Image generated using AI, representing the frustration of fans trying to reach their clubs’ digital platforms.
A different league table — the one for the clubs’ digitalisation
We all know the financial trouble Romanian clubs are in — or where the money comes from, in the case of the ones doing well. And the clubs in the first group complain that merchandise, meaning tickets, season tickets and shirts, brings in too little to help the club in any real way.
Below is an objective audit of the digital platforms of Romania’s clubs. On the evidence of the scores, and of the experience a supporter is actually given, that small contribution to the team’s budget is entirely justified.
OneNil ·
19.3
League average
Out of 100, with the store set aside. Passing and good are not the same grade.
37.5
Best club
Oțelul Galați. The best score in the league is not a good score.
1.2
Weakest club
FCSB, the lowest total in the field.
37%
Strongest category
UI/UX impact is where the league does best, as a share of what it could have scored in it.
3%
Weakest category
Mobile app is where it does worst, on the same measure.
The table
Ranked by weighted score out of 100 — the five categories a club’s own site owns, re-weighted between themselves once the store is taken out. Each column shows what that category contributed out of its own weight, and the total is the sum of the columns. The store has its own table below. Each club name links to the site it was scored on.
Romanian clubs ranked by total weighted audit score, with each category's contribution out of its own weight.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact20.1 / 26The best-built site in the audit, and the only one visibly designed for a football club.Suggestion: Do not change the look; put the missing information behind it.
Fixtures and match experience5.5 / 26Upcoming matches are not published, and the results are incomplete and reduced to a date: no kick-off time, no team names, no score and no round. No match has a page of its own, and there is no live information.Suggestion: Publish the upcoming matches, complete the results with a kick-off time, team names, the score and the round, and give every match a page.
Content and information11.9 / 19The table is not up to date, and the one in the side column is from last season’s play-out. The match against Rapid, played three days ago, does not show its score, and the date of the next match is not published.Suggestion: Update the table in the side column, and publish the last match’s score and the next match’s date.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop73.3 / 100The shop is well built and the only one that personalises a name, previewing it on the shirt during configuration. Only last season’s shirts are available.Suggestion: Update the shirts to the current season, and link the shop from the club’s site: no page on it points there today.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortFixtures and match experience
There is no fixtures, results or standings section
The navigation offers Știri, Club, Echipa, Media, Academie, Socios, Ticketing, Voluntariat, Contact and Shop. No fixture list, results page or league table appears anywhere on the site.
Fix: Publish fixtures, results and the table. This is the reason most supporters open a club site.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The homepage makes an unusual number of requests
A desktop load reached network idle after 265 requests and 3.4 seconds.
Fix: Audit the third-party scripts; the weight is not coming from the club's own content.
MediumStrategic investmentOnline shop
The membership scheme cannot be joined online
Socios has its own statute, council, principles and a “Devino Membru” page, but joining and renewing happen off the website.
Fix: Put Socios sign-up and renewal on the site. The programme is the club's distinguishing asset and it needs a form.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact18.9 / 26The interface is clean, perhaps too plain, but the information is present and easy to find and the navigation is intuitive. A short table on the homepage would complete it.Suggestion: Add a short table to the homepage; the rest works and needs no change.
Fixtures and match experience5.9 / 26The match page carries the score alone, with no scorers. Of the upcoming matches, only the current month’s are shown.Suggestion: Add the scorers and a report to the match page, and publish the whole season’s fixtures.
Content and information11.9 / 19Information is generally findable, but the absence of any material on a match played, a written report included, limits the category.Suggestion: Publish a report after every match: it is the one visible gap in the content.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The homepage carries a sign-in area, but the account belongs to the shop and, most likely, to the eCommerce platform behind it.Suggestion: Move the account onto the club’s domain, so the sign-in on the homepage belongs to the club and not to the shop.
Online shop46.7 / 100No design work has been applied to the shop: it is a list of products.Suggestion: Give the shop a design of its own, beyond the list of products.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
MediumStrategic investmentMy Account
MyU is the shop's account, not the club's
The MyU sign-in sits on the club domain, but “Creare cont” points to shop.fcucluj.ro/register and “Ați uitat parola?” to shop.fcucluj.ro/forgot-password, and the page describes itself as an account “în cadrul magazinului” — for faster checkout, stored delivery addresses and order tracking. Tickets are sold through bilete.ro on a third identity.
Fix: Make MyU the club's account and let the shop consume it, rather than the reverse. The header link is already there; what sits behind it belongs to the store.
MediumMedium effortContent and information
Romanian only, with no language option
No language switcher and no second language tree were found, on a club that publishes UEFA Europa League fixtures in its own results filter.
Fix: Translate the club, stadium, ticket and fixture pages. European ties are when this site receives its only international traffic.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact9.0 / 26The simplest page in the audit, minimal in design but coherent. It includes a full-width banner promoting the club’s products.Suggestion: Keep it simple, and put information where there is now only a banner.
Fixtures and match experience2.0 / 26Only the banner carrying the last result and the table of the next three matches are published; no match has a page of its own.Suggestion: Give every match a page and publish the whole season’s fixtures.
Content and information8.0 / 19The news is decently presented but undated, so its currency cannot be verified. The homepage carries the last result and the next three matches, in a minimal form and with little scope to explore further.Suggestion: Date the news and add a way to go further than the homepage.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account12.0 / 15The only club with an account of its own. How it is used could not be verified, but its existence is a good sign.Suggestion: Use the account you already have for tickets, the shop and notifications: it is the advantage no other club in the league has.
Online shop12.0 / 100The presentation is unconventional, and the playing shirts are not the products placed first. The Romanian version mixes Hungarian and English.Suggestion: Put the playing shirts first and separate the language versions cleanly.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
Unknown URLs redirect instead of returning 404
A nonexistent path answers 302 rather than 404, so a mistyped or expired URL never announces itself as missing.
Fix: Return a real 404 so search engines drop dead URLs rather than logging soft ones.
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
Both the web server and PHP are years out of support
Responses carry Server: Apache/2.2.15 and X-Powered-By: PHP/7.3.25. Apache 2.2 reached end of life in 2018 and PHP 7.3 in December 2021.
Fix: Upgrade the stack. Neither version has received a security patch in years.
MediumQuick winFixtures and match experience
The league table is filed under news
Standings live at /hirek/tabellak — inside the news section — rather than beside the fixtures and results a supporter is already looking at.
Fix: Move standings into the match section where supporters look for them.
MediumMedium effortMy Account
Tracking fires before any consent request
A Laravel session cookie is set on first load and no consent dialog appears anywhere on the site.
Fix: Add consent management and gate the tags behind it.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact13.0 / 26The homepage is well built, but the static opening image takes the whole visible area without carrying information. Replacing it with a carousel would improve the experience.Suggestion: Replace the fixed image with a carousel carrying the next match, the last result and the latest story.
Fixtures and match experience3.5 / 26The next-match block is confusing and the basic information is laid out without order. A finished match does not show its score, and the crests overlap the text.Suggestion: Reorder the next-match block, show the score of a finished match, and fix the crests overlapping the text.
Content and information14.2 / 19The news is carefully written and the dates are current, but the absence of content on matches played limits the category.Suggestion: Publish something after every match; the newsroom already works.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop80.0 / 100The shop is the strong point: an eye-catching design built around selling shirts, with well-organised categories. The playing kit on sale is last season’s.Suggestion: Update the playing kit to the current season; the rest of the shop is among the best in the league.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortUI/UX impact
A static image takes the whole top of the homepage
The homepage opens on a large fixed image that fills the visible area without carrying any information. The rest of the page begins below it.
Fix: Replace it with a carousel of dynamic content — the next match, the last result, the latest story — so the most valuable space on the site says something every time someone opens it.
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
430 requests and seven seconds to settle
A desktop load on a fast connection reached network idle after 430 requests and 7.0 seconds — the heaviest and slowest page in this audit. The console also reports the Google Maps JavaScript API being included more than once.
Fix: Cut the third-party payload and load the map once, on the page that needs it. Match day is when this page is asked to work hardest.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact14.2 / 26The homepage is well built, apart from the table-style menu, which dates it. The next-match counter is well made; the homepage table shows only the top five positions and their points, with no crests, no matches played and no sight of the club’s own position. The mobile version has missing images and cut-off content. Navigation is the weak part: the results page and the upcoming-fixtures page cannot be found, and the menu is confusing.Suggestion: Replace the table-style menu, complete the homepage table with crests, matches played and the club’s own position, and fix the mobile version.
