The Scottish Premier League has one match on Sunday while the Romanian Liga I has a full set of matches. The lone SPL match is Falkirk v Celtic while two of the Romanian matches include Cluj against Astra and Otelul hosting Timisoara. All of these matches are available on our other site, Free Live Sports TV.

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I don't care much for the JV competition in Europe. But here are the raw scores in case you have any interest.Anderlecht 3-1 FC Timisoara
Dinamo Zagreb 0-2 Ajax Amsterdam
Genoa 3-2 Lille
Slavia Prague 2-2 Valencia
Hamburg SV 0-0 Celtic
Rapid Vienna 0-3 Hapoel Tel-Aviv
Heerenveen 2-3 Hertha Berlin
Sporting Lisbon 1-1 FK Ventspils
AS Roma 2-1 Fulham
FC Basel 3-1 CSKA Sofia
Dinamo Bucuresti 0-3 Galatasaray
SK Sturm Graz 0-1 Panathinaikos
Levski Sofia 0-1 SV Salzburg
Villarreal 4-1 Lazio
Fenerbahce 3-1 Steaua Bucuresti
Twente Enschede 2-1 Sheriff Tiraspol
AEK Athens 2-2 BATE Borisov
Everton 0-2 Benfica
Partizan Belgrade 2-4 Club Brugge
Toulouse 0-2 Shakhtar Donetsk
CFR Cluj-Napoca 2-3 Sparta Prague
FC Copenhagen 1-1 PSV Eindhoven
CD Nacional de Madeira 1-1 Athletic Bilbao
Werder Bremen 2-0 Austria ViennaFun stuff. Click to continue reading...

Video Info:
01.10.2009 - Europa League
PSV Eindhoven - CFR Cluj 1:0

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CFR Cluj 2 - 1 FC Braşov
CFR Cluj
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While discussing the debatable usefulness and potential loneliness of the Europa League's extra assistant referees yesterday, we got a great tip-off from Vlad in the comments. Go to just after 6:45 in the above YouTube highlights of CFR Cluj 2-0 FC København in Europa League Group L (yep, there are 12 gruops) yesterday, and you'll [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal striker Eduardo is in danger of facing a two-game suspension after UEFA determined that he was guilty of misleading the referee after his blatant dive during Arsenal's Champions League playoff vs. Celtic on Wednesday.

Here is the dive, in case you missed it the first time.

If suspended, Eduardo would miss Arsenal's first two Champions League group stage matches against Standard Leige on Sept.

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Arsenal striker Eduardo is in danger of facing a two-game suspension after UEFA determined that he was guilty of misleading the referee after his blatant dive during Arsenal's Champions League playoff vs. Celtic on Wednesday.

Here is the dive, in case you missed it the first time.

If suspended, Eduardo would miss Arsenal's first two Champions League group stage matches against Standard Leige on Sept.

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1) FC Salzburg, having drawn, Maccabi Haifa, look set to finally qualify for the lucrative group stage of the Champions League. The club was purchased by RedBull founder Dietrich Mateschitz with the intent to make it a player internationally, but it has failed in its attempts since the takeover to qualify for the competition proper. Click to continue reading...

Lars Hirschfeld

Another Canadian makes the move to Germany. Canuck keeper Lars Hirschfeld is (finally) on the move (English translation). After enduring a 2 seasons spell at CFR Cluj in Romania where he played third fiddle and saw virtually no first team action, Hirschfeld is moving back to German side FC Energie Cottbus.

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The clock is running down as CFR Cluj coast to a 3-0 win over Timisoara in the Romanian cup final. Supporters of the losing team decide to invade the pitch and one of the troublemakers appears to pull a goal back for his side! Despite his best goal-poacher's celebration we are not 100 per cent [...]

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FC Porto add Brazilian defender Maicon via EC Cruzeiro and Uruguay leftback Álvaro Pereira via CFR 1907 Cluj plus manager Jesualdo Ferreira has agreed a two-year extension through 2011.
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Do you remember when we spoke about the team's spending spree prior to the UEFA Champions League this fall? -- Read On -- CFR Cluj Bringing in Top Talent for 2008-2009 UEFA Champions League
Wonder how the team is doing in Romania's Liga I this season (2008-09)?
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A full week of Libertadores matches took place this week as teams seek points to advance to the knockout stages which are less than 1 month away.� On Tuesday, Libertad's perfect record ended with a 2-1 road loss to Universitario in Lima.� The Peruvians took the 3 points when Piero Alva scoring in the 62 minute to move Universitario into 2nd place in Group 8 with 8 points.

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I can't keep up. Seems like there is a whack of Canuck soccer news this week. Fortunatly I have my handy, dandy Google Reader and the ever expanding Canadian soccer blogging community to keep me up to date. New reads for me are the extremely prolific 24th Minute, who seems to crank out 6 posts while [. Click to continue reading...

I can't keep up. Seems like there is a whack of Canuck soccer news this week. Fortunatly I have my handy, dandy Google Reader and the ever expanding Canadian soccer blogging community to keep me up to date. New reads for me are the extremely prolific 24th Minute, who seems to crank out 6 posts while [. Click to continue reading...

Roma seem to have taken a fondness for 3-1 wins lately. After Bordeaux and Chelsea, CFR Cluj was the third team Wednesday to fall to the hands of Spalletti's boys in Europe, enabling the Giallorossi to take sole command of Group A with one match to go. And indeed that last match against Bordeaux will be [. Click to continue reading...

Note: When we do our searches for the ever-elusive game highlights, we have to take what we can get. (And we do it with much gratitude to the people who manage to evade the Video Police and host them.) But the ones we find are not always perfect. There's a good chance that [...] Click to continue reading...

