2023–24 FC Rapid București season

FC Rapid București
2023–24 season
Owner	Dan Sucu,Victor Angelescu
Chairman	Daniel Niculae
Manager	Neil Lennon
Stadium	Superbet Arena
Liga I	3rd
Cupa României	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Albion Rrahmani (9); All: Albion Rrahmani (9)
Highest home attendance	12,499 (vs Petrolul Ploiesti)
Lowest home attendance	10,644 (vs FC Botosani)
Average home league attendance	11,974
Biggest win	4–0 (vs Dinamo Bucuresti)
Biggest defeat	0–2 (vs Petrolul Ploiesti)
	← 2022–23 2024–25 →
	All statistics correct as of 1 September 2023.

The 2023–24 FC Rapid București season is the club's 101st season in existence and the second consecutive season in the top flight of Romanian football. In addition to the domestic league, FC Rapid București are participating in this season's edition of the Cupa României. The season covers the period from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024.

Players

First-team squad

As of 1 September 2023^[1]^[2]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	MF	EST	Mattias Käit
6	DF	ROU	Paul Iacob
7	FW	NGA	Funsho Bamgboye
9	FW	KOS	Albion Rrahmani
10	MF	ROU	Alexandru Ioniță
11	MF	ESP	Borja Valle
15	DF	ROU	Iulian Cristea
17	MF	ROU	Ștefan Pănoiu
19	DF	ROU	Răzvan Onea
21	DF	ROU	Dragoș Grigore (3rd captain)
22	DF	ROU	Cristian Săpunaru (Captain)
23	MF	ROU	Alexandru Albu
24	DF	ROU	Andrei Borza
25	MF	BEL	Xian Emmers


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
26	MF	ROU	Răzvan Oaidă
27	FW	ROU	Claudiu Petrila (on loan from CFR Cluj)
29	MF	ROU	Gabriel Gheorghe
30	FW	ROU	Alex Stan
31	GK	ROU	Horațiu Moldovan
32	DF	ROU	Robert Badescu
47	DF	GER	Christopher Braun
70	MF	ROU	Eduard Danaila
80	MF	ROU	Catalin Cirjan (on loan from Arsenal)
90	GK	ROU	Virgil Drăghia (Vice-captain)
91	MF	ROU	Omar El Sawy
93	FW	CMR	Kevin Soni
96	MF	FRA	Jayson Papeau
99	GK	ROU	Bogdan Ungureanu

Out on loan

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	GK	ROU	Codrut Stan (to LPS Clinceni)
—	DF	ROU	Cristian Ignat (to CS Mioveni)
—	MF	ROU	David Iordache (to Cetatea Turnu Magurele)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	ROU	Andrei Ciobanu (to Poli Iasi)
—	MF	ROU	Alexandru Crivac (to Progresul Spartac)
—	FW	ROU	Claudiu Micovschi (to UTA Arad)

Transfers

In

Pos.	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date
MF	Catalin Cirjan	Arsenal	Loan fee	1 July 2023
MF	Borja Valle	Cartagena	Free Transfer
MF	Răzvan Oaidă	FCSB
DF	Iulian Cristea	FCSB
DF	Christopher Braun	CFR Cluj	€150,000
MF	Omar El Sawy	Csikszereda	€400,000
FW	Claudiu Petrila	CFR Cluj	Loan fee €500,000	31 July 2023
FW	Claudiu Micovschi	Avellino	Free Transfer	3 August 2023
FW	Albion Rrahmani	Ballkani	€600,000	7 August 2023
DF	Andrei Borza	Farul Constanta	€800,000	15 August 2023
FW	Kevin Soni	Free Agent	Free Transfer	12 September 2023

