Fotbal Club U Olimpia Cluj-Napoca, commonly known as FCU Olimpia Cluj, or simply as U Olimpia Cluj, is a women's football team from Cluj-Napoca in Romania. It is Romania's top women's football club, having won all league titles since its inception, and thus represents Romania year by year in the UEFA Women's Champions League. The club also gives a majority of the Romania women's national football team players.
History Founded on 7 July 2010Despre noi. u-olimpiacluj.ro at the initiative of Mirel Albon, Clujana's coach, due to increasingly divergent views with his club's owners, Olimpia started directly in Romania's top level women's league, as there was no second-level league at the time, and convincingly won the championship in its very first season. The team won all of its 24 matches which totaled a goal difference of 253–11 and wins as high as 26–0 and 27–0. The title qualified them for the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League. In addition they won the Romanian cup that year too. They went on to win all of the league titles since, and most of the domestic cups.
Olimpia had a partnership with the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, its rector, Radu Munteanu being for a period of time also Olimpia's chairman (president). This partnership reflected in the team's name between 2012 and 2015. Since the 2018–19 season, the teams signed a partnership with FC Universitatea Cluj and has rebranded as "U" Olimpia Cluj.
Chronology of names Period Full Club Name Short name 2011–2012 Clubul de Fotbal Feminin Olimpia Cluj-Napoca Olimpia Cluj 2012–2015 Clubul de Fotbal Feminin Olimpia Universitatea Tehnică Cluj-Napoca Olimpia UT Cluj 2015–2018 Clubul de Fotbal Feminin Olimpia Cluj-Napoca Olimpia Cluj 2018–present Asociația Fotbal Club Universitatea Olimpia Cluj U Olimpia Cluj
Football Academy Together with the club in 2010 the Olimpia Women's Football Academy was established, supported by a partnership with the city and the council. The goal of south-east Europe's first female football academy is to advance women's football in Romania.
Honours Leagues Liga I Winners (12): 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23 First place, not declared Winners (1): 2019–20
Cups Romanian Women's Cup Winners (8): 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2020–21, 2021–22 Runners-up (1): 2015–16
Season by season
Season Division Tier Place Cup WCL 1 2010–11 Liga I 1 1st W – 2 2011–12 Liga I, Seria Vest 1 1st W R32 3 2012–13 Liga I, Seria Vest 1 1st W R16 4 2013–14 Superliga 1 1st W Grp 5 2014–15 Superliga 1 1st W Grp 6 2015–16 Superliga 1 1st F R32 7 2016–17 Superliga 1 1st W Grp 8 2017–18 Liga I 1 1st QF R32 9 2018–19 Liga I 1 1st SF Grp 10 2019–20 Liga I 1 1st QF* Grp 11 2020–21 Liga I 1 1st W 2QR 12 2021–22 Liga I 1 1st W 1R 13 2022–23 Liga I 1 1st F 1R 14 2023–24 Liga I 1 2nd W 2R 15 2024–25 Liga I 1 4th –
Current squad Echipa . u-olimpiacluj.ro
Club officials
Board of directors RoleName President Radu Munteanu Honorary President Erika Hristea Executive President Alin Cioban Vice-president Eugen Cocan General Manager Mirel Albon Administrative Manager Ioan Vlas Last updated: 13 January 2019 Source:Board of directors
Current technical staff RoleName Manager Ioana Bortan Assistant Managers Tiberiu Stranyezky Goalkeeping Coach Mirela Ganea Pop Last updated: 13 January 2019 Source:Current staff
FC U Olimpia Cluj in Europe In their first participation they started in the qualifying round of the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League. Already after two wins against Bosnian and Lithuanian opposition they qualified for the round of 32.
UEFA Women's Cup / UEFA Women's Champions League Season Preliminary stage Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semi-finals Final 2011–12 Sarajevo 1 Olympique 2012–13 1º Dezembro 1 Neulengbach Torres 2013–14 Spartak 1 2014–15 Raheny 1 2015–16 Pomurje 1 PSG 2016–17 Medyk 1 2017–18 Hibernian 1 Rosengård 1 Group stage. Highest-ranked eliminated team in case of qualification, lowest-ranked qualified team in case of elimination.
Notable former players The footballers enlisted below have been called up or had international cap(s) for their respective countries at junior and/or senior level and/or more than 50 caps for U Olimpia Cluj.
Cosmina Dușa Maria Ficzay Adina Giurgiu Daniela Gurz Priscilla Hagan Lidia Havriștiuc Nazym Ismailova Alexandra Iușan Alexandra Lunca Christine Manie Isabelle Mihail Corina Olar Olivia Oprea Andreea Părăluță Raluca Sârghe Ekaterina Ulasevich Fanny Vágó Ștefania Vătafu
References
External links
Team profile at UEFA.com