Hermannstadt made the decision in the case of Dorinel Munteanu, after the brutal failure with Rapid
Article by Maria Olteanu – Published on Wednesday, 04 February 2026, 08:32 / Updated on Wednesday, 04 February 2026 08:33
In front of their own fans, Hermannstadt, condemned to fight to save themselves from relegation this season, received another blow, being decisively defeated by Rapid, score 0-3, in the round with number #25 in the Superliga. Even so, the future of Dorinel Munteanu (57 years old) in the team is not in danger.
The technician came at the end of 2025 to take over the team and straighten it out, in the context of the unfortunate series at the beginning of the season. The Sibians, with him at the helm, did not achieve any great transformation, gathering only 5 points in 6 matches.
Mathematically in the play-out, with 4 stages before the end of the regular season, Hermannstadt continues to follow Dorinel Munteanu until the end of the season, with optimism that the team from the banks of the Cibin River will finally manage to save themselves and continue in League 1.
Dorinel Munteanu continues in Sibiu
The confirmation of Dorinel Munteanu's position came after the failure on Tuesday evening from the club's president, Daniel Niculae (43 years old), who insisted on the idea that there is no question of the former member of the “Golden Generation” being dismissed.
“Of course we trust Dorinel Munteanu. He remains. You will see that we will play better from stage to stage and we will accumulate many points.
I trust Dorinel Munteanu that he will do a very good job. Today, however, we played with a team that will fight to win the championship”said Daniel Niculae, on the show “Digi Sport Special” after the unfortunate result on Tuesday night.
1victory achieved by Dorinel Munteanu since he took over Hermannstadt, having an average of 0.83 points / match
The boys have had a bad day where I am responsible for the result, I take that. I will talk to them because today I made a lot of individual mistakes. We also had our chances, maybe if we scored it would be different. It was a bad evening for us.
In the heat of the moment I didn't say anything to them, we talk tomorrow, if they are men we put on the table all the problems that happened today. That's the situation. We shouldn't have lost some matches, we should have collected more points since we arrived here. There are several factors that influenced this, we will see what we can do.
– Dorinel Munteanu, after the failure at home, with Rapid
