2013–14 FC Steaua București season
# 2013–14 FC Steaua București season

The 2013–14 season was the 66th season in the existence of FC Steaua București and the club's 66th consecutive season in the top flight of Romanian football. In addition to the domestic league, Steaua București participated in this season's edition of the Cupa României, the Supercupa României and the UEFA Champions League.

## Season notes

During the season Alexandru Aldea changed his shirt number 18 with the number 31.

Alexandru Bourceanu was Steaua captain until was transferred to Trabzonspor, from round 20 to final season captain was Mihai Pintilii.

## Players

### First-team squad

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 | Florin Niță |
| 2 | DF | ROU | Cornel Râpă |
| 4 | DF | POL | Łukasz Szukała |
| 5 | MF | ROU | Mihai Pintilii (captain) |
| 6 | DF | ROU | Florin Gardoș (3rd vice-captain) |
| 7 | MF | ROU | Alexandru Chipciu (2nd vice-captain) |
| 8 | MF | ROU | Lucian Filip |
| 10 | MF | ROU | Cristian Tănase (vice-captain) |
| 11 | MF | ROU | Andrei Prepeliță |
| 12 | GK | ROU | Ciprian Tătărușanu |
| 14 | DF | ROU | Iasmin Latovlevici |
| 16 | DF | ROU | Gabriel Matei |
| 17 | DF | MKD | Daniel Georgievski |
| 18 | MF | ROU | Lucian Sânmărtean |
| 22 | DF | ROU | Paul Pârvulescu |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 23 | MF | ROU | Nicolae Stanciu |
| 25 | FW | ITA | Federico Piovaccari (on loan from Sampdoria) |
| 26 | MF | ROU | Ionuț Neagu |
| 27 | MF | ROU | Răzvan Grădinaru |
| 28 | FW | ROU | Claudiu Keșerü |
| 29 | MF | ROU | Alexandru Târnovan |
| 30 | MF | ROU | Mihai Răduț |
| 31 | MF | ROU | Alexandru Aldea |
| 33 | DF | CPV | Fernando Varela |
| 35 | FW | GRE | Pantelis Kapetanos |
| 77 | MF | ROU | Adrian Popa |
| 80 | FW | ROU | Gabriel Iancu |
| 86 | GK | MKD | Martin Bogatinov |
| 95 | GK | ROU | Valentin Cojocaru |
| 97 | MF | ROU | Robert Vâlceanu |

**Youth players with first-team appearances**

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| - | - | - | - |
| — | MF | ROU | Alexandru Mitriță (on loan from Viitorul Constanța) |

### Transfers

**In**

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | EU | Moving from | Type | Transfer window | Ends | Transfer fee | Source |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| — | MF | Mihai Onicaș | 23 | EU | Viitorul Constanța | Loan return | Summer | 2014 | — | |
| 1 | GK | Florin Niță | 25 | EU | Concordia Chiajna | Free transfer | Summer | Undisclosed | — | |
| 23 | MF | Nicolae Stanciu | 20 | EU | Vaslui | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed | €700,000 | |
| 30 | MF | Mihai Răduț | 23 | EU | Pandurii Târgu Jiu | Loan return | Summer | Undisclosed | — | |
| 25 | FW | Federico Piovaccari | 28 | EU | Sampdoria | Loan | Summer | 2014 | Undisclosed | |
| 19 | MF | Adrian Cristea | 29 | EU | Petrolul Ploiești | Free transfer | Summer | 2015 | — | |
| 33 | DF | Fernando Varela | 25 | EU | Vaslui | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed | €1,250,000 | FCSB |
| 26 | MF | Ionuț Neagu | 23 | EU | Oțelul Galați | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed | €620,000 | FCSB |
| 35 | FW | Pantelis Kapetanos | 30 | EU | CFR Cluj | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed | Free | FCSB |
| 29 | FW | Alexandru Târnovan | 18 | EU | Viitorul Constanța | Transfer | Winter | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | FCSB |
| 28 | FW | Claudiu Keșerü | 27 | EU | Bastia | Transfer | Winter | Undisclosed | Free | FCSB |
| 31 | MF | Alexandru Aldea | 18 | EU | Youth system | Promoted | Winter | Undisclosed | — | |
| 27 | MF | Răzvan Grădinaru | 18 | EU | Youth system | Promoted | Winter | Undisclosed | — | |
| 97 | MF | Robert Vâlceanu | 16 | EU | Youth system | Promoted | Winter | Undisclosed | — | |
| 86 | GK | Martin Bogatinov | 27 | Non-EU | Karpaty Lviv | Free transfer | Winter | Undisclosed | — | |
| 18 | MF | Lucian Sânmărtean | 33 | EU | Vaslui | Transfer | Winter | 2015 | €150,000 | |

**Out**

| N | Pos. | Name | Age | EU | Moving to | Type | Transfer window | Transfer fee | Source |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 99 | FW | Adi Rocha | 27 | Non-EU | Gamba Osaka | End of contract | Summer | — | Gamba |
| — | MF | Mihai Onicaș | 23 | EU | Târgu Mureș | Loan | Summer | Free | |
| 1 | GK | Răzvan Stanca | 33 | EU | Pandurii Târgu Jiu | Mutual termination | Summer | — | Pandurii |
| 24 | FW | Raul Rusescu | 25 | EU | Sevilla | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed | FCSB |
| 19 | DF | Valeriu Lupu | 22 | EU | Săgeata Năvodari | Loan | Summer | Free | |
| 28 | MF | Iulian Roșu | 19 | EU | Clinceni | Loan | Summer | Free | |
| 25 | MF | Cristian Pușcaș | 19 | EU | Clinceni | Loan | Summer | Free | |
| 27 | MF | Ionuț Năstăsie | 21 | EU | Viitorul Constanța | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed | |
| 21 | DF | Vlad Chiricheș | 23 | EU | Tottenham Hotspur | Transfer | Summer | €9,500,000 | Tottenham |
| 3 | DF | Doru Bratu | 24 | EU | Pandurii Târgu Jiu | Transfer | Winter | Free | |
| 19 | MF | Adrian Cristea | 30 | EU | Concordia Chiajna | Released | Winter | — | FCSB |
| 9 | FW | Mihai Costea | 27 | EU | Voluntari | Out of team | Winter | — | |
| 20 | FW | Leandro Tatu | 31 | Non-EU | Bangkok United | Mutual termination | Winter | — | |
| 90 | FW | Stefan Nikolić | 23 | Non-EU | Incheon United | Mutual termination | Winter | — | |
| 55 | MF | Alexandru Bourceanu | 28 | EU | Trabzonspor | Transfer | Winter | €1,300,000 | |

