Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj (or CFR Cluj for short) is a Romanian professional football club based in Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Transylvania which was initially founded in 1907 as Kolozsvári Vasutas Sport Club (i.e. Railway Sport Club of Cluj originally in Hungarian) during the late period of Austria-Hungary.

The first ever involvement of the club in an official UEFA European competition dates back to 2005, more specifically to that season's UEFA Intertoto Cup in which CFR Cluj (then officially known as CFR Ecomax Cluj) finished as runners-up, losing to French side RC Lens (one of the joint winners alongside Olympique de Marseille and Hamburger SV) 4–2 (aggregate) in the finale.

CFR Cluj holds three European competition records among Romanian football clubs.

Records established in UEFA competitions amongst Romanian football clubs

During the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League season, CFR accumulated 10 points in a Champions League group, with the previous record being held by Unirea Urziceni with 8 points during the 2009–10 season. Moreover, subsequently, in the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League season, CFR accumulated as many as 12 points in the group stage, with the previous record being held by FCSB with 11 points during the 2012–13 season. In addition, the club also managed to qualify for the KPOs of the 2022–23 edition of the UEFA Europa Conference League, after gaining 10 points in Group G, being the only Romanian football club to do so thus far.

Recent history (2021–present)

During the 2021–22 season, CFR Cluj was also the first Romanian football club qualified in the group stage of UEFA Europa Conference League during the first season of the competition's existence, in which they debuted with an away 1–0 loss at Jablonec nad Nisou in the Czech Republic against Czech side FK Jablonec on 16 September 2021 and consequently on the fourth place in the group after the first fixture. The club finished fourth in Group D of the first edition of UEFA Europa Conference League, with only 1 victory, 1 draw, and 4 losses, totalling 4 points.

During the 2022–23 season, CFR Cluj was eliminated from the first qualifying round of the ongoing UEFA Champions League edition by Armenian side Pyunik. This negative performance re-directed them towards the qualifying stages of the current UEFA Europa Conference League season which they had all successfully passed in the meantime, thereby entering the group stage of this UEFA competition consecutively for the second time. The club started their second UEFA Europa Conference League season rather modestly, with only a last minute 1–1 draw against Kosovar side FC Ballkani.

Subsequently, they lost 1–0 to Sivasspor at home and 3–0 away, but they surprisingly went on to win over the group's top favourite Slavia Prague both home and away (3–0 overall). At the end of the 6 fixtures of the group stage, CFR managed to finish second with 10 points and thereby qualify for the knockout round play-offs in February 2023 when they are about to face Italian side Lazio Rome which finished third in their group (i.e. Group F) in the current edition of UEFA Europa League.

During the 2023–24 season, CFR Cluj did not qualify for the group stage of the ongoing edition of the UEFA Europa Conference League, being eliminated by Turkish side Adana Demirspor in the second qualifying round (2–3 overall score).

Total statistics

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Competition UEFA Champions League 8 42 16 10 16 54 54 0 UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League 9 44 14 9 21 39 54 −15 UEFA Conference League 6 33 12 9 12 32 35 -3 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1 10 5 3 2 20 13 +7 Total 24 129 47 31 51 145 156 −11

Statistics by country

Country Andorra 2 1 1 0 4 1 +3 Armenia 6 3 3 0 13 3 +10 Belarus 6 2 2 2 6 3 +3 Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 2 1 1 7 5 +2 Bulgaria 2 1 1 0 2 0 +2 Croatia 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 Cyprus 4 1 1 2 2 6 –4 Czech Republic 10 5 0 5 8 8 0 Denmark 4 1 1 2 2 2 –1 England 4 1 1 2 3 4 –1 Finland 1 1 0 0 3 1 +2 France 8 2 3 3 8 10 –2 Germany 2 0 0 2 2 7 –5 Gibraltar 2 2 0 0 4 1 +3 Hungary 2 1 1 0 3 0 +3 Italy 12 2 2 8 7 22 Israel 4 3 1 0 5 2 +3 Kazakhstan 2 1 0 1 3 2 +1 Kosovo 2 1 1 0 2 1 +1 Lithuania 4 4 0 0 14 5 +9 Luxembourg 2 0 0 2 2 5 –3 Malta 1 1 0 0 2 0 +2 Netherlands 4 0 0 4 0 6 –6 Norway 2 0 0 2 1 7 –6 Portugal 4 2 0 2 6 5 +1 Scotland 4 2 1 1 7 6 +1 Serbia 4 1 1 2 2 6 –4 Slovenia 2 1 1 0 1 0 +1 Spain 4 1 2 1 2 2 0 Sweden 5 2 1 2 5 9 –4 Switzerland 10 4 3 3 10 10 0 Turkey 6 0 2 4 4 11 –7

UEFA club ranking In the table below, the current UEFA club ranking position for CFR Cluj is shown based on its current UEFA coefficient for the 2025–26 season.