Matchday 4 should be a pivotal one as many groups may well be decided once the games are completed. Who needs a win and who can afford to slip? Let's take a look at Tuesday's games. Group A Roma need to win at home against Chelsea but that is looking to be a tall order considering the [...] Click to continue reading...

CFR Cluj are meeting Bordeaux in the Champions League Group A.  Watch the match LIVE here. Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today   Don`t forget to sign up 11×2.com - the next big football site Click to continue reading...

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Another eight Champions League games today, and I'm going to try and cover them all here in one big LiveBlog. Personally, I think today's games look a bit more interesting than yesterday's. Inter vs Bremen promises excitement and we'll see if Cluj's win at Roma was just a fluke when they host Chelsea in Romania. Click to continue reading...

30/09/2008
Gruppo E:
Aalborg - Manchester United 0 - 3
Villarreal - Celtic 1 - 0
Gruppo F:
Fiorentina - Steaua Bucarest 0 - 0
Bayern Monaco - Lione 1 - 1
Gruppo G:
Arsenal - Porto 4 - 0
Fenerbahçe - Dinamo Kiev 0 - 0
Gruppo H:
Zenit San Pietroburgo - Real Madrid 1 - 2
BATE Borisov - Juventus 2 - 2
01/10/2008
Gruppo A:
CFR Cluj - Chelsea ore 20. Click to continue reading...

30/09/2008
Gruppo E:
Aalborg - Manchester United ore 20.45
Villarreal - Celtic ore 20.45
Gruppo F:
Fiorentina - Steaua Bucarest ore 20.45
Bayern Monaco - Lione ore 20.45
Gruppo G:
Arsenal - Porto ore 20.45
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Neither wind nor rain nor stock market crashes nor presidential debates could keep the Top 25 ranking committee from convening for its weekly session. Sure, we're a bit late (we know you like to have these things in your inbox Monday morning so you can kick off the "work" week in fashion) but we make up for it with an extremely high quality edition of the rankings--even by our absurdly high standards. Click to continue reading...

Week 2: Group A: Uefa Champions League CFR Cluj are meeting Chelsea in the second round of the Champions League, wednesday 1st of october. Don`t forget to sign up 11×2.com - the next big football site   Watch the match LIVE here! Click to continue reading...

As we approach the one year anniversary of the Top 25, the Soccer Source ranking committee was faced with arguably our toughest task yet: deciding this week's #1. The identity of the top club was of course cast into doubt after last week's #1 was outplayed and outcoached for large portions of yesterday's game, which came against a team that did not even field its best player. Click to continue reading...

It was an interesting beginning to the 2008-2009 Champions League campaign with Romanian upstarts CFR Cluj grabbing the headlines as they stunned Italian giants Roma with a deserved 2-1 victory at the Stadio Olimpico. Roma now face a must win game in Match Day 2 away to Bordeaux who were thrashed 4-0 by Chelsea. Click to continue reading...

The UEFA Champions League action continues today across Europe, just a day after some shocking results turned the tournamant on its ear.

Roma's stunning loss to CFR Cluj and Werder Bremen's tie vs. Anorthosis Famagusta have all the remaining match favorites focusing a little more closely today.

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I'm sure many English-speaking commentators were hoping that Werder Bremen did the expected and put Champions League debutantes Anorthosis Famagusta in their place with a resounding victory at the Weserstadion last night. Not because they had anything against the Cypriot champions but because if Bremen had thrashed the minnows as everyone thought they would, the result and the match in general would soon be forgotten and they could go back to talking about teams with easier names to pronounce. Click to continue reading...

LOCAL TIME ROME ITALY: (minus 6 hours for NYC time) CFR CLUJ who? are the headlines in Rome after Romanian club CFR Cluj made front-page news this morning beating A.S. Roma 2 - 1 at the Stadio Olimpico, in the opening day of Champions League action yesterday evening CFR Cluj play in the Romanian Liga 1, and currently sit seventh in their domestic league. Click to continue reading...

There's an old 1962 movie with Charlton Heston (don't ask me how I know that) that has a very appropriate title for this match: "The Pigeon That Took Rome". CFR Cluj being the pigeon, a.k.a the David that no one knew but who at his first UCL appearance defeated the big Roma Goliath. Italian manager [. Click to continue reading...

Just in time for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League, here's a list of the CONCACAF players who will be participating in the world's premier continental competition: Player Club Country Guillermo Franco Villarreal Mexico Rafael Márquez Barcelona Mexico Francisco Rodríguez PSV Eindhoven Mexico Carlos Salcido PSV Eindhoven Mexico Carlos Vela Arsenal Mexico Lars Hirschfeld CFR Cluj Canada I do know that Jozy Altidore also plays for Villarreal, but he was not listed on the roster that the club sent to UEFA, so he cannot play in the group stages. Click to continue reading...

Admit it. Before Tuesday you probably never heard of CFR Cluj.

After the Romanian clubbed knocked off Italian powerhouse AS Roma on Tuesday, you will be learning a bit more.

Cluj erased a 1-0 deficit in Rome and ralled for a stunning 2-1 win in the opening Champions League group match for both teams.

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Yes, the Champions League is all about the big names. Cristiano Ronaldo, Leo Messi, Francesco Totti, Steven Gerrard, Kaka and so on and so on. The reason we love the Champions league is that we get to see these guys go head to head. But equally good, perhaps even better, is when some guy you've never [. Click to continue reading...

It's first day of school in the Champions League today. Who's going to show up looking smart? Who's going to show up late? And who is this new Romanian kid? We've got three Champions League LiveBlogs on The Offside for you today: Chelsea vs Bordeuax LiveBlog on Champions League Offside Roma vs CFR Cluj LiveBlog on Roma Offside Marseille [. Click to continue reading...