Before the Romanian FA started organising an official cup competition in 1933, various other cup tournaments were played; the winners were sometimes considered national champions.
1909 CA Colentina București 1910/11 SC Olimpia București
1911/12 United AC Ploiești 1913 Bukarester FC
1912 United AC Ploiești 1913 CA Colentina București 1914 CA Colentina București
1913 Bukarester FC 1915 Bukarester IHC FC [spring] 1915 Romāno-Americana FC București [fall] 1919 Venus ASC București 1920 Tricolor FC București
1915 Romāno-Americana FC București 1916 Prahova FC Ploiești 1919 Venus ASC București 1920 Venus ASC București 1921 Tricolor FC București
1931 Liga de Nord 1-0 Liga de Sud
1932/33 Liga de Nord 3-2 Liga de Est [aet]
NB: the above two competitions involved selections of the five regional leagues
(Liga de Centru, Liga de Est, Liga de Nord, Liga de Sud, Liga de Vest).
1941/42 Rapid București 2-1 C.F.R. Turnu Severin
NB: unofficial competition with group stage and knock-out phase
replacing league competition which was not held due to war.
1957 Locomotiva București 3-1 Știința Timișoara [aet]
NB: unofficial competition with group stage and final replacing
league competition which was returning to fall-spring modus.
1933/34 Ripensia Timișoara ann Universitatea Cluj [originally 3-2]
replay Ripensia Timișoara 5-0 Universitatea Cluj
1934/35 C.F.R. București 6-5 Ripensia Timișoara [aet]
1935/36 Ripensia Timișoara 5-1 Unirea Tricolor București
1936/37 Rapid București 5-1 Ripensia Timișoara
1937/38 Rapid București 3-2 C.A.M. Timișoara
1938/39 Rapid București 2-0 Sportul studențesc București
1939/40 Rapid București 2-2 Venus București [aet]
replay Rapid București 4-4 Venus București [aet]
replay Rapid București 2-2 Venus București [aet]
replay Rapid București 2-1 Venus București
1940/41 Rapid București 4-3 Unirea Tricolor București
1941/42 Rapid București 7-1 Universitatea Sibiu
1942/43 C.F.R. Turnu Severin 4-0 Sportul studențesc București
1943/44 abandoned due to World War II
1944/45 not held
1945/46 not held
1946/47 not held
1947/48 I.T. Arad 3-2 C.F.R. Timișoara
1948/49 C.S.C.A. București 2-1 C.S.U. Cluj
1950 C.C.A. București 3-1 Flamura roșie Arad
1951 C.C.A. București 3-1 Flacăra Mediaș [aet]
1952 C.C.A. București 2-0 Flacăra Ploiești
1953 Flamura roșie Arad 1-0 C.C.A. București [aet]
1954 Metalul Reșița 2-0 Dinamo București
1955 C.C.A. București 6-3 Progresul Oradea [aet]
1955/56 Progresul Oradea 2-0 Energia Metalul Cīmpia Turzii
1956/57 not held
1957/58 Știința Timișoara 1-0 Progresul București
1958/59 Dinamo București 4-0 C.S.M. Baia Mare
1959/60 Progresul București 2-0 Dinamo Obor București
1960/61 Arieșul Turda 2-1 Rapid București
1961/62 Steaua București 5-1 Rapid București
1962/63 Petrolul Ploiești 6-1 Siderurgistul Galați
1963/64 Dinamo București 5-3 Steaua București
1964/65 Știința Cluj 2-1 Dinamo Pitești
1965/66 Steaua București 4-0 U.T. Arad
1966/67 Steaua București 6-0 Foresta Fălticeni
1967/68 Dinamo București 3-1 Rapid București [aet]
1968/69 Steaua București 2-1 Dinamo București
1969/70 Steaua București 2-1 Dinamo București
1970/71 Steaua București 3-2 Dinamo București
1971/72 Rapid București 2-0 Jiul Petroșani
1972/73 Chimia Rīmnicu Vīlcea 1-1 Constructorul Galați [aet]
replay Chimia Rīmnicu Vīlcea 3-0 Constructorul Galați
1973/74 Jiul Petroșani 4-2 Politehnica Timișoara
1974/75 Rapid București 2-1 Universitatea Craiova [aet]
