2009–10 FC Unirea Urziceni season

Unirea Urziceni
2009–10 season
President	Dumitru Bucşaru
Head coach	Dan Petrescu; Ronny Levy
Stadium	Stadionul Tineretului
Liga I	2nd
Cupa României	Round of 16
Supercupa României	Runners-up
Champions League	Group stage
Europa League	Round of 32
Top goalscorer	League: ; Marius Bilașco (12); All: ; Marius Bilașco (13)
	← 2008–09 2010–11 →

The 2009–10 season of Unirea Urziceni began on 25 July with the first training session, led by the team's head coach Dan Petrescu. After several friendlies the first competitive game was the Romanian Supercup against CFR Cluj on 26 July 2009. The match ended 1–1 in regular time, but CFR Cluj managed to win the cup after the penalty shootout, in which Răzvan Pădureţu, Raul Rusescu and Sorin Frunză missed.

Unirea has made several squad changes, signing former Steaua captain Sorin Paraschiv, former Rapid captain Vasile Maftei and Antonio Semedo. Sorin Rădoi was loaned to Unirea Alba Iulia.

Pre-season and friendlies[edit]

7 July 2009	Unirea Urziceni	4–1	Înfrăţirea Hărman	Braşov, Romania
	Onofraş 18', 33' Fernandes 87' Rusescu 90'	(Report)^{[permanent dead link]}	Nazare 42'	Stadium: Carpaţi

11 July 2009	Petrolul Ploieşti	2–2	Unirea Urziceni	Ploieşti, Romania
	Elek 55' Muţiu 66'	(Report)	Rusescu 12' Fernandes 87'	Stadium: Ilie Oană

13 July 2009	Unirea Urziceni	1–2	Plymouth Argyle
	Rusescu 34'	(Report)

16 July 2009	Ayr United	1–2	Unirea Urziceni	Ayr, Scotland
	Roberts	(Report)		Stadium: Somerset Park Attendance: 970

18 July 2009	Celtic Reserves	1–1	Unirea Urziceni	Glasgow, Scotland
	McGowan 15'	(Report)	Rusescu 50'	Stadium: Celtic Park

22 July 2009	Greenock Morton	1–3	Unirea Urziceni	Greenock, Scotland
	Masterton 60'	(Report)	Todoran 15' Dănălache 36' Paraschiv 88'	Stadium: Cappielow Attendance: 1,059

Competitions[edit]

Overall record[edit]

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Liga I	1 August 2009	22 May 2010	Matchday 1	Winners	34	18	12	4	53	26	+27	052.94
Cupa României	27 October 2009		Round of 32	Round of 16	2	1	0	1	3	1	+2	050.00
Supercupa României	26 July 2009		Final	Runners-up	1	0	1	0	1	1	+0	000.00
UEFA Champions League	16 September 2009	9 December 2009	Group stage	Group stage	6	2	2	2	8	8	+0	033.33
UEFA Europa League	18 February 2010	25 February 2010	Round of 32	Round of 32	2	0	0	2	1	4	−3	000.00
Total					45	21	15	9	66	40	+26	046.67

Source: Competitions

Supercupa României[edit]

26 July 2009 Final	Unirea Urziceni	1–1 (a.e.t.) (2–3 p)	CFR Cluj	Bucharest
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Frunză 50'	Report	Cadú 41'	Stadium: Giuleşti-Valentin Stănescu Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Georgian Ionescu
	Penalties
	Pădureţu Rusescu Frunză Bilaşco Bordeanu		Alcântara Dubarbier Culio Dani Cadú

Liga I[edit]

League table[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	CFR Cluj (C)	34	20	9	5	46	23	+23	69	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Unirea Urziceni	34	18	12	4	53	26	+27	66	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Vaslui	34	18	8	8	44	28	+16	62^[a]	Qualification to Europa League play-off round^[b]
4	Steaua București	34	18	8	8	49	36	+13	62^[a]	Qualification to Europa League play-off round^[b]
5	Timișoara	34	15	14	5	55	27	+28	59	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round

Source: LPF (in Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ ^a ^b VAS 2–1 STE; STE 2–1 VAS
^ Since 2009–10 Cupa României winners CFR Cluj and runners-up Vaslui qualified for European competitions via their league placement, the allocation of UEFA Europa League spots effectively reverted to league placement as well, with the 6th-placed team Dinamo București also qualifying.

Results summary[edit]


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	18	12	4	53	26	+27	66	10	5	2	30	13	+17	8	7	2	23	13	+10

Source: LT

Results by round[edit]

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	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A
Result	L	W	W	D	W	W	L	W	D	L	D	W	D	W	W	W	W	L	D	D	D	D	W	D	W	D	D	W	W	W	W	D	W	W
Position	16	11	4	7	5	2	5	1	2	5	6	7	7	6	3	3	2	2	3	2	4	6	5	6	6	5	5	4	2	2	2	2	2	2

Source: Matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches[edit]

1 August 2009 1	CFR Cluj	2–0	Unirea Urziceni	Cluj-Napoca
20:30 EEST (UTC+3)	Mara 29' Dani 41' 78' Peralta 43' Culio 51' Dubarbier 55'	Report	Bilaşco 35' Gomes 39' 60' Brandan 57' Pădureţu 72'	Stadium: Dr. Constantin Rădulescu Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Marius Avram

8 August 2009 2	Unirea Urziceni	1–0	Rapid București	Urziceni
21:00 EEST (UTC+3)	Pădureţu 13' Apostol 21' Frunză 90+5'	Report	Matič 11' Lazăr 25' Constantin 42' Păun 52' Iencsi 52' Herea 54'	Stadium: Tineretului Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Istvan Kovacs

