Cornel Râpă

Cornel Râpă
	Râpă in March 2011
Personal information
Full name	Cornel Emilian Râpă
Date of birth	16 January 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth	Galați, Romania
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Right-back
Team information
Current team	Cracovia
Number	2
Youth career
2005–2008	Oțelul Galați
Senior career*
Years	Team
2008–2013	Oțelul Galați
2013–2016	Steaua București
2016–2018	Pogoń Szczecin
2018–	Cracovia
International career‡
2006–2007	Romania U17
2008–2009	Romania U19
2009–2012	Romania U21
2010–2011	Romania
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 May 2023; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20 January 2013

Cornel Râpă (born 16 January 1990) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Ekstraklasa club MKS Cracovia.

Club career

Râpă made his professional debut for his youth club Oțelul Galați, in 2008. He scored his first professional goal in March 2011, in a match against Universitatea Cluj.^[1] In 2013, Râpă left Oțelul Galați in order to join fellow Liga I club Steaua București.

International career

Râpă made his debut for the Romania national team at the age of 20 in 2010 in a friendly game against Italy played in Klagenfurt.^[2]

Club statistics

As of 28 May 2023.^[3]

Club	Season	League			Cup		League Cup		Europe		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Oțelul Galați	2008–09	Liga I	9	0	0	0	—		—		—		9	0
	2009–10	Liga I	32	0	0	0	—		—		—		32	0
	2010–11	Liga I	33	1	1	0	—		—		—		34	1
	2011–12	Liga I	30	0	2	0	—		5	0	1	0	38	0
	2012–13	Liga I	14	0	2	0	—		—		—		16	0
	Total		118	1	5	0	—		5	0	1	0	129	1
Steaua București	2012–13	Liga I	8	0	0	0	—		4	0	—		12	0
	2013–14	Liga I	7	0	3	0	—		0	0	0	0	10	0
	2014–15	Liga I	16	0	5	0	3	0	8	1	1	0	33	1
	2015–16	Liga I	18	1	3	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	25	1
	Total		49	1	11	0	5	0	13	1	2	0	80	2
Pogoń Szczecin	2016–17	Ekstraklasa	24	1	5	0	—		—		—		29	1
	2017–18	Ekstraklasa	31	0	2	0	—		—		—		33	0
	Total		55	1	7	0	—		—		—		62	1
Cracovia	2018–19	Ekstraklasa	33	1	1	0	—		—		—		34	1
	2019–20	Ekstraklasa	35	3	3	0	—		2	0	—		40	3
	2020–21	Ekstraklasa	30	1	5	1	—		1	0	1	0	37	2
	2021–22	Ekstraklasa	33	3	0	0	—		—		—		33	3
	2022–23	Ekstraklasa	26	0	2	0	—		—		—		28	0
	Total		157	8	11	1	—		3	0	1	0	172	9
Career total			379	11	34	1	5	0	21	1	4	0	443	13

International

As of 8 September 2021

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Romania
	2010	1	0
	2011	4	0
Total		5	0

Honours

Club

Oțelul Galați

Steaua București

Cracovia

References

^ "Neputinciosi in fata liderului" (in Romanian). universitateacluj.ro. 21 March 2011.
^ "Marica own goal spares Azzurri". UEFA.com. 17 November 2010.
^ "C. Râpă". soccerway.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.

External links

Cornel Râpă at Soccerway
Cornel Râpă at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
Cornel Râpă at 90minut.pl (in Polish)

[1] "Neputinciosi in fata liderului" (in Romanian). universitateacluj.ro. 21 March 2011.

[2] "Marica own goal spares Azzurri". UEFA.com. 17 November 2010.

[3] "C. Râpă". soccerway.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.

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