ground	Stadionul Clujana, Cluj-Napoca
Capacity	2,000
2011-12	Liga I, Seria Vest, 8th (16th overall)
Home colours Away colours

CFF Clujana was 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.

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

• Liga I
  • Winners (7): 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09

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

Season		Division	Tier	Place	Cup	WCL
1	2001–02	Divizia A	1	4th	–	–
2	2002–03	Divizia A	1	1st	–	–
3	2003–04	Divizia A	1	1st	W	2Grp
4	2004–05	Divizia A	1	1st	W	1Grp
5	2005–06	Divizia A	1	1st	W	1Grp
6	2006–07	Liga I	1	1st	F	1Grp
7	2007–08	Liga I	1	1st	W	1Grp
8	2008–09	Liga I	1	1st	SF	1Grp
9	2009–10	Liga I	1	3rd	F	Grp
10	2010–11	Liga I	1	9th	1R	–
11	2011–12	Liga I, Seria Vest	1	16th	R16	–

Notable former players

• Teodora Albon
• Mara Bâtea
• Georgiana Birțoiu
• Ioana Bortan
• Cosmina Dușa
• Maria Ficzay
• Adina Giurgiu
• Daniela Gurz
• Andreea Laiu
• Corina Olar
• Elena Pavel
• Florentina Spânu
• Raluca Sârghe
• Ștefania Vătafu
• Andreea Voicu

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.

External links

• CFF Clujana - official website (in Romanian)