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Mircea Lucescu

Romanian football player and manager (1945–2026)

  • Fame57.0
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia30.8K
Source-basedFalling
Lived 1945–2026, aged 81
FootballersFootball / Soccer Player
  • Wikipedia
    44 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1945–2026
    Aged 81
  • Awards
    6
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

The third-most decorated manager in football history, with 38 trophies across five decades and six countries. His twelve years at Shakhtar Donetsk rewrote Ukrainian football — eight league titles, a UEFA Cup, and a legacy that made crossing to rival Dynamo Kyiv late in his career both audacious and inevitable.

Biography

About

Lucescu won seven Romanian league titles as a midfielder with Dinamo București between 1964 and 1990, captaining Romania at the 1970 World Cup along the way. He started coaching in 1979 while still playing, then spent five decades moving through Romania, Italy, Turkey, Ukraine, and Russia. The Shakhtar Donetsk years from the late 2000s defined him: eight Ukrainian Premier League titles, six cups, and the 2008–09 UEFA Cup made him the club's most successful manager ever. He later won silverware with Shakhtar's bitter rival Dynamo Kyiv, added Turkish Süper Lig titles with Galatasaray and Beşikta…

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Teams

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  • FC Dinamo Bucharest
    1990–1990
  • FC Corvinul Hunedoara
    1977–1983
  • Romania men's national association football team
    1966–1979
  • FC Sportul Studențesc București
    1965–1967
  • FC Dinamo Bucharest
    1963–1977
19631990
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Season stats

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1990–199010
1977–198311113
1966–19796510
1965–19673912
1963–197725057
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Awards

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  • Sport Merit Order
  • Order of the Star of Romania
  • Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
  • Order of Merit (Ukraine), 2nd class
  • Order of Merit, 1st class
  • honorary citizen of Donetsk Oblast
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57.0
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Historical24.9
Source confidence65.0
Completeness65.0
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Sources

  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
    High confidence
  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence