Ovidiu Burcă

Ovidiu Nicușor Burcă (born 16 March 1980) is a Romanian football manager.

Ovidiu Burcă

Burcă warming up before a game
Personal information
Full name	Ovidiu Nicușor Burcă
Date of birth	(1980-03-16) 16 March 1980
Place of birth	Slatina, Romania
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back
Youth career
1986–1996	Olt Scornicești
1996–1998	Școala de Fotbal Gheorghe Popescu
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1998–1999	Emelec	6	(0)
1999	JEF United Ichihara	4	(0)
2000	Ventforet Kofu	16	(1)
2001–2002	Universitatea Craiova	25	(0)
2002–2005	Dinamo București	48	(0)
2005–2007	Național București	39	(2)
2007–2010	Energie Cottbus	39	(0)
2008	→ Beijing Guoan (loan)	15	(1)
2010–2011	Politehnica Timișoara	20	(0)
2011–2012	Rapid București	24	(1)
Total		236	(5)
International career
2001	Romania U21	4	(0)
Managerial career
2014–2015	Oțelul Galați (sporting director)
2015–2020	Rapid București (president)
2020	Rapid București (sporting director)
2020–2021	Rapid București U19
2021	Rapid II București
2021–2022	CSM Slatina
2022–2023	Dinamo București
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Early career

Born in Slatina, Burcă began his youth career at Școala de Fotbal Gheorghe Popescu.

Emelec

He began his professional career in Ecuador at Club Sport Emelec in the Primera Categoría Serie A league making six appearances.

JEF United Ichihara

A year later he got noticed by the Japanese club JEF United Ichihara and signed with them. He played there only four matches and impressed the scouts of Ventforet Kofu and he was transferred immediately.

Ventforet Kofu

Burcă played sixteen matches and scored one goal for Ventforet.

Universitatea Craiova

After a year in Ecuador and near two years in Japan, Burcă returned to Romania to play for FC Universitatea Craiova a total of 25 matches, which impressed FC Dinamo București who signed him.

Dinamo București

He won with them the Romanian League during the 2003–04 season. After spending three years with Dinamo, Burcă signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with FC Național.

Energie Cottbus

In June 2007, Bundesliga side Energie Cottbus announced signing him a three-year contract. However, in his first Bundesliga season at the club he did not make any appearance due a serious injury, which resulted a year break in the 2007–08 season. Burcă was one of the key players at Cottbus and they named him as captain in 2009. He was loaned out in 2008 to Chinese club Beijing Guoan.

Politehnica Timișoara

After his contract expired with the German side, Burcă signed a one-year contract with FC Politehnica Timișoara returning to Liga 1 after three years. He was handed the number 25 shirt. He made his debut in a Europa League play-off against Manchester City in a 2–0 loss.

Honours

Player

Dinamo București

• Divizia A: 2003–04
• Cupa României: 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05
• Supercupa României: 2005

Național București

• Cupa României runner-up: 2005–06

Rapid București

• Cupa României runner-up: 2011–12

Coach

CSM Slatina

• Liga III: 2021–22

External links

• Ovidiu Burcă at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
• Ovidiu Burcă at fussballdaten.de (in German)
• Ovidiu Burcă at WorldFootball.net
• Ovidiu Burcă at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)