Cosmina Dușa

Cosmina Anișoara Dușa (born 4 March 1990 in Iernut) is a Romanian footballer. She plays as a forward for Konak Belediyespor in Turkey and the Romanian national team.[1] As a player she won the national championship, the national cup and was top-scorer of the league.

Cosmina Dușa

Cosmina Dușa playing for Konak Belediyespor in the 2013–14 season.
Personal information
Full name	Cosmina Anișoara Dușa
Date of birth	(1990-03-04) 4 March 1990
Place of birth	Iernut, Romania
Playing position(s)	Forward
Club information
Current team	Konak Belediyespor
Number	18
Youth career
	CFF Clujana Cluj
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2007–2009	CFF Clujana Cluj
2009–2010	AS Volos 2004		(42)
2010–2012	CFF Olimpia Cluj	48	(174)
2012–	Konak Belediyespor	115	(144)
National team^‡
2008–2009	Romania U-19	16	(6)
2009–	Romania	19	(15)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of DecembFebruary 12, 2020 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13:22, January 10, 2014 (UTC)

Career

Club

Cosmina Dușa for Konak Belediyespor in the 2013–14 season.

Cosmina Dușa for Konak Belediyespor in the 2014–15 season.

Cosmina Dușa (red/black) driving the ball for Konak Belediyespor in the away match of the 2015–16 season against Kireçburnu Spor.

Cosmina Dușa (red) playing for Konak Belediyespor against Beşiktaş J.K. in the 2017–18 season's away match.

Dușa started playing football in primary school with her brother's friends. At the age of 17, she was accepted by the Romanian women's football club champions, CFF Clujana Cluj. She made her official debut in a 2007–08 UEFA Women's Cup match against Umeå IK; scoring five goals in the three group matches.[2] She later played for AS Volos 2004 from Greece and was called up for the Romania national team.[3] In 2010, she returned to Cluj-Napoca and followed her first trainer, Mirel Albon, to the newly founded team CFF Olimpia Cluj. In the club's very first season Dușa scored 103 goals in the club's 24 matches, making her the Liga I top scorer.[4] She repeated that feat by winning the 2012 top-scorer award with 71 goals.[5] In the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying she scored five goals in three matches.[2]

She was awarded for "Best Women's Footballer" in Romania from 2010 to 2012.[6]

By the end of September 2012, she transferred to the İzmir-base club Konak Belediyespor in Turkey.[7]

International

Dușa made her debut in the Romanian national team in March 2009 against Belgium. She featured for Romania in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification tournament.[8]

Goals scored in official competitions

Competition	Stage	Date	Location	Opponent	Goals	Result	Overall
2011 FIFA World Cup	Qualifiers	2009–09–23	Buftea	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	4–0	5
		2009–10–28	Sopron	Hungary	1	1–1
		2010–03–27	Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	5–0
		2010–08–21	Chernihiv	Ukraine	1	1–3
2013 UEFA Euro	Qualifiers	2011–09–21	Aarau	Switzerland	1	1–4	6
		2011–10–27	Bucharest	Turkey	3	7–1
		2012–03–31	Buftea	Kazakhstan	1	3–0
		2012–06–21	Buftea	Switzerland	1	4–2
2015 FIFA World Cup	Qualifiers	2013–09–20	Strumica	North Macedonia	4	9–1	6
		2014–06–19	Haapsalu	Estonia	2	2–0
2017 UEFA Euro	Qualifiers	2017–09–15	Cluj	Ukraine	1	2–1	1
2019 FIFA World Cup	Qualifiers	2017–10–20	Leuven	Belgium	1	2–3	TBD

Career statistics

As of 8 March 2020.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

Club	Season	League			Champions League		National		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Konak Belediyespor	2012–2013	First League	17	32	–	–			17	32
	2013–14	First League	14	15	7	3			21	18
	2014–15	First League	17	33	3	5			20	38
	2015–16	First League	15	20	–	–			15	20
	2016–17	First League	10	9	3	2			13	11
	2017–18	First League	18	16	3	1			21	17
	2018–19	First League	15	10	0	0			15	10
	2019–20	First League	14	9	0	0			14	9
	Total		115	144	16	11			136	155

Honours

Club

Romania Liga I Feminin

CFF Clujana

Winners (2): 2007–08, 2008–09

CFF Olimpia Cluj

Winners (2): 2011, 2012

Romanian Women's Cupp

CFF Clujana

Winners (1): 2007–08

CFF Olimpia Cluj

Winners (2): 2011, 2012

Turkish Women's First League

Konak Belediyespor

Winners (5): 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17

Third places (1): 2017–18

Individual

Turkish Women's First League

Konak Belediyespor

Top scorer (3): 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15

References

1. "Olimpia Cluj squad". olimpiacluj.ro. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
2. "UEFA competition statistics". UEFA. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
3. "Cosmina Dusa, "galactica" fotbalului feminin romanesc" (in Romanian). ziare.com. 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
4. "Awards given on last matchday" (in Romanian). olimpiacluj.ro. 29 May 2011. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2011. Cosmin Dusa was awarded Trophy scorer with 103 goals
5. "Final match day report" (in Romanian). citynews.ro. 6 June 2012. Archived from the original on 8 June 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
6. "Olimpia defends title" (in Romanian). ziare.com. June 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
7. "Cosima Dusa leaves Cluj" (in Romanian). ziare.com. 3 October 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
8. "Goalscorers" (PDF). UEFA.com. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
9. "Oyuncular – Futbolcular: Cosmina Anisoara Dusa" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
10. "UEFA Women's Champions League 2016–17 Qualifying round Konak-Hibernians". UEFA. Retrieved 2016-08-23.
11. "UEFA Women's Champions League 2016–17 Qualifying round Ferencváros-Konak". UEFA. Retrieved 2016-08-25.
12. "UEFA Women's Champions League 2016–17 Qualifying round Konak-Twente". UEFA. Retrieved 2016-08-28.
13. "Mikheil Meskhi-2 – Tbilisi 22/08/2017 Qualifying – Group 1 Konak-Martve". UEFA. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
14. "David Petriashvili Stadium – Tbilisi 25/08/2017 Qualifying – Group 1 Partizan Bardejov 1–5 Konak". UEFA. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
15. "David Petriashvili Stadium – Tbilisi 25/08/2017 Qualifying – Group 1 Konak 1–3 Gintra". UEFA. Retrieved 2017-08-28.

External links

• Profile at uefa.com (in English)