Fixtures and match experience3.5 / 26The only information concerns the last match played, and the page loads only after several attempts and with a console error: an opening image cropped badly, the rest text. No other matches played were found, though they most likely exist as articles, and the next match has no page. Matches are treated as articles, with no format of their own.Suggestion: Give matches a format of their own, with a page each, instead of articles.
Content and information3.6 / 19The content is static, and the news page takes about 30 seconds to load; the cause appears to be an AddThis widget that blocks everything except the headline. That this error persists indicates the level of maintenance. The table on the homepage is last season’s, and the standings page is the only part kept correctly up to date.Suggestion: Remove the AddThis widget blocking the news page, and point the homepage table at the current season.
Mobile app7.0 / 14An iOS application exists and is maintained. Sign-in is ambiguous: it is not clear whether registering confers membership or requires a paid subscription, and some content is conditional on it.Suggestion: Say plainly on the sign-in screen what registering gives and what a paid subscription requires.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop66.7 / 100The shop is clear and well organised, and personalises a number but not a name.Suggestion: Add name personalisation, not only the number.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalQuick winContent and information
News pages take 30 seconds to load
A news article stays blank for roughly 30 seconds: the headline renders and the rest of the content waits. The cause appears to be an AddThis widget loaded synchronously, which holds the page until it answers.
Fix: Remove AddThis or load it with defer. The service has been retired anyway, and an article has no reason to wait on it.
CriticalMedium effortMy Account
Three trackers fire before any consent request
GA4, Universal Analytics (UA-139882413) and the Facebook pixel all set cookies on first load. No consent banner or preference control appears at 1440×900 or 390×844.
Fix: Add consent management and gate all three behind it.
HighQuick winFixtures and match experience
The homepage standings show last season
The table on the entry page lists U. Craiova on 60 points, Rapid 56 and U. Cluj 54 — a completed season. Seven rounds of 2026-2027 have been played, and the club’s own standings page defaults correctly to the current season.
Fix: Point the homepage widget at the same season the standings page already uses. The right data is one query away.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact11.8 / 26The video occupying the homepage, static at first sight, dominates the experience and makes the site harder to move through. Replacing it with a smaller carousel would change how the site is perceived.Suggestion: Replace the video with a carousel carrying the next match, the last result and the latest story.
Fixtures and match experience7.1 / 26Information on a match played is reduced to the final score and the half-time score. The upcoming-fixtures page is properly made, and the results are published on the same page.Suggestion: Add line-ups, scorers and a report to the matches played.
Content and information5.9 / 19The table is empty, every value zero, and the last match, a 5-1 win, is published as a sequence of 106 images with no description, which makes the page hard to work through.Suggestion: Fill the table, and replace the gallery of 106 images with a report and a selection of photographs.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop33.3 / 100The shop is hosted on another domain, which detaches it from the main site and reduces confidence in its official standing.Suggestion: Tie the shop to the club’s identity, so it does not read as someone else’s.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
A full-screen video takes over the homepage
The homepage is dominated by an enormous video that reads as a still image until it moves. It pushes everything else below the fold and makes the site heavy to move through.
Fix: Replace it with a carousel of dynamic content — the next match, the last result, the latest story — so the most valuable space on the site says something every time someone opens it.
MediumMedium effortMy Account
Tracking fires before any consent request
No consent dialog appears. Only a Laravel session cookie was observed on load, so nothing is tracked today — but nothing prevents the first analytics tag from changing that.
Fix: Add consent management and gate the tags behind it.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact10.0 / 26The main banner appears fixed, showing a photograph of the starting eleven; on a Full HD screen the heads of the players in the second row are cut off, and the opening image carries no useful information. The table is an embedded Sofascore widget, which sits apart from the page visually and contains a button through to Sofascore’s site.Suggestion: Change the crop on the banner photograph and put useful information at the top of the page instead of a fixed image.
Fixtures and match experience4.0 / 26No match has a page of its own, and for a finished match only the score is shown.Suggestion: Give every match a page with line-ups, scorers and a report.
Content and information10.0 / 19The basic information is present — the previous match and the next are on the homepage, and the news is sound — but everything is treated minimally.Suggestion: Take the content past the minimum: reports, interviews, match pages.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop10.0 / 100The presentation is poor, with the same cropping problem on the photographs of the players promoting the products.Suggestion: Redo the crops on the product photography and give the shop a design of its own.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
HighMedium effortFixtures and match experience
The league table is a Sofascore widget that sends the visitor away
The standings on the site are not the club’s: they are an embedded Sofascore widget, which sits oddly against the rest of the page and carries its own button through to Sofascore’s site.
Fix: Publish the table from your own data. A borrowed table sends a supporter exactly where the club can no longer see them.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The homepage makes 358 requests
A desktop load reached network idle after 358 requests and 4.1 seconds, the second heaviest in this audit, on a page carrying 27 images.
Fix: Audit the third-party scripts. The page weight is not coming from the club’s own content.
MediumQuick winFixtures and match experience
Future fixtures are listed without kickoff times
The upcoming fixtures page lists opponents and dates correctly for months ahead, but every fixture after the next one shows 00:00 as its kickoff time.
Fix: Show the time only once it is known, or mark it as to be confirmed. A stated 00:00 reads as fact.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact16.5 / 26At first sight the page is well received, with the crest dominating the central area where it would normally sit on the left and at a reduced size. The problem appears on scrolling: the crest does not reduce into a sticky header. Hiding the menu on the way down and showing a compact version on the way up would resolve it.Suggestion: Reduce the crest into a sticky header on the way down, and free the centre of the homepage for information.
Fixtures and match experience0.0 / 26One match, finished two months ago, has a page of its own, and its detail view answers with a 404. The remaining matches have no page.Suggestion: Fix the match page that returns a 404 and give every match a page of its own.
Content and information3.6 / 19The only content is the news, dominated by ticket announcements. There is no table, and the results page is empty.Suggestion: Publish the table and fill the results page; ticket announcements do not stand in for football content.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site allows registration, but the account belongs to the eCommerce platform.Suggestion: Move the account to the club itself, so the same person is recognised on the site, in the shop and at the ticket window.
Online shop46.7 / 100The shop runs inside the site rather than on a subdomain, and appears to be a WooCommerce integration in a WordPress installation. The presentation is minimal, with no design work applied.Suggestion: Give the shop a design of its own: the integration works, but the presentation does not sell.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortMy Account
The Facebook pixel fires with no consent request
_fbp is set on first load of fcrapid.ro. No cookie banner, consent dialog or preference control appears at 1440×900 or at 390×844.
Fix: Add consent management and gate the pixel behind it. Everything else on this site is unusually well configured, which makes this the one exposure that stands out.
HighMedium effortFixtures and match experience
There is no fixtures or results page
The club publishes a news article per match — “Bilete pentru FC Rapid – Universitatea Craiova | Etapa VII” — but no fixture list and no results page exist in the navigation, the footer or the top-level URL space.
Fix: Publish a season fixture list and a results archive. The per-match articles are good; they need a spine to hang on.
HighQuick winFixtures and match experience
The league table is frozen on matchday one
/clasament-sezonul-2026-2027/ shows every club on one match played and three points or fewer, in a season where six rounds have been completed.
Fix: Automate the table from a data feed. A standings page that is wrong is worse than no standings page, because a supporter believes it.
MediumQuick winUI/UX impact
Two squad pages, one of them empty
/prima-echipa/ lists the full squad by position. /lot/ resolves, renders its heading and then nothing — no players, no content.
Fix: Redirect /lot/ to /prima-echipa/ or delete it. A live empty page is an invitation to conclude the squad is unpublished.
MediumQuick winOnline shop
No season-ticket page
No season-ticket or abonament page appears in the navigation, the footer or the top-level URL space, although a membership programme is promoted on the homepage.
Fix: Publish season tickets where the membership already is. The audience for both is the same person.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact8.3 / 26The club crest is missing from the main menu, and the name written in its place does not lead back to the homepage. The opening carousel fills the entire field of view. The list of results is hard to follow, and the full table published on the homepage is out of date and takes a disproportionate amount of space.Suggestion: Put the crest in the menu and link it home, cut the carousel back, and take the full table off the homepage.
Fixtures and match experience2.4 / 26A match played is reported by its final score alone. There is, however, a results page and one for upcoming matches.Suggestion: Give every match a page with line-ups, scorers and a report.
