2007–08 FC Steaua București season

The 2007–08 season was the 60th season in the existence of FC Steaua București and the club's 60th consecutive season in the top flight of Romanian football. In addition to the domestic league, Steaua București participated in this season's edition of the Cupa României and the UEFA Champions League.[1]

Steaua București
2007–08 season
OwnerGeorge Becali
PresidentValeriu Argăseală
Head coachGheorghe Hagi
Massimo Pedrazzini
Marius Lăcătuș
StadiumStadionul Steaua
Liga I2nd
Cupa RomânieiRound of 16
Champions LeagueGroup stage
Top goalscorerLeague:
Nicolae Dică (9)

All:
Nicolae Dică (10)

Players

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Transfers

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Total spending: €11,06M
Player From Fee
  Eric Bicfalvi   Jiul Petroșanii €0.3M
  Valentin Bădoi   Rapid București €0.55M
  Mihai Guriță   Farul Constanța €0.1M
  Cosmin Vâtcă   Oțelul Galați €0.5M
  Adrian Neaga   Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma €0.61M
  Ifeanyi Emeghara   Politehnica Știința Timișoara €1.2M
  Paweł Golański   Korona Kielce €1.3M
  Alexandru Iacob   Corvinul Hunedoara €0.4M
  Emil Ninu   Progresul București €0.2M
  Róbinson Zapata   Cúcuta Deportivo €0.5M
  Ionuț Rada   Rapid București €0.8M
  Dorel Zaharia   Gloria Bistrița €0.5M
  Mihăiță Pleșan   Politehnica Știința Timișoara €1.5M
  Romeo Surdu   CFR Cluj €1M
  Habib Habibou   Charleroi Loan
  Dino Eze   Gloria Buzau €0.2M
  Pepe Moreno   Independiente Loan
  Andrés Mendoza   Metalurh Donetsk Free
  Dayro Moreno   Once Caldas €1.4M
  Răzvan Ochiroșii   Gloria Buzău Back from loan
  Alexandru Iacob   Gloria Buzău Back from loan
  Alin Lițu   Gloria Buzău Back from loan
  Emil Ninu   Gloria Buzău Back from loan
  Alexandru Tudose   Gloria Buzău Back from loan
  Eric Bicfalvi   Gloria Buzău Back from loan
  Dino Eze   Gloria Buzău Back from loan
  André Nunes   Gloria Buzău Back from loan
  Valentin Simion   Gloria Buzău Back from loan
  Vasilică Cristocea   Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț Back from loan
  Marius Croitoru   Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț Back from loan
Total income: €5,06M
Player New team Fee
  Daniel Oprița   Dinamo București Free
  Stelian Stancu   Politehnica Știința Timișoara €0.2M
  Sorin Paraschiv   Rimini €0.5M
  Élton   Al-Nasr €0.5M
  Cyril Théréau   Anderlecht €2.9M
  Klemi Saban   Maccabi Netanya Free
  Gigel Coman   Universitatea Cluj €0.1M
  Gabriel Boștină   Dinamo București €0.1M
  Mihai Guriță   Farul Constanța Free
  Andrey   Cruzeiro Released
  Valentin Bădoi   Politehnica Știința Timișoara Free
  Dorel Zaharia   UTA Arad €0.26M
  Victoraș Iacob   Kaiserslautern €0.5M
  Vasilică Cristocea   Steaua II București Second team
  Marius Croitoru   Steaua II București Second team
  Alexandru Iacob   Steaua II București Second team

Loan out

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Player Team
  Alexandru Iacob   Gloria Buzău
  Alin Lițu   Gloria Buzău
  Emil Ninu   Gloria Buzău
  Alexandru Tudose   Gloria Buzău
  Eric Bicfalvi   Gloria Buzău
  Dino Eze   Gloria Buzău
  André Nunes   Gloria Buzău
  Valentin Simion   Gloria Buzău
  Vasilică Cristocea   Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
  Marius Croitoru   Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț

