FC Dinamo Bucure?ti, commonly known as Dinamo, is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest. Dinamo is one of the two most successful football teams in Romania, having won 18 Romanian Liga I titles, 12 Romanian Cups and 1 Romanian Supercup. They became the first Romanian team to reach the European Champions' Cup semifinals in 1983-84.
Founded in 1948, Dinamo has spent its entire history in Liga I, the top league of Romanian football.
The team's traditional home colours are all red. The current crest is a modified version of the one adopted in the 1998. Dinamo Bucharest's home ground is the 15,032-seater Dinamo Stadium in downtown Bucharest, where it has played since 1951.
The club's biggest rivals are Steaua Bucure?ti, and matches between the two capital sides are commonly referred to as "The Eternal Derby".
Dinamo Stadium ( ?tefan cel Mare )
The stadium was built in 1952. In 2001, floodlights were added, and in 2006 a major renovation of the stadium began, enlarging the VIP section, and raising the capacity of the Tribune 2 stand. However, due to lack of funding the renovation has still not been completed. There are now plans to build a new arena, but administrative problems make progress very slow-going. New seats and a new scoreboard were added.
Former names: Stadionul ?tefan cel Mare
Location: ?o?eaua ?tefan cel Mare nr.7-9, Bucure?ti, Romania
Opened: 1952
Owner: Ministry of Internal Affairs
Surface: grass
Capacity: 15,300
The Eternal Derby
Between them, Steaua and Dinamo won the Romanian football championship 41 times out of 84 completed seasons, resulting in a percentage of nearly 50%. Steaua won 23 championships to Dinamo's 18.
Steaua won the Romanian Cup 21 times, Dinamo 12 times.
Steaua won the Romanian Supercup 5 times, Dinamo once but also has years when they won both the Championship and the Cup (2002, 2004).
They are the Romanian football teams with the best results in club competitions organised by UEFA. Steaua won the European Cup in 1986, was runner-up in the same competition in 1989 after reaching the semi-finals in 1988. In 2006, Steaua reached the semi-finals of UEFA Cup. On the other side, Dinamo was semi-finals of the European Cup in 1984 and in the Cup Winners' Cup in 1990.
Steaua won the UEFA Super Cup in 1986 and was defeated in the Intercontinental Cup by River Plate the same year.
Currently Dinamo is holding an invincibility streak in the derby, in the league, starting from 2008:
2007-08 4 May 2008 Dinamo 2 : 1 Steaua
2008-09 1 Noi 2008 Dinamo 1 : 1 Steaua
2008-09 8 May 2009 Steaua 1 : 1 Dinamo
2009-10 30 August 2009 Steaua 0 : 1 Dinamo
2009-10 17 March 2010 Dinamo 2 : 0 Steaua
2010-11 17 October 2010 Dinamo 2 : 1 Steaua
2010-11 25 April 2011 Steaua 0 : 1 Dinamo
Honours
Domestic
Romanian League Championship: (18)
Winners: 1955, 1961-62, 1962-63, 1963-64, 1964-65, 1970-71, 1972-73, 1974-75, 1976-77, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1989-90, 1991-92, 1999-00, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2006-07
Runners-up (20): 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958–59, 1960–61, 1966–67, 1968–69, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1992–93, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2004–05
Romanian Cup: (12)
Winners: 1958-59, 1963–64, 1967–68, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1989–90, 1999-00, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05
Runners-up (7): 1954, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1986–87, 1987-88[3], 1988–89, 2001–02
Romanian Super Cup: (1)
Winners: 2004-05
Runners-up (4): 2000-01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2006–07
International
European Cup:
Semi-Finalist (1): 1983–84
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:
Semi-Finalist (1): 1989–90
Records in the league:
Consecutive winning games: 17 games (12 June 1988 - 27 November 1988)
Best unbeaten run: 47 games (26 May 1991 - 20 September 1992)
Player with most appearances: Cornel Dinu 454
Top Scorer: Dudu Georgescu 207
Top Scorer in international games: Claudiu Niculescu 18
Squad
Goalkeepers
George CURC?
Krijstian NAUMOVSKI
Cristian B?LGR?DEAN
Alex PENA
Defenders
Cosmin MO?I
Drago? GRIGORE
Eugen CAZACU
Raul CRI?AN
Cristian PULHAC
Zie DIABATE
Adrian SCARLATACHE
Srdjan LUCHIN
Midfielders
Elis BAKAJ
C?t?lin MUNTEANU
Djakaridja KONE
Raphael ST?NESCU
Dorin M?RM?NEANU
Bogdan P?TRA?CU
Dorel STOICA
Forwards
Marius ALEXE
George ?UCUDEAN
Ionel D?NCIULESCU
Georgian P?UN
Liviu GANEA
Marius NICULAE
Staff
Manager: [glow=red:3inbb8ah]Liviu Ciobotariu[/glow:3inbb8ah]
Chairman: [glow=red:3inbb8ah]Nicolae Badea[/glow:3inbb8ah]
Assistant: Iulian Mih?escu
Goalkeeper Coach: Ion Manu
Useful links
Official site: http://www.fcdinamo.ro
Fan sites: http://dinamomania.net
http://www.fcdb.ro/
http://www.ultrastei.ro/
http://www.rdb.do.am/
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Position in the league at the moment: 1st - 15 points after 5 matcches
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Last game: DINAMO - Otelul 2 - 1
Next game: FC Vaslui - Dinamo
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