Content and information5.9 / 19The news is not current, and information on the schedule and results is missing.Suggestion: Bring the news up to date and feed the schedule and results from one source.
Mobile app0.0 / 14An application exists in the App Store, but its last update is six years old. Once installed, it presents no data at all, only server errors.Suggestion: Retire the app that returns errors, or rebuild it; a broken app costs more than a missing one.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop20.0 / 100The shop is hosted on another domain, cocosport.ro, which presents itself as a retail store and also sells ordinary Nike products, putting its official standing in question.Suggestion: Bring the shop under the club’s identity, even if a partner keeps running it.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortMy Account
Analytics and commerce tracking fire with no consent request
GA4 and the WooCommerce wooTracker cookie are both set on first load of cfr1907.ro. No cookie banner or preference control appears at 1440×900 or 390×844.
Fix: Add consent management and gate both behind it. This is the only category where the club is exposed rather than merely behind.
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
Mistyped URLs quietly serve unrelated articles from 2016
/clasament-liga-1/, /lot/ and /jucatori/ each return 200 with a full page — respectively a 2016 post, a 2018 squad announcement and a 2025 loan round-up — instead of 404. The real pages are /clasament/, /echipa-principala/ and /rezultate-meciuri/, and they are current and complete.
Fix: Turn off the near-match slug fallback. A wrong URL that answers 200 with old content is worse than a 404: the supporter believes what they are reading, and search engines index it.
CriticalMedium effortMobile app
The app is published, but it does not work
CFR1907 CLUJ is listed on the App Store with a last update of 30 June 2020, and an Android listing is linked alongside it. Once installed, the application presents no data at all, only server errors.
Fix: Retire it or rebuild it. A published app that answers only with server errors does more damage than no app at all: a supporter downloads it, opens it once, and leaves.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The homepage makes 167 requests and takes seven seconds to settle
A desktop load on a fast connection reached network idle in 7.0 seconds after 167 requests. Responses carry Cache-Control: no-store, so nothing is reusable on the next visit.
Fix: Reduce the image count, set real cache headers and put a CDN in front. Match day is when this page is asked to work hardest and when it will be slowest.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact8.0 / 26The site is built from basic HTML elements, with no gradients and no transitions apart from the sticky header, whose background is transparent at the start of the scroll. The schedule, the results and the table cannot be found, and the season in the main menu is an anchor leading nowhere.Suggestion: Publish a schedule, results and a table, and fix the anchor in the main menu.
Fixtures and match experience0.0 / 26The only information on matches was a banner on the homepage carrying the previous month’s fixtures.Suggestion: Publish the schedule and the results as pages of their own, not as a banner.
Content and information5.0 / 19There is very little information, and YouTube links are the main source of it.Suggestion: Publish written content on the site, not only links to YouTube.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop40.0 / 100The shop is minimal but functional, and the products match what supporters want.Suggestion: Keep the shop simple and add product photography and descriptions.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortFixtures and match experience
There is no fixtures, results or standings section
The navigation offers Acasă, Echipa, FanShop, Club, Academia, Abonamente and Contact. There is no fixture list, no results page and no league table anywhere on the site; the homepage shows only the most recent scoreline, 1-1 against Dinamo.
Fix: Publish fixtures, results and the table. This is the reason most supporters open a club site.
CriticalMedium effortMy Account
Tracking fires before any consent request
Google Analytics sets its cookies on first load. No consent banner or preference control appears at 1440×900 or 390×844.
Fix: Add consent management and gate the tags behind it.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The server announces an end-of-life PHP version
Responses carry x-powered-by: PHP/7.4.33, a release that stopped receiving security support in November 2022.
Fix: Upgrade PHP and stop advertising the version in response headers.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The homepage carries almost no content
The entry page carries 13 images and two h2 elements in total: a result, a photo carousel and a footer. Nothing tells a supporter when the club plays next.
Fix: Give the entry page the fixture, the result and the table. Thirteen images is not a club's front door.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact5.0 / 26The homepage carries no information: a banner that appears static and two large images that require scrolling before the subject is clear. The news is illustrated with very large, pixelated images and the text is sparse. Pages take about ten seconds to open.Suggestion: Put information at the top of the page, cut the images in the news back, and deal with the ten-second load.
Fixtures and match experience3.0 / 26There is a match page, but only for the next fixture, and it is empty. The results list appears to be last season’s.Suggestion: Fill the next match’s page and bring the results list up to the current season.
Content and information3.0 / 19There is very little information, and the homepage is dominated by large photographs at the expense of the story. The league table and the cup table, both out of date, take up significant space.Suggestion: Take the out-of-date tables off the homepage and give the story the room.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop0.0 / 100The club has no online shop.Suggestion: Open an online shop, even with a small catalogue: a shirt, a scarf, a season ticket.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalQuick winFixtures and match experience
The homepage standings are from another division
The standings block on the entry page is led by AFK Csikszereda on 44 points, Steaua București on 38 and FC Metaloglobus on 35 — a completed Liga 2 season. FC Argeș plays in the Superliga, where seven rounds have been played.
Fix: Point the widget at the club's current competition.
MediumMedium effortFixtures and match experience
No upcoming fixtures anywhere
“Clasamente și rezultate” leads to a 591-row historical archive of past seasons. No upcoming fixture appears anywhere on the site.
Fix: Publish the current season's fixture list beside the archive that already exists.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The homepage is slow to settle
A desktop load on a fast connection reached network idle in 6.3 seconds after 94 requests.
Fix: Cut the third-party payload and cache what does not change.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact7.1 / 26The site is built from basic HTML elements and looks dated. The information is thin and out of date: the ticket block points at a match that finished three days ago.Suggestion: Rebuild the homepage on a current template and drive the ticket block from the real schedule.
Fixtures and match experience1.2 / 26No match has a page of its own, and the site publishes neither a schedule nor results.Suggestion: Publish a schedule and results, and give every match a page of its own.
Content and information2.4 / 19The content is old and general. Moving to the second page of the news never completes.Suggestion: Fix the news pagination and publish something after every match.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop93.3 / 100The shop contrasts sharply with the rest of the site: it is complete and professionally built.Suggestion: Bring the site up to the shop: the same team can do both.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalQuick winFixtures and match experience
The fixtures page is an abandoned blog post from 2023
/program/ renders a WordPress post dated 13/03/2023, titled “PROGRAM”, with no fixtures, a “Leave a comment” form and a comment count of zero.
Fix: Replace it with a real fixture list. The homepage already knows the next match and the last result, so the data exists — it simply is not published anywhere a supporter can browse.
CriticalMedium effortFixtures and match experience
No match has a page of its own
A match played has no page at all: no line-up, no score, no report. Results are not published anywhere as a list.
Fix: Give every match its own page and publish the results as a list. Or, at the very least, put the data somewhere a supporter can read through it.
HighQuick winUI/UX impact
Tickets on sale for a match played three days ago
The ticket block on the homepage points at a match that finished three days ago. It is the first thing a supporter who came to buy sees.
Fix: Drive the ticket block from the real schedule, so it clears itself at the final whistle.
HighMedium effortFixtures and match experience
No league table anywhere on the site
No standings page appears in the navigation, the footer or the top-level URL space.
Fix: Publish the table. It is the second most requested page on a club site after the fixture.
MediumQuick winUI/UX impact
Unknown URLs redirect to the homepage
A nonexistent path answers 301 → the homepage rather than 404, so a mistyped or expired URL never announces itself as missing.
Fix: Return a real 404 with a branded page. Redirecting to the homepage teaches search engines that every dead URL is a duplicate of the front page.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The server announces an end-of-life PHP version
Responses carry x-powered-by: PHP/7.4.33, a release that stopped receiving security support in November 2022. No HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options or Referrer-Policy header is set.
Fix: Upgrade PHP, stop advertising the version, and set the four standard security headers. None of this is visible to a supporter, and all of it is visible to anyone looking for a way in.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact2.4 / 26The homepage does not read as a football club’s, but rather as a utility company’s. The overall experience is poor and the presentation is unconsidered.Suggestion: Rebuild the homepage from the club’s own identity: colours, crest, an order of importance.
Fixtures and match experience3.5 / 26Information on matches is missing entirely, inside a presentation with no design work applied.Suggestion: Publish a schedule, results and match pages.