Statistics

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Player stats

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No. Pos Nat Player Total Liga I Cupa României UEFA Champions League
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK   COL Róbinson Zapata 42 0 33 0 0 0 9 0
3 DF   ROU Dorin Goian 31 5 23 2 0 0 8 3
4 DF   POL Paweł Golański 27 1 21 1 2 0 4 0
5 DF   ROU Ionuț Rada 28 1 17 1 1 0 10 0
6 MF   ROU Mirel Rădoi 19 0 16 0 0 0 3 0
8 MF   ROU Ovidiu Petre 35 3 26 2 0 0 9 1
9 FW   ROU Valentin Badea 24 4 16 2 2 1 6 1
10 FW   ROU Nicolae Dică 40 10 30 9 0 0 10 1
11 FW   CTA Habib Habibou 8 1 8 1 0 0 0 0
12 GK   ROU Cornel Cernea 3 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
13 DF   NGA Ifeanyi Emeghara 18 0 12 0 1 0 5 0
15 DF   ROU Mihai Neșu 26 0 21 0 0 0 5 0
16 MF   ROU Bănel Nicoliță 35 4 27 3 0 0 8 1
17 DF   ROU Eugen Baciu 17 0 14 0 2 0 1 0
18 DF   ROU Petre Marin 26 0 18 0 1 0 7 0
20 MF   ROU Florin Lovin 32 0 24 0 0 0 8 0
21 FW   ROU Răzvan Ochiroșii 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 FW   COL Pepe Moreno 15 5 15 5 0 0 0 0
23 MF   ROU Mihăiță Pleșan[notes 1] 15 2 14 2 0 0 1 0
24 DF   ROU Sorin Ghionea 12 1 12 1 0 0 0 0
25 FW   ROU Adrian Neaga 35 4 26 3 1 0 8 1
27 FW   COL Dayro Moreno 11 5 11 5 0 0 0 0
29 FW   PER Andrés Mendoza 15 2 15 2 0 0 0 0
82 GK   ROU Cosmin Vâtcă 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
84 FW   ROU Romeo Surdu 20 0 12 0 2 0 6 0
Players sold or loaned out during the season
2 DF   ROU Emil Ninu 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
7 MF   ROU Eric Bicfalvi 15 1 9 1 2 0 4 0
11 MF   ROU Gabriel Boștină 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
14 MF   ROU Vasilică Cristocea 13 0 8 0 2 0 3 0
19 FW   ROU Victoraș Iacob 12 2 7 2 1 0 4 0
26 MF   ROU Marius Croitoru 21 0 12 0 1 0 8 0
26 FW   NGA Dino Eze 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
29 MF   ROU Valentin Bădoi 17 0 10 0 2 0 5 0
30 FW   ROU Dorel Zaharia 22 7 14 1 2 3 6 3
31 DF   ROU Alexandru Iacob 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
34 FW   ROU Mihai Guriță[notes 2] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Sources:[2][3][1]

Competitions

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Overall record

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Competition First match Last match Starting round Final position Record
Pld W D L GF GA GD Win %
Liga I 27 July 2007 7 May 2008 Matchday 1 2nd 34 23 6 5 51 19 +32 067.65
Cupa României 26 September 2007 6 December 2007 Round of 32 Round of 16 2 1 0 1 4 2 +2 050.00
UEFA Champions League 31 July 2007 12 December 2007 Second qualifying round Group stage 10 3 2 5 11 13 −2 030.00
Total 46 27 8 11 66 34 +32 058.70

Source: Competitions

Liga I

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 CFR Cluj (C) 34 23 7 4 52 22 +30 76 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 Steaua București 34 23 6 5 51 19 +32 75 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3 Rapid București 34 18 7 9 52 31 +21 61[a] Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4 Dinamo București 34 17 10 7 55 36 +19 61[a]
5 Unirea Urziceni 34 16 13 5 42 24 +18 61[a]
Source: LT (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:
  1. ^ a b c RAP: 7 pts; DIN: 5 pts; UNI: 3 pts

