UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE SEASON 2009/10 MATCH PRESS KIT CFR 1907 Cluj FC København Dr Constantin Radulescu, Cluj-Napoca Thursday 17 September 2009 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Group K - Matchday 1 Contents Match background.........................................................................................2 Team facts.....................................................................................................3 Squad list.......................................................................................................5 Fixtures and results.......................................................................................7 Match-by-match lineups................................................................................9 Match officials...............................................................................................10 Competition information...............................................................................11 Legend.........................................................................................................12 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Europa League match. For more detailed factual information, and in-depth competition statistics, please refer to the matchweek press kit, which can be downloaded at: http://www.uefa.com/uefa/mediaservices/presskits/index.html CFR 1907 Cluj - FC København Thursday 17 September 2009 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Dr Constantin Radulescu, Cluj-Napoca Match background Previous meetings None CFR 1907 Cluj - record versus clubs from opponents' country None FC København - record versus clubs from opponents' country None The first night of action in UEFA Europa League Group K brings FC København to Romania to face CFR 1907 Cluj, who competed in the UEFA Champions League group stage last season. Previous meetings • The two sides have not met before, while CFR have never played a Danish side and København – in their current incarnation – have yet to come up against Romanian opposition. Match background • Deposed Romanian champions CFR never played in the UEFA Cup group stage. However, they did compete in last season's UEFA Champions League group phase, triumphing 2-1 at AS Roma on Matchday 1 before finishing bottom of their section. • A 2-1 play-off round win against FK Sarajevo ended a five-game run without a home victory for CFR, stretching back to the semi-finals of the 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup. • København competed in the last two UEFA Cup group stages, missing the cut in 2007/08 but making it to the Round of 32 last season. • København matched their biggest European away win in their first overseas game of 2009/10, prevailing 6-0 against Montenegro's FK Mogren in the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round. Team facts • CFR – the intials stand for Căile Ferate Române, Romania's national railway – are coached by former SC Braga and FC Porto right-back António Conceição, more widely known as Toni. He led CFR to Romanian Cup success last season. • København are led by former Norwegian international Ståle Solbakken, who represented the club as a midfielder at the end of a career which also took in spells at Hamarkameratene, Lillestrøm SK, Wimbledon FC and Aalborg BK. He won two Danish titles as a player and last season won his third since becoming a coach in 2006, making five in total. • Solbakken's playing career came to an abrupt end at København when he suffered a heart attack in training in March 2001. Despite being pronounced clinically dead, he recovered and now has a pacemaker fitted. • Solbakken's only experience of Romanian opposition came in a 1998 friendly game, which Norway drew 0-0 at home against Romania. • København were founded in 1992 following a merger between Kjøbenhavns BK and B1903 København. KB met Romanian opposition in the second round of the 1981/82 European Champion Clubs' Cup, winning 1-0 at home against FC Universitatea Craiova but losing 4-1 away. • AC Sparta Praha visit København on Matchday 2, while PSV Eindhoven are at home against CFR on the same night, 1 October. Last updated 15/09/09 12:52:23CET Match background 2 CFR 1907 Cluj - FC København Thursday 17 September 2009 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Dr Constantin Radulescu, Cluj-Napoca Team facts CFR 1907 Cluj Formed: 1907 Nickname: Feroviarii (Railwaymen) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Intertoto Cup: (2005) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 1 (2008) Romanian Cup: 2 (2009) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2008/09: UEFA Champions League group stage 2007/08: second qualifying round 2006/07: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2005/06: UEFA Intertoto