staff as the assistant manager. The Portuguese manager had been in the previous season the manager of CFR Cluj for an eight-month period, achieving to win the Liga I and the Romanian Cup. The deal was signed for the remaining half of the season, with an extension clause included. Iosif Kovacs was also returning to the club after six years to take the chairman job. Players The squad was filled with several players from the reserves team or from the under 21 team who had been loaned to regional lower division clubs the previous season. That included: Alexandru Târziu (previous season at Unirea Tărlungeni), Alexandru David (previous season at Snagov), Ciprian Pricop (previous season Arieşul Turda) and the junior players Florin Iacob, Vlad Potecu, Darius Drăgan, Manuel Creţulescu, Bogdan Liţă. On June 27 it has been announced that other two key players of the previous season, Mihai Roman and Sabrin Sburlea had been transferred to Rapid București for an unofficial fee of €800,000 or €1.5 million by other sources. On 2 July two foreign players signed with Braşov: the Brazilian aged 26, José Williams da Silva Mendonça (referred to as Williams), who had played the previous season for Portuguese Second League side Trofense, and the Slovak aged 31, Peter Majerník, last time at Slovak Superliga team MFK Ružomberok. Both of them came as free agents. A total of eight players were registered at the PFL ahead of the first game of the season. The only player to join the squad few days before the first league game was Cosmin Năstăsie, who came on a one-year loan from Argeş Piteşti. Dănuţ Coman, once the goalkeeper of the Romania national football team, and the club mutually agreed to end their contract on August 7, so that he was released on free transfer. Only eleven days later he returned at Rapid București, his previous team before playing for Braşov. At this time he had been injured since early April and was lacking training, so that he was not the first choice for goalkeeper at Rapid after being signed. Still it has been stated that his salary was far too high for the club's budget. He was the sixteenth player to leave the club this season. Nuno Viveiros was signed by Braşov on August 25, after he ended his contract with Politehnica Iaşi by mutual agreement. His former club was relegated from Liga I