Results summary

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Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
34 23 6 5 51 19  +32 75 14 3 0 31 5  +26 9 3 5 20 14  +6

Source: LT

Results by round

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Round12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334
GroundHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
ResultWWWDDLDDWWWLWLWWDWWLWWWWWWWWWWDWLW
Position5112477877677755544533222221112122
Source: Matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

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27 July 2007 Round 1 Steaua București 2–1 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț București
20:30 Dică   14' (pen.), 62'   12' (pen.) Vranjković Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 0 (closed doors)[notes 3]
Referee: Sebastian Colțescu
3 August 2007 Round 2 Farul Constanța 0–1 Steaua București Constanța
20:30   62' Dică Stadium: Farul
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Alexandru Tudor
11 August 2007 Round 3 Steaua București 1–0 Politehnica Iași București
20:45 Bicfalvi   79' Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Cristian Balaj
19 August 2007 Round 4 CFR Cluj 0–0 Steaua București Cluj-Napoca
20:30 Stadium: Dr. Constantin Rădulescu
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Augustus Constantin
2 September 2007 Round 6 Unirea Urziceni 1–0 Steaua București Urziceni
17:00 Galamaz   90+1' Stadium: Tineretului
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Tiberiu Lajos
16 September 2007 Round 7 Steaua București 0–0 Rapid București București
20:30 Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Alexandru Deaconu
22 September 2007 Round 8 UTA Arad 1–1 Steaua București Arad
17:00 Edson   82' (pen.)   57' Nicoliță Stadium: Francisc von Neumann
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Teodor Crăciunescu
29 September 2007 Round 9 Steaua București 1–0 Vaslui București
20:45 Rada   65' Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 7,472
Referee: Aurel Bogaciu
7 October 2007 Round 10 Dacia Mioveni 1–2 Steaua București Mioveni
20:30 Rada   35' (o.g.)   45+2', 90' Iacob Stadium: Dacia
Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Victor Berbecaru
27 October 2007 Round 12 Universitatea Cluj 2–1 Steaua București Cluj-Napoca
15:00 Jovanović   34'
Goga   85'
  21' Nicoliță Stadium: Ion Moina
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: István Kovács
31 October 2007 Round 13 Steaua București 3–1 Oțelul Galați București
20:30 Dică   7' (65), pen.'
Semeghin   32' (o.g.)
  52' Székely Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Ionel Ivan
4 November 2007 Round 14 Politehnica Știința Timișoara 2–0 Steaua București Timișoara
20:30 Rušič   13'
Mansour   90+1'
Stadium: Dan Păltinișanu
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Augustus Constantin
10 November 2007 Round 15 Steaua București 1–0 FC U Craiova București
20:45 Nicoliță   27' Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Alexandru Tudor
12 November 2007 Round 5 (P) Steaua București 0–0 Pandurii Târgu Jiu București
20:30 Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 7,249
Referee: Alexandru Ioniță
24 November 2007 Round 16 Steaua București 1–0 Dinamo București București
20:30 Neaga   67' Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 23,552
Referee: Alexandru Deaconu
30 November 2007 Round 17 Gloria Buzău 1–1 Steaua București Buzău
13:00 Bunică   90+1'   78' Dică Stadium: Crâng
Attendance: 11,000
Referee: ștefan Erdei
3 December 2007 Round 11 (P) Steaua București 1–0 Gloria Bistrița București
20:45 Toma   78' (o.g.) Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Marius Avram
9 December 2007 Round 18 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 0–1 Steaua București Piatra Neamț
19:00   19' Badea Stadium: Ceahlăul
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Aurelian Bogaciu
16 December 2007 Round 19 Steaua București 3–0 Farul Constanța București
17:00 Zaharia   17'
Dică   78'
Șchiopu   84' (o.g.)
Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Ionel Ivan
24 February 2008 Round 20 Politehnica Iași 2–1 Steaua București Iași
20:30 Nicoliță   3' (o.g.)
Onuț   60'
  47' Mendoza Stadium: Emil Alexandrescu
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Teodor Crăciunescu
2 March 2008 Round 21 Steaua București 3–1 CFR Cluj București
20:30 Hirschfeld   26' (o.g.)
Dayro Moreno   56'
Ov. Petre   90+1'
  4' Trică Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 26,000
Referee: Alexandru Tudor
8 March 2008 Round 22 Pandurii Târgu Jiu 0–1 Steaua București Târgu Jiu
20:45   64' Ov. Petre Stadium: Municipal Tudor Vladimirescu
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Sebastian Colțescu
16 March 2008 Round 23 Steaua București 1–0 Unirea Urziceni București
20:30 Habibou   82' Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 21,126
Referee: Ionel Ivan
20 March 2008 Round 24 Rapid București 0–3
(Awarded)
Steaua București București
20:30 Săpunaru   68' Stadium: Giulești Valentin Stănescu
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Alexandru Deaconu
Note: The match was interrupted in 72nd minute because the referee was hit with an object from the stands, by the fans of Rapid, even the hosts were leading with 1–0; the match was awarded with 3–0 for Steaua.
23 March 2008 Round 25 Steaua București 2–1 UTA Arad București
20:30 Pepe Moreno   65'
Badea   90+1'
  7' Mihuț Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Lucian Dan
30 March 2008 Round 26 Vaslui 0–1 Steaua București Vaslui
16:00   66' Pepe Moreno Stadium: Municipal
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: István Kovács
6 April 2008 Round 27 Steaua București 2–0 Dacia Mioveni București
20:30 Goian   49'
Pepe Moreno   56'
Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Victor Berbecaru
10 April 2008 Round 28 Gloria Bistrița 1–3 Steaua București Reghin
17:00 Toma   44'   19', 24' Dică
  62' (o.g.) Hadzibulic
Stadium: Avântul
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Tiberiu Lajos
14 April 2008 Round 29 Steaua București 4–0 Universitatea Cluj București
20:30 Pleșan   7'
Golański   66'
Neaga   90+1'
Dayro Moreno   90+3'
Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Mugurel Drăgănescu
19 April 2008 Round 30 Oțelul Galați 0–1 Steaua București Galați
17:00   76' Pleșan Stadium: Oțelul
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Cristian Balaj
22 April 2008 Round 31 Steaua București 1–1 Politehnica Știința Timișoara București
20:30 Goian   49'   65' Bucur Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Sebastian Colțescu
26 April 2008 Round 32 FC U Craiova 1–2 Steaua București Craiova
17:00 Prepeliță   77'   75' Pepe Moreno
  83' Dayro Moreno
Stadium: Extensiv
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan
4 May 2008 Round 33 Dinamo București 2–1 Steaua București București
20:30 Bratu   30'
Dănciulescu   52'
  75' Ghionea Stadium: Dinamo
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Alexandru Tudor
7 May 2008 Round 34 Steaua București 5–0 Gloria Buzău București
17:00 Pepe Moreno   20'
Dayro Moreno   62', 77'
Neaga   67'
Mendoza   72'
Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Cristian Balaj

