1988–89 Divizia A

Divizia A
Season	1988–89
Champions	Steaua București
Relegated	Oţelul Galaţi; Rapid București; Târgu Mureş
European Cup	Steaua București
Cup Winners' Cup	Dinamo București
UEFA Cup	Victoria București; Flacăra Moreni
Matches	306
Goals	981 (3.21 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dorin Mateuț (43)
Biggest home win	Steaua 11–0 Corvinul
Biggest away win	Farul 0–7 Dinamo
Highest scoring	Steaua 11–0 Corvinul
Longest winning run	Steaua, Dinamo (14)
Longest unbeaten run	Steaua (34)
Longest losing run	Târgu Mureș (22)
	← 1987–88 1989–90 →

The 1988–89 Divizia A was the seventy-first season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania. The Dinamo versus Steaua football derby match played on 3 December 1988 was the subject of the 2014 Romanian documentary film The Second Game (Romanian: Al doilea joc) directed by Corneliu Porumboiu.

Season1988–89

ChampionsSteaua București^[1]

RelegatedOţelul Galaţi
Rapid București
Târgu Mureş

European CupSteaua București

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Steaua București (C)	34	31	3	0	121	28	+93	65	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Dinamo București	34	30	2	2	130	30	+100	62	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Victoria București	34	20	5	9	81	60	+21	45	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Flacăra Moreni	34	16	4	14	63	47	+16	36	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	Universitatea Craiova	34	15	6	13	52	52	0	36
6	Sportul Studenţesc București	34	15	4	15	52	59	−7	34
7	Bihor Oradea	34	13	6	15	40	46	−6	32
8	Olt Scornicești	34	12	8	14	38	47	−9	32
9	Farul Constanța	34	14	4	16	36	48	−12	32
10	FCM Brașov	34	12	7	15	46	52	−6	31
11	Inter Sibiu	34	13	5	16	45	57	−12	31
12	SC Bacău	34	13	4	17	49	55	−6	30
13	Argeș Pitești	34	13	4	17	40	50	−10	30
14	Universitatea Cluj	34	11	8	15	43	55	−12	30
15	Corvinul Hunedoara	34	13	3	18	47	68	−21	29
16	Oțelul Galați (R)	34	11	6	17	36	59	−23	28	Relegation to Divizia B
17	Rapid București (R)	34	10	3	21	39	67	−28	23	Invitation to Intertoto Cup Relegation to Divizia B
18	ASA Târgu Mureș (R)	34	2	2	30	23	101	−78	6	Relegation to Divizia B

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
ASA Târgu Mureș	18	15	16	17	18	17	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18
Argeș Pitești	5	9	5	8	10	14	10	13	14	14	10	13	10	11	12	9	9	10	12	12	12	13	9	12	11	12	11	10	8	11	11	11	11	13
Bacău	16	18	13	16	17	15	15	16	16	15	17	14	16	13	16	11	15	11	10	8	10	12	15	11	13	15	13	16	15	16	15	14	13	12
Bihor Oradea	3	5	10	9	5	7	9	7	11	13	14	17	17	17	15	13	10	9	11	9	11	9	13	16	12	11	10	11	11	9	7	8	6	7
Brașov	13	11	14	11	14	12	14	10	13	9	11	10	11	12	17	12	16	12	8	6	7	6	7	7	10	8	7	6	7	10	10	9	10	10
Corvinul Hunedoara	6	3	7	6	9	5	8	5	9	7	9	11	8	5	5	6	5	5	7	10	6	8	12	15	15	14	16	13	14	15	16	15	16	15
Universitatea Craiova	17	17	18	15	12	8	5	4	7	6	5	5	6	8	9	14	12	15	15	17	14	16	14	9	8	10	8	9	9	7	5	5	5	5
Dinamo București	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Farul Constanța	1	4	8	13	8	10	12	14	15	17	15	9	14	9	11	15	17	13	16	14	15	14	16	13	14	13	15	12	12	12	12	13	12	9
Flacăra Moreni	7	13	15	12	11	9	11	8	5	4	6	4	5	7	7	7	6	6	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Inter Sibiu	8	6	3	7	4	6	4	6	4	5	4	6	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	6	7	6	5	8	10	9	11
Olt Scornicești	9	10	12	10	13	13	7	9	8	11	8	8	9	10	8	8	8	7	6	7	9	11	8	6	6	7	9	8	10	8	9	6	7	8
Oțelul Galați	15	12	11	14	15	16	18	18	17	16	16	12	15	15	10	10	13	17	17	15	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	15	13	13	14	16	15	16
Rapid București	10	16	17	18	16	18	16	12	10	12	13	16	13	16	14	17	14	16	14	16	16	15	11	14	16	16	14	17	17	17	17	17	17	17
Sportul Studențesc București	14	8	6	3	6	4	6	11	6	8	12	15	12	14	13	16	11	14	13	13	13	7	6	8	7	6	5	5	5	6	6	7	8	6
Steaua București	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Universitatea Cluj	11	7	4	5	7	11	13	15	12	10	7	7	7	6	6	5	7	8	9	11	8	10	10	10	9	9	12	14	16	14	13	12	14	14
Victoria București	12	14	9	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3

