Rapid Bucharest is the third most important team in Rumania. After a highly productive start to the century, in which the white and reds managed to win two leagues and two Rumanian cups (they are currently the winners of this championship), they have undergone an intensive process of technical reorganisation in order to maintain their status as one of the great Rumanian teams.   The task of maintaining the level achieved over the past years has fallen on Razvan Lucescu, a former player who met with success in the Nacional team, of Portugal, after winning one League cup with Rapid in the year 2002.  He is a young coach (born in 1969) who has given the team a more offensive vision of the game.

What happened last year was only an accident. After a disappointing season, mitigated somewhat by its participation for the first time ever in the regular phase of the Champions League, Rosenborg BK once again won its twentieth National League Championship. Despite this, last season was catastrophic for the Trondheim players, who have not participated in any European competitions; quite a black mark for a club  that is used to winning titles in Norway and confronting important rivals in the best football stadiums in Europe.