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FC Oțelul

2003–04 season
Chairman	Nicu Boghici
Manager	Costel Orac Sorin Cârţu (from 29 December 2003)
Divizia A	5th
Cupa României	Runners-up
Top goalscorer	League: Iacob (6) All: Iacob (8) Guriță (3) Aldea (2) Apostol (2) Călin (2) Dobre (2) Ilie (2) Munteanu (2) Oprea (2)
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Although at the end of the previous season they relegated, Oțelul managed to retain their spot in Divizia A after the merger of FC Astra Ploieşti and newly promoted Petrolul Ploieşti. After 15 rounds played in Divizia A, Costel Orac was fired in December and replaced with Sorin Cârţu.

Competitions

Friendlies

23 July 2003	Juventus București	0–2	Oțelul Galați	Sfântu Gheorghe
10:30		(Report)	Vintilă Emeric Vascko

26 July 2003	Oltul Sfântu Gheorghe	2–1	Oțelul Galați	Sfântu Gheorghe
11:00	? ,	(Report)	Emeric Vascko

30 July 2003	Bnei Sakhnin	0–0	Oțelul Galați	Braşov
11:00		(Report)		Stadium: ICIM

2 August 2003	Oțelul Galați	1–1	CF Brăila	Galați
11:00	Oprea 58'	(Report)		Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 3,000

20 August 2003	Oțelul Galați	4–1	Dunărea Galați	Galați
	Danciu 3' Iacob 6' Guriţă 55' Sandu Cernat 80'	(Report)	Lungu 72'	Stadium: Oțelul

6 February 2004 Turkey	Borac Banja Luka	0–2	Oțelul Galați	Antalya
15:00		(Report)	Negru 42' Nedelcev 51'

8 February 2004 Turkey	Taraz	0–0	Oțelul Galați	Antalya
		(Report)

10 February 2004 Turkey	Haladás	0–3	Oțelul Galați	Antalya
14:00			? , ,

12 February 2004 Turkey	Žilina	1–0	Oțelul Galați	Antalya
	Barčík 38'	(Report)

14 February 2004 Turkey	Samsung Bluewings	1–2	Oțelul Galați	Antalya
	Marcel 11'	(Report)	Ilie 6' Oprea 14'

17 February 2004 Turkey	Daegu	0–2	Oțelul Galați	Antalya
		(Report)	Oprea 21', 43'

27 February 2004	Dunărea Galați	0–1	Oțelul Galați	Galați
14:00		(Report)	Ilie 80'	Stadium: Dunărea

4 March 2004	Junkers Galați	2–7	Oțelul Galați	Galați
14:00	Mogoş 3' (pen.), 55' Popa  77'	(Report)	Călin 28', 44' Ilie 40' (pen.) 52', 62', 87' Izvoranu 84'	Stadium: Universitaţii

Liga 1

League table

1. TIM 0-0 PRO; PRO 0-0 TIM

Results by round

Results summary

Matches

9 August 2003 Matchday 1	Oțelul Galați	0–1	Universitatea Craiova	Galați
18:00	Danciu  6' Dragomir  25'	(Report)	N'Jock 4' Rada  35' Bundea  45' Moţi  82' Gušo  90+1'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Alexandru Tudor

16 August 2003 Matchday 2	Farul Constanţa	1–1	Oțelul Galați	Constanţa
20:00	Lungu  15' Bălaşa 48' Onuţ  77'	(Report)	Iacob  15' Oprea  28' Danciu  37' Guriţă 43' Mărginean  45'	Stadium: Farul Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Ionică Serea

23 August 2003 Matchday 3	Oțelul Galați	2–1	FC Brașov	Galați
18:00	Iacob 12',  45' Mărginean 64',  73' Oprea  67' Sandu Cernat  82'	(Report)	Csaba Balint  26' Mozacu  30' Buga 71'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Cristian Balaj

30 August 2003 Matchday 4	Rapid București	2–0	Oțelul Galați	Bucharest
20:00	Bratu 42', 56' Iencsi  50'	(Report)	Rohat  15' Iacob  54' Apostol  73'	Stadium: Lia Manoliu Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Marian Salomir

13 September 2003 Matchday 5	Oțelul Galați	0–0	Dinamo București	Galați
16:00	Danciu  1' Guriţă  79' Cernea  90+2'	(Report)	Alexa  2' Burcă  67'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Anton Heleşteanu

