Fotbal Club U Olimpia Cluj-Napoca, commonly known as FCU Olimpia Cluj, or simply as U Olimpia Cluj, is a

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team from

Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...

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. 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

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. 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

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. 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 Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN short for ) is a public university located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It was founded in 1948, based on the older ''Industrial College'' (1920). The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca is classified by the ...

, 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 Asociația Sportivă Fotbal Club Universitatea Cluj (), commonly known as Universitatea Cluj or simply U Cluj, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the L ...

and has rebranded as "U" Olimpia Cluj.

Chronology of names

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

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**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

Current squad

Club officials

Board of directors

* Last updated: 13 January 2019 * Source:

Current technical staff

* Last updated: 13 January 2019 * Source:

FC U Olimpia Cluj in Europe

In their first participation they started in the qualifying round of the

. Already after two wins against Bosnian and Lithuanian opposition they qualified for the round of 32. 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 Monica Raluca Sârghe Simes is a former Romanian women's soccer, football player and current manager. She helped her teams win eight championships in Romania and five in Turkey also amassing 40 appearances in the UEFA Champions League as well as ...

* Ekaterina Ulasevich * Fanny Vágó * Ștefania Vătafu

References

External links

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