Mircea Lucescu

Mircea Lucescu
Lucescu in 2017
Personal information
Full name Mircea Lucescu[1]
Date of birth (1945-07-29) 29 July 1945 (age 79)
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
 Romania (head coach)
Youth career
1961–1963 Școala Sportivă 2 București
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1963–1977 Dinamo București 250 (57)
1965–1967 → Știința București (loan) 39 (12)
1977–1982 Corvinul Hunedoara[b] 111 (21)
1990 Dinamo București 1 (0)
Total 401 (90)
International career
1966–1979 Romania[a] 70 (9)
Managerial career
1979–1982 Corvinul Hunedoara (player/coach)
1981–1986 Romania
1985–1990 Dinamo București
1990–1991 Pisa
1991–1995 Brescia
1995–1996 Brescia
1996 Reggiana
1997–1998 Rapid București
1998–1999 Inter Milan
1999–2000 Rapid București
2000–2002 Galatasaray
2002–2004 Beşiktaş
2004–2016 Shakhtar Donetsk
2016–2017 Zenit Saint Petersburg
2017–2019 Turkey
2020–2023 Dynamo Kyiv
2024– Romania
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mircea Lucescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈmirtʃe̯a luˈtʃesku]; born 29 July 1945) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, currently the head coach of the Romania national team. He is one of the most decorated managers of all time.[5]

Lucescu is also one of the most successful players of the Romanian league championship, having won all seven of his titles with Dinamo București.[6] He also had spells at Știința București and Corvinul Hunedoara, and made 70 appearances for the Romania national team, which he captained in the 1970 FIFA World Cup.[7]

Lucescu has coached various sides in Romania, Italy, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia. He is well known for his twelve-year stint in charge of Shakhtar Donetsk, where he became the most successful coach in the team's history by winning eight Ukrainian Premier League titles, six Ukrainian Cups, seven Ukrainian Super Cups and the 2008–09 UEFA Cup.[8] He also won trophies in Ukraine with Shakhtar's rival Dynamo Kyiv, as well as Divizia A titles with Dinamo București and Rapid București, and Turkish Süper Lig titles with Galatasaray and Beşiktaş.[7]

Lucescu was named Romania Coach of the Year in 2004, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2021, and Ukraine Coach of the Year in 2006 and between 2008 and 2014.[9] In 2013, he was awarded the Manager of the Decade award in Romania,[10] and in 2015 became the fifth person to coach in 100 UEFA Champions League matches, joining the likes of Alex Ferguson, Carlo Ancelotti, Arsène Wenger and José Mourinho.[11] He is also ranked third in terms of official trophies won, with 38.

  1. ^ "Mircea Lucescu". Turkish Football Federation. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Mircea Lucescu". European Football. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  3. ^ Mircea Lucescu at National-Football-Teams.com
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference RS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Rubio, Alberto; Clancy, Conor (23 May 2019). "Guardiola on his way to becoming the most successful coach of all time". Marca. Spain.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ a b "Lucescu's band of Brazilians aim to bring down Man United". FourFourTwo. 2 October 2013.
  8. ^ "How Mircea Lucescu put Shakhtar on the map". UEFA. 23 May 2016.
  9. ^ "Shakhtar and Mircea Lucescu: 12 years together". shakhtar.com. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  10. ^ источники, Внешние (19 December 2013). "Луческу был признан тренером десятилетия в Румынии". ua-football.com.
  11. ^ "Lucescu becomes fifth coaching centurion". UEFA. 21 October 2015.


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