LIVE. Craiova University – Csikszereda, the last game of 2025 in the Super League

With first place in the championship on the horizon, Filipe Coelho's “lions” are trying to recover from the nightmare in Athens, when the white-blue they dramatically missed out on qualification for the Conference League play-offsafter being in 13th place in minute 90+5, but they conceded two goals in overtime, the last one in minute 90+15. On the other hand, the Hammers are coming after 4 consecutive defeats in all competitions.

LIVE » Craiova University – Csikszereda 3-0

The 40th minute: GOAL Craiova! Csikszereda's defense is checkmated, Baiaram again sprints very well in the left lane, sends to Carlos Mora, in the box, and he sends perfectly into the goal guarded by Pap. Craiova is 3-0 5 minutes before the break. The Oltenians remain on the attack, the group from Miercurea Ciuc is on the ground at these moments

The 33rd minute: GOAL Craiova! David Matei makes an excellent appearance in the box and, served perfectly by Etim, sends with thirst into Pap's goal, achieving the “double” in 8 minutes

Minute 30: Bakos injures his knee and leaves the field on a stretcher. Change is needed in the visiting team

The 27th minute: The VAR camera confirms the irregular position of the Olten team and the score remains 1-0

25th minute: Goal canceled Craiova! Baiaram scores the 2-0 goal with his head, but the flag rises from the edge and the goal is cancelled. The phase is analyzed in the VAR chamber

Minute 18: GOAL Craiova! David Matei opens the scoring on “Ion Oblemenco”, after a very good run by Baiaram, who accelerated excellently on the left flank and put the ball to Matei near the point from 11 meters. The kid doesn't miss, from an excellent position, and scores his first Superliga goal

Minute 14: Craiova is dangerous at Pap's goal, but Etim doesn't reach the center in time and takes a bad header, the ball going out of bounds

The 11th minute: David Matei sends a left-footed shot over Pap's goal and the scoreboard does not change

Minute 8: Screciu makes a mistake, and Eppel wants to surprise Laurentiu Popescu, whom he sees coming out of the goal, but the phase does not create problems for the Olten goalkeeper

Minute 5: The Oltenians started this match in attack, but without creating any great scoring opportunities. Peluza Nord sings on its feet: “Let's all shout in chorus / Come on, Craiova, give them a break!”

Start of the game in Banie! Craiova kicks off the last match of 2025

University of Craiova – Csikszereda, starting teams:

University of Craiova (3-5-2): L. Popescu – Romanchuk, Stevanovic, Screciu – Mora, D. Matei, Anzor, Cicâldău, Teles – Etim, Baiaram
reserves: Isenko, S. Lung, Mogoș, F. Ștefan, Falcușan, A. Crețu, Houri, Basceanu, Assad, Muntean, Nsimba
Absent: Bancu, M. Rădulescu, Rus, Băluță (injured)
Coach: Filipe Coelho

Csikszereda (4-2-3-1): Pap – Paszka, Palmeș, Celic, Ferenczi – Vereș, Csuros – Anderson Ceara, Jebari, Bakos – Eppel
reserves: Simon, Bloj, Kelemen, Brugger, Toth, Noveli, Andrezly, Dusinszki, Bencze, Szalay
Absent: Vigil (suspended)
Coach: Robert Ilyeș

UPDATE 19:50 » The stadium announcer summarizes the year 2025

10 minutes into the match, the stadium chanted “Shit, we're a nation of stone!”, then the arena announcer gave a brief recap of 2025, also bringing up a bit of the painful midweek defeat in Athens, which he said was best forgotten. Afterwards, the Craiova anthem was played in the stands, sung standing up, with scarves over their heads, by the approximately 10,000 fans present at this match.

UPDATE 19:40 » The last preparations on the lawn at “Oblemenco”

Music and final details to prepare before the match. The players of the two teams came out to warm up. A small group of supporters came from Miercurea Ciuc.

UPDATE 19:30 » Quiet in Craiova before the last match of 2025 in the Superliga

Quiet in Craiova with less than an hour until the first whistle of the last match of 2025 in the Superliga. There are a few groups of supporters around the stadium, tickets are still being purchased from the mobile shop located on the esplanade. Nice atmosphere despite the weather. It is quite cold and the wind has started to blow. Spectators of all ages, children the happiest.

Quiet also on “Ilie Balaci” boulevard, traffic was restricted near the stadium.

People are talking about the results, ranking and Craiova's chances of being the “winter champion”: “It's a shame about the points lost with UTA”, was one of the conclusions drawn

How the Superliga standings look like:

University of Craiova – Csikszereda, the most important details, provided by GSP statistician Liviu Manolache:

• November 9, 2025, Universitatea Craiova-UTA 1-2 was the only defeat suffered by Olteni in the last eight stages, during which they recorded three successes and four draws.

• The team coached by Robert Ilyeș took only four points from the nine trips of the current season, 0-0 with UTA and 2-0 with FC Hermannstadt.

• 19 of the 32 players used by Craiova contributed to the team's success with at least one goal and/or a decisive assist or a penalty taken, the most of all competitors.

• 28 of the 31 footballers with minutes for the Hammers made their debut in the Super League during the current season, including the Brazilian Anderson 'Ceara', author of three goals and decisive passer three times.

• Nine players with Romanian citizenship born after January 1, 2004 used FK Csikszereda, the 1st place in this chapter.

• The two teams have met before in the main domestic competition only in the round of the current regular season, on August 17, 2025, when Olten won 2-1 away (scorers: Nikola Stevanović – own goal / Steven Nsimba – double).