1998–99 Divizia A

81st season of top-tier football league in Romania
Football league season
Divizia A
Season1998–99
ChampionsRapid București[1]
RelegatedForesta Fălticeni
Universitatea Cluj
Olimpia Satu Mare
Champions LeagueRapid București
UEFA CupDinamo București
Steaua București
Intertoto CupBacău
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ
Matches played306
Goals scored888 (2.9 per match)
Top goalscorerIonel Ganea (28)
Biggest home winDinamo 8–0 Cluj
Biggest away winCluj 0–6 Dinamo
Highest scoringDinamo 8–0 Cluj
Longest winning runDinamo, Rapid (10)
Longest unbeaten runRapid (23)
Longest losing runOlimpia (13)

The 1998–99 Divizia A was the eighty-first season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania.

Teams

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Rapid București (C) 34 28 5 1 79 18 +61 89 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2 Dinamo București 34 26 4 4 95 27 +68 82 Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
3 Steaua București 34 19 9 6 62 33 +29 66
4 Argeș Pitești 34 20 4 10 57 37 +20 64
5 Bacău 34 18 8 8 46 35 +11 62 Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
6 Oțelul Galați 34 17 4 13 47 33 +14 55[a]
7 Național București 34 18 1 15 61 51 +10 55[a]
8 Petrolul Ploiești 34 16 5 13 50 46 +4 53
9 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 34 15 4 15 54 53 +1 49 Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
10 Astra Ploiești 34 13 7 14 40 38 +2 46
11 Gloria Bistrița 34 12 7 15 55 60 −5 43
12 Farul Constanța 34 12 4 18 37 54 −17 40
13 Universitatea Craiova 34 11 6 17 43 50 −7 39[b]
14 FC Onești 34 12 3 19 56 67 −11 39[b]
15 Reșița 34 8 11 15 34 59 −25 35
16 Foresta Suceava (R) 34 6 6 22 31 61 −30 24 Relegation to Divizia B
17 Universitatea Cluj (R) 34 4 4 26 19 92 −73 16
18 Olimpia Satu Mare (R) 34 3 4 27 22 74 −52 13
Source: LT (in Romanian)
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) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b OTE 3-2 PRO; PRO 0-1 OTE
  2. ^ a b CRA 4-2 ONE; ONE 3-2 CRA

Positions by round

Source: LT (in Romanian)

