The 1933-1934 Cupa României was the inaugural season of the Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

's most prestigious football cup competition

Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event...

. In order to promote the competition and encourage clubs to register to the cup, no taxes were enforced on the participants. From the sixty-eight teams registered for the competition, fifty-two were not competing in the top-flight

Liga I

Liga I, or in full, due to sponsorship reasons, Liga I Bergenbier, is the top division of the Romanian football league system. Before the 2006/2007 season, it was called Divizia A, but the name had to be changed following the discovery that someone else had registered the trademark "Divizia A"...

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The competition started in the autumn of 1933. The first phases involved only teams coming from district leagues. The draws were made taking in account logistic difficulties, and sixteen of these clubs advanced to the first round proper, where they were joined by the sixteen teams from Diviza A. The results of the preliminary phase were not recorded.

The first winners were Ripensia Timișoara

Ripensia Timisoara

Ripensia Timişoara was a football team from the Romanian city of Timişoara. It was founded in 1928 by Dr. Cornel Lazăr and it lasted only twenty years before folding due to lack of funds in 1948....

, who defeated Universitatea Cluj

FC Universitatea Cluj

Fotbal Club Universitatea Cluj is a Romanian professional football club from Cluj-Napoca, founded in 1919 by Iuliu Hațieganu. The team plays in the country's top-flight league, Liga I...

 in the final. The trophy was handed by Alexandru Vaida-Voevod

Alexandru Vaida-Voevod

Alexandru Vaida-Voevod or Vaida-Voievod was a Romanian politician who was a supporter and promoter of the union of Transylvania with the Romanian Old Kingdom; he later served three terms as a Prime Minister of Greater Romania.-Transylvanian politics:He was born to a Greek-Catholic family in the...

 to the captain of Ripensia, Silviu Bindea

Silviu Bindea

Silviu Bindea was a Romanian football player.He represented Romania at the 1934 and 1938 World Cups as a forward, scoring twice in a first-round game in 1938.-References:...

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First round proper

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|colspan=3 style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"|31 March 1934

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|colspan=3 style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"|1 April 1934

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|colspan=3 style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"|22 April 1934
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|colspan=3 style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"|29 April 1934

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Notes

• Note 1: The match was contested and it was replayed.

Second round proper

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|colspan=3 style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"|9 April 1934

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|colspan=3 style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"|29 March 1934
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|colspan=3 style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"|1 May 1934
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|colspan=3 style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"|6 May 1934

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|colspan=3 style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"|13 May 1934

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

Final replay

Cupa României 1933-34 Winners
Ripensia Timișoara Ripensia Timisoara Ripensia Timişoara was a football team from the Romanian city of Timişoara. It was founded in 1928 by Dr. Cornel Lazăr and it lasted only twenty years before folding due to lack of funds in 1948.... 1st Title

External links

• romaniansoccer.ro