Content and information4.8 / 19The news page carries useful and reasonably current information. Beyond that, a plain calendar widget serves no purpose, and the first team’s fixtures and results are gathered onto a single page.Suggestion: Remove the calendar widget and separate the schedule from the results.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop0.0 / 100The club has no online shop. The only reference is to the physical one, illustrated with a photograph taken from the street.Suggestion: Open an online shop; a photograph of the physical one sells nothing.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalStrategic investmentUI/UX impact
The site does not look like a football club’s
The homepage says nothing about the club and does not look like a football club’s — it brings a utility company to mind sooner. Nothing a supporter sees first points at the team.
Fix: Rebuild the experience starting from the homepage: a club’s visual identity, information in some order of importance, and sections that actually lead somewhere.
CriticalStrategic investmentOnline shop
There is no online shop
The club sells nothing online. The only reference is to the physical shop, illustrated with a photograph taken from the street.
Fix: Open an online shop. It is the one category where the club has nothing at all to show, and the one that brings money in directly.
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
An enormous image at the top of the page
The top of the homepage is taken up by a large image that carries no information and pushes everything else down.
Fix: Replace it with a carousel of dynamic content — the next match, the last result, the latest story — so the most valuable space on the site says something every time someone opens it.
HighQuick winFixtures and match experience
The league table is not kept up to date
The standings are not current, in a fixtures section that does publish a schedule and results.
Fix: Update the table and feed it from the same source as the schedule and the results.
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
Navigation does not take a supporter where they want to go
Fixtures and results for the first team sit on a single page, and where club information should be there is a plain calendar widget.
Fix: Separate the schedule from the results, give each match its own page, and remove the widgets that carry no information.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact4.0 / 26The homepage is small and crowded: a carousel, two news items illustrated with the club crest rather than an image of their own, an embedded Facebook feed and a dense block of sponsors. In mid-season, no upcoming match appears on it.Suggestion: Clear the homepage: fewer blocks, images of your own on the news, and the next match in plain sight.
Fixtures and match experience0.0 / 26No match has a page of its own. The only information is in the tables, which do not go beyond the score.Suggestion: Give every match a page with line-ups, scorers and a report, not just a row in a table.
Content and information6.0 / 19The most recent news item is five days old, although a match was played at the weekend. The fixture list is two seasons out of date and the table is last round’s.Suggestion: Point the schedule and the table at the current season, and publish a story after every match.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop30.0 / 100The same crowding as the site, offset in part by the banner promoting the current season’s kit. The product page behaves unintuitively, and adding an item to the basket requires attention.Suggestion: Open up the product page and simplify adding to the basket; the banner selling this season’s kit shows the rest can reach the same level.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortFixtures and match experience
The next match module is empty in mid-season
The homepage rail headed “Meciul următor” reads “Nici un meci în viitorul apropiat” on 1 September 2026, while the club’s own league table on the same screen shows six rounds played. bilete.ucv1948.ro says “Evenimente disponibile” and lists none.
Fix: Connect the next-fixture module and the ticket site to the same fixture list the results page already holds, so the match and its ticket appear together.
CriticalMedium effortMy Account
Analytics and the Facebook pixel fire before consent
GA4, Universal Analytics (UA-43563947) and the Facebook pixel all set cookies on first load. The banner offers only “De acord” and states that continuing to browse constitutes agreement — implied consent, with no reject and no preference control.
Fix: Gate all non-essential tags behind an explicit opt-in with a reject option, and retire Universal Analytics, which stopped collecting in 2023.
HighQuick winFixtures and match experience
The fixtures page opens on a season that ended in 2025
/meciuri renders “Meciuri încheiate în sezonul 2024-2025” by default, listing matches up to May 2025, even though its own season selector offers 2025-2026 and 2026-2027.
Fix: Default the page to the current season. The data is already there — only the initial selection is wrong.
HighQuick winMobile app
There is no iOS app, and the club still links to one
apps.apple.com/ro/app/u-craiova/id6459021502, linked from the club's own app page, returns 404. An iTunes lookup for that id returns nothing in the Romanian or US storefronts, and a name search for “U Craiova” returns only an unrelated bus app. Android is the only platform: the Play listing for com.sportsmp.ucraiova is live, with an install button, last updated 18 September 2024.
Fix: Remove the dead link today. Then decide whether the app is a product or not — Android-only and two years untouched serves neither half of the supporter base well.
HighMedium effortMobile app
The Android app has not been updated in two years
The Google Play listing for com.sportsmp.ucraiova reads “Ultima actualizare 18 sept. 2024”.
Fix: Either resource the app properly — match push, wallet tickets, one account with the website — or retire it. An app two years stale advertises neglect on the supporter’s home screen.
HighStrategic investmentOnline shop
Five domains, four identities, no shared account
ucv1948.ro, bilete.ucv1948.ro, abonamente.ucv1948.ro, shop.ucv1948.ro and u-craiova.ro each present differently, and the supporter account lives only on the last of them.
Fix: Unify header, footer and sign-in across the five. The season-ticket and store journeys are strong enough to deserve one continuous identity.
MediumQuick winUI/UX impact
Unknown URLs redirect to the homepage instead of returning 404
A nonexistent path answers 302 → /home. A styled 404 page does exist — robots.txt returns it — so the site has the page and does not use it.
Fix: Return a real 404 with the branded page already built, so search engines drop dead URLs rather than logging soft 404s.
MediumQuick winUI/UX impact
An insecure frame on a secure page
The homepage requests http://www.youtube.com/embed/… over plain HTTP, and the browser console reports it as blocked mixed content.
Fix: Switch the embed to https. The video simply does not render for visitors today.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact2.4 / 26At first sight the homepage is competently made, but the site appears to have been abandoned since June.Suggestion: Start maintaining the site again: the look is sound, the content is not there.
Fixtures and match experience0.0 / 26The site publishes no reference to matches or results.Suggestion: Publish a schedule and results.
Content and information0.0 / 19The most recent news item is dated 18 February, more than half a year ago.Suggestion: Start publishing news again.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop0.0 / 100The club has no online shop.Suggestion: Open an online shop, even with a small catalogue: a shirt, a scarf, a season ticket.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortContent and information
The site has not been updated in months
The most recent news item is dated 18 February 2026 and describes preparing for the restart of the season. The audit ran on 1 September 2026.
Fix: Resume publishing, or say plainly that the site is not the club's active channel.
CriticalQuick winFixtures and match experience
The next match shown is months in the past
The “Următorul meci” module shows a play-off second round at Stadion Anghel Iordănescu on 1 June, three months before the audit date.
Fix: Connect the fixture module to the current season, or remove it until it can be.
HighQuick winContent and information
The squad page is last season's
The squad page is headed “Lot sezonul 2025/2026”.
Fix: Publish the current squad.
MediumMedium effortMy Account
Tracking fires before any consent request
Sourcebuster attribution cookies are set on first load with no consent dialog present.
Fix: Add consent management and gate the tags behind it.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The homepage is slow to settle
A desktop load reached network idle in 6.1 seconds after 195 requests, for a page carrying 21 images.
Fix: Cut the third-party payload and cache what does not change.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact1.2 / 26The homepage is not served: the whole site answers with a 302 temporary redirect to /ro/club/.Suggestion: Serve a real homepage at fcsb.ro rather than a redirect — every visitor looking for the club arrives there.
Fixtures and match experience0.0 / 26The site publishes no reference to matches or results.Suggestion: Publish the schedule, the results and the table on the club’s own domain, not only on the ticketing one.
Content and information0.0 / 19The entire content reduces to the page the site redirects to, /ro/club/.Suggestion: Rebuild the site around its own content — news, squad, club — rather than around a single page.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop94.0 / 100The shop, shop.fcsb.ro, is professionally built and dedicated to the club.Suggestion: Bring the site and the shop under one identity; the shop is the only finished part and deserves to be the starting point.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortUI/UX impact
Most of the site redirects to one page
21 of the 29 internal destinations linked from the entry page answer with a 302 to /ro/club/ — news, squad, results, table, staff, academy, history, FCSB TV, video, photos, contact and legal terms. Reproduced in a real browser with a session cookie and a same-site referer, so it is not bot handling.
Fix: Diagnose the routing or CMS publication state before anything else on this list. Nothing else can be measured until pages resolve.
CriticalQuick winOnline shop
Theme placeholder content live on the ticketing domain
bilete-fcsb.ro publishes its template's demo articles — “The team will make a small vacation to the Caribbean”, dated June 12th 2018, and “Jenny Jackson won't be able to play the next game” — alongside lorem ipsum, in English.