Home \ Away	ASA	ARG	BAC	BHO	BRA	COR	UCR	DIN	FAR	FLA	INT	OLT	OȚE	RAP	SPO	STE	UCL	VIB
ASA Târgu Mureș	—	0–2	1–2	1–2	1–3	1–2	1–2	0–7	2–4	0–2	2–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	1–3	1–5	1–1	0–4
Argeș Pitești	2–1	—	3–0	2–1	0–0	3–1	5–0	1–2	3–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–1	4–3
Bacău	1–0	3–1	—	1–0	2–1	3–1	6–0	1–3	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	1–2	6–4	2–3	2–1	1–2
Bihor Oradea	4–0	2–0	2–0	—	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–2	2–0	1–2	1–1	2–1	0–1	3–1	1–0	2–3	5–2	1–2
Brașov	4–1	2–1	4–0	1–0	—	1–0	2–2	1–3	0–0	2–1	1–0	4–1	1–0	1–0	4–2	2–2	1–1	1–1
Corvinul Hunedoara	2–0	2–0	4–2	0–0	4–2	—	0–0	1–2	1–0	3–2	1–1	0–1	4–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	4–2
Universitatea Craiova	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–0	3–0	3–1	—	3–6	1–0	1–0	1–2	3–1	2–3	5–0	3–0	1–5	4–0	2–2
Dinamo București	7–0	1–0	0–0	5–1	3–0	3–1	2–0	—	6–0	3–1	8–1	6–0	6–3	6–0	6–1	0–0	4–1	3–1
Farul Constanța	3–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–7	—	3–2	2–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–2	3–1	4–3
Flacăra Moreni	2–0	2–0	3–1	5–0	3–2	3–1	1–0	1–5	3–0	—	5–0	2–0	3–1	4–1	3–0	1–3	1–2	3–2
Inter Sibiu	4–1	4–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	2–4	1–0	1–0	—	3–1	2–0	3–2	2–1	0–3	0–0	1–2
Olt Scornicești	4–0	1–0	3–2	0–0	1–1	4–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	4–0	—	2–1	2–0	2–2	1–3	2–1	1–2
Oțelul Galați	3–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	0–2	1–3	2–1	2–0	0–0	—	2–0	0–1	0–2	2–2	0–2
Rapid București	5–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	4–1	0–1	2–6	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	—	4–4	2–8	2–4	0–1
Sportul Studențesc București	3–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	5–1	2–3	1–4	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	3–2	3–0	—	0–4	0–0	1–1
Steaua București	7–0	6–0	3–0	5–0	3–2	11–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	4–1	4–2	3–1	5–0	2–0	2–1	—	5–0	3–2
Universitatea Cluj	3–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	0–1	0–3	2–0	1–1	3–2	0–1	4–0	1–0	0–1	2–2	—	0–1
Victoria București	3–2	4–2	5–3	4–0	3–2	5–2	2–0	1–4	2–1	2–2	5–3	0–0	2–3	2–1	2–0	1–4	5–2	—

No.	Club	Average
1	Craiova	20,588
2	Steaua	19,647
3	Sibiu	16,059
4	Farul	15,882
5	Oţelul	14,294
6	FC Rapid	14,176
7	Dinamo 1948	11,588
8	Bihor	10,882
9	U Cluj	10,612
10	Argeş	10,294
11	Bacău	9,206
12	Braşov	7,118
13	Hunedoara	6,718
14	Sportul Studenţesc	6,059
15	Olt Scorniceşti	5,882
16	Victoria Bucureşti	4,206
17	Flacăra	4,194
18	Tîrgu Mureş	3,518

1988–89 Divizia A

Teams

League table

Positions by round

Results

Top goalscorers

Champion squad

Attendances

See also

References

Related Articles

Timelines

Top Qs

Fact Checks

Position^[2]	Player	Club	Goals
1	Dorin Mateuț	Dinamo București	43
2	Marcel Coraș	Victoria București	36
3	Gheorghe Hagi	Steaua București	31
4	Victor Pițurcă	Steaua București	23
5	Constantin Lala	Flacăra Moreni	21
5	Claudiu Vaișcovici	Dinamo București	21