Position Club Coefficient 91 TSG Hoffenheim19.000 92 CFR Cluj 19.000 93 Lech Poznań19.000

List of results

Notes for the abbreviations in the table below:

1R: First round 2R: Second round 3R: Third round SF: Semi-finals F: Final 1QR: First qualifying round 2QR: Second qualifying round 3QR: Third qualifying round PO: Play-off round R32: Round of 32 KPO: Knockout round play-offs

Season Competition Round Opponents Home Away Aggregate 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1R Vėtra 3–2 4–1 7–3 2R Athletic Bilbao 1–0 0–1 1–1 3R Saint-Étienne 1–1 2–2 3–3 (a) SF Žalgiris Vilnius 5–1 2–1 7–2 F Lens 1–1 1–3 2–4 2007–08 UEFA Cup 2QR Anorthosis Famagusta 1–3 0–0 1–3 2008–09 UEFA Champions League Group A Roma 1–3 2–1 4th place Chelsea 0–0 1–2 Bordeaux 1–2 0–1 2009–10 UEFA Europa League PO Sarajevo 2–1 1–1 3–2 Group K Copenhagen 2–0 0–2 4th place PSV Eindhoven 0–2 0–1 Sparta Prague 2–3 0–2 2010–11 UEFA Champions League Group E Basel 2–1 0–1 4th place Roma 1–1 1–2 Bayern Munich 0–4 2–3 2012–13 UEFA Champions League 3QR Slovan Liberec 1–0 2–1 3–1 PO Basel 1–0 2–1 3–1 Group H Braga 3–1 2–0 3rd place Manchester United 1–2 1–0 Galatasaray 1–3 1–1 UEFA Europa League R32 Internazionale 0–3 0–2 0–5 2014–15 UEFA Europa League 2QR Jagodina 0–0 1–0 1–0 3QR Dinamo Minsk 0–2 0–1 0–3 2018–19 UEFA Champions League 2QR Malmö FF 0–1 1−1 1–2 UEFA Europa League 3QR Alashkert 5−0 2−0 7–0 PO F91 Dudelange2–3 0–22–5 2019–20 UEFA Champions League 1QR Astana 3−10–1 3–2 2QR Maccabi Tel Aviv 1–0 2–2 3–2 3QR Celtic 1–1 4–3 5–4 PO Slavia Prague 0–10–10–2 UEFA Europa League Group E Lazio 2–1 0–1 2nd place Celtic 2–0 0–2 Rennes 1–0 1–0 R32 Sevilla 1–1 0–01–1 (a) 2020–21 UEFA Champions League 1QR Floriana 2–0 2QR Dinamo Zagreb2–2 UEFA Europa League 3QR Djurgårdens IF 1–0 PO KuPS 3–1 Group A Roma 0–2 0–5 3rd place Young Boys 1–1 1–2 CSKA Sofia 0–0 2–0 2021–22 UEFA Champions League 1QR Borac Banja Luka 3–1 1–2 4–3 2QR Lincoln Red Imps 2–0 2–1 4–1 3QR Young Boys 1–1 1–3 2–4 UEFA Europa League PO Red Star Belgrade0–41–21–6 UEFA Europa Conference League Group D AZ 0–2 0–1 4th place Jablonec 0–1 2–0 Randers 1–2 1–1 2022–23 UEFA Champions League 1QR Pyunik 2–2 0–02–2 UEFA Europa Conference League 2QR Inter Club d'Escaldes 3–0 1–14–1 3QR Shakhtyor Soligorsk 1–0 0–01–0 PO Maribor 1–0 0–01–0 Group G Slavia Prague 2–0 1–0 2nd place Sivasspor 0–1 0–3 Ballkani 1–0 1–1 KPO Lazio 0–0 0–1 0–1 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League 2QR Adana Demirspor 1–1 1–2 2–3 2024–25 UEFA Conference League 2QR Neman Grodno 0–0 5–05–0 3QR Maccabi Petah Tikva 1–0 1–02–0 PO Pafos 1–0 0–3 1–3 2025–26 UEFA Europa League 1QR Paks 3–0 0–0 3–0 2QR Lugano 1–0 0–0 1–0 3QR Braga 1–2 0–2 1–4 UEFA Conference League PO BK Häcken 1–0 2–7 3–7 2026–27 UEFA Conference League 2QR Alashkert 3–0 1–1 4–1 3QR Tromsø 0–5 1–2 1–7

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