1975/76 Steaua București 1-0 C.S.U. Galați
1976/77 Universitatea Craiova 2-1 Steaua București
1977/78 Universitatea Craiova 3-1 Olimpia Satu Mare
1978/79 Steaua București 3-0 Sportul studențesc București
1979/80 Politehnica Timișoara 2-1 Steaua București [aet]
1980/81 Universitatea Craiova 6-0 Politehnica Timișoara
1981/82 Dinamo București 3-2 F.C. Baia Mare
1982/83 Universitatea Craiova 2-1 Politehnica Timișoara
1983/84 Dinamo București 2-1 Steaua București
1984/85 Steaua București 2-1 Universitatea Craiova
1985/86 Dinamo București 1-0 Steaua București
1986/87 Steaua București 1-0 Dinamo București
1987/88 Steaua București abd Dinamo București [*1]
1988/89 Steaua București 1-0 Dinamo București [*2]
1989/90 Dinamo București 6-4 Steaua București
1990/91 Universitatea Craiova 2-1 F.C. Bacău
1991/92 Steaua București 1-1 Politehnica Timișoara [aet, 3-2 pen]
1992/93 Universitatea Craiova 2-0 Dacia Unirea Brăila
1993/94 Gloria Bistrița 1-0 Universitatea Craiova
1994/95 Petrolul Ploiești 1-1 Rapid București [aet, 5-3 pen]
1995/96 Steaua București 3-1 Gloria Bistrița
1996/97 Steaua București 4-2 Național București
1997/98 Rapid București 1-0 Universitatea Craiova
1998/99 Steaua București 2-2 Rapid București [aet, 4-2 pen]
1999/00 Dinamo București 2-0 Universitatea Craiova
2000/01 Dinamo București 4-2 Rocar București
2001/02 Rapid București 2-1 Dinamo București
2002/03 Dinamo București 1-0 Național București
2003/04 Dinamo București 2-0 Oțelul Galați
2004/05 Dinamo București 1-0 Farul Constanța
2005/06 Rapid București 1-0 Național București [aet]
2006/07 Rapid București 2-0 F.C.U. Poli Timișoara [*3]
2007/08 C.F.R. Cluj 2-1 Unirea Urziceni [*4]
2008/09 C.F.R. Cluj 3-0 F.C. Timișoara [*5]
2009/10 C.F.R. Cluj 0-0 F.C. Vaslui [*6] [aet, 5-4 pen]
2010/11 Steaua București 2-1 Dinamo București [*2]
2011/12 Dinamo București 1-0 Rapid București
2012/13 Petrolul Ploiești 1-0 C.F.R. Cluj
2013/14 Astra Giurgiu 0-0 Steaua București [aet, 4-2 pen]
2014/15 Steaua București 3-0 Universitatea Cluj
2015/16 C.F.R. Cluj 2-2 Dinamo București [aet, 5-4 pen]
2016/17 F.C. Voluntari 1-1 Astra Giurgiu [*7] [aet, 5-3 pen]
2017/18 Universitatea Craiova 2-0 F.C. Hermannstadt
2018/19 Viitorul Constanța 2-1 Astra Giurgiu [*7] [aet]
2019/20 F.C.S.B. 1-0 Sepsi O.S.K. Sf. Gheorghe [*7]
2020/21 Universitatea Craiova 3-2 Astra Giurgiu [*7] [aet]
2021/22 Sepsi Sf. Gheorghe 2-1 F.C. Voluntari
2022/23 Sepsi Sf. Gheorghe 0-0 Universitatea Cluj [*8] [aet, 5-4 pen]
2023/24 Corvinul Hunedoara 2-2 Oțelul Galați [*8] [aet, 3-2 pen]
[*1] Steaua left the pitch just before the end after a goal had not been
allowed to stand by the referee with the score at 1-1. First the
trophy was given to Dinamo, Steaua having abandoned the match, but
later the Romanian F.A. awarded the match 2-1 to Steaua. After the
revolution of December 1989, Steaua returned the trophy to Dinamo.
However, the Romanian F.A. considers it as won by Steaua.
[*2] 1989 and 2011 finals played in Brașov
[*3] 2007 final played in Timișoara
[*4] 2008 final played in Piatra Neamț
[*5] 2009 final played in Tārgu Jiu
[*6] 2010 final played in Iași
[*7] 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021 finals played in Ploiești
[*8] 2023 and 2024 finals played in Sibiu
NB: all finals in București except for the annulled final in 1934 and the finals
indicated in notes [*2] to [*8].
