Mihai Țurcan (footballer, born 1941)

Not to be confused with Mihai Țurcan (footballer, born 1989).

Mihai Țurcan
Personal information
Date of birth (1941-10-04) 4 October 1941[1]
Place of birth Brezoi, Romania[1]
Position Forward[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1960–1961 Minerul Lupeni 34 (9)
1962–1964 Dinamo Pitești[a] 25 (4)
1964 Minerul Lupeni
1965–1970 Argeș Pitești 85 (25)
1970 Jiul Petroșani 10 (1)
1971–1972 Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea 8 (0)
Total 162 (39)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mihai Țurcan (born 4 October 1941) is a Romanian former football forward.[2]

Career

Țurcan was born on 4 October 1941 in Brezoi, Romania and began playing football at Minerul Lupeni.[1] He made his Divizia A debut on 11 September 1960 under coach Vasile Lazăr in a 3–1 home win over Farul Constanța in which he scored two goals.[1][3]

In the middle of the 1961–62 season he was transferred to Dinamo Pitești.[1] The team was relegated at the end of the season, but Țurcan stayed with the club, helping it get promoted back after one year.[1] In 1964 he made a short comeback to Minerul Lupeni, this time in Divizia B.[1] Subsequently, he returned to Dinamo Pitești with whom he managed to reach the 1965 Cupa României final, being used by coach Virgil Mărdărescu the entire match in the 2–1 loss to Știința Cluj in which he scored his side's goal.[1][4] In the 1965–66 season, he scored a personal record of nine goals in the league.[1] He played six games in the 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, as in the first two rounds they eliminated Sevilla and Toulouse, Țurcan scoring once against the latter, being defeated in the third round with 1–0 on aggregate by Dinamo Zagreb who eventually won the competition.[1][5]

In 1970, Țurcan joined Jiul Petroșani where on 6 December he made his last Divizia A appearance in a 3–1 home win over Progresul București, having a total of 154 appearances with 39 goals in the competition, also totaling 10 games with one goal in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.[1] He ended his career in 1972 after helping Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea gain promotion from the third league to the second.[1]

Honours

Dinamo Pitești

Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea

Notes

  1. ^ The statistics for the 1962–63 Divizia B season are unavailable.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Mihai Țurcan at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  2. ^ Mihai Țurcan at WorldFootball.net
  3. ^ "Minerul Lupeni vs Farul Constanța 3-1". Labtof. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  4. ^ a b "Romanian Cup - Season 1964 - 1965". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Care este echipa românească ce a reuşit una dintre cele mai spectaculoase răsturnări de scor din istoria fotbalului" [Which is the Romanian team that managed one of the most spectacular scoring reversals in the history of football] (in Romanian). Adevarul.ro. 30 November 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
    "Singura echipă românească de fotbal care a învins trei mari cluburi din Spania. Marele Dobrin a fost cheia succeselor" [The only Romanian football team that has defeated three major clubs in Spain. The great Dobrin was the key to success] (in Romanian). Adevarul.ro. 1 March 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
    "Singura echipă românească ce a eliminat Sevilla în cupele europene. Povestea unei duble istorice jucate în urmă cu 50 de ani" [The only Romanian team that eliminated Sevilla in European cups. The story of a historic double played 50 years ago] (in Romanian). Adevarul.ro. 24 May 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
    "Mihai Țurcan. Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1966/1967". WorldFootball. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
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