Live U Cluj-FCSB, in stage #8 of the Superligii play-off

FCSB, a champion for the second consecutive season, has escaped any worries and approaches without stress the movement of the “red hats”, who have not yet given up on the podium thought.

U Cluj – FCSB, live from 20:30

Probable teams at U Cluj – FCSB

U Cluj (4-3-1-2): Gertmonas – G. Simion, Masoero, I. Cristea, Oancea – Artean, Codrea, Bic – D. Nistor – Thiam, Blănuță
reserves: Lefter, D. Moldovan, Mitrea, Bota, Silaghi, O. Popescu, Oaid, Mirayan, Macalou, Opriș, Fabry
Absent: Chipciu (suspended)
Coach Ioan Ovidiu Sabău

FCSB (4-2-3-1): Târnovanu – V. Crețu, Ngezana, M. Popescu, Radunovic – Chiricheș, Şut – Cisotti, Fl. Tănase, Oct. Popescu – Bîrligea
reserves: Zima, Kiki, Lixandru, Edjoa, Alhassan, Stefanescu, Toma, Băluță, Musi, Gele, Gheorghiță, Miculescu
Absent: Olaru, Dawa, Pantea (injured)
Coach: Elias Charalambous

Stadium Cluj Arena
Referee Marian Barbu (Făgăraș). ASSISTANT George Neacșu (Cîmpulung Muscel), Imre Bucsi (Sfântu Gheorghe)
Lime referee Sebastian Colțescu (Bucharest). Assistant lime George Găman (Craiova)

The ranking in the play-off

The most interesting information about the match U Cluj – FCSB

• The “Red Sticks” won five of the eight matches played in 2025 on their own field in the championship, in which they registered a draw and two lost games at home.

• November 21, 2024, FC Botosani-FCSB 1-0 was the last defeat suffered by red-blue in the superlig. 14 victories followed and seven equality results, this being the longest series of invincibility made by a team this season.

• FCSB has the best play-off attack, 14 goals scored, for seven of them contributing the Italian Juri Cisotti (4 goals, 3 assists).

• U Cluj is the formation with the most goals scored with the head – 15, of which five were hit by Vladislav Blănuță.

• With the 15 successes this season (2 for CFR, 13 for FCSB), Daniel Bîrligea reached 35 goals scored in 104 matches played in Superliga, all from the action.

• 97 decisive passes managed Dan Nistor in the 15 seasons gathered on the first stage in Romania (478 games), of which 16 in the T -shirt of the Transylvanian group (84 games).

• The Bucharest people have won five of the last 10 direct duels in the championship, an interval in which the Clujians went into account, and four other games ended in a draw.

• The last victory checked by Transylvanians: October 31, 2022, Cluj-FCSB University 2-1.

• The most recent direct dispute in the Super League: April 5, 2025, FCSB-university of Cluj 1-0 (David Miculescu).

• As a coach, Ioan Ovidiu Sabău met the red-blue group in the championship 20 times, the record of the current technician of the students from Cluj, comprising four victories, five equality results and 11 defeats.