Bogdan Stancu

In the second round he scored the equalizer in the 66th minute against Universitatea Craiova, after Valentin Iliev opened the score, 12 minutes later his teammate Romeo Surdu, scored the second goal helping the team to a 2–1 home win.

He was sent off on round 4 against Oțelul Galați in the 75th minute after receiving a second yellow card.

At end of season he was top scorer of team in Europa League with 6 goals.

Bogdan Sorin Stancu (born 28 June 1987) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Stancu started his professional career at Argeș Pitești, and had a brief loan spell at Mioveni.

Due to an irregularity in his contract he left the club and joined Unirea Urziceni.

Stancu was discovered at a trial by coach Mihai Ianovschi in 1998, who took him to the junior team of Argeș Pitești.

In 2001, at the age of 14, Stancu was at the youth academy of FC Argeș when his father died due to heart failure.

He was deeply affected by the loss and quit football for a few months.

In 2005, he was brought to the first team by Sorin Cârțu.

After a short period he was sent to Dacia Mioveni in Divizia B, where he had a contract of only $1000 per month and a clause by which he earned $1 for every minute played for Mioveni.

His team won a few games with Stancu as their only goalscorer.

After a season where he scored 3 goals in 12 matches, he returned to FC Argeș and made his debut in Divizia A at the age of 19 against former champions Steaua București, game which ended as a goalless draw.

In the summer of 2006, Sorin Cârțu resigned from the club and former Italian star Giuseppe Giannini was appointed as the new manager of Argeș Pitești.

After two weeks of training he decided that Bogdan Stancu and another player, Robert Neagoe, should be released.

He ended up making only 7 appearances for his team that season.

Stancu was sent once again to Dacia Mioveni during the pre-season but after a few days, Gigi Nețoiu brought him to Unirea Urziceni.

In the summer of 2008, after two years at Urziceni, he moved to Steaua București and finished his first season as Steaua's top scorer with 11 goals.

In May 2008, after three years at Unirea, Stancu was transferred to Steaua București.

Local media reported the fee to be in the region of €1 million.

On 30 June 2008, Stancu played his first match in Steaua's shirt in a friendly against Maribor, scoring the first goal.

He scored his second goal On 26 July against Roma in a friendly game, Steaua won 3–1.

On 23 August 2008, Stancu scored his first double for Steaua against Gloria Bistrița in Liga I.

In his first five Liga I matches for Steaua he scored four goals.

He managed to score four goals in several winter break friendly matches.

After the winter break he scored again in the first match against Vaslui.

On 14 March 2009, he scored in the sixth minute of the match against Politehnica Iași, leading Steaua to its victory.

At his first season at Steaua was top scorer with 11 goals, along with Greek Pantelis Kapetanos.

Stancu started the new season scoring the second goal for his team against Újpest in the second qualifying round of Europa League, on 16 July 2009, making the score 2–0 for Steaua București.

He scored the third and final goal against Motherwell after being served perfectly by Rafał Grzelak.

On 6 August 2009, he scored two more goals against the same Motherwell and help his team qualify in the Europa League playoffs.

After his great performances in Europa League he was rewarded by Răzvan Lucescu with a call-up in the Romania national team against Hungary.

However, during a league match he got injured and Lucescu dropped him from the team.

Two weeks later he scored another two goals against St Patrick's Athletic.

In 9 European matches he scored 6 goals.

In the first half of the 2010–11 season Stancu scored 16 times in 27 games after which Galatasaray paid €5m to secure his services.

After a not so successful stint at the Turkish club, he joined Orduspor.

After they were relegated from the Süper Lig, Stancu moved to Gençlerbirliği for an undisclosed fee.

At international level, his career started in 2010 and he played for Euro 2016.

On 25 July 2010, Stancu netted the second goal in his first start of the season in a 1–2 away win against Universitatea Cluj.