20 September 2003 Matchday 6	Petrolul Ploieşti	0–1	Oțelul Galați	Ploieşti
19:30	Negoiţă  20' Crăciun  52' Georgel Ciprian Toporan  60' Petroesc  73'	(Report)	Ghionea  29' Guriţă 45+1' Pelin  62' Mărginean  67' Cernea  85' Orac  90+1'	Stadium: Astra Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Iosif Biro

27 September 2003 Matchday 7	Oțelul Galați	4–1	Poli AEK	Galați
17:00	Rohat  15' Ghionea  25' Guriţă 49', 89' Gheară 72' Iacob 76' Iacob 89'	(Report)	Marius Şuleap  33' Mihai Dobre  64' Stancu 88'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Sorin Corpodean

4 October 2003 Matchday 8	Apulum Alba Iulia	2–1	Oțelul Galați	Alba Iulia
15:00	Miclea 15' Emeric Vascko 41' Aurel Himcinschi  42' Cristinel Nedelea  78' Ovidiu Maier  81'	(Report)	Iacob 2' Gheară  21'  35' Munteanu  90+3' Toma  90+1'	Stadium: Victoria-Cetate Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Anton Heleşteanu

18 October 2003 Matchday 9	Oțelul Galați	1–1	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ	Galați
14:30	Mărginean  37' Pelin  65'  66' Iacob 74' Apostol  90'	(Report)	Ştefan Domşa 12' Florin Axinia  26' Burdujan  33'  76' Nohai  69'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Ionică Serea

25 October 2003 Matchday 10	FC Argeş	0–0	Oțelul Galați	Piteşti
15:00	Cosmin Năstăsie  57'	(Report)	Iacob  11' Cernea  74'	Stadium: Nicolae Dobrin Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Gheorghe Farcaş

1 November 2003 Matchday 11	Oțelul Galați	1–0	FC Bihor	Galați
13:30	Mărginean  37' Orac 38' Danciu  40'	(Report)	Mihai Marius Nicolae  43' Mărginean  49'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Anton Heleşteanu

9 November 2003 Matchday 12	Steaua București	2–0	Oțelul Galați	Bucharest
17:00	Răducanu 9' Curt  38' Răchita 90+3'	(Report)	Oprea Rohat Eusebio Iulian Tudor	Stadium: Steaua Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Sorin Corpodean

22 November 2003 Matchday 13	Oțelul Galați	1–1	Naţional București	Galați
13:30	Iacob 26' Toma  48'	(Report)	Cânu  21' Moldovan  33' Sylla  40' Verdeş  46' Coman  69' Panc  77' Caramarin 83' (pen.)	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Cristian Balaj

28 November 2003 Matchday 14	Oțelul Galați	1–0	Gloria Bistriţa	Galați
13:00	Ghionea  35' Iacob 38' Cernea  45'	(Report)	Negrean  48' Cornea  66'  89'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Sebastian Colţescu

6 December 2003 Matchday 15	FCM Bacău	1–0	Oțelul Galați	Bacău
14:00	Apostol 66'	(Report)	Eusebio Iulian Tudor  41' Rohat  53'	Stadium: Municipal Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Robert Dumitru

13 March 2004 Matchday 16	Universitatea Craiova	1–1	Oțelul Galați	Craiova
15:30	Alin Vigariu  38' Murgan  55' Pleşan 70' Bundea  81'	(Report)	Oprea  44' Cristian Eugen Negru 71' Mărginean  78' Danciu  81' Ghionea  87'	Stadium: Ion Oblemenco Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Marian Salomir

21 March 2004 Matchday 17	Oțelul Galați	2–1	Farul Constanţa	Galați
15:30	Danciu 50' Apostol 53' Mărginean	(Report)	Mihai 65' (pen.)	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Sorin Corpodean

28 March 2004 Matchday 18	FC Brașov	0–1	Oțelul Galați	Braşov
16:00	Constantin  48' Baicu  64' Stere  68'	(Report)	Călin  39' Apostol  49', 80' Dragomir  64'	Stadium: Silviu Ploieşteanu Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Gheorghe Farcaş

3 April 2004 Matchday 19	Oțelul Galați	0–1	Rapid București	Galați
16:00	Ghionea  29' Danciu  38' Călin  45'	(Report)	Ilie 1' Godfroid  33' Negru  80' Dolha  82'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Ionică Serea