Results

Home \ Away ARG AST BAC RES CEA UCR DIN FAR FOR GBI OLI ONE OȚE PET NAT RAP STE UCL
Argeș Pitești — 1–2 0–3 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–1 6–0 1–1 2–1 3–1 2–0 2–1 3–1 1–0 0–1 3–2 3–0
Astra Ploiești 0–1 — 1–1 3–0 0–0 2–2 0–1 4–0 1–0 3–1 3–1 3–1 3–1 1–1 1–2 1–5 1–1 2–1
Bacău 3–2 2–0 — 2–0 0–0 2–0 0–2 1–0 4–1 3–1 2–1 2–1 1–0 3–1 4–1 1–1 0–0 0–0
Reșița 0–0 0–1 0–0 — 2–2 3–2 1–1 3–2 1–1 2–0 1–1 0–2 2–3 2–1 4–1 1–2 2–2 3–0
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 1–2 3–1 4–1 4–0 — 2–1 1–0 2–0 2–1 3–2 4–0 3–1 1–1 1–3 1–0 0–2 0–3 5–1
Universitatea Craiova 2–0 0–0 0–1 0–1 2–1 — 2–2 1–0 1–0 2–1 5–1 4–2 0–1 2–0 0–2 0–1 2–2 4–1
Dinamo București 1–0 2–0 1–0 7–0 6–1 2–1 — 2–1 4–1 3–0 5–0 3–1 2–1 3–1 5–0 0–1 0–0 8–0
Farul Constanța 0–2 1–0 2–0 0–0 2–1 2–1 1–3 — 3–2 3–1 3–1 2–0 0–1 1–0 0–1 0–0 0–3 3–1
Foresta Fălticeni 2–2 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–2 1–2 2–3 2–0 — 0–0 2–0 3–1 1–2 1–2 1–0 0–1 1–2 1–0
Gloria Bistrița 3–1 1–0 2–0 2–2 4–2 1–1 2–3 4–2 5–0 — 3–1 3–1 2–1 2–0 2–4 2–4 2–1 4–0
Olimpia Satu Mare 0–3 1–2 0–2 1–3 0–1 1–1 0–4 0–3 0–1 1–0 — 1–6 0–1 3–0 3–1 1–1 0–3 0–1
FC Onești 0–3 2–0 2–2 5–0 3–1 3–2 1–4 2–2 3–1 1–1 1–0 — 1–0 2–0 2–3 1–2 2–3 6–0
Oțelul Galați 1–1 1–1 0–1 4–0 1–2 4–0 2–1 2–1 1–0 0–0 2–0 3–0 — 0–1 3–2 0–1 2–0 5–0
Petrolul Ploiești 3–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 1–0 4–1 2–3 3–0 2–1 3–1 0–0 1–0 2–0 — 1–3 2–2 2–1 3–0
Național București 2–3 1–0 5–0 3–0 4–2 1–0 1–2 0–0 4–1 5–1 2–1 3–0 0–1 2–0 — 1–3 0–1 3–1
Rapid București 2–0 1–0 3–0 2–1 4–0 1–0 1–4 3–0 2–0 5–0 1–0 6–0 3–0 2–1 5–0 — 3–0 3–0
Steaua București 1–2 1–0 2–1 2–0 3–2 2–0 1–1 1–0 6–1 0–0 3–2 4–1 2–0 2–2 1–0 1–1 — 4–0
Universitatea Cluj 2–1 0–2 1–2 0–0 1–0 1–2 0–6 1–3 2–2 1–1 1–0 0–2 0–2 1–2 1–4 1–4 0–2 —
Source: LT (in Romanian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Position[2] Player Club Goals
1 Ionel Ganea Gloria Bistriţa / Rapid București 28
2 Constantin Barbu Argeş Piteşti / Rapid București 21
3 Marian Savu Naţional București 19
4 Adrian Mihalcea Dinamo București 18
5 Marius Șumudică Rapid București 17

Champion squad

Rapid București[3]

Goalkeepers: Bogdan Lobonț (31 / 0); Marius Bratu (4 / 0).
Defenders: Nicolae Stanciu (28 / 1); Cristian Dulca (14 / 3); Mircea Rednic (32 / 1); Dorel Mutică (22 / 4); Adrian Iencsi (26 / 3); Vasile Popa (1 / 0); Bogdan Andone (14 / 0); Daniel Chiriță (3 / 1); Ion Voicu (5 / 0).
Midfielders: Mugur Bolohan (22 / 1); Ioan Ovidiu Sabău (22 / 1); Dănuț Lupu (28 / 5); Marius Măldărășanu (33 / 4); Daniel Pancu (27 / 6); Ștefan Nanu (23 / 1); Zeno Bundea (25 / 6); Mario Bugeanu (2 / 0); Alin Minteuan (4 / 0); Răzvan Raț (3 / 0).
Forwards: Marius Șumudică (31 / 17); Sergiu Radu (15 / 2); Ovidiu Maier (22 / 1); Radu Niculescu (8 / 2); Ionel Ganea (16 / 11); Constantin Barbu (11 / 8).
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

Manager: *Mircea Lucescu / Mircea Rednic / Dumitru Dumitriu / Nicolae Manea.

  • Mircea Lucescu also coached in the final matches of the season

References

  1. ^ 1998–99 Divizia A
  2. ^ "Top Scorers". www.romaniansoccer.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
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