FC Petrolul Ploiești in European football

Fotbal Club Petrolul Ploiești, commonly known as Petrolul Ploiești, or simply as Petrolul, is a Romanian professional football club based in Ploiești, Prahova County. The club has participated in 8 editions of the club competitions governed by UEFA, the chief authority for football across Europe, and in 12 editions of European competitions overall thus far.

FC Petrolul Ploiești in European football

Club	Petrolul Ploiești
First entry	1958–59 European Cup
Latest entry	2014–15 UEFA Europa League

Total statistics

As of 9 August 2015.

Competition	S	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
UEFA Champions League / European Cup	3	8	2	1	5	8	15	–7
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup / European Cup Winners' Cup	2	6	2	2	2	4	7	–3
UEFA Europa League / UEFA Cup	3	14	7	2	5	25	20	+5
UEFA Intertoto Cup	1	6	1	1	4	6	14	–8
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	3	13	9	0	4	14	11	+3
Total	12	47	21	6	20	57	67	–10

Statistics by competition

Notes for the abbreviations in the tables below:

• PR: Preliminary round
• QR: Qualifying round
• 1R: First round
• 2R: Second round
• QF: Quarter-finals
• 2QR: Second qualifying round
• 3QR: Third qualifying round
• PO: Play-off round

UEFA Champions League / European Cup

Season	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1958–59	PR	Wismut Karl Marx Stadt	2–0	2–4	4–41
1959–60	PR	Wiener Sportclub	1–2	0–0	1–2
1966–67	1R	Liverpool	3–1	0–2	3–32

¹ Wismut Karl Marx Stadt progressed to the first round after winning a play-off match 4–0.
² Liverpool progressed to the second round after winning a play-off match 2–0.

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup / European Cup Winners' Cup

Season	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1963–64	PR	Fenerbahçe	1–0	1–4	2–4
1995–96	QR	Wrexham	1–0	0–0	1–0
	1R	Rapid Wien	0–0	1–3	1–3

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

Season	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1962–63	1R	Spartak Brno	4–0	1–0	5–0
	2R	Leipzig XI	1–0	0–1	1–13
	QF	Ferencváros	1–0	0–2	1–2
1964–65	1R	Göztepe A.Ş.	2–1	1–0	3–1
	2R	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	1–0	0–2	1–2
1967–68	1R	Dinamo Zagreb	2–0	0–5	2–5

³ Petrolul Ploiești progressed to the quarter-finals after winning a play-off match 1–0.

UEFA Europa League / UEFA Cup

Season	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1990–91	1R	Anderlecht	0–2	0–2	0–4
2013–14	2QR	Víkingur	3–0	4–0	7–0
	3QR	Vitesse Arnhem	1–1	2–1	3–2
	PO	Swansea City	2–1	1–5	3–6
2014–15	2QR	Flamurtari	2–0	3–1	5–1
	3QR	Viktoria Plzeň	1–1	4–1	5–2
	PO	Dinamo Zagreb	1–3	1–2	2–5

UEFA Intertoto Cup

1990 – Group 9

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		CHE	STU	DÜS	PET
1	Chemnitz	6	3	2	1	4	2	+2	8		—	0–0	2–0	1–0
2	Sturm Graz	6	2	3	1	9	3	+6	7		0–0	—	0–0	6–1
3	Fortuna Düsseldorf	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	6		2–0	1–0	—	1–1
4	Petrolul Ploiești	6	1	1	4	6	14	−8	3		0–1	1–3	3–2	—

Source: Pawel Mogielnicki's Page 1990
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Draw.

Opponent	Home	Away
Chemnitz	0–1	0–1
Sturm Graz	1–3	1–6
Fortuna Düsseldorf	3–2	1–1

External links

• (in Romanian) Official site