10 April 2004 Matchday 20	Dinamo București	2–0	Oțelul Galați	Bucharest
13:00	Alexa 47' Bărcăuan  58' Dănciulescu 86'	(Report)	Munteanu  13' Toma  73'	Stadium: Dinamo Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Robert Dumitru

14 April 2004 Matchday 21	Oțelul Galați	0–0	Petrolul Ploieşti	Galați
17:00	Danciu  16'  60' Dobre  30' Oprea  36'  64' Cernea  90+2' Toma  90+3'	(Report)	Cătălin Liţă  36' Ghindaru  50' Pastor  69'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Alexandru Tudor

17 April 2004 Matchday 22	Poli AEK	0–0	Oțelul Galați	Timișoara
21:00	Dumitru  17' Angheluţă  71'	(Report)	Cernea  42' Mărginean  77' Aldea  90+1'	Stadium: Dan Păltinişanu Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Alexandru Deaconu

25 April 2004 Matchday 23	Oțelul Galați	3–0	Apulum Alba Iulia	Galați
16:30	Călin 8', 70' Dobre 21' Verdeş  34' Ghionea  41'	(Report)		Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Tiberiu Lajos

1 May 2004 Matchday 24	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ	1–1	Oțelul Galați	Piatra Neamţ
16:30	Constantin Enache  16', 75' Goian  28' Brujan  29' Cristian Răuţă  41' Tiberiu Şerban  60' Marian Purică  61' Nohai  76'	(Report)	Călin  8' Rohat 14' Nanu  71' Apostol  76' Dobre  79'	Stadium: Ceahlăul Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Anton Heleşteanu

9 May 2004 Matchday 25	Oțelul Galați	1–1	FC Argeş	Galați
17:00	Oprea 33' Apostol  43'	(Report)	Prepeliţă 31' Stan  57' Baicu  89'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Cristian Balaj

12 May 2004 Matchday 26	FC Bihor	1–1	Oțelul Galați	Oradea
18:00	Munteanu  38' Lazăr 48' Gado  75'	(Report)	Aldea 22' Danciu  77' Gheară  80'	Stadium: Municipal Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Marian Salomir

16 May 2004 Matchday 27	Oțelul Galați	2–2	Steaua București	Galați
17:00	Danciu  56' Aldea 62' Oprea 65' Cernea  83'	(Report)	Ogăraru  30' Dică 36' (pen.) Neaga 87',  89'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Ionică Serea

23 May 2004 Matchday 28	Naţional București	1–2	Oțelul Galați	Bucharest
20:00	Chihaia 3' Coman  7' Moldovan  68' Chihaia  75' Olah  90+1'	(Report)	Ilie 82', 90'	Stadium: Cotroceni Attendance: 300 Referee: Lucian Dan

30 May 2004 Matchday 29	Gloria Bistriţa	0–1	Oțelul Galați	Bistriţa
17:00	Jula  67'  85' Rus  77'	(Report)	Oprea  19' Danciu  73' Munteanu  81', 90+2'	Stadium: Gloria Attendance: 500 Referee: Cristian Sava

3 June 2004 Matchday 30	Oțelul Galați	2–2	FCM Bacău	Galați
17:00	Gheară  30' Călin 31' Munteanu 51' Dragomir  73'	(Report)	Goian  23' Ciocoiu 56' (pen.) Răducan 65'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Augustus Constantin

Cupa României

1 October 2003 Round of 32	Laminorul Roman	0–2	Oțelul Galați	Roman
15:00		(Report)	Apostol 77' Iacob 90'	Stadium: Moldova Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Robert Rusu

22 October 2003 Round of 16	Naţional București	2–3	Oțelul Galați	Buzău
14:00	Verdeş 19' (pen.),  33' Buta  52' Wisdom Chibuike Onyekewere  58' Savu 72' Popa  73'	(Report)	Apostol  5', 93' Iacob  40', 67' (pen.) Munteanu 75'	Stadium: Municipal Attendance: 600 Referee: Augustus Constantin

3 December 2003 Quarter-final 1st leg	Oțelul Galați	2–0	Rapid București	Galați
13:30	Mărginean  29', 37' Apostol 19',  52' Rohat  80'	(Report)	Bădoi  59' Ilie  73' Constantin  90+2' Maftei  90+3'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 7,500 Referee: Marian Salomir