24 [ 8] Steaua București [includes C.S.C.A. București, C.C.A. București and F.C.S.B.] 13 [10] Dinamo București 13 [ 6] Rapid București [includes C.F.R. București] 8 [ 5] Universitatea Craiova 4 [ 1] C.F.R. Cluj 3 [ 1] Petrolul Ploiești [includes Flacăra Ploiești] 2 [ 4] Politehnica Timișoara [includes Știința Timișoara] 2 [ 2] Ripensia Timișoara 2 [ 2] U.T. Arad [includes I.T. Arad and Flamura roșie Arad] 2 [ 1] Sepsi O.S.K. Sfântu Gheorghe 1 [ 5] Universitatea Cluj [includes Universitatea Sibiu, C.S.U. Cluj, and Știința Cluj] 1 [ 4] Național București [includes Progresul București] 1 [ 3] Astra Giurgiu 1 [ 1] Gloria Bistrița 1 [ 1] Jiul Petroșani 1 [ 1] Progresul Oradea 1 [ 1] F.C. Voluntari 1 Arieșul Turda 1 C.F.R. Turnu Severin 1 Chimia Rīmnicu Vīlcea 1 Corvinul Hunedoara 1 Metalul Reșița 1 Viitorul Constanța [ 3] Sportul studențesc București [ 2] F.C. Baia Mare [includes C.S.M. Baia Mare] [ 2] Oțelul Galați [ 2] F.C. Timișoara [includes FCU Poli Timișoara (distinct from Politehnica Timișoara)] [ 2] Unirea Tricolor București [ 1] F.C. Bacău [ 1] C.A.M. Timișoara [ 1] C.F.R. Timișoara [ 1] Constructorul Galați [ 1] C.S.U. Galați [ 1] Dacia Unirea Brăila [ 1] Dinamo Obor București [ 1] Dinamo Pitești [ 1] Energia Metalul Cīmpia Turzii [ 1] Farul Constanța [ 1] Flacăra Mediaș [ 1] Foresta Fălticeni [ 1] F.C. Hermannstadt (Sibiu) [ 1] Olimpia Satu Mare [ 1] Rocar București [ 1] Siderurgistul Galați [ 1] Unirea Urziceni [ 1] F.C. Vaslui [ 1] Venus București
Rapid București won the first seven finals they played, the last six of them in successive years.
The 1940 final between Rapid and Venus went to three replays before it was decided.
Dinamo and Steaua played each other in five consecutive seasons (1986-1990). Steaua beat Dinamo in three consecutive finals twice (1969-1971 and 1987-1989). The final scores of 1969 and 1970 were exactly the same (Steaua 2-1 Dinamo).
Universitatea Cluj played its first four finals under four different names.
After changing name from C.F.R. to Rapid București, the club played 12 finals, in which they encountered 12 different opponents, until they met Universitatea Craiova for the second time in their 13th final since the change of name.
Repeated finals (apart from replays):
Steaua București v Dinamo București 11 times (Steaua winning 7): 1964, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2011 Steaua București v Flamura roșie Arad/U.T. Arad 3 times (1950, 1953, 1966) Dinamo București v Rapid București 3 times (1968, 2002, 2012) Dinamo București v F.C. Baia Mare (1959, 1982) Rapid București v Ripensia Timișoara (1935, 1937) Rapid București v Universitatea Craiova (1975, 1998) Steaua București v Politehnica Timișoara (1980, 1992) Steaua București v Rapid București (1962, 1999) C.S.C.A./Steaua București v C.S.U./Universitatea Cluj (1949, 2015) Steaua București v Universitatea Craiova (1977, 1985) Universitatea Craiova v Politehnica Timișoara (1981, 1983)
Compare the notes in the file on Romania champions. In addition to what is written there, note that Universitatea Cluj, apart from undergoing some name changes, played in Sibiu during the second world war. Moreover, Dinamo Pitești are now known as F.C. Argeș Pitești, and Flacăra Mediaș as Gaz metan Mediaș.
Information 1909-1921 thanks to Hans Schöggl; information 1931-1933 thanks to Romeo Ionescu; thanks to Ståle Volleng for corrections and additions
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