2017–18 FC Dinamo București season

FC Dinamo București
2017–18 season
Head coach	Cosmin Contra (until 17 September) ; Vasile Miriuță (from 21 September - until 26 February) ; Florin Bratu (from 26 February)
Liga I	7th
Romanian Cup	Quarter-finals
UEFA Europa League	Third qualifying round
Top goalscorer	Diogo Salomão (9 goals)
	← 2016–17 2018–19 →

The 2017–18 season was FC Dinamo București's 69th season in Liga 1. Dinamo finished 7th in the league and reached the quarter-finals of the Romanian Cup. In the UEFA Europa League, they played in third qualifying round.

Players[edit]

Squad information[edit]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ROU	Laurențiu Brănescu
2	DF	ROU	Constantin Nica
3	DF	GRE	Georgios Katsikas
4	MF	ROU	Sergiu Hanca
5	DF	ROU	Ionuț Nedelcearu
6	DF	ROU	Mihai Popescu
7	MF	CRO	Antun Palić
8	MF	ESP	Aitor Monroy
9	FW	CRO	Ivan Pešić
10	MF	ROU	Dan Nistor
12	GK	ROU	Vlad Muțiu
15	DF	ROU	Vlad Olteanu
16	DF	ARG	Maximiliano Oliva
17	FW	SVK	Adam Nemec
18	MF	RSA	May Mahlangu
19	FW	ROU	Daniel Popa
20	FW	POR	Diogo Salomão
21	MF	ROU	Liviu Gheorghe
22	MF	ROU	Gabriel Torje
23	MF	ROU	Ionuț Șerban
24	MF	ROU	Alin Dudea


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
26	GK	PAN	Jaime Penedo
27	DF	ROU	Ricardo Grigore
28	DF	CRO	Luka Marić
29	DF	ESP	José Romera
30	MF	ROU	Ion Gheorghe
31	FW	ROU	Robert Moldoveanu
32	FW	ROU	Aleksandru Longher
33	DF	ROU	Laurențiu Corbu
—	DF	ROU	Marco Ehmann
—	DF	ROU	Steliano Filip
—	MF	URU	Juan Albín
—	MF	ROU	Paul Anton
—	MF	ROU	Claudiu Bumba
—	MF	BIH	Azer Bušuladžić
—	MF	ROU	Valentin Costache
—	MF	POR	Filipe Nascimento
—	MF	ROU	Cristi Vasile
—	FW	JOR	Tha'er Bawab
—	FW	COD	Jeremy Bokila
—	FW	ROU	Gabriel Răducan
—	FW	BRA	Rivaldinho

Competitions[edit]

League I[edit]

Regular season[edit]

League table[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
6	CSM Politehnica Iași	26	11	6	9	34	31	+3	39^[a]	Qualification for the Championship round
7	Botoșani	26	11	6	9	28	26	+2	39^[a]	Qualification for the Relegation round
8	Dinamo București	26	11	6	9	39	31	+8	39^[a]
9	Concordia Chiajna	26	8	4	14	36	37	−1	28^[b]
10	Voluntari	26	7	7	12	25	35	−10	28^[b]

Source: LPF (in Romanian), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Play-off.^[1]
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c Iași is ahead of Botoșani and Dinamo on head-to-head points: Iași 7 pts, Botoșani 5 pts, Dinamo 4 pts.
^ ^a ^b Concordia is ahead of Voluntari on head-to-head results: Voluntari–Concordia 0–1, Concordia–Voluntari 3–1.

Play-out round[edit]

Play-out table[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
7	Dinamo București	14	11	1	2	29	10	+19	54
8	Botoșani	14	5	5	4	12	9	+3	40
9	Sepsi OSK	14	6	6	2	21	14	+7	34
10	Gaz Metan Mediaș	14	6	4	4	18	15	+3	30
11	Concordia Chiajna	14	4	4	6	13	17	−4	30
12	Voluntari (O)	14	3	4	7	16	22	−6	27	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
13	ACS Poli Timișoara (R)	14	3	4	7	10	16	−6	27	Relegation to Liga II
14	Juventus București (R)	14	3	2	9	9	25	−16	17	Relegation to Liga II

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points without rounding; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored; 8) Play-off (only if needed to decide teams for relegation). (Note: only criteria 6 and 7 are applied to establish the classification during the competition.)^[2]
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Cupa României[edit]


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result
R of 32	26 October 2017	Aerostar Bacău	A	1–0
R of 16	29 November 2017	Universitatea Cluj	A	1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–1 p)
QF	6 March 2018	Universitatea Craiova	A	0–1

UEFA Europa League[edit]

27 July 2017

19:30

Dinamo București	1–1	Athletic Bilbao
Rivaldinho 54'	Report	Laporte 21'

Arena Națională, Bucharest^{[note 1]}

Attendance: 26,783

Referee: Tore Hansen (Norway)

3 August 2017

20:45

Athletic Bilbao	3–0	Dinamo București
García 24', 29' Aduriz 86'	Report

San Mamés, Bilbao

Attendance: 41,845

Referee: Pavle Radovanović (Montenegro)

Athletic Bilbao won 4–1 on aggregate.

Notes[edit]

^ Dinamo București played their home match at Arena Națională, Bucharest, instead of their regular stadium Stadionul Dinamo, Bucharest.

References[edit]

^ "Liga I 2017/2018 - Season rules". Scoresway. Archived from the original on 22 July 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
^ Cite error: The named reference frf was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

External links[edit]

[table_hth_IAS0.11933071358098-1] Iași is ahead of Botoșani and Dinamo on head-to-head points: Iași 7 pts, Botoșani 5 pts, Dinamo 4 pts.

[table_hth_CON0.11933071358098-2] Concordia is ahead of Voluntari on head-to-head results: Voluntari–Concordia 0–1, Concordia–Voluntari 3–1.

[Dinamo_București-5] Dinamo București played their home match at Arena Națională, Bucharest, instead of their regular stadium Stadionul Dinamo, Bucharest.

[3] "Liga I 2017/2018 - Season rules". Scoresway. Archived from the original on 22 July 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2017.

[frf-4] Cite error: The named reference frf was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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