Liviu Ciobotariu

Liviu Ciobotariu

Personal information
Date of birth	(1971-03-26) 26 March 1971
Place of birth	Ghimpați, Romania
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1989–1998	Național București	173	(19)
1990–1991	→ Pandurii Târgu Jiu (loan)	24	(3)
1998–2000	Dinamo București	47	(4)
2000–2001	Standard Liége	47	(0)
2002–2004	RAEC Mons	46	(1)
2004	Royal Antwerp	14	(0)
2004–2005	Dinamo București	8	(0)
Total		359	(27)
International career
1997–2001	Romania	32	(3)
Managerial career
2006	Național București
2006–2007	Dunărea Galați
2007–2008	CS Otopeni
2008	Internațional
2008–2009	CS Otopeni
2009–2010	Pandurii Târgu Jiu
2010	CF Brăila
2011–2012	Dinamo București
2012–2013	CSMS Iași
2013–2014	FC Vaslui
2015	ASA Târgu Mureș
2015–2016	Al-Faisaly
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Liviu Ciobotariu (born 26 March 1971 in Ghimpați) is a Romanian football manager and former defender. He was the head coach of Saudi Arabian club Al-Faisaly.

Playing career

He debuted in Divizia A with Progresul București in 1992. He made his debut for the Romanian national team in 1997 against Macedonia, and represented his country at the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000. He played his last international match in 2001, and got 32 caps and 3 goals in total.

International goals

Scores and results table. Romania's goal tally first:

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	4 September 1999	Tehelné pole, Bratislava, Slovakia	Slovakia	3–1	5–1	UEFA Euro 2000 Qual.
2	3 June 2000	Stadionul Ghencea, Bucharest, Romania	Greece	1–0	2-1	Friendly
3	26 February 2001	GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus	Ukraine	1–0	1–0	Friendly

Managerial career

He retired in 2005 and began to coach in 2006. Between July 2011 and April 2012, he was the manager of Dinamo București. In January 2015, he took control of ASA Târgu Mureș. He brought the team to the first position in Liga I, but failed to win the championship after two losses in the last two games of the 2014-15 season. At the end of the season, Ciobotariu ended his contract with ASA on mutual agreement.

On 4 June 2015, he was appointed as head coach of Saudi Professional League side Al-Faisaly.

Managerial statistics

As of 02 May 2015

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Win %
Dinamo Bucuresti		11 July 2011	10 April 2012	25	13	7	5	39	20	052.00
CSMS Iași		30 August 2012	20 April 2013	21	6	2	13	22	30	028.57
FC Vaslui		8 October 2013	19 April 2014	19	11	4	4	31	15	057.89
ASA Târgu Mureș		22 February 2015		16	11	2	3	30	14	068.75

Honours

Manager

ASA Târgu Mureș

• Romanian League Runner-up: 2014–15

External links

• Profile at RomanianSoccer.ro
• Liviu Ciobotariu at National-Football-Teams.com