Cupa României

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Results

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26 September 2007 Round of 32 Bacău 0–4 Steaua București Bacău
20:30   38', 56', 83' Zaharia
  61' (pen.) Badea
Stadium: Municipal
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Alexandru Tudor
6 December 2007 Round of 16 Unirea Urziceni 2–0 Steaua București Urziceni
20:30 Petre   18'
Negru   46'
Stadium: Tineretului
Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan

UEFA Champions League

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Qualifying rounds

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Second qualifying round
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31 July 2007 First leg Zagłębie Lubin   0–1   Steaua București Lubin, Poland
20:45   54' Goian Stadium: Górniczy Ośrodek Sportu
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Selçuk Dereli (Turkey)
8 August 2007 Second leg Steaua București   2–1
(3–1 agg.)
  Zagłębie Lubin București, Romania
20:30 Nicoliță   38'
Zaharia   82'
  29' Stasiak Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)
Third qualifying round
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15 August 2007 First leg BATE Borisov   2–2   Steaua București Borisov, Belarus
20:00 Radzkow   40'
Bliznyuk   90+3'
  58' Goian
  84' Dică
Stadium: City Stadium
Attendance: 4,300
Referee: Matteo Trefoloni (Italy)
29 August 2007 Second leg Steaua București   2–0
(4–2 agg.)
  BATE Borisov București, Romania
20:30 Zaharia   12'
Neaga   54'
Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 24,254
Referee: Pieter Vink (Netherlands)