17 March 2004 Quarter-final 2nd leg	Rapid București	1–0	Oțelul Galați	Bucharest
20:00	Bădoi 74' Ilie  84' Ziyati  86'	(Report)	Ilie  72' Apostol  81' Nanu  84' Danciu  87' Barbu  89'	Stadium: Giuleşti Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Augustus Constantin

7 April 2004 Semi-final 1st leg	Gloria Bistriţa	0–1	Oțelul Galați	Bistriţa
15:00	Rus  12' Velcea  40'	(Report)	Ilie 14' (pen.) Dragomir  45' Toma  67' Orac  83'	Stadium: Gloria Attendance: 800 Referee: Sorin Corpodean

21 April 2004 Semi-final 2nd leg	Oțelul Galați	4–0	Gloria Bistriţa	Galați
15:00	Mărginean 1',  54' Dobre 22' Danciu 73' Gheară  75' Călin 77'	(Report)	Nicolae Vlad  34' Miroslav Giuchic  45' Negrean  72'	Stadium: Oțelul Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Augustus Constantin

6 June 2004 Final	Oțelul Galați	0–2	Dinamo București	Bucharest
19:00	Aldea  54' Dobre  63' Călin  64'	(Report)	Bărcăuan  19' Alexa  40' Angelo Alistar  45' Munteanu 66' Niculescu 77' Semeghin  79'	Stadium: Cotroceni Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Cristian Balaj

Players

Squad statistics

				Total			Divizia A		Cupa României
No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Sts	App	Gls	App	Gls	App	Gls
–	FW		Aldea	8	14	2	12	2	2
–			Apostol	19	26	5	20	2	6	3
–			Baldovin	3	7		7
–	GK		Barbu	13	14		12		2
–	FW		Bucătaru		1		1
–			Călin	9	14	4	10	3	4	1
–			Cernat	3	4		4
–			Cernea	24	25		19		6
–			Danciu	27	27	2	22	1	5	1
–			Dobre	27	28	2	23	1	5	1
–			Dragomir	17	23		19		4
–			Gheară	17	26	1	21	1	5
–	CB		Ghionea	33	33		26		7
–	FW		Guriţă	15	18	4	15	4	3
–	FW		Iacob	17	17	8	14	6	3	2
–	FW		Ilie	6	18	3	14	2	4	1
–			Izvoranu	3	4		4
–			Macare		1		1
–			Mărginean	25	26	3	21	1	5	2
–			Munteanu	22	27	3	20	2	7	1
–			Nanu	14	15		11		4
–			Negru	6	9	1	7	1	2
–	FW		Oprea	24	28	2	24	2	4
–	FW		Orac	3	12	1	10	1	2
–			Pelin	14	15		15
–			Rohat	35	35	1	28	1	7
–	FB		Toma	14	22		17		5
–			Tudor	5	11		9		2
–			Verdeş	3	6		5		1

Transfers

In

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
–	DM		Izvoranu	20	EU	Dunărea Galați	Transfer	Summer		Undisclosed
–	WI		Orac	18	EU	Steaua București	Loan	Summer		Undisclosed
–	GK		Barbu	32	EU	Inter Gaz	Transfer	Summer		Undisclosed
–	CB		Ghionea	24	EU	Steaua București	Loan	Summer		Undisclosed
–	CB		Munteanu	25	EU	Farul Constanța	Transfer	Summer		Undisclosed
–	ST		Aldea	22	EU	Petrolul Ploiești	Transfer	Summer		Free
–	CB		Rohat	28	EU	Petrolul Ploiești	Transfer	Summer		Free
–	RM		Apostol	22	EU	Gloria Buzău	Transfer	Summer		Undisclosed
–	RM		Tudor	29	EU	Petrolul Ploiești	Transfer	Summer		Free
–	CB		Gheară	24	EU	Corvinul	Transfer	Summer		Free
–	LB		Dragomir	28	EU	Universitatea Craiova	Transfer	Summer		Free
–	ST		Iacob	22	EU	Progresul București	Transfer	Summer		Undisclosed
–	AM		Danciu	26	EU	Astra Ploiești	Transfer	Summer		Undisclosed
–	RB		Baldovin	31	EU	Universitatea Craiova	Transfer	Summer		Undisclosed
–	RM		Dobre	27	EU	Astra Ploiești	Transfer	Summer		Undisclosed
–	GK		Cernea	27	EU	Petrolul Ploiești	Loaned	Summer		Undisclosed
–	LB		Nanu	35	EU	Steaua București	Transfer	Winter		Undisclosed
–	ST		Verdeş	23	EU	Progresul București	Transfer	Winter		Undisclosed
–	ST		Ilie	26	EU	FC Oneşti	Transfer	Winter		Undisclosed
–	ST		Negru	27	EU	Farul Constanța	Transfer	Winter		Undisclosed
–	AM		Călin	30	EU	Liaoning Whowin	Transfer	Winter		Free
-	AM		Vintilă	20	EU	Politehnica Iași	Transfer	Winter		Undisclosed
-	DF		Pârvu	27	EU	Al-Wahda	Transfer	Winter		Undisclosed

