Atanas Trică
 Atanas Trică in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Atanas Ioan Trică | ||
| Date of birth | 9 July 2004 | ||
| Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | AEK Larnaca | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2012–2021 | Daco-Getica București | ||
| 2021–2022 | Universitatea Craiova | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2021–2024 | Universitatea Craiova | 8 | (1) |
| 2022–2023 | → CSA Steaua București (loan) | 19 | (3) |
| 2023–2024 | → Tunari (loan) | 9 | (1) |
| 2024–2025 | CSM Slatina | 21 | (2) |
| 2025–2026 | Universitatea Cluj | 26 | (1) |
| 2026– | AEK Larnaca | 0 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2022 | Romania U18 | 3 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | Romania U19 | 8 | (1) |
| 2023–2025 | Romania U20 | 13 | (4) |
| 2025– | Romania U21 | 8 | (2) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 3 August 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 31 March 2026 | |||
Atanas Ioan Trică (born 9 July 2004) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Cypriot First Division club AEK Larnaca.[1]
Club career
Trică scored his first goal for Universitatea Craiova on 10 February 2022, in a 6–1 Liga I win over Dinamo București.
Personal life
Atanas father, Eugen, and maternal grandfather, Ilie Balaci, were also professional footballers.[2]
Career statistics
- As of match played 3 August 2026[3]
| Club | Season | League | Cupa României | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Universitatea Craiova | 2020–21 | Liga I | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2021–22 | Liga I | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2023–24 | Liga I | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 7 | 1 | |||
| Total | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | ||
| CSA Steaua București (loan) | 2022–23 | Liga II | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 18 | 3 | ||
| Tunari (loan) | 2023–24 | Liga II | 9 | 1 | — | — | — | 9 | 1 | |||
| CSM Slatina | 2024–25 | Liga II | 21 | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 23 | 3 | ||
| Universitatea Cluj | 2025–26 | Liga I | 25 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2[a] | 0 | — | 30 | 3 | |
| 2026–27 | Liga I | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Total | 26 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 3 | ||
| AEK Larnaca | 2026–27 | Cypriot First Division | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 82 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 93 | 12 | ||
- ↑ Appearances in UEFA Conference League
- ↑ Appearance in Supercupa României
Honours
Universitatea Craiova[3]
Universitatea Cluj
- Cupa României runner-up: 2025–26
- Supercupa României runner-up: 2026
References
- ↑ .Atanas Trică a fost vândut de U Cluj în străinătate! Unde va juca nepotul lui Ilie Balaci(in Romanian)
- ↑ "Atanas Trică, nepotul lui Ilie Balaci, semnează cu CS Universitatea Craiova » EXCLUSIV Reacția emoționantă a Lorenei: "Și eu sunt o povară pentru el!"". gsp.ro.
- 1 2 Atanas Trică at Soccerway. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Atanas Trică.
- Atanas Trică – Romanian league stats at LPF (archived 2022-02-10) (in Romanian)
- Atanas Trică at Soccerway
Categories:
- 2004 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Bucharest
- Romanian men's footballers
- Romania men's youth international footballers
- Romania men's under-21 international footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- Liga I players
- CS Universitatea Craiova players
- Liga II players
- CSA Steaua București footballers
- CS Tunari players
- CSM Slatina (football) players
- FC Universitatea Cluj players
- Cypriot First Division players
- AEK Larnaca FC players
- 21st-century Romanian sportsmen
- Romanian expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
- Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
- Romanian football forward stubs