## Statistics

### Goalscorers

    Last updated on 20 May 2014 (UTC)

| Player | Liga I | Cupa României | Supercupa României | Champions League | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Federico Piovaccari | 10 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 16 |
| Claudiu Keșerü | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Adrian Popa | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Alexandru Chipciu | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Nicolae Stanciu | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Fernando Varela | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Łukasz Szukała | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Pantelis Kapetanos | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Iasmin Latovlevici | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Cristian Tănase | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Gabriel Iancu | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Andrei Prepeliță | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Florin Gardoș | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Lucian Filip | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Lucian Sânmărtean | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Daniel Georgievski | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Leandro Tatu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mihai Răduț | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mihai Pintilii | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Adrian Cristea | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Robert Vâlceanu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Paul Pârvulescu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Alexandru Târnovan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Stefan Nikolić | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Alexandru Bourceanu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Own goals ||||||
| Adrian Puțanu | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Collins Fai | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Igor Pavlović | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |

## Competitions

### Liga I

**League table**

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Steaua București (C) | 34 | 22 | 11 | 1 | 71 | 20 | +51 | 77 | Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round |
| 2 | Astra Giurgiu | 34 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 70 | 28 | +42 | 72 | Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round |
| 3 | Petrolul Ploiești | 34 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 53 | 20 | +33 | 68 | Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round |
| 4 | Dinamo București | 34 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 52 | 34 | +18 | 59 | |
| 5 | CFR Cluj | 34 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 44 | 33 | +11 | 51 | Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round |

* ↑ Vaslui did not receive a license for financial reasons. Dinamo București filed for insolvency, thus didn't get an UEFA licence. Cluj got their Europa League spot.

**Results summary**

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |

Source: LT

**Results by round**

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | D | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | D | D | D | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | D | L | W | W | W | W | D | D | D |
| Position | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |

**Points by opponent**

| Team | Results | Results | Points |
| - | - | - | - |
| Team | Home | Away | Points |
| Astra Giurgiu | 3–1 | 1–1 | 4 |
| Botoșani | 4–0 | 2–1 | 6 |
| Brașov | 3–0 | 2–1 | 6 |
| Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț | 2–1 | 2–0 | 6 |
| CFR Cluj | 3–0 | 1–0 | 6 |
| Concordia Chiajna | 4–0 | 4–1 | 6 |
| Corona Brașov | 3–0 | 1–1 | 4 |
| Dinamo București | 1–1 | 2–1 | 4 |
| Gaz Metan Mediaș | 3–0 | 2–2 | 4 |
| Oțelul Galați | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2 |
| Pandurii Târgu Jiu | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2 |
| Petrolul Ploiești | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2 |
| Poli Timișoara | 3–0 | 0–0 | 4 |
| Săgeata Năvodari | 5–0 | 2–1 | 6 |
| Universitatea Cluj | 2–0 | 1–0 | 6 |
| Vaslui | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3 |
| Viitorul Constanța | 4–0 | 3–0 | 6 |

### UEFA Champions League

**Group stage**

Group E standings :

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Chelsea | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 12 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 2 | Schalke 04 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 10 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 3 | Basel | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 8 | Transfer to Europa League |
| 4 | Steaua București | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | −8 | 3 | |

### Non competitive matches

| Date | Team | Results | Results | Results | Steaua scorers |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Date | Team | Home | Away | Neutral | Steaua scorers |
| 22 June 2013 | Rubin Kazan | | | 0–0 | |
| 25 June 2013 | Videoton | | | 0–1 | |
| 30 June 2013 | Livingston | | | 4–1 | M. Costea 37', 56', Iancu 43', Jones 47' (o.g.) |
| 2 July 2013 | Notts County | | | 2–0 | Latovlevici 4', M. Costea 61' |
| 6 July 2013 | Sheffield Wednesday | | | 1–1 | Ad. Popa 20' |
| 11 October 2013 | Shakhtar Donetsk | | | 1–4 | M. Costea 66' |
| 14 January 2014 | 1. FC Nürnberg | | | 1–5 | Neagu 74' |
| 16 January 2014 | Werder Bremen | | | 0–0 | |
| 18 January 2014 | Luzern | | | 0–1 | |
| 20 January 2014 | Union Berlin | | | 1–1 | Piovaccari 49' |
| 22 January 2014 | Baku | | | 0–2 | |
| 28 January 2014 | Dynamo Kyiv | | | 0–0 | |
| 30 January 2014 | IFK Göteborg | | | 0–0 | |
| 1 February 2014 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | | | 1–2 | Chipciu 2' |
| 3 February 2014 | Korona Kielce | | | 3–1 | Gardoș 21', Piovaccari 45', Stanciu 69' |
| 5 February 2014 | Elfsborg | | | 0–0 | |
| 19 March 2014 | Clinceni | | | 2–1 | Iancu 16', Răduț 25' |
