Nicolae Bonciocat
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 13 April 1898[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary | ||
| Date of death | 22 March 1967 (aged 68) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1920–1927 | Universitatea Cluj[a] | 82 | (36) |
| 1927–1928 | România Cluj | ||
| International career | |||
| 1924–1925 | Romania | 2 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Nicolae Bonciocat (13 April 1898 – 22 March 1967)[3] was a Romanian footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[4]
Bonciocat was born on 13 April 1898 in Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary.[3][4][5] He started playing football in the 1920–21 regional season at Universitatea Cluj.[2][5][6] He was the team's top-scorer in the following two seasons with four goals netted in each, in the second one being tied with Aurel Guga.[2][5][7] He won his first regional championship in the 1923–24 season which helped the team qualify to the national league where they were defeated by Clubul Atletic Oradea in the quarter-finals, with Bonciocat again being the team's top-scorer with six goals.[2][5][8] In the following season he helped "U" win another regional title, being the team's top-scorer with five goals but they got eliminated again in the quarter-finals, this time by UCAS Petroșani.[5][9] In the 1925–26 season, Bonciocat scored a personal record of 14 goals as the team finished in second place.[5][10] In his last season spent with "U" Cluj, Bonciocat scored three goals as the team won a third regional title, then got past AMEF Arad with 3–0 in the quarter-finals of the 1926–27 national league, reaching the semi-finals where they were defeated with 2–1 by eventual champions, Chinezul Timișoara.[5][11]
Afterwards in 1927 he went to play for one season at România Cluj with whom he won another regional league, being eliminated in the quarter-finals of the national league with 2–0 by Jiul Lupeni.[5][12]
International career
Bonciocat made his debut for Romania's national team on 27 May 1924 when coach Adrian Suciu used him the entire match in a 6–0 loss to Netherlands in the 1924 Summer Olympics.[13][14] One year later, he played one more game, this time under coach Teofil Moraru, a friendly which ended with a 2–1 home loss to Turkey.[13][15]
