Dan Petrescu

This article is about the Romanian football manager and former player. For other people, see Dan Petrescu (disambiguation).

Dan Petrescu
Petrescu in 2018
Personal information
Full name Daniel Vasile Petrescu
Date of birth (1967-12-22) 22 December 1967 (age 56)
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Position(s) Full-back, winger
Team information
Current team
 CFR Cluj (head coach)
Youth career
1977–1986 Steaua București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1986–1991 Steaua București 95 (28)
1986–1987 → Olt Scornicești (loan) 24 (0)
1991–1993 Foggia 55 (7)
1993–1994 Genoa 24 (1)
1994–1995 Sheffield Wednesday 37 (3)
1995–2000 Chelsea 150 (17)
2000 Bradford City 17 (1)
2001–2002 Southampton 11 (2)
2002–2003 Național București 20 (0)
Total 433 (59)
International career
1989–2000[2] Romania 95 (12)
Managerial career
2002–2003 Național București (player/assistant)
2003 Sportul Studențesc
2003–2004 Rapid București
2004–2005 Sportul Studențesc
2005–2006 Wisła Kraków
2006–2009 Unirea Urziceni
2009–2012 Kuban Krasnodar
2012–2014 Dynamo Moscow
2014 Al-Arabi
2015 ASA Târgu Mureș
2015–2016 Jiangsu Suning
2016 Kuban Krasnodar
2016–2017 Al-Nasr
2017–2018 CFR Cluj
2018–2019 Guizhou Hengfeng
2019–2020 CFR Cluj
2021 Kayserispor
2021–2023 CFR Cluj
2023–2024 Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
2024– CFR Cluj
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Daniel "Dan" Vasile Petrescu (Romanian pronunciation: [daniˈel vaˈsile peˈtresku]; born 22 December 1967) is a Romanian football manager and former player who is currently in charge of Liga I club CFR Cluj.

As a player, Petrescu was deployed as a full-back or a winger and began his career at Steaua București, with which he played in the 1989 European Cup final. Abroad, he represented Serie A clubs Foggia and Genoa, before moving to the Premier League where he played for Sheffield Wednesday, Chelsea, Bradford City, and Southampton, respectively. With Chelsea, Petrescu won the 1998 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. He earned 95 caps for the Romania national team, being selected in two World Cup squads, in 1994 and 1998, and in two European Championships, in 1996 and 2000.

Petrescu became player-assistant manager to Walter Zenga at Național București towards the end of his playing career,[3] and has since had an extensive career as a head coach in Poland, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, China, Turkey, and South Korea, in addition to his native country. His first job was at Sportul Studențesc, which he led to Liga I promotion. Petrescu has won domestic honours with Unirea Urziceni, Kuban Krasnodar, ASA Târgu Mureș, Jiangsu Suning, and CFR Cluj. He is the second-most successful manager in Romania, tied with Emerich Jenei, winning the league on six occasions (five times with CFR Cluj and once with Urziceni),[4] and was also named Romania Coach of the Year a record five times, tied with Mircea Lucescu.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ITN565 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Dan Vasile Petrescu – Century of International Appearances". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
  3. ^ "Național unveil Zenga". UEFA. 23 July 2002. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
  4. ^ "Best of the best! Dan Petrescu, la un titlu de recordul absolut + doi jucători-simbol de la CFR Cluj, lângă Lăcătuș, Lucescu sau Tudorel Stoica" [Best of the best! Dan Petrescu, la un titlu de recordul absolut + doi jucători-simbol de la CFR Cluj, lângă Lăcătuș, Lucescu sau Tudorel Stoica] (in Romanian). gsp.ro. 15 May 2022. Retrieved 15 May 2022.