Ionel Ganea
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ioan Viorel Ganea | ||
| Date of birth | 10 August 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Făgăraș, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1994 | ICIM Brașov | ||
| 1994–1996 | FC Brașov | 50 | (4) |
| 1996–1998 | Universitatea Craiova | 56 | (22) |
| 1998 | Gloria Bistrița | 16 | (17) |
| 1999 | Rapid București | 16 | (11) |
| 1999–2003 | VfB Stuttgart | 107 | (34) |
| 2003–2004 | Bursaspor | 16 | (5) |
| 2004–2006 | Wolves | 34 | (7) |
| 2006 | Dinamo București | 18 | (14) |
| 2007 | Rapid București | 9 | (2) |
| 2007–2008 | Politehnica Timișoara | 18 | (3) |
| 2010 | Sănătatea Cluj | 1 | (0) |
| Total | 341 | (119) | |
| National team | |||
| 1999–2006 | Romania | 45 | (19) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2010 | Dinamo II București | ||
| 2011 | Sănătatea Cluj | ||
| 2012 | Rapid Chișinău | ||
| 2013 | Universitatea Cluj | ||
| 2014 | Rapid București | ||
| 2015–2016 | Dunărea Călărași | ||
| 2016 | Voluntari | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ioan Viorel Ganea (born 10 August 1973 in Făgăraş) is a Romanian football manager and former striker.
Ganea debuted in Liga I (Divizia A at that time) with FC Braşov in 1994. He went on to play for a number of clubs in Romanian football over the next five years. He joined Rapid Bucharest in January 1999, where he scored 11 goals in the remainder of the season to fire the club to the league championship. He finished that season with 28 goals overall, making him the leading goalscorer.
This form won him a move to Bundesliga side VfB Stuttgart in the summer of 1999. He remained in Germany for four seasons and tasted UEFA Cup action, but was never a regular starter. He moved to Turkish top flight club Bursaspor in June 2003 on a free transfer, but stayed there for just six months before moving to England.
The striker joined Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers in December 2003 after his contract in Turkey was cancelled by mutual consent. He scored three Premier League goals during the 2003–04 season – against eventual champions Arsenal, Leeds and Newcastle – but could not prevent relegation.
He remained with the club for two seasons in the second tier, mostly under the managerialship of Glenn Hoddle. The first of these years was written off after suffering cruciate knee ligament injury on a pre-season tour of Norway. He recovered for the 2005–06 season but never held down a regular starting place, and was released as his contract expired at the end of the campaign.
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