FC Astra Giurgiu in European football

Asociația Fotbal Club Astra Giurgiu is a Romanian professional football club based in Giurgiu, Giurgiu County. The club have participated in 4 editions of the club competitions governed by UEFA, three in Europa League and one in Champions League. In 2013–14 season, they managed to qualify for the group stages of Europa League for the first time, after defeating French giants Olympique Lyon; they finished fourth in a group against Red Bull Salzburg, Celtic, and Dinamo Zagreb. In 2014–15, they knocked out English side West Ham United, after 2–2 at London and 2–1 at Giurgiu.

In 2015–16 Liga I the club managed to win for the first time in their history the title, that meaning qualification to the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round. The club drew FC København, and couldn't manage to win the tie after drawing 1–1 in Giurgiu and losing 0–3 in Copenhagen against the Danish team.

In the Europa League play-off Astra was drawn against English side West Ham United and managed to do knock them out for two years in a row by winning 1–0 on Olympic Stadium after having drawns 1–1 at home.

After qualifying, the club was seeded in Group E against AS Roma, Viktoria Plzen and Austria Wien. Astra managed to come second after a tight group and qualify in the round of 32 where they are going to play against Belgian side KRC Genk

All-time statistics[]

As of 3 August 2017

Opponents[]

Country	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Austria	Austria Wien	2	1	0	1	4	4	0
	Red Bull Salzburg	2	0	0	2	2	7	–5
Subtotal		4	1	0	3	6	11	–5
Azerbaijan	Zira	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2
Subtotal		2	1	1	0	3	1	+2
Belgium	Genk	2	0	1	1	2	3	–1
Subtotal		2	0	1	1	2	3	–1
Croatia	Dinamo Zagreb	2	1	0	1	2	5	–3
Subtotal		2	1	0	1	2	5	–3
Cyprus	Omonia	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1
Subtotal		2	1	1	0	3	2	+1
Czech Republic	Slovan Liberec	2	2	0	0	6	2	+4
	Viktoria Plzeň	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1
Subtotal		4	3	1	0	9	4	+5
Denmark	Copenhagen	2	0	1	1	1	4	–3
Subtotal		2	0	1	1	1	4	–3
England	West Ham United	4	2	2	0	6	4	+2
Subtotal		4	2	2	0	6	4	+2
France	Lyon	2	1	0	1	2	2	0
Subtotal		2	1	0	1	2	2	0
[Israel	Maccabi Haifa	2	0	1	1	1	3	–2
Subtotal		2	0	1	1	1	3	–2
Italy	Roma	2	0	1	1	0	4	–4
Subtotal		2	0	1	1	0	4	–4
Netherlands	AZ Alkmaar	2	1	0	1	3	4	–1
Subtotal		2	1	0	1	3	4	–1
Scotland	Celtic	2	0	1	1	2	3	–1
	Inverness	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1
Subtotal		4	1	2	1	3	3	0
Slovenia	Domžale	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3
Subtotal		2	2	0	0	3	0	+3
Slovakia	Trenčín	2	1	1	0	5	3	+2
Subtotal		2	1	1	0	5	3	+2
Ukraine	Oleksandriya	2	0	1	1	0	1	–1
Subtotal		2	0	1	1	0	1	–1
Total		40	15	13	12	49	54	–5

Matches[]

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Domžale	2–0	1–0	3–0
		2Q	Omonia	1–1	2–1	3–2
		3Q	AS Trenčín	2–2	3–1	5–3
		PO	Maccabi Haifa	1–1	0–2	1–3
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	3Q	Slovan Liberec	3–0	3–2	6–2
		PO	Lyon	0–1	2–1	2–2 (a)
		Group D	Red Bull Salzburg	1–2	1–5	4th
			Celtic	1–1	1–2
			Dinamo Zagreb	1–0	1–5
2015–16	UEFA Europa League	2Q	Inverness CT	0–0	1–0	1–0
		3Q	West Ham United	2–1	2–2	4–3
		PO	AZ	3–2	0–2	3–4
2016–17	UEFA Champions League	3Q	Copenhagen	1–1	0–3	1–4
	UEFA Europa League	PO	West Ham United	1–1	1–0	2–1
		Group E	Viktoria Plzeň	1–1	2–1	2nd
			Roma	0–0	0–4
			Austria Wien	2–3	2–1
		R32	Genk	2–2	0–1	2–3
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	2Q	Zira	3–1	0–0	3–1
		3Q	Oleksandriya	0–0	0–1	0–1

Notes for the abbreviations in the table from above:

• 1Q: First qualifying round
• 2Q: Second qualifying round
• 3Q: Third qualifying round
• PO: Play-off round

Top scorers[]

P	Player	Country	Goals
1	Constantin Budescu	Romania	9
2	Kehinde Fatai	Nigeria	5
3	Denis Alibec	Romania	4
4	Fwayo Tembo	Zambia	3
5	Sadat Bukari	Ghana
6	Takayuki Seto	Japan	2
7	Alexandru Dandea	Romania
8	Gabriel Enache	Romania
9	Filipe Teixeira	Portugal
10	Fernando Boldrin	Brazil
11	Mirko Ivanovski	Macedonia	1
12	Valerică Găman	Romania
13	Cristian Săpunaru	Romania
14	William De Amorim	Brazil
15	Laurențiu Rus	Romania
16	Alexandru Stan	Romania
17	Alexandru Ioniță	Romania
18	George Florescu	Romania
19	Aurelian Chițu	Romania
20	Daniel Florea	Romania
21	Anthony Le Tallec	France

External links[]

• UEFA website