Gheorghe Ciolac
Personal information
Date of birth (1908-08-10)10 August 1908
Place of birth Nagykomlós, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 13 April 1965(1965-04-13) (aged 56)
Place of death Timișoara, Romania
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1922–1924 Politehnica Timișoara
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1924–1930 Banatul Timișoara 104 (44)
1930–1941 Ripensia Timișoara 116 (46)
Total 220 (90)
International career
1928–1937 Romania[1] 24 (13)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gheorghe Ciolac (10 August 1908 – 13 April 1965) was a Romanian association football striker. He was a member of the Romania national football team which competed at the 1934 FIFA World Cup, but did not play any match.

Club career

Gheorghe Ciolac (left) holding the 1933–34 Romanian Cup

After playing as a youth for Politehnica Timișoara between 1922 and 1924, Gheorghe Ciolac started his senior career at Banatul, another team from Timișoara. He played for this team until 1930, when he moved to Ripensia Timișoara.[2]

Gheorghe Ciolac was the captain of the team which won, between 1932 and 1938, four Divizia A titles and two Romanian Cups. He made his debut in the first tier of Romanian football on 11 September 1932, in a match between his team and CFR București.[2]

Ciolac scored the winning goal for Ripensia Timișoara in the first Romanian Cup final, but the match was contested by Ripensia's opponents, Universitatea Cluj, which asked for playing the match on a neutral stadium. The match was replayed two months later in Bucharest, and Ripensia won 5–0.

In 1936 Romanian Cup final, Ciolac scored two goals as Ripensia Timișoara demolished its opponents, Unirea Tricolor București, winning the match by 5 goals to 1.

Ciolac retired from football in 1941, after playing his last match against Venus București, on 15 June.[2]

International career

Gheorghe Ciolac made his debut for the Romania national football team in May 1928, in a match against Yugoslavia, lost by Romanians, 1–3. In his second match for Romania, Ciolac scored a hat-trick, as Romania won 3–0 in front of Bulgaria. In September 1929, he was for the first time the captain of the national team, in a match against Bulgaria, played on the Levski Stadium in Sofia.[3]

Gheorghe Ciolac was selected in the Romanian team for the 1934 FIFA World Cup, but did not play, remaining on the bench in the match against Czechoslovakia. He played his last match for the national team in 1937, being also the captain of the team in the match against Czechoslovakia (1–1).

He was part of the Romanian team that won three Balkan Cups in the 1930s, contributing with 1 goal in 1929–31 and 1936, and with four goals in the 1933 edition, being the tournament's shared top goal scorer alongside teammate Ștefan Dobay. This tally includes a hat-trick in a 7-0 win over Bulgaria on 4 June 1933.[4] With 9 goals in the Balkan Cup, he is among the all-time top goal scorer in the competition's history.

International Goals

Romania score listed first, score column indicates score after each Ciolac goal.
List of international goals scored by Gheorghe Ciolac[3]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
121 April 1929ONEF Stadium, Bucharest, Romania Bulgaria1–03–0Friendly
22–0
33–0
410 October 1929 Yugoslavia2–02–11929-31 Balkan Cup
528 June 1932SK Jugoslavija, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Greece1–03–01932 Balkan Cup
64 June 1933ONEF Stadium, Bucharest, Romania Bulgaria3–07–01933 Balkan Cup
74–0
86–0
911 June 1933 Yugoslavia2–05–0
1014 October 1934Czarnych, Lwow, Poland now Lviv, Ukraine Poland2–13–3Friendly
1127 December 1934Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, Athens, Greece Greece2–02–21934-35 Balkan Cup
1230 December 1934 Bulgaria3–03–2
1324 May 1936ONEF Stadium, Bucharest, Romania Bulgaria3–14–11936 Balkan Cup

Honours

Ripensia Timișoara

International

Romania

Balkan Cup:

Individual

References

  1. ↑ Evidence of Gheorghe Ciolac's appearances for Romania national football team Archived 10 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 3 Romaniansoccer.ro : Gheorghe Ciolac
  3. 1 2 "Gheorghe Ciolac". EU Football.info. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  4. ↑ "Balkan Cup 1933 results". EU-football.info. Retrieved 8 June 2022.

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