Fix: Delete or replace the demo module today. It is content, not code, and it sits on the domain that asks for card details.
CriticalMedium effortMy Account
Tracking fires before consent, and no policy is reachable
The Facebook pixel sets _fbp on first load of fcsb.ro. No cookie banner appears at 1440×900 or 390×844, and /ro/dispozitii-legale/ redirects away, so the site serves no privacy policy or terms.
Fix: Add consent management, gate the pixel behind it, restore the legal pages, and untick the pre-selected marketing toggles on bilete-fcsb.ro.
CriticalStrategic investmentFixtures and match experience
No fixtures, results or league table anywhere
The heaviest category in the framework scores 0 of 65 criterion points. Every route that would carry match information redirects to the club page.
Fix: Build a match centre fed by a data source, with each fixture's own ticket link attached to it.
HighStrategic investmentMy Account
No supporter identity of any kind
No account, newsletter, membership, notification, poll or competition on any page that returns 200. The only login in the estate belongs to the ticketing provider.
Fix: Introduce one supporter account across site, tickets and store — starting with newsletter capture, which needs no platform work.
HighQuick winContent and information
Content dated to 2020 and to 2024
The stadium page still says Arena Națională “va găzdui 4 partide la UEFA EURO 2020, care se va desfășura în iunie 2020”. The sidebar promotes “Echipament FCSB 2023 - 2024” and “Bilete online meciuri acasa 2023 - 2024”. No page carries a publication date.
Fix: Rewrite the stadium page with address, transport and access details, and refresh the sidebar promotions to the current season.
HighQuick winUI/UX impact
Site search cannot return a result
The Google Custom Search box posts to /ro/cauta/, and that page redirects to /ro/club/. A query never reaches results.
Fix: Restore the results route, or remove the search box until it works — a search that cannot answer is worse than none.
MediumQuick winUI/UX impact
Default Apache 404, and the custom error page is itself broken
A missing URL returns Apache's stock 404, which reports: “Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.” robots.txt returns the same page.
Fix: Ship a branded 404 with navigation and search, and repair the ErrorDocument directive.
MediumStrategic investmentOnline shop
Three identities, three accounts, one supporter
fcsb.ro, bilete-fcsb.ro and shop.fcsb.ro differ in layout, palette and account system, with no single sign-on. The club-site link to ticketing is still written as http:// in the markup.
Fix: Unify header, footer and account across the three, even before any platform consolidation.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact20.1 / 26The best-built site in the audit, and the only one visibly designed for a football club.Suggestion: Do not change the look; put the missing information behind it.
Fixtures and match experience5.5 / 26Upcoming matches are not published, and the results are incomplete and reduced to a date: no kick-off time, no team names, no score and no round. No match has a page of its own, and there is no live information.Suggestion: Publish the upcoming matches, complete the results with a kick-off time, team names, the score and the round, and give every match a page.
Content and information11.9 / 19The table is not up to date, and the one in the side column is from last season’s play-out. The match against Rapid, played three days ago, does not show its score, and the date of the next match is not published.Suggestion: Update the table in the side column, and publish the last match’s score and the next match’s date.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop73.3 / 100The shop is well built and the only one that personalises a name, previewing it on the shirt during configuration. Only last season’s shirts are available.Suggestion: Update the shirts to the current season, and link the shop from the club’s site: no page on it points there today.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortFixtures and match experience
There is no fixtures, results or standings section
The navigation offers Știri, Club, Echipa, Media, Academie, Socios, Ticketing, Voluntariat, Contact and Shop. No fixture list, results page or league table appears anywhere on the site.
Fix: Publish fixtures, results and the table. This is the reason most supporters open a club site.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The homepage makes an unusual number of requests
A desktop load reached network idle after 265 requests and 3.4 seconds.
Fix: Audit the third-party scripts; the weight is not coming from the club's own content.
MediumStrategic investmentOnline shop
The membership scheme cannot be joined online
Socios has its own statute, council, principles and a “Devino Membru” page, but joining and renewing happen off the website.
Fix: Put Socios sign-up and renewal on the site. The programme is the club's distinguishing asset and it needs a form.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact18.9 / 26The interface is clean, perhaps too plain, but the information is present and easy to find and the navigation is intuitive. A short table on the homepage would complete it.Suggestion: Add a short table to the homepage; the rest works and needs no change.
Fixtures and match experience5.9 / 26The match page carries the score alone, with no scorers. Of the upcoming matches, only the current month’s are shown.Suggestion: Add the scorers and a report to the match page, and publish the whole season’s fixtures.
Content and information11.9 / 19Information is generally findable, but the absence of any material on a match played, a written report included, limits the category.Suggestion: Publish a report after every match: it is the one visible gap in the content.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The homepage carries a sign-in area, but the account belongs to the shop and, most likely, to the eCommerce platform behind it.Suggestion: Move the account onto the club’s domain, so the sign-in on the homepage belongs to the club and not to the shop.
Online shop46.7 / 100No design work has been applied to the shop: it is a list of products.Suggestion: Give the shop a design of its own, beyond the list of products.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
MediumStrategic investmentMy Account
MyU is the shop's account, not the club's
The MyU sign-in sits on the club domain, but “Creare cont” points to shop.fcucluj.ro/register and “Ați uitat parola?” to shop.fcucluj.ro/forgot-password, and the page describes itself as an account “în cadrul magazinului” — for faster checkout, stored delivery addresses and order tracking. Tickets are sold through bilete.ro on a third identity.
Fix: Make MyU the club's account and let the shop consume it, rather than the reverse. The header link is already there; what sits behind it belongs to the store.
MediumMedium effortContent and information
Romanian only, with no language option
No language switcher and no second language tree were found, on a club that publishes UEFA Europa League fixtures in its own results filter.
Fix: Translate the club, stadium, ticket and fixture pages. European ties are when this site receives its only international traffic.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact9.0 / 26The simplest page in the audit, minimal in design but coherent. It includes a full-width banner promoting the club’s products.Suggestion: Keep it simple, and put information where there is now only a banner.
Fixtures and match experience2.0 / 26Only the banner carrying the last result and the table of the next three matches are published; no match has a page of its own.Suggestion: Give every match a page and publish the whole season’s fixtures.
Content and information8.0 / 19The news is decently presented but undated, so its currency cannot be verified. The homepage carries the last result and the next three matches, in a minimal form and with little scope to explore further.Suggestion: Date the news and add a way to go further than the homepage.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account12.0 / 15The only club with an account of its own. How it is used could not be verified, but its existence is a good sign.Suggestion: Use the account you already have for tickets, the shop and notifications: it is the advantage no other club in the league has.
Online shop12.0 / 100The presentation is unconventional, and the playing shirts are not the products placed first. The Romanian version mixes Hungarian and English.Suggestion: Put the playing shirts first and separate the language versions cleanly.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
Unknown URLs redirect instead of returning 404
A nonexistent path answers 302 rather than 404, so a mistyped or expired URL never announces itself as missing.
Fix: Return a real 404 so search engines drop dead URLs rather than logging soft ones.
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
Both the web server and PHP are years out of support
Responses carry Server: Apache/2.2.15 and X-Powered-By: PHP/7.3.25. Apache 2.2 reached end of life in 2018 and PHP 7.3 in December 2021.
Fix: Upgrade the stack. Neither version has received a security patch in years.
MediumQuick winFixtures and match experience
The league table is filed under news
Standings live at /hirek/tabellak — inside the news section — rather than beside the fixtures and results a supporter is already looking at.
Fix: Move standings into the match section where supporters look for them.
MediumMedium effortMy Account
Tracking fires before any consent request
A Laravel session cookie is set on first load and no consent dialog appears anywhere on the site.
Fix: Add consent management and gate the tags behind it.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact13.0 / 26The homepage is well built, but the static opening image takes the whole visible area without carrying information. Replacing it with a carousel would improve the experience.Suggestion: Replace the fixed image with a carousel carrying the next match, the last result and the latest story.
Fixtures and match experience3.5 / 26The next-match block is confusing and the basic information is laid out without order. A finished match does not show its score, and the crests overlap the text.Suggestion: Reorder the next-match block, show the score of a finished match, and fix the crests overlapping the text.