Cup final 2004/05: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2003/04: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2002/03: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2001/02: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2000/01: did not compete in UEFA club competition 1999/00: did not compete in UEFA club competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-1: Cluj v FK Žalgiris Vilnius 03/08/05, UEFA Intertoto Cup semi-finals second leg • Biggest away win 1-4: FK Vėtra v Cluj 26/06/05, UEFA Intertoto Cup first round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-3: Cluj v AS Roma 26/11/08, UEFA Champions League group stage 1-3: Cluj v Anorthosis Famagusta FC 16/08/07, UEFA Cup second qualifying round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 3-1: RC Lens v Cluj 23/08/05, UEFA Intertoto Cup final second leg UEFA Cup/Europa League • Biggest home win 2-1: Cluj v FK Sarajevo 27/08/09, play-off second leg • Biggest away win None • Heaviest home defeat 1-3: Cluj v Anorthosis Famagusta FC (see above) • Heaviest away defeat None Last updated 15/09/09 12:52:23CET Team facts 3 CFR 1907 Cluj - FC København Thursday 17 September 2009 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Dr Constantin Radulescu, Cluj-Napoca FC København Formed: 1992 Nickname: Løverne (The Lions) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 7 (2009) Danish Cup: 4 (2009) Ten-year record (UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2008/09: round of 32 2007/08: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2006/07: UEFA Champions League group stage 2005/06: first round 2004/05: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2003/04: second round (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2002/03: first round 2001/02: third round (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2000/01: Did not compete in UEFA club competition 1999/00: UEFA Intertoto Cup second round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 7-0: København v Cliftonville FC 31/07/08, UEFA Cup first qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-6: FK Mogren v København 22/07/09, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round second leg 0-6: Sliema Wanderers FC v København 06/08/03, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-6: København v AC Milan 20/10/93, UEFA Champions League second round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-0: SK Hradec Králové v København 14/09/95, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round first leg 5-0: AJ Auxerre v København 21/10/92, UEFA Cup second round first leg 5-0: TJ Baník Ostrava OKD v København 14/09/83, UEFA Cup first round first leg UEFA Cup/Europa League • Biggest home win 7-0: København v Cliftonville FC (see above) • Biggest away win 1-5: MP Mikkeli v København 30/09/92, first round second leg 0-4 on two occasions, most recently v Cliftonville FC (17/07/08, first qualifying round first leg) • Heaviest home defeat 1-3: København v AS Saint-Etienne 23/10/08, group stage 0-2 on three occasions, most recently v Club Atlético de Madrid (05/12/07 group stage) • Heaviest away defeat 5-0 on two occasions, most recently v AJ Auxerre (see above) Last updated 15/09/09 12:52:23CET Team facts 4 CFR 1907 Cluj - FC København Thursday 17 September 2009 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Dr Constantin Radulescu, Cluj-Napoca Squad list CFR 1907 Cluj Current season All-time UELQ UEL League UEL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Nuno Claro POR 07/01/77 32 - 2 - - - 5 - - - 3 - 33 Boris Peškovič SVK 30/06/76 33 - - - - - - - - - 4 - 44 Eduard Stăncioiu ROU 03/03/81 28 - - - - - 1 - - - 7 - 55 Călin Tiut ROU 02/01/92 17 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 2 Tony POR 20/12/80 28 - 2 - - - 6 - - - 8 - 3 Nelson Cabrera PAR 22/04/83 26 - - - - - - - - - - - 4 Cristian Panin ROU 09/06/78 31 - 2 - - - 6 - - - 17 - 6 Gabriel Mureşan ROU 18/03/82 27 - 1 1 - - 5 - - - 9 1 15 Hugo Alcantara BRA 28/07/79 30 - 1 - - - 3 - 2 - 7 - 20 Cadú POR 21/12/81 27 - 2 - - - 4 - - - 10 - 66 Edimar BRA 21/05/86 23 - 1 - - - 1 - - - 1 - Midfielders 8 Sixto Peralta ARG 16/04/79 30 - 2 - - - 6 1 5 - 12 - 19 Juan Culio ARG 30/08/83 26 - 2 - - - 4 - - - 10 2 25 André Leão POR 20/05/85 24 - 1 - - - 4 - - - 2 - 28 Andrei Ionut Borostean ROU 25/02/87 22 - - - - - - - - - - - 30 Emil Dică ROU 17/07/82 27 - - - - - 3 - 13 - 15 - 31 Dani POR 30/01/82 27 - 2 1 - - 4 - - - 7 2 Forwards 7 Sebastián Dubarbier ARG 19/02/86 23 - 1 - - - 5 1 - - 7 - 9 Lacina Traoré CIV 20/08/90 19 - 2 - - - 4 2 - - 2 - 17 Yssouf Koné CIV 19/02/82 27 - 2 1 - - 4 1 4 1 25 15 22 Sergiu Buş ROU 02/11/92 16 - 1 - - - - - - - 1 - 23 Bogdan Mara ROU 29/09/77 31 - 2 - - - 6 1 3 - 7 - 77 Ciprian Deac ROU 16/02/86 23 - - - - - 2 - - - 3 - 99 Claudinei