CFR Cluj in European football

Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj (or CFR Cluj for short) is a Romanian professional football club based in Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Transylvania which was initially founded in 1907 as Kolozsvári Vasutas Sport Club. The first ever involvement of the club in an official UEFA European competition dates back to 2005, more specifically to that season's UEFA Intertoto Cup in which CFR Cluj finished as runners-up, losing to French side RC Lens (one of the joint winners alongside Olympique de Marseille and Hamburger SV) 4–2 in the finale. Furthermore, thus far, throughout all the seasons played in the UEFA competitions, CFR Cluj established two solid records for the Romanian teams.

Therefore, in the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League season, CFR accumulated 10 points in a Champions League group, with the previous record being held by Unirea Urziceni with 8 points during the 2009–10 season. Moreover, subsequently, in the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League season, CFR accumulated as many as 12 points in the group stage, with the previous record being held by FCSB with 11 points during the 2012–13 season. During the 2021–22 season, CFR Cluj was also the first Romanian football club qualified in the group stage of UEFA Europa Conference League during the first season of the competition's existence, in which they debuted with an away 1–0 loss at Jablonec nad Nisou in the Czech Republic against FK Jablonec on 16 September 2021 and consequently on the 4th place in the group after the first fixture.^[1] The club finished 4th in Group D of the ongoing UEFA Europa Conference League season, with 1 victory, 1 draw, and 4 losses, totaling 4 points.

Total statistics[]

As of home match played against FK Jablonec on 9 December 2021

Statistics by country[]

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Including away match with Red Star Belgrade.

Country	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Armenia	2	2	0	0	7	0	+7
Belarus	2	0	0	2	0	3	–3
Bosnia and Herzegovina	4	2	1	1	7	5	+2
Bulgaria	2	1	1	0	2	0	+2
Croatia	1	0	1	0	2	2	0
Cyprus	2	0	1	1	1	3	–2
Czech Republic	6	2	0	4	5	8	–3
Denmark	2	1	0	1	2	2	0
England	4	1	1	2	3	4	–1
Finland	1	1	0	0	3	1	+2
France	8	2	3	3	8	10	–2
Germany	2	0	0	2	2	7	–5
Gibraltar	2	2	0	0	4	1	+3
Italy	10	2	1	7	7	21	–14
Israel	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1
Kazakhstan	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
Lithuania	4	4	0	0	14	5	+9
Luxembourg	2	0	0	2	2	5	–3
Malta	1	1	0	0	2	0	+2
Netherlands	2	0	0	2	0	3	–3
Portugal	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4
Scotland	4	2	1	1	7	6	+1
Serbia	4	1	1	2	2	6	–4
Spain	4	1	2	1	2	2	0
Sweden	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
Switzerland	8	3	2	3	9	10	–1
Turkey	2	0	1	1	2	4	–2

Statistics by competition[]

Season	Competition	Round	Opponents	Home	Away	Aggregate
2005	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Vėtra	3–2	4–1	7–3
		2R	Athletic Bilbao	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)	1–1 (5–3 p)
		3R	Saint-Étienne	1–1	2–2	(a) 3–3
		SF	Žalgiris Vilnius	5–1	2–1	7–2
		F	Lens	1–1	1–3	2–4
2007–08	UEFA Cup	2QR	Anorthosis Famagusta	1–3	0–0	1–3
2008–09	UEFA Champions League	Group A	Roma	1–3	2–1	4th place
			Chelsea	0–0	1–2
			Bordeaux	1–2	0–1
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	PO	Sarajevo	2–1	1–1	3–2
		Group K	Copenhagen	2–0	0–2	4th place
			PSV Eindhoven	0–2	0–1
			Sparta Prague	2–3	0–2
2010–11	UEFA Champions League	Group E	Basel	2–1	0–1	4th place
			Roma	1–1	1–2
			Bayern Munich	0–4	2–3
2012–13	UEFA Champions League	3QR	Slovan Liberec	1–0	2–1	3–1
		PO	Basel	1–0	2–1	3–1
		Group H	Braga	3–1	2–0	3rd place
			Manchester United	1–2	1–0
			Galatasaray	1–3	1–1
	UEFA Europa League	R32	Internazionale	0–3	0–2	0–5
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	2QR	Jagodina	0–0	1–0	1–0
		3QR	Dinamo Minsk	0–2	0–1	0–3
2018–19	UEFA Champions League	2QR	Malmö FF	0–1	1−1	1–2
	UEFA Europa League	3QR	Alashkert	5−0	2−0	7–0
		PO	F91 Dudelange	2–3	0–2	2–5
2019–20	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Astana	3−1	0–1	3–2
		2QR	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–0	2–2	3–2
		3QR	Celtic	1–1	4–3	5–4
		PO	Slavia Prague	0–1	0–1	0–2
	UEFA Europa League	Group E	Lazio	2–1	0–1	2nd place
			Celtic	2–0	0–2
			Rennes	1–0	1–0
		R32	Sevilla	1–1	0–0	1–1 (a)
2020–21	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Floriana	N/A	2–0	N/A
		2QR	Dinamo Zagreb	2–2 (5–6 p)	N/A	N/A
	UEFA Europa League	3QR	Djurgårdens IF	N/A	1–0	N/A
		PO	KuPS	3–1	N/A	N/A
		Group A	Roma	0–2	0–5	3rd place
			Young Boys	1–1	1–2
			CSKA Sofia	0–0	2–0
2021–22	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Borac Banja Luka	3–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)	4–3
		2QR	Lincoln Red Imps	2–0	2–1	4–1
		3QR	Young Boys	1–1	1–3	2–4
	UEFA Europa League	PO	Red Star Belgrade	0–4	1–2	1–6
	UEFA Europa Conference League	Group D	Alkmaar	2–0	0–1	4th
			Jablonec	1–0	0–2
			Randers	1–2	1–1

References[]

External links[]

• Official website (in Romanian)