Cupa României[edit]

Round of 32

UEFA Champions League[edit]

Group stage[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sevilla	6	4	1	1	11	4	+7	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	VfB Stuttgart	6	2	3	1	9	7	+2	9	Advance to knockout phase
3	Unirea Urziceni	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8	Transfer to Europa League
4	Rangers	6	0	2	4	4	13	−9	2

Source: RSSSF

16 September 2009 1	Sevilla	2–0	Unirea Urziceni	Seville, Spain
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Luís Fabiano 45+1' Renato 70'	Report		Stadium: Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Attendance: 37,500 Referee: Matteo Trefoloni (Italy)

29 September 2009 2	Unirea Urziceni	1–1	Stuttgart	Bucharest, Romania
21:45 EEST (UTC+3)	Varga 48'	Report	Tasci 5'	Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 13,557 Referee: Laurent Duhamel (France)

20 October 2009 3	Rangers	1–4	Unirea Urziceni	Glasgow, Scotland
19:45 WEST (UTC+1)	Vilana 2' (o.g.)	Report	Bilașco 32' Lafferty 49' (o.g.) McCulloch 59' (o.g.) Brandán 65'	Stadium: Ibrox Attendance: 39,476 Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)

4 November 2009 4	Unirea Urziceni	1–1	Rangers	Bucharest, Romania
21:45 EET (UTC+2)	Onofraș 88'	Report	McCulloch 79'	Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 9,923 Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)

24 November 2009 5	Unirea Urziceni	1–0	Sevilla	Bucharest, Romania
21:45 EET (UTC+2)	Dragutinović 45' (o.g.)	Report		Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 10,007 Referee: Tom Henning Øvrebø (Norway)

9 December 2009 6	Stuttgart	3–1	Unirea Urziceni	Stuttgart, Germany
20:45 CET (UTC+1)	Marica 5' Träsch 8' Pogrebnyak 11'	Report	Semedo 46'	Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 37,000 Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

UEFA Europa League[edit]

Knockout phase[edit]

Round of 32[edit]

18 February 2010 First leg	Liverpool	1–0	Unirea Urziceni	Liverpool, England
20:05 WET (UTC±0)	N'Gog 81'	Report		Stadium: Anfield Attendance: 40,450 Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)

25 February 2010 Second leg	Unirea Urziceni	1–3 (1–4 agg.)	Liverpool	Bucharest, Romania
20:00 EET (UTC+2)	Fernandes 19'	Report	Mascherano 30' Babel 41' Gerrard 57'	Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)

Players[edit]

Individual statistics[edit]

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Liga I		Champions League		Cupa României
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	LTU	Giedrius Arlauskis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF	SRB	Ersin Mehmedović	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
5	MF	ROU	Dinu Todoran	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	DF	ROU	George Galamaz (captain)	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
7	FW	ROU	Marius Bilaşco	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
8	MF	ROU	Sorin Paraschiv	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
10	MF	ROU	Răzvan Pădureţu	2	1	2	1	0	0	0	0
11	FW	ROU	Marius Onofraş	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	FW	ROU	Raul Rusescu	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
15	FW	ROU	Cristian Dănălache	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
16	DF	ROU	Epaminonda Nicu	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
18	MF	BRA	Ricardo Vilana	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
19	MF	ROU	Pablo Brandán	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
20	MF	ROU	Laurenţiu Marinescu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	DF	POR	Bruno Fernandes	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
23	DF	ROU	Valeriu Bordeanu	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
24	DF	ROU	Vasile Maftei	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
26	DF	ROU	Dan Matei	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	FW	ROU	Daniel Stan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	MF	ROU	Sorin Frunză	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
32	MF	ROU	Iulian Apostol	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
74	GK	ROU	Daniel Tudor	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
77	GK	ROU	Cătălin Grigore	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
--	MF	POR	António Semedo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

As of 9 August 2009^[update]^[1]

Transfers[edit]

In[edit]

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
24	DF	Maftei	28	EU	Rapid București	Transfer	Summer	2012	€400,000	^[2]
8	MF	Paraschiv	28	EU	Rimini	Transfer	Summer	2012	Free
	FW	Semedo	30	EU	Steaua București	Transfer	Summer	2014	Free	^[3]

Out[edit]

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
–	DF		Rădoi	24	EU	Unirea Alba Iulia	Loan	Summer	n/a

Last updated: 2009-08-09

Goals[edit]

Pos.	Player	L1	CL	Cup	Overall
1	Răzvan Pădureţu	0	0	1	1

Club[edit]

Coaching staff[edit]

Position	Staff
Head coach	Dan Petrescu
Assistant coach 1	Cristian Pojar
Fitness coach	Michele Bon
Goalkeepers coach	Dumitru Stângaciu

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

^ "Players". FC Unirea Urziceni official website. August 2009. Retrieved 9 August 2009.
^ "Vasile Maftei a semnat cu Unirea Urziceni!".
^ "Semedo s-a înţeles cu Unirea Urziceni!".

Source: [1]

[table_hth_VAS0.20763356108574-1] VAS 2–1 STE; STE 2–1 VAS

[table_note_res_EL20.20763356108574-2] Since 2009–10 Cupa României winners CFR Cluj and runners-up Vaslui qualified for European competitions via their league placement, the allocation of UEFA Europa League spots effectively reverted to league placement as well, with the 6th-placed team Dinamo București also qualifying.

[3] "Players". FC Unirea Urziceni official website. August 2009. Retrieved 9 August 2009.

[4] "Vasile Maftei a semnat cu Unirea Urziceni!".

[5] "Semedo s-a înţeles cu Unirea Urziceni!".

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