Out

Pos.	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date
FW	Younes Bnou Marzouk	Free Agent	Release	1 July 2023
FW	Kevin Luckassen
MF	Hervin Ongenda
DF	Alin Demici	CS Dinamo Bucuresti	Free Transfer
FW	Alexandru Despa	CS Tunari
DF	Damien Dussaut	Farul Constanta
FW	Albert Stahl	UTA Arad
MF	Ljuban Crepulja	FC Voluntari
FW	Antonio Sefer	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	€500,000
MF	Andrei Ciobanu	Poli Iasi	Loan Transfer	26 July 2023
DF	Claudiu Belu	Poli Iasi	Free Transfer	27 July 2023
DF	Cristian Ignat	CS Mioveni	Loan Transfer	10 August 2023
MF	Alexandru Crivac	Progresul Spartac	Loan Transfer	17 August 2023
FW	Valentin Costache	Apollon Limassol	€100,000	22 August 2023
FW	Claudiu Micovschi	UTA Arad	Loan Transfer	30 August 2023
DF	Florin Ștefan	Sepsi OSK	Free Transfer	4 September 2023
FW	Marko Dugandzic	Al-Tai	€2,000,000	7 September 2023
DF	Junior Morais	Gaziantep	Free Transfer	9 September 2023

Overall transfer activity

Expenditure

Summer: €2,450,000

Winter:

Total: €2,450,000

Income

Summer: €2,600,000

Winter:

Total: €2,600,000

Net totals

Summer: €150,000

Winter:

Total: €150,000

Pre-season and friendlies

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

28 June 2022 Friendly	DAC Streda	1–1	Rapid București
12:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Spyros Risvanis(38')		Paul Iacob(90')

1 July 2022 Friendly	Gyor	0–1	Rapid București
12:00 CEST (UTC+2)			Marko Dugandzic(30')

3 July 2022 Friendly	Rača	0–5	Rapid București
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)			Xian Emmers(4'), Funsho Bamgboye(43'), Mattias Kait(73'), Paul Iacob(77'), Marko Dugandzic(87')

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Liga I	14 July 2023	May 2024	Matchday 1	8	4	2	2	18	10	+8	050.00
Cupa României			Group stage	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Total				8	4	2	2	18	10	+8	050.00

Last updated: 1 September 2023
Source: Soccerway

Liga I

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FCSB	30	19	7	4	53	28	+25	64	Qualification to play-off round
2	Rapid București	30	15	10	5	55	32	+23	55
3	CFR Cluj	30	15	8	7	54	29	+25	53
4	Universitatea Craiova	30	13	10	7	47	38	+9	49
5	Farul Constanța	30	11	10	9	37	38	−1	43^[a]

Source: , Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Play-off.^[3]
Notes:

^ Head to head points: Farul Constanța 6, Sepsi OSK 0

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	FCS	CFR	UCV	FAR	SEP	RAP
1	FCSB (C)	10	5	2	3	12	11	+1	49	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round		0–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–2
2	CFR Cluj	10	6	1	3	19	14	+5	46	Qualification to Conference League second qualifying round	0–1		1–2	5–1	2–1	3–2
3	Universitatea Craiova (O)	10	6	1	3	18	14	+4	44	Qualification to European competition play-offs	2–0	0–1		1–2	3–2	2–1
4	Farul Constanța	10	4	2	4	19	20	−1	36		0–1	5–1	3–3		1–4	3–1
5	Sepsi OSK	10	3	3	4	17	17	0	34		2–2	1–1	1–3	1–1		3–2
6	Rapid București	10	1	1	8	13	22	−9	32		2–0	1–4	1–2	1–2	0–1

