Live CFR Cluj – U Cluj, derby in the 7th stage of Superliga

CFR Cluj hopes to stay in the race to win the championship. But for this he needs to win with U Cluj, a team that this season has defeated her three times. On the other side, Sabău's band is fighting for a place as high in the standings, having the chance to finish the 2nd place.

CFR Cluj – U Cluj, live from 21:00

CFR Cluj – U Cluj, Probable teams

CFR Cluj (4-3-3): Hindrich – Abeid, Bolgado, Ilie, Camora – Emerlahu, Djokovic, Korenica – Nkololo, L. Munteanu, Kamara
Reserves: Popa, Gal, Iacob, Țîrlea, Graovac, Sinyan, Avram, Gligor, Fica, Păun, Deac, Juric
Absent: –
Coach: Dan Petrescu

U Cluj (4-3-1-2): Gertmonas – Oancea, Masoero, I. Cristea, Chipciu – Simion, Bic, Artean – Nistor – Thiam, Blănuță
reserves: Lefter, D. Moldovan, Codrea, Macalou, Silaghi, Mirayan, Betteb, Mitrea, Factory, Opriș, Oaid, Ov. Popescu
Absent: Boboc, van der Werff (injured)
Coach? Ioan Ovidiu Sabău

Referee: Marcel Bîrsan // Assistants: Sebastian Gheorghe. Ionuț Neacșu
Var Referee: Sorin Costreie // Assistant Var: Raul Ghiculescu

CFR Cluj is in 3rd place in the play-off, with 35 points. Petrescu's students are 7 points by the FCSB leader and if he does not win, and FCSB defeats Dinamo on Monday, the team from Gruia is out of the title fight. On the other side, U Cluj comes after two victories, with Rapid and Craiova University, and is on equal points with CFR Cluj. With a victory, Sabău's students go up 2nd place.

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They have a good moral and I am convinced that the 3 victories they had confident, of course. We must have a pride, a positive reaction after the 3 matches lost with U Cluj. We hope that fans will help us, give us that support we need at this time.

I am convinced that there will be fans from U Cluj, they received tickets from what I understand, I do not think we will be alone. After all, the match will be played on the field.

-Dan Petrescu, CFR Cluj coach

CFR Cluj – U Cluj, decisive in the title fight

The match in Gruia can decisively influence the title fight. Depending on the results, FCSB can be a champion for months.

How can FCSB win the title for Monday

• CFR Cluj and U Cluj to draw in Saturday's match;
• FCSB to defeat Dinamo.

The hottest statistics before CFR Cluj – U Cluj

• 11 of the 16 victories successful by CFR this season were succeeded on their own ground, of which seven to at least two difference goals.
• The “red hats” won six of the 18 trips, and seven times they finished.
• The teams with the most goals scored from fixed phases, CFR – 22, U Cluj – 21 are encountered.
• 29 of the 39 goals collected by Dan Petrescu's students were received in the second bribe, of which 11 after the 75th minute.
• The University of Cluj has scored 15 goals away, a chapter in which only FCSB is better (13 goals received).
• There could also be a duel between the best eligible native scorers U 21 after the dispute of 36 rounds, Louis Munteanu – 22 goals scored, Vladislav Blănuță – 12. At the same time, it should be mentioned that in the lots of the two groups are the active players with the most presence in Superliga, Dan Nistor – 477 matches – 416.
• CFR Cluj and the University of Cluj met in the main internal competition 37 times, 18 times the hosts from this round were imposed, eight times they defeated the students, and another 11 games ended in a draw.
• The first match in the Superliga Romania is considered the one on December 7, 1947, Ferar-u 1-3. In the winter of 1947/48, Ferar merged with the second-division CFR Cluj, thus, in return, we have a full part of the first duel at the highest level, U-CFR Ferar 2-4. Coaches were Nicolae Munteanu (U), respectively Elemer Hirsch (CFR).
• In the next season, 1948/49, the two teams took the B-road together, as they would do at the end of the 1975/76 season.
• October 25, 1970, CFR-U Cluj 2-1, for “students” scored Mihai Adam, the one who entered the history of Romanian football as the only player who won the title of goalscorer with two teams in the same city (twice with U, a goalscorer with CFR). In total, he scored 5 goals in the Cluj derby, 4 of them in the CFR T-shirt.
• May 3, 1972, U-CFR 1-0, goal Ion Munteanu. After this success, the “red hats” waited for 42 years until they checked a new victory on the first stage in front of “Vişiniilor” (March 24, 2014, CFR-U Cluj 1-2, Ogbu / Lemnaru goals, Ciupe). During this time, the two have met at the highest level 17 times, eight CFR successes and nine draws.
• May 7, 2008, the University of Cluj-CFR 0-1, success that the CFR became for the first time the champion of Romania.
• Most goals in a duel on the first stage: August 21, 2023, Cluj-CFR University Cluj 3-4.
• The university was imposed in all three confrontations in the current edition, 3-2 in both parties of the regular season and 1-0 in the last direct dispute (March 31, 2025, goal Vladislav Blănuță).
• The dispute is also announced from the level of the technical banks, the one between Dan Petrescu and Ioan Ovidiu Sabău, former colleagues at the national period during the “Golden Generation”. Interestingly, the current coach of the CFR debuted on the first representative on March 29, 1989, in Romania-Italia 1-0, in which the Tricolor's goal was “