Article by Maria Olteanu – published on Thursday, September 11, 2025, 15:40 / Updated Thursday, September 11, 2025 15:43
Wednesday night, FCU Craiova would have been excluded from all competitions, According to an announcement made by the Romanian Football Federation. The decision was floating in the air, considering the numerous financial problems of the club in Bănie and the debts that led to the team to gather 106 penalty points. On Thursday, FCU Craiova announced that the match on Friday, from the 3rd stage of League 3, was canceled.
The problems seem endless at the club sponsored by Adrian Mititelu. Arrived in Liga 3, with a mammoth deposit and relying on the junior, the team was notified by FRF that just what was willing “excluding the team from all competitions”. As a result, the Friday match, which should have been playing at Filiași, from 5:00 pm, was canceled.
In a large statement, the officials of Banie presented the ones that happened, considering that The decision of the FRF to cancel the match is an “abusive” one, which “seriously violates the national law”.
The communication issued by FCU Craiova
“The federation canceled the match in the 3rd stage in Filiași. In a constant abusive manner, seriously violating the national legislation, FRF (currently administered by illegitimate persons) decided to cancel the match in the 3rd stage, initially scheduled, implementing a so-called decision to exclude the disciplinary commission.
According to the national legislation, but also according to the recent CJUE decision of August 1, 2025, any decision/decision of the national sports federations are subject to the remedies in national justice and can only be final after the appeal.
Or putting in execution, (not even communicated the decision, especially its motivation), a decision without waiting for the resolution of the appeals is seriously violated and at the same time it causes serious damage to our club.
In fact, it is a continuation of the abuses that started in July 2011 and which led to the serious disturbance of the activity in the 14 years.
We would like to remind that the entire financial block is closely related to the facts committed by FRF, LPF and other persons against our club, facts that led to the devaluation of the club in 2011 and the registration in the football competition, outside the law, of an entity that stole the activity held by us, and to the date, and to the date, and to the date, EURO by the shareholders who supported the activity of this club since 1994, the year of privatization.
Therefore, due to the repeated facts of FRF abuse, in association with the City Hall of Craiova, to confiscate the activity of our club and to move to another legal person led to unfair competition and the loss of 90% of the revenues that the club would have collected.
Although, since 2017, since the resumption of the activity, and so far, the shareholders have invested capital of over 20 million euros, plus another 10 million euros invested in the sporty basis, all in order to recover the activity lost in 2011, it was not able to cope with the unfair competition and the hostility that they meet in the city, taking into account that the persons are involved in the team. Political and administrative the municipality of Craiova.
Basically, we are witnessing democracy and in time of peace, in a EU member country, at a real expropriation of the activity of a football club. However, our struggle continues in both civil and criminal courts. We hope that one day justice will be done. We hope FCU will not miss much of the football competition“, It is shown in the statement issued by the Bănie band on Thursday at noon.
