CS Luceafărul Oradea

Luceafărul Oradea

Full name	Clubul Sportiv Luceafărul Oradea
Nickname(s)	Luceferii
Short name	Luceafărul
Founded	2001 (2001)
Ground	Luceafărul
Ground Capacity	2,200
Owner	Ioan Blidaru
Chairman	Dumitru Ghilea
Manager	Marius Popa
League	Liga II
2015–16	Liga III, Seria V, 1st (promoted)
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

CS Luceafărul Oradea is a Romanian professional football club from Oradea, Bihor County, founded in 2001. The team currently plays in Liga II.

History

Founded in 2001, at the initiative of several parents whose children had no future at FC Bihor, Luceafărul was grown by the former Prefect of Bihor County, Gavrilă Ghilea, former boss of FC Bihor. The Oradea team grew step by step, and from the training of children they have now reached a professional status. Four seasons ago Luceafărul merged with Lotus Băile Felix and after a perfect season, they managed to promote to the Liga II. The miracle did not last long, because the lack of money lead to the withdrawal of the team from the championship.

Started in the 2007-08 season with head coach Lucian Ciscan, Luceafărul Lotus Băile Felix had earned the promotion to the Liga II at the end of the season, but they announced their withdrawal due to financial reasons. A group of businessmen from Bacău decided to form a new team to occupy the vacant spot. Thus, Ştiinţa Bacău was born.

In February 2009 business man Giani Nedelcu joined with Mircea Crainiciuc and refunded back the club dissolved last summer, Luceafărul Lotus Băile Felix, and took Ştiinţa's place in the championship. But until the end of the season, they continued to play under the name of Ştiinţa Bacău.

On June 3, Mircea Crainiciuc announced that the club withdrew from the championship because of financial reasons. They will lose their remaining 3 matches from the Liga II 2008-09 season with 3-0 and will be relegated to the Liga III. But we will have to see if Luceafărul Lotus will start in the championship next season, if not, this means the club's 2nd dissolution in less than a year.

After two seasons the club promoted back to the Liga II, at the end of the 2010–11 Liga III season. A new head coach was hired in summer 2011, the Brașov born Călin Moldovan. On December 9, 2011 he was fired and replaced with Leontin Grozavu.

It finished 6th in the 2011–12 Liga II and 10th in the 2012–13 Liga II.

On July 10, 2013 it was announced that Luceafărul withdrew from the Liga II and will enroll in the Liga IV for the 2013-14 season.

At the end of the 2014–2015 Liga IV season, Luceafărul promoted back to Liga III.

At the end of the 2015–16 Liga III season, Luceafărul promoted to Liga II, after a single Liga III season.

Chronology of names

Name	Period
Luceafărul Oradea	2001–2005
Luceafărul Lotus Băile Felix	2005–2009
Luceafărul Oradea	2009–2011
Luceafărul Felix	2011–2013
Luceafărul Oradea	2013–present

Stadium

The club plays its home matches on Stadionul Luceafărul in Sânmartin, Bihor.

Current squad

As of 24 April 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Alin Goia 2 DF Alexandru Radu 3 DF Salif Nogo 5 DF Sergiu Bactăr 6 FW Cristian Cigan 7 MF Adrian Balea (vice-captain) 8 MF Alin Floruț 9 MF Paul Mihuţa 10 MF Istvan Balla 11 FW Constantin Roşu 12 GK Eduard Pap

No. Position Player 13 MF Paul Chiş-Toie 14 FW Sergiu Arnăutu 15 DF Mădălin Popa 16 DF Flavius Drăgan 17 MF Ionuţ Ban 18 MF Alexandru Sorian 19 DF Ionuț Hlinca (captain) 20 MF Alin Ţegle 21 MF Marius Feher 22 DF Daniel Supuran

Club Officials

Board of directors

Role	Name
Owner	Ioan Blidaru
President	Dumitru Ghilea
Executive Director	Cristian Sabău
Sporting Director	Vacant
Organizer of Competitions	Cristian Pirtea

Current technical staff

Role	Name
Manager	Marius Popa
Assistant Manager	Cristian Lupuţ
Goalkeeping Coach	Marius Popa

Honours

Liga III

• Winners (3): 2007–08, 2010–11, 2015–16
• Runners-up (1): 2006–07

Liga IV-Bihor County

• Winners (2): 2008–09, 2014–15