Content and information14.2 / 19The news is carefully written and the dates are current, but the absence of content on matches played limits the category.Suggestion: Publish something after every match; the newsroom already works.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop80.0 / 100The shop is the strong point: an eye-catching design built around selling shirts, with well-organised categories. The playing kit on sale is last season’s.Suggestion: Update the playing kit to the current season; the rest of the shop is among the best in the league.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortUI/UX impact
A static image takes the whole top of the homepage
The homepage opens on a large fixed image that fills the visible area without carrying any information. The rest of the page begins below it.
Fix: Replace it with a carousel of dynamic content — the next match, the last result, the latest story — so the most valuable space on the site says something every time someone opens it.
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
430 requests and seven seconds to settle
A desktop load on a fast connection reached network idle after 430 requests and 7.0 seconds — the heaviest and slowest page in this audit. The console also reports the Google Maps JavaScript API being included more than once.
Fix: Cut the third-party payload and load the map once, on the page that needs it. Match day is when this page is asked to work hardest.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact14.2 / 26The homepage is well built, apart from the table-style menu, which dates it. The next-match counter is well made; the homepage table shows only the top five positions and their points, with no crests, no matches played and no sight of the club’s own position. The mobile version has missing images and cut-off content. Navigation is the weak part: the results page and the upcoming-fixtures page cannot be found, and the menu is confusing.Suggestion: Replace the table-style menu, complete the homepage table with crests, matches played and the club’s own position, and fix the mobile version.
Fixtures and match experience3.5 / 26The only information concerns the last match played, and the page loads only after several attempts and with a console error: an opening image cropped badly, the rest text. No other matches played were found, though they most likely exist as articles, and the next match has no page. Matches are treated as articles, with no format of their own.Suggestion: Give matches a format of their own, with a page each, instead of articles.
Content and information3.6 / 19The content is static, and the news page takes about 30 seconds to load; the cause appears to be an AddThis widget that blocks everything except the headline. That this error persists indicates the level of maintenance. The table on the homepage is last season’s, and the standings page is the only part kept correctly up to date.Suggestion: Remove the AddThis widget blocking the news page, and point the homepage table at the current season.
Mobile app7.0 / 14An iOS application exists and is maintained. Sign-in is ambiguous: it is not clear whether registering confers membership or requires a paid subscription, and some content is conditional on it.Suggestion: Say plainly on the sign-in screen what registering gives and what a paid subscription requires.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop66.7 / 100The shop is clear and well organised, and personalises a number but not a name.Suggestion: Add name personalisation, not only the number.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalQuick winContent and information
News pages take 30 seconds to load
A news article stays blank for roughly 30 seconds: the headline renders and the rest of the content waits. The cause appears to be an AddThis widget loaded synchronously, which holds the page until it answers.
Fix: Remove AddThis or load it with defer. The service has been retired anyway, and an article has no reason to wait on it.
CriticalMedium effortMy Account
Three trackers fire before any consent request
GA4, Universal Analytics (UA-139882413) and the Facebook pixel all set cookies on first load. No consent banner or preference control appears at 1440×900 or 390×844.
Fix: Add consent management and gate all three behind it.
HighQuick winFixtures and match experience
The homepage standings show last season
The table on the entry page lists U. Craiova on 60 points, Rapid 56 and U. Cluj 54 — a completed season. Seven rounds of 2026-2027 have been played, and the club’s own standings page defaults correctly to the current season.
Fix: Point the homepage widget at the same season the standings page already uses. The right data is one query away.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact11.8 / 26The video occupying the homepage, static at first sight, dominates the experience and makes the site harder to move through. Replacing it with a smaller carousel would change how the site is perceived.Suggestion: Replace the video with a carousel carrying the next match, the last result and the latest story.
Fixtures and match experience7.1 / 26Information on a match played is reduced to the final score and the half-time score. The upcoming-fixtures page is properly made, and the results are published on the same page.Suggestion: Add line-ups, scorers and a report to the matches played.
Content and information5.9 / 19The table is empty, every value zero, and the last match, a 5-1 win, is published as a sequence of 106 images with no description, which makes the page hard to work through.Suggestion: Fill the table, and replace the gallery of 106 images with a report and a selection of photographs.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop33.3 / 100The shop is hosted on another domain, which detaches it from the main site and reduces confidence in its official standing.Suggestion: Tie the shop to the club’s identity, so it does not read as someone else’s.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
A full-screen video takes over the homepage
The homepage is dominated by an enormous video that reads as a still image until it moves. It pushes everything else below the fold and makes the site heavy to move through.
Fix: Replace it with a carousel of dynamic content — the next match, the last result, the latest story — so the most valuable space on the site says something every time someone opens it.
MediumMedium effortMy Account
Tracking fires before any consent request
No consent dialog appears. Only a Laravel session cookie was observed on load, so nothing is tracked today — but nothing prevents the first analytics tag from changing that.
Fix: Add consent management and gate the tags behind it.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact10.0 / 26The main banner appears fixed, showing a photograph of the starting eleven; on a Full HD screen the heads of the players in the second row are cut off, and the opening image carries no useful information. The table is an embedded Sofascore widget, which sits apart from the page visually and contains a button through to Sofascore’s site.Suggestion: Change the crop on the banner photograph and put useful information at the top of the page instead of a fixed image.
Fixtures and match experience4.0 / 26No match has a page of its own, and for a finished match only the score is shown.Suggestion: Give every match a page with line-ups, scorers and a report.
Content and information10.0 / 19The basic information is present — the previous match and the next are on the homepage, and the news is sound — but everything is treated minimally.Suggestion: Take the content past the minimum: reports, interviews, match pages.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop10.0 / 100The presentation is poor, with the same cropping problem on the photographs of the players promoting the products.Suggestion: Redo the crops on the product photography and give the shop a design of its own.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
HighMedium effortFixtures and match experience
The league table is a Sofascore widget that sends the visitor away
The standings on the site are not the club’s: they are an embedded Sofascore widget, which sits oddly against the rest of the page and carries its own button through to Sofascore’s site.
Fix: Publish the table from your own data. A borrowed table sends a supporter exactly where the club can no longer see them.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The homepage makes 358 requests
A desktop load reached network idle after 358 requests and 4.1 seconds, the second heaviest in this audit, on a page carrying 27 images.
Fix: Audit the third-party scripts. The page weight is not coming from the club’s own content.
MediumQuick winFixtures and match experience
Future fixtures are listed without kickoff times
The upcoming fixtures page lists opponents and dates correctly for months ahead, but every fixture after the next one shows 00:00 as its kickoff time.
Fix: Show the time only once it is known, or mark it as to be confirmed. A stated 00:00 reads as fact.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact16.5 / 26At first sight the page is well received, with the crest dominating the central area where it would normally sit on the left and at a reduced size. The problem appears on scrolling: the crest does not reduce into a sticky header. Hiding the menu on the way down and showing a compact version on the way up would resolve it.Suggestion: Reduce the crest into a sticky header on the way down, and free the centre of the homepage for information.
Fixtures and match experience0.0 / 26One match, finished two months ago, has a page of its own, and its detail view answers with a 404. The remaining matches have no page.Suggestion: Fix the match page that returns a 404 and give every match a page of its own.
Content and information3.6 / 19The only content is the news, dominated by ticket announcements. There is no table, and the results page is empty.Suggestion: Publish the table and fill the results page; ticket announcements do not stand in for football content.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site allows registration, but the account belongs to the eCommerce platform.Suggestion: Move the account to the club itself, so the same person is recognised on the site, in the shop and at the ticket window.
Online shop46.7 / 100The shop runs inside the site rather than on a subdomain, and appears to be a WooCommerce integration in a WordPress installation. The presentation is minimal, with no design work applied.Suggestion: Give the shop a design of its own: the integration works, but the presentation does not sell.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortMy Account
The Facebook pixel fires with no consent request
_fbp is set on first load of fcrapid.ro. No cookie banner, consent dialog or preference control appears at 1440×900 or at 390×844.
Fix: Add consent management and gate the pixel behind it. Everything else on this site is unusually well configured, which makes this the one exposure that stands out.
HighMedium effortFixtures and match experience
There is no fixtures or results page
The club publishes a news article per match — “Bilete pentru FC Rapid – Universitatea Craiova | Etapa VII” — but no fixture list and no results page exist in the navigation, the footer or the top-level URL space.
Fix: Publish a season fixture list and a results archive. The per-match articles are good; they need a spine to hang on.
HighQuick winFixtures and match experience
The league table is frozen on matchday one
/clasament-sezonul-2026-2027/ shows every club on one match played and three points or fewer, in a season where six rounds have been completed.
Fix: Automate the table from a data feed. A standings page that is wrong is worse than no standings page, because a supporter believes it.
