Dinamo now has serious competition!

Article by Remus Dinu – published Wednesday, July 30, 2025 23:17 / Updated Thursday, July 31, 2025 00:51
Defeated Tour-Retur by Shkendija, the champion of Macedonia, (0-1 and 1-2)FCSB leaves the Champions League preliminaries on the back door. Eliminate from the second round of a team 10 times weaker, the red-blue complements a dishonorable list of high magnitude failures suffered by the Romanian teams in Europe.
Ready, Gigi Becali's Champions League dream was shattered in the most unexpected way! The Romanian champion did not regain his return in the previous season, being defeated in Bucharest from North-Macedonians in Shkendija.
FCSB has only left the feeling that it can “overthrow” the disadvantageous score in the tour for a while. He opened the scoring through Cisotti, but everything took it down the valley after Latifi's equalizing goal. Without benchmarks, depersonated, the champions were unrecognizable in the second half and scored another goal.
The only consolation is that FCSB does not leave the European cups. He will try a new “assault” in the Europa League, where he will come across the Kosovarii from Drita, in round II. It would take two double -won doubles – plus play -off – for Becali's team to repeat last year's performance, when he evolved in the XXL group.

Shkendija, on the list of humiliations of resounding endured by Romanian football
Cataloged as a “a team of division C” by the team financier, Shkendija just produced one of the most dishonest defeats in the history of Romanian footballtaking into account the country of origin, the level of the internal championship, the discrepancy between the lots and the initial calculations of the specialists.
It is the biggest shame in Romanian football of all time!
– Gigi Becali, at GSP Live Special
This summer, FCSB also “sinned” in Andorra, 1-2 with Inter Club d'Acaldes. Only that the victory in the tour, 3-1, saved the champion of a humility without a pair!
In recent years, FCSB has also committed it with Karagandy chess, the Kazakhstan band that eliminated it from the league league preliminaries in 2021. In the chapter of difficulties that are difficult to digest 0-5 collected from Silkeborg, even though the red-blue were then out of Denmark.
FCSB also has other “dumb” in the active: 0-5 with Maccabi Haifa is still fresh in the memory of the supporters. Neither the draws with Sheriff Tiraspol since 2009, 0-0 and 1-1, were not some to honor.
Dinamo, instead of “honor”
The list of humiliations experienced by the Romanian teams is complex. Dinamo committed it on several occasions: with Cska Sofia, in the 1956-1957 season, when the red-white lost with 1-8. The failures with “17 unbelievers” and Katttspyrnufelag, but also the recent ones, such as those with Elfsborg or Vorskla Poltava, are also notorious.
Craiova University was “submerged” in front of a team from Macedonia, when FK Pobeda Opporter eliminates the band from Bănie in the UEFA Cup. A few years ago, the juvers were eliminated by Apollon Limassol after winning the 2-0 tour. Over the years, Craiova's new team also lamentably clapped, losing with the Albanians from Laci.
CFR Cluj also gave it to the bar in an unlikely way: it was eliminated by Dudelange, Dinamo Minsk and Pyunik Erevan.
Finally, Rapid is also on the list, the Giulesti being defeated by Skonto Riga, in the 2000/2001 season of the UEFA Cup.
Shameing results registered by the Romanian teams in the European Cups:
- Andorra, UCL, '25/'26, inter club d'Acaldes – FCSB 2-1;
- Albania, Cup Cup, '86 / '87, 17 Nonitori-Dinamo Bucharest 1-0 / 2-1;
- Albania, Conference League, '21/'22, Laci-Craiova University 1-0;
- Armenia, UCL, '22 / '23, Pyunik Erevan-CFR Cluj 0-0 / 2-2, missed qualification;
- Belarus, El, '14 / '15, Dinamo Minsk-CFR Cluj 1-0 / 2-0;
- Cyprus, CCE, '91/'92, Apollon Limassol – Craiova University 3-0;
- Estonia, UCL, '98/'99, FC Flora Tallinn – Steaua 3-1;
- Georgia, Europa League, '20/'21, Lokomotiv Tbilisi-Craiova University 2-1
- Iceland, UEFA Cup, '97 / '98, KR Reykjavik-Dinamo Bucharest 2-0 / 2-1
- Luxembourg, he, '18 / '19, Dudelange-CFR Cluj 2-0 / 3-2;
- Latvia, UCL, '99 / '00, Rapid Bucuresti-Skonto Riga 3-3 / 1-2;
- Kazakhstan, Conference League, 21/22, Karagandy Sacht – FCSB 2-1;
- Kosovo, Conference League, '22/'23, KF Ballkani – CFR Cluj 1-1;
- Macedonia, UEFA, '00 / '01, U Craiova-FK Pobeda Prosep 1-1 / 0-1;
- Malta, Cup Cup, '71/'72, Hibernians Paola FC-Steaua 0-0;
- Moldova, he, '09 / '10, FCSB-Sheriff Tiraspol 0-0 / 1-1;
- Slovenia, UEFA, '97/'98, Hit Gorica-Steel Galati 2-0;
- Wales, Cup Cup, '95/'96, Wrexham FC-Ploiești Petroleum 0-0.




