Ionuț Neagu (born 26 October 1989) is a former Romanian professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Oțelul Galați

Neagu with Oțelul in 2011 Born in

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, Neagu began his career with the youth system at Oțelul Galați. He made his professional debut as an 88th-minute substitute in a 1–1 away draw against

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on 22 May 2009 and finished 2008–09 season with two appearances. Neagu began to establish himself in the Oțelul first team from the 2009–10 season, making 24 league starts. On 7 March 2010, he scored his first goal in a 1–0 victory over

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Steaua București

On 3 September 2013, Neagu agreed to join Steaua București after the club agreed a €620k transfer fee with Oțelul Galați.

Cherno More

On 27 June 2019, Neagu signed a contract with Bulgarian side

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International career

He has been capped at international level by

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International stats

Honours

;Oțelul Galați *

Liga I Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

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Cupa României The Cupa României () is a Association football, football cup competition for List of football clubs in Romania, Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1933–34 Cupa României, 1933–34, except during World War II. It is the Romania ...

runner-up: 2023–24 *

Supercupa României The Supercupa României () is a Romanian football (soccer), football championship contested by the winners of the Liga I and the Cupa României. It is usually played at the Arena Națională in Bucharest. The competition started off in 1994 Supe ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

Liga III The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III, is the third level of the Romanian football league system. It was founded in 1936 and was called Divizia C until 2006. An exception was the seasons 1992–93 to 1996–97, in which the league was call ...

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, 2021–22 ;Steaua București *

: 2013–14, 2014–15 *

: 2014–15 *

Cupa Ligii The Cupa Ligii () was Romania's secondary club football tournament. Like the Cupa României, it was played on a knockout (single elimination) basis. History It is unclear when the competition was first created, as there are no official recordi ...

: 2014–15 *

runner-up:

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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* 1989 births Living people Romanian men's footballers Romania men's under-21 international footballers Romania men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders ASC Oțelul Galați players FCSB players Kardemir Karabükspor footballers Nea Salamis Famagusta FC players CS Gaz Metan Mediaș players FC UTA Arad players PFC Cherno More Varna players Liga I players Liga II players TFF 1. Lig players Cypriot First Division players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Romanian expatriate men's footballers Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Footballers from Galați 21st-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub