1989–90 FC Dinamo București season

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The 1989–90 season was FC Dinamo București's 41st season in Divizia A. In this season, Dinamo made the double, stopping Steaua's supremacy in Romania. In Europe, Dinamo reached the semifinals of the Cup Winners' Cup, where it is defeated by Anderlecht. It was a special season because of the Romanian Revolution of 1989. Dinamo dominated the first half of the season, winning the derby with Steaua, 3–0, on its ground. It was the first defeat for Steaua in the Romanian championship after 104 consecutive games. In the winter break, after the Revolution, Dinamo suffered administrative changes, for a few days having a different name – Unirea Tricolor.

In the final of the season, because of the Romanian national team's qualification at the 1990 World Cup in Italy, FRF decided that the teams shall not use the chooseable players. However, in the game between Dinamo and Farul, Răducioiu and Lupu, respectively Marian Popa had played, managers and coaches of both clubs (Vasile Ianul and Lucescu for Dinamo) were suspended for three months, and the match, won by Dinamo 2-1 was replayed. To stay on the bench next stage Lucescu registered as a player, and even took the field, becoming at 45 years old, the oldest player in league history.

2 May 1990

17:00

Dinamo București	6–4	Steaua București
Răducioiu 3' (42), 82' Mateuț 39' Sabău 47' Lupu 56'		Dumitrescu 22' Lăcătuș 68' Rotariu 70' Ungureanu 85'

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Mircea Salomir (Cluj-Napoca)

DINAMO: GK Bogdan Stelea DF Anton Doboș  57' DF Mircea Rednic DF Ioan Andone DF Michael Klein MF Ionuț Lupescu MF Ioan Ovidiu Sabău MF Dorin Mateuț  65' MF Dănuț Lupu FW Claudiu Vaișcovici FW Florin Răducioiu Substitutes: DF Daniel Timofte  57' MF Ionel Fulga  65' Manager: Mircea Lucescu

STEAUA: GK Daniel Gherasim DF Lucian Ciocan DF Adrian Negrău DF Alin Artimon  57' DF Nicolae Ungureanu MF Daniel Minea MF Zsolt Muzsnay MF Iosif Rotariu MF Ilie Dumitrescu FW Marius Lăcătuș FW Gavril Balint  57' Substitutes: MF Ilie Stan  57' FW Gheorghe Pena  57' Manager: Anghel Iordănescu

First round

13 September 1989

17:30

Dinamo Tirana	1–0	Dinamo București
Canaj 52'

Qemal Stafa, Tirana

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Tadeusz Diakonowicz (Poland)

26 September 1989

15:30

Dinamo București	2–0	Dinamo Tirana
Mateuţ 8' Mihăescu 13'

Stadionul Dinamo, Bucharest

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Zoran Petrović (Yugoslavia)

Dinamo București won 2–1 on aggregate

Second round

18 October 1989

20:00

Panathinaikos F.C.	0–2	Dinamo București
		Răducioiu 57' Mateuţ 66'

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Dieter Pauli (West Germany)

1 November 1989

14:00

Dinamo București	6–1	Panathinaikos F.C.
Rednic 21' Mateuţ 31', 48' Sabău 40', 50' Klein 89'		Samaras 34'

Stadionul Dinamo, Bucharest

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland)

Dinamo București won 8–1 on aggregate

Quarterfinals

7 March 1990

15:00

Dinamo București	2–1	Partizan Belgrade
Răducioiu 18', 57'		Spasic 68'

Stadionul Dinamo, Bucharest

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Dusan Krchnak (Czechoslovakia)

21 March 1990

16:00

Partizan Belgrade	0–2	Dinamo București
		Lupescu 53' Răducioiu 70'

Buducnost Stadium, Titograd

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: José Rosa Dos Santos (Portugal)

Dinamo București won 4–1 on aggregate

Semifinals

4 April 1990

20:00

Anderlecht	1–0	Dinamo București
Nilis 66'

Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Anderlecht, Brussels

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)

18 April 1990

20:00

Dinamo București	0–1	Anderlecht
		Vanderlinden 60'

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: John Blankenstein (Netherlands)

Anderlecht won 2-0 on aggregate

Goalkeepers: Bogdan Stelea (22 / 0); Costel Câmpeanu (10 / 0); Sorin Colceag (1 / 0).
Defenders: Alpár Mészáros (15 / 1); Ioan Andone (20 / 2); Mircea Rednic (19 / 1); Michael Klein (23 / 2); Iulian Mihăescu (24 / 7); Anton Doboș (21 / 1); Adrian Matei (10 / 0); Florin Jelea (1 / 0); Adrian Slave (1 / 0); Cornel Mirea (12 / 0); Alexandru Nicolae (5 / 0); Mihail Cristian Țicu (3 / 0); Claudiu Jijie (1 / 0).
Midfielders: Ioan Sabău (24 / 5); Dorin Mateuț (22 / 9); Ioan Lupescu (29 / 4); Dănuț Lupu (22 / 6); Daniel Timofte (20 / 8); Cristian Lazăr (11 / 2); Ionel Fulga (7 / 3); Mihai Stoica (7 / 0); George Radu (5 / 0).
Forwards: Claudiu Vaișcovici (21 / 14); Cezar Zamfir (21 / 6); Florin Răducioiu (24 / 14); Marian Damaschin (5 / 1); Mircea Lucescu (1 / 0); Marian Năstase (3 / 0); Nicu Glonț (1 / 0).
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Manager: Mircea Lucescu.

In the summer break, Dinamo brought Daniel Timofte from Jiul Petroșani and Anton Doboș from U.Cluj. Left the team Lică Movilă to Flacăra Moreni, Bogdan Bucur to Inter Sibiu, Rodion Cămătaru to Racing Charleroi and Dumitru Moraru to Vålerenga. Other two players, Gheorghe Viscreanu and Marcel Sabou, went to Spain. In the winter break, came to Dinamo Alexandru Nicolae from Victoria, Constantin Lazăr from Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea and Mihai Stoica from FC Argeş.

Paul Barariu, Adrian Bondoc, Corneliu Buțerchi, Sorin Colceag, Vasile Ghernescu, Vicentiu Iorgulescu, Răzvan Lucescu, Marian Năstase, Catalin Necula, Cristian Petre, Gabriel Răduță, Cristian Serban, Adrian Slave, Constantin Stănici, Mihail Țicu, Adrian Titeica. Team Manager: Tatasescu

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