Out

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
–	LM		Tănase	32	EU	Argeș Pitești	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed
–	CB		Vieira		Non-EU		Released	Summer
–	CB		Tofan	33	EU		Retired	Summer
–			Maleş		EU		Retired	Summer
–	ST		Guriţă	30	EU	Farul Constanța	Transfer	Winter	Undisclosed
–	ST		Iacob	23	EU	Rapid București	Transfer	Winter	Undisclosed
–	RM		Cernat	22	EU		Released	Winter	Undisclosed
–	ST		Bucătaru	21	EU	Zimbru Chișinău	Transfer	Winter	Undisclosed
–	RM		Tudor	29	EU	Vaslui	Transfer	Winter	Undisclosed
–	RB		Baldovin	32	EU	Progresul București	Transfer	Winter	Undisclosed

EU = if holds or not a European Union passport; Country: when 2 flags, 1st flag = country that plays for internationally, 2nd flag = country of birth; N = number on jersey; P = Position (for position name, pause mouse pointer on abbreviation); Name = Name on jersey (for more extensive name, pause mouse pointer on name); Age = age on the day of the signing; Moving from = only indicate the club the player was playing before start playing for this club in this season, for the type of the moving see Status column; Moving to = only indicates the club the player is going to play next, for the type of the moving see Status column; Ends = when the player's current contract ends; n/a = Not applicable.

External links

• The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation at rsssf.com
• Divizia A at romaniansoccer.ro

See also

• 2003–04 Divizia A
• 2003–04 Cupa României

References

1. "Otelul este in Divizia A!". Viaţa Liberă (in Romanian). Galați. 25 July 2003. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
2. "Zvonul a devenit realitate". Viaţa Liberă (in Romanian). Galați. 13 December 2003. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
3. "Sorin Cartu a semnat pentru Otelul". Viaţa Liberă (in Romanian). Galați. 30 December 2003. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
4. some sources list Iacob as 89th-minute goal scorer
5. "Otelul – prima zi de... Divizia B!". Viaţa Liberă (in Romanian). Galați. 1 July 2003. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
6. ^ "Se pare ca Otelul a devenit echipa de Divizia A". Viaţa Liberă (in Romanian). Galați. 2 August 2003. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
7. "Cu doua zile inainte de startul in noul campionat, lotul Otelului s-a subtiat!?". Viaţa Liberă (in Romanian). Galați. 8 August 2003. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
8. ^ "Drum bun, Otelul!". Viaţa Liberă (in Romanian). Galați. 2 February 2004. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
9. ^ "In sfarsit Gurita a semnat pentru Farul". Viaţa Liberă (in Romanian). Galați. 28 January 2004. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
10. "Startul returului Diviziei A a fost amanat". Viaţa Liberă (in Romanian). Galați. 3 March 2004. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
11. "Cand va reveni Otelul in "A"?". Viaţa Liberă (in Romanian). Galați. 15 July 2003. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
12. "Otelul cauta jucatori". Viaţa Liberă (in Romanian). Galați. 17 July 2003. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
13. ^ ""Otelarii" au revenit acasa". Viaţa Liberă (in Romanian). Galați. 1 August 2003. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
14. "Jucatorii de la Otelul pleaca astazi la Predeal". Viaţa Liberă (in Romanian). Galați. 16 January 2004. Retrieved 18 March 2010.

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• Romanian football clubs 2003–04 season