MediumQuick winUI/UX impact
Two squad pages, one of them empty
/prima-echipa/ lists the full squad by position. /lot/ resolves, renders its heading and then nothing — no players, no content.
Fix: Redirect /lot/ to /prima-echipa/ or delete it. A live empty page is an invitation to conclude the squad is unpublished.
MediumQuick winOnline shop
No season-ticket page
No season-ticket or abonament page appears in the navigation, the footer or the top-level URL space, although a membership programme is promoted on the homepage.
Fix: Publish season tickets where the membership already is. The audience for both is the same person.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact8.3 / 26The club crest is missing from the main menu, and the name written in its place does not lead back to the homepage. The opening carousel fills the entire field of view. The list of results is hard to follow, and the full table published on the homepage is out of date and takes a disproportionate amount of space.Suggestion: Put the crest in the menu and link it home, cut the carousel back, and take the full table off the homepage.
Fixtures and match experience2.4 / 26A match played is reported by its final score alone. There is, however, a results page and one for upcoming matches.Suggestion: Give every match a page with line-ups, scorers and a report.
Content and information5.9 / 19The news is not current, and information on the schedule and results is missing.Suggestion: Bring the news up to date and feed the schedule and results from one source.
Mobile app0.0 / 14An application exists in the App Store, but its last update is six years old. Once installed, it presents no data at all, only server errors.Suggestion: Retire the app that returns errors, or rebuild it; a broken app costs more than a missing one.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop20.0 / 100The shop is hosted on another domain, cocosport.ro, which presents itself as a retail store and also sells ordinary Nike products, putting its official standing in question.Suggestion: Bring the shop under the club’s identity, even if a partner keeps running it.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortMy Account
Analytics and commerce tracking fire with no consent request
GA4 and the WooCommerce wooTracker cookie are both set on first load of cfr1907.ro. No cookie banner or preference control appears at 1440×900 or 390×844.
Fix: Add consent management and gate both behind it. This is the only category where the club is exposed rather than merely behind.
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
Mistyped URLs quietly serve unrelated articles from 2016
/clasament-liga-1/, /lot/ and /jucatori/ each return 200 with a full page — respectively a 2016 post, a 2018 squad announcement and a 2025 loan round-up — instead of 404. The real pages are /clasament/, /echipa-principala/ and /rezultate-meciuri/, and they are current and complete.
Fix: Turn off the near-match slug fallback. A wrong URL that answers 200 with old content is worse than a 404: the supporter believes what they are reading, and search engines index it.
CriticalMedium effortMobile app
The app is published, but it does not work
CFR1907 CLUJ is listed on the App Store with a last update of 30 June 2020, and an Android listing is linked alongside it. Once installed, the application presents no data at all, only server errors.
Fix: Retire it or rebuild it. A published app that answers only with server errors does more damage than no app at all: a supporter downloads it, opens it once, and leaves.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The homepage makes 167 requests and takes seven seconds to settle
A desktop load on a fast connection reached network idle in 7.0 seconds after 167 requests. Responses carry Cache-Control: no-store, so nothing is reusable on the next visit.
Fix: Reduce the image count, set real cache headers and put a CDN in front. Match day is when this page is asked to work hardest and when it will be slowest.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact8.0 / 26The site is built from basic HTML elements, with no gradients and no transitions apart from the sticky header, whose background is transparent at the start of the scroll. The schedule, the results and the table cannot be found, and the season in the main menu is an anchor leading nowhere.Suggestion: Publish a schedule, results and a table, and fix the anchor in the main menu.
Fixtures and match experience0.0 / 26The only information on matches was a banner on the homepage carrying the previous month’s fixtures.Suggestion: Publish the schedule and the results as pages of their own, not as a banner.
Content and information5.0 / 19There is very little information, and YouTube links are the main source of it.Suggestion: Publish written content on the site, not only links to YouTube.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop40.0 / 100The shop is minimal but functional, and the products match what supporters want.Suggestion: Keep the shop simple and add product photography and descriptions.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortFixtures and match experience
There is no fixtures, results or standings section
The navigation offers Acasă, Echipa, FanShop, Club, Academia, Abonamente and Contact. There is no fixture list, no results page and no league table anywhere on the site; the homepage shows only the most recent scoreline, 1-1 against Dinamo.
Fix: Publish fixtures, results and the table. This is the reason most supporters open a club site.
CriticalMedium effortMy Account
Tracking fires before any consent request
Google Analytics sets its cookies on first load. No consent banner or preference control appears at 1440×900 or 390×844.
Fix: Add consent management and gate the tags behind it.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The server announces an end-of-life PHP version
Responses carry x-powered-by: PHP/7.4.33, a release that stopped receiving security support in November 2022.
Fix: Upgrade PHP and stop advertising the version in response headers.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The homepage carries almost no content
The entry page carries 13 images and two h2 elements in total: a result, a photo carousel and a footer. Nothing tells a supporter when the club plays next.
Fix: Give the entry page the fixture, the result and the table. Thirteen images is not a club's front door.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact5.0 / 26The homepage carries no information: a banner that appears static and two large images that require scrolling before the subject is clear. The news is illustrated with very large, pixelated images and the text is sparse. Pages take about ten seconds to open.Suggestion: Put information at the top of the page, cut the images in the news back, and deal with the ten-second load.
Fixtures and match experience3.0 / 26There is a match page, but only for the next fixture, and it is empty. The results list appears to be last season’s.Suggestion: Fill the next match’s page and bring the results list up to the current season.
Content and information3.0 / 19There is very little information, and the homepage is dominated by large photographs at the expense of the story. The league table and the cup table, both out of date, take up significant space.Suggestion: Take the out-of-date tables off the homepage and give the story the room.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop0.0 / 100The club has no online shop.Suggestion: Open an online shop, even with a small catalogue: a shirt, a scarf, a season ticket.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalQuick winFixtures and match experience
The homepage standings are from another division
The standings block on the entry page is led by AFK Csikszereda on 44 points, Steaua București on 38 and FC Metaloglobus on 35 — a completed Liga 2 season. FC Argeș plays in the Superliga, where seven rounds have been played.
Fix: Point the widget at the club's current competition.
MediumMedium effortFixtures and match experience
No upcoming fixtures anywhere
“Clasamente și rezultate” leads to a 591-row historical archive of past seasons. No upcoming fixture appears anywhere on the site.
Fix: Publish the current season's fixture list beside the archive that already exists.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The homepage is slow to settle
A desktop load on a fast connection reached network idle in 6.3 seconds after 94 requests.
Fix: Cut the third-party payload and cache what does not change.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact7.1 / 26The site is built from basic HTML elements and looks dated. The information is thin and out of date: the ticket block points at a match that finished three days ago.Suggestion: Rebuild the homepage on a current template and drive the ticket block from the real schedule.
Fixtures and match experience1.2 / 26No match has a page of its own, and the site publishes neither a schedule nor results.Suggestion: Publish a schedule and results, and give every match a page of its own.
Content and information2.4 / 19The content is old and general. Moving to the second page of the news never completes.Suggestion: Fix the news pagination and publish something after every match.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop93.3 / 100The shop contrasts sharply with the rest of the site: it is complete and professionally built.Suggestion: Bring the site up to the shop: the same team can do both.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalQuick winFixtures and match experience
The fixtures page is an abandoned blog post from 2023
/program/ renders a WordPress post dated 13/03/2023, titled “PROGRAM”, with no fixtures, a “Leave a comment” form and a comment count of zero.
Fix: Replace it with a real fixture list. The homepage already knows the next match and the last result, so the data exists — it simply is not published anywhere a supporter can browse.
CriticalMedium effortFixtures and match experience
No match has a page of its own
A match played has no page at all: no line-up, no score, no report. Results are not published anywhere as a list.
Fix: Give every match its own page and publish the results as a list. Or, at the very least, put the data somewhere a supporter can read through it.
HighQuick winUI/UX impact
Tickets on sale for a match played three days ago
The ticket block on the homepage points at a match that finished three days ago. It is the first thing a supporter who came to buy sees.
Fix: Drive the ticket block from the real schedule, so it clears itself at the final whistle.
HighMedium effortFixtures and match experience
No league table anywhere on the site
No standings page appears in the navigation, the footer or the top-level URL space.
Fix: Publish the table. It is the second most requested page on a club site after the fixture.