Group stage

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Group H standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification SEV ARS SLP STE
1   Sevilla 6 5 0 1 14 7 +7 15 Advance to knockout stage 3–1 4–2 2–1
2   Arsenal 6 4 1 1 14 4 +10 13 3–0 7–0 2–1
3   Slavia Prague 6 1 2 3 5 16 −11 5 Transfer to UEFA Cup 0–3 0–0 2–1
4   Steaua București 6 0 1 5 4 10 −6 1 0–2 0–1 1–1
Source: RSSSF
Results
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19 September 2007 Matchday 1 Slavia Prague   2–1   Steaua București Prague, Czech Republic
20:45 Šenkeřík   13'
Belaid   63'
  33' Goian Stadium: Evžena Rošického
Attendance: 15,723
Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)
2 October 2007 Matchday 2 Steaua București   0–1   Arsenal București, Romania
21:45   76' van Persie Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 12,807
Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)
23 October 2007 Matchday 3 Sevilla   2–1   Steaua București Seville, Spain
20:45 Kanouté   5'
Luís Fabiano   17'
  63' Ov. Petre Stadium: Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán
Attendance: 28,945
Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)
7 November 2007 Matchday 4 Steaua București   0–2   Sevilla București, Romania
21:45   25', 65' Renato Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 11,027
Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)
27 November 2007 Matchday 5 Steaua București   1–1   Slavia Prague București, Romania
21:45 Badea   12'   78' Šenkeřík Stadium: Steaua
Attendance: 11,000
Referee: Alain Hamer (Luxembourg)
12 December 2007 Matchday 6 Arsenal   2–1   Steaua București London, England
19:45 Diaby   8'
Bendtner   42'
  68' Zaharia Stadium: Emirates
Attendance: 59,786
Referee: Yuri Baskakov (Russia)

Staff

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Management

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Administration

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  • President: Valeriu Argăseală
  • Vicepresident: Iulian Ghiorghișor
  • Scouting manager: Mario Branco
  • Marketing director: Andreea Chiriloiu
  • Press Officer: Cătălin Făiniși
  • Team Manager: Marius Ianuli
  • Sporting Director: Adrian Ilie

Board Room

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  • Chairman: George Becali
  • Vice-Chairman: Teia Sponte
  • Board Room Members: Lucian Becali, Vasile Geambazi
  • Censor: Victor Manole, Mariana Istudor
  • Supplementary Censors: Virgil Laurențiu Găman, Maria Apostoiu
  • Stock Holders: Vasile Geambazi (37%), Constantin Geambazi (30%), Cătălin Ciubotă (26%), Tomaida Bădescu (4%), Marius Ianuli (3%)[notes 4]

Youth Centre staff

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  • General manager: Leonard Strizu
  • Coordinator: Gigel Gheorghe
  • Physiotherapist: George Mărculescu
  • Fitness Coach: Ciprian Prună

Notes and references

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Notes

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  1. ^ Mihăiță Pleșan played 2 games for Politehnica Știința Timișoara in Liga I before signing and scored 3 goals.
  2. ^ Mihai Guriță played 4 games for FC Gloria Buzău in Liga I as a loaned by Steaua București and scored 0 goals.
  3. ^ Following 2-matchday suspension from previous season
  4. ^ It is assumed though that, given George Becali's influence over the club, these stock holders have been elected by Becali himself as trustworthy people.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Steaua Bucuresti 2007/2008". Romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  2. ^ "FCSB >> Squad 2007/2008". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Steaua Bucarest 2007/2008". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 3 May 2021.