Cătălin Necula

Cătălin Necula
Personal information
Full name	Cătălin Răducan Necula
Date of birth	4 December 1969 (age 55)
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Sharjah (assistant)
Youth career
0000–1989	Sportul Studențesc
Senior career*
Years	Team
1989–1993	Sportul Studențesc
1989–1990	→ Sportul 30 Decembrie (loan)
1993–1995	Universitatea Cluj
1995–1998	Național București
1998–1999	Hapoel Kfar Saba
1999–2000	CSM Reșița
2000–2001	Rocar București
2001	Bihor Oradea
2002–2003	Argeș Pitești
2003–2004	Gloria Bistrița
Total
International career
1993	Romania
Managerial career
2004–2005	Național București (assistant)
2005	Național București (caretaker)
2005	Politehnica Timişoara (assistant)
2005–2007	Steaua București (assistant)
2007–2009	Al Hilal (assistant)
2009	Al Hilal (caretaker)
2009–2010	Al Sadd (assistant)
2011	Steaua București (assistant)
2011–2013	Al Ain (assistant)
2013–2017	Al Ahli (assistant)
2018–2021	Jiangsu Suning (assistant)
2021–	Sharjah (assistant)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Cătălin Răducan Necula (born 4 December 1969) is a Romanian football coach and former player who serves as an assistant coach for UAE Pro League club Sharjah.

Playing career

Necula, son of the famous Romanian goalkeeper Răducanu Necula,^[1] started his career at Sportul Studențesc București in 1988. He spent four seasons at Sportul before switching to Universitatea Cluj in 1993.

In 1995, he joined Naţional București and then in 1998 he played for a short while for Hapoel Kfar Saba in Israel. After he returned to Romania, he continued to play for FCM Reşiţa, Rocar București, Bihor Oradea, Argeş Piteşti and Gloria Bistriţa, before retiring from professional football in 2004.

International stats

Romania
Year	Apps	Goals
1993	4	0
Total	4	0

Coaching career

In 2004, Necula returned to Naţional București, this time as assistant coach and then in the autumn of 2005 he was for a short while the team's head coach. When Cosmin Olăroiu took over at Steaua București in the winter of 2005 he asked Necula to join him as assistant manager. Since then, he joined the coaching staff of Cosmin Olăroiu.

Honours

Player

Național București

Cupa României runner-up: 2002–03

Rocar București

Cupa României runner-up: 2000–01

References

^ "E OFICIAL: Site Al Hilal: Catalin Necula, antrenorul primei echipe!" [IT'S OFFICIAL: Al Hilal site: Catalin Necula, coach of the first team!] (in Romanian). sport.ro. Retrieved 8 October 2017.

External links

Cătălin Răducan NECULA at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
Cătălin Răducan Necula at National-Football-Teams.com
Cătălin Răducan Necula at FBref.com

[1] "E OFICIAL: Site Al Hilal: Catalin Necula, antrenorul primei echipe!" [IT'S OFFICIAL: Al Hilal site: Catalin Necula, coach of the first team!] (in Romanian). sport.ro. Retrieved 8 October 2017.

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