Source: Soccerway, FRF (in Romanian), LPF (in Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points without rounding; 3) Points in the regular season; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Goal difference; 8) Goals scored; 9) Play-off (only if needed to decide champion or teams for UEFA competitions). (Note: only criteria 7 and 8 are applied to establish the classification during the competition.)^[4] Source: https://m.digisport.ro/fotbal/liga-1/departajarea-in-play-off-ul-si-play-out-ul-din-liga-1-si-liga-2-explicata-de-frf-1639959
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	UTA	OTE	HER	UCJ	PET	IAS	DIN	BOT	VOL	FCU
7	UTA Arad^[a]	9	5	2	2	15	11	+4	37			3–1	1–3					1–0	4–3	3–1
8	Oțelul Galați	9	6	1	2	11	7	+4	36	Qualification to European competition play-offs			1–0	1–0		1–0	1–0	2–0
9	Hermannstadt^[b]	9	4	2	3	13	7	+6	34					1–1	2–0	0–1	3–0	1–1
10	Universitatea Cluj	9	3	3	3	12	10	+2	33	Qualification to European competition play-offs	0–0				1–2	1–0	3–3	3–0
11	Petrolul Ploiești	9	3	2	4	8	14	−6	29		1–1	2–1						1–2	0–4	1–0
12	Politehnica Iași	9	3	1	5	7	8	−1	27		0–2				2–0				3–1	0–0
13	Dinamo București (O)	9	2	4	3	10	12	−2	25	Qualification to relegation play-offs	2–0				1–1	1–0			1–1
14	Botoșani (O)	9	4	2	3	11	11	0	25	Qualification to relegation play-offs						2–1	2–1		0–0	4–1
15	Voluntari (R)	9	2	4	3	11	10	+1	24	Relegation to 2024–25 Liga II		1–1	1–0	0–1						0–0
16	FC U Craiova (R)	9	1	3	5	8	16	−8	22	Relegation to 2024–25 Liga II		1–2	1–3	3–2			1–1

Source: Soccerway, FRF (in Romanian), LPF (in Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points without rounding; 3) Points in the regular season; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Goal difference; 8) Goals scored; 9) Play-off (only if needed to decide teams for relegation). (Note: only criteria 7 and 8 are applied to establish the classification during the competition.)^[5] Source: https://m.digisport.ro/fotbal/liga-1/departajarea-in-play-off-ul-si-play-out-ul-din-liga-1-si-liga-2-explicata-de-frf-1639959
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Club was ineligible to advance to the European competition play-offs because it did not receive a UEFA license.
^ Club was ineligible to advance to the European competition play-offs because it did not receive a UEFA license.

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
8	4	2	2	18	10	+8	14	2	2	1	9	5	+4	2	0	1	9	5	+4

Source: Liga 1

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H
Result	D	W	D	L	L	W	W	W
Position	11	4	7	8	11	7	5	3

Source: Liga 1
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 1 July 2023.

Cupa României

Group stage

2023 1		v		TBD
--:-- EET (UTC+2)

2023 2		v		TBD
--:-- EET (UTC+2)

2023 3		v		TBD
--:-- EET (UTC+2)

References

^ "Prima echipa" [First squad] (in Romanian). fcrapid.ro. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
^ "FC RAPID 1923" (in Romanian). Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
^ "Liga I 2022/2023". Soccerway. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
^ "FRF – Regulamentul de Organizare a activitatii fotbalistice" (PDF). Romanian Football Federation (in Romanian). pp. 29–30, article 27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "FRF – Regulamentul de Organizare a activitatii fotbalistice" (PDF). Romanian Football Federation (in Romanian). pp. 29–30, article 27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[table_hth_FAR0.28394147115012-3] Head to head points: Farul Constanța 6, Sepsi OSK 0

[table_note_UTA0.58924333825207-6] Club was ineligible to advance to the European competition play-offs because it did not receive a UEFA license.

[table_note_HER0.58924333825207-7] Club was ineligible to advance to the European competition play-offs because it did not receive a UEFA license.

[1] "Prima echipa" [First squad] (in Romanian). fcrapid.ro. Retrieved 18 December 2021.

[FC_RAPID_1923-2] "FC RAPID 1923" (in Romanian). Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal. Retrieved 18 December 2021.

[sw-4] "Liga I 2022/2023". Soccerway. Retrieved 7 June 2022.

[5] "FRF – Regulamentul de Organizare a activitatii fotbalistice" (PDF). Romanian Football Federation (in Romanian). pp. 29–30, article 27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[8] "FRF – Regulamentul de Organizare a activitatii fotbalistice" (PDF). Romanian Football Federation (in Romanian). pp. 29–30, article 27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2017.

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