MediumQuick winUI/UX impact
Unknown URLs redirect to the homepage
A nonexistent path answers 301 → the homepage rather than 404, so a mistyped or expired URL never announces itself as missing.
Fix: Return a real 404 with a branded page. Redirecting to the homepage teaches search engines that every dead URL is a duplicate of the front page.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The server announces an end-of-life PHP version
Responses carry x-powered-by: PHP/7.4.33, a release that stopped receiving security support in November 2022. No HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options or Referrer-Policy header is set.
Fix: Upgrade PHP, stop advertising the version, and set the four standard security headers. None of this is visible to a supporter, and all of it is visible to anyone looking for a way in.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact2.4 / 26The homepage does not read as a football club’s, but rather as a utility company’s. The overall experience is poor and the presentation is unconsidered.Suggestion: Rebuild the homepage from the club’s own identity: colours, crest, an order of importance.
Fixtures and match experience3.5 / 26Information on matches is missing entirely, inside a presentation with no design work applied.Suggestion: Publish a schedule, results and match pages.
Content and information4.8 / 19The news page carries useful and reasonably current information. Beyond that, a plain calendar widget serves no purpose, and the first team’s fixtures and results are gathered onto a single page.Suggestion: Remove the calendar widget and separate the schedule from the results.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop0.0 / 100The club has no online shop. The only reference is to the physical one, illustrated with a photograph taken from the street.Suggestion: Open an online shop; a photograph of the physical one sells nothing.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalStrategic investmentUI/UX impact
The site does not look like a football club’s
The homepage says nothing about the club and does not look like a football club’s — it brings a utility company to mind sooner. Nothing a supporter sees first points at the team.
Fix: Rebuild the experience starting from the homepage: a club’s visual identity, information in some order of importance, and sections that actually lead somewhere.
CriticalStrategic investmentOnline shop
There is no online shop
The club sells nothing online. The only reference is to the physical shop, illustrated with a photograph taken from the street.
Fix: Open an online shop. It is the one category where the club has nothing at all to show, and the one that brings money in directly.
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
An enormous image at the top of the page
The top of the homepage is taken up by a large image that carries no information and pushes everything else down.
Fix: Replace it with a carousel of dynamic content — the next match, the last result, the latest story — so the most valuable space on the site says something every time someone opens it.
HighQuick winFixtures and match experience
The league table is not kept up to date
The standings are not current, in a fixtures section that does publish a schedule and results.
Fix: Update the table and feed it from the same source as the schedule and the results.
HighMedium effortUI/UX impact
Navigation does not take a supporter where they want to go
Fixtures and results for the first team sit on a single page, and where club information should be there is a plain calendar widget.
Fix: Separate the schedule from the results, give each match its own page, and remove the widgets that carry no information.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact4.0 / 26The homepage is small and crowded: a carousel, two news items illustrated with the club crest rather than an image of their own, an embedded Facebook feed and a dense block of sponsors. In mid-season, no upcoming match appears on it.Suggestion: Clear the homepage: fewer blocks, images of your own on the news, and the next match in plain sight.
Fixtures and match experience0.0 / 26No match has a page of its own. The only information is in the tables, which do not go beyond the score.Suggestion: Give every match a page with line-ups, scorers and a report, not just a row in a table.
Content and information6.0 / 19The most recent news item is five days old, although a match was played at the weekend. The fixture list is two seasons out of date and the table is last round’s.Suggestion: Point the schedule and the table at the current season, and publish a story after every match.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop30.0 / 100The same crowding as the site, offset in part by the banner promoting the current season’s kit. The product page behaves unintuitively, and adding an item to the basket requires attention.Suggestion: Open up the product page and simplify adding to the basket; the banner selling this season’s kit shows the rest can reach the same level.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortFixtures and match experience
The next match module is empty in mid-season
The homepage rail headed “Meciul următor” reads “Nici un meci în viitorul apropiat” on 1 September 2026, while the club’s own league table on the same screen shows six rounds played. bilete.ucv1948.ro says “Evenimente disponibile” and lists none.
Fix: Connect the next-fixture module and the ticket site to the same fixture list the results page already holds, so the match and its ticket appear together.
CriticalMedium effortMy Account
Analytics and the Facebook pixel fire before consent
GA4, Universal Analytics (UA-43563947) and the Facebook pixel all set cookies on first load. The banner offers only “De acord” and states that continuing to browse constitutes agreement — implied consent, with no reject and no preference control.
Fix: Gate all non-essential tags behind an explicit opt-in with a reject option, and retire Universal Analytics, which stopped collecting in 2023.
HighQuick winFixtures and match experience
The fixtures page opens on a season that ended in 2025
/meciuri renders “Meciuri încheiate în sezonul 2024-2025” by default, listing matches up to May 2025, even though its own season selector offers 2025-2026 and 2026-2027.
Fix: Default the page to the current season. The data is already there — only the initial selection is wrong.
HighQuick winMobile app
There is no iOS app, and the club still links to one
apps.apple.com/ro/app/u-craiova/id6459021502, linked from the club's own app page, returns 404. An iTunes lookup for that id returns nothing in the Romanian or US storefronts, and a name search for “U Craiova” returns only an unrelated bus app. Android is the only platform: the Play listing for com.sportsmp.ucraiova is live, with an install button, last updated 18 September 2024.
Fix: Remove the dead link today. Then decide whether the app is a product or not — Android-only and two years untouched serves neither half of the supporter base well.
HighMedium effortMobile app
The Android app has not been updated in two years
The Google Play listing for com.sportsmp.ucraiova reads “Ultima actualizare 18 sept. 2024”.
Fix: Either resource the app properly — match push, wallet tickets, one account with the website — or retire it. An app two years stale advertises neglect on the supporter’s home screen.
HighStrategic investmentOnline shop
Five domains, four identities, no shared account
ucv1948.ro, bilete.ucv1948.ro, abonamente.ucv1948.ro, shop.ucv1948.ro and u-craiova.ro each present differently, and the supporter account lives only on the last of them.
Fix: Unify header, footer and sign-in across the five. The season-ticket and store journeys are strong enough to deserve one continuous identity.
MediumQuick winUI/UX impact
Unknown URLs redirect to the homepage instead of returning 404
A nonexistent path answers 302 → /home. A styled 404 page does exist — robots.txt returns it — so the site has the page and does not use it.
Fix: Return a real 404 with the branded page already built, so search engines drop dead URLs rather than logging soft 404s.
MediumQuick winUI/UX impact
An insecure frame on a secure page
The homepage requests http://www.youtube.com/embed/… over plain HTTP, and the browser console reports it as blocked mixed content.
Fix: Switch the embed to https. The video simply does not render for visitors today.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact2.4 / 26At first sight the homepage is competently made, but the site appears to have been abandoned since June.Suggestion: Start maintaining the site again: the look is sound, the content is not there.
Fixtures and match experience0.0 / 26The site publishes no reference to matches or results.Suggestion: Publish a schedule and results.
Content and information0.0 / 19The most recent news item is dated 18 February, more than half a year ago.Suggestion: Start publishing news again.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop0.0 / 100The club has no online shop.Suggestion: Open an online shop, even with a small catalogue: a shirt, a scarf, a season ticket.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortContent and information
The site has not been updated in months
The most recent news item is dated 18 February 2026 and describes preparing for the restart of the season. The audit ran on 1 September 2026.
Fix: Resume publishing, or say plainly that the site is not the club's active channel.
CriticalQuick winFixtures and match experience
The next match shown is months in the past
The “Următorul meci” module shows a play-off second round at Stadion Anghel Iordănescu on 1 June, three months before the audit date.
Fix: Connect the fixture module to the current season, or remove it until it can be.
HighQuick winContent and information
The squad page is last season's
The squad page is headed “Lot sezonul 2025/2026”.
Fix: Publish the current squad.
MediumMedium effortMy Account
Tracking fires before any consent request
Sourcebuster attribution cookies are set on first load with no consent dialog present.
Fix: Add consent management and gate the tags behind it.
MediumMedium effortUI/UX impact
The homepage is slow to settle
A desktop load reached network idle in 6.1 seconds after 195 requests, for a page carrying 21 images.
Fix: Cut the third-party payload and cache what does not change.
Not verified means the criterion could not be tested, so it leaves this category’s denominator instead of being scored zero.
UI/UX impact1.2 / 26The homepage is not served: the whole site answers with a 302 temporary redirect to /ro/club/.Suggestion: Serve a real homepage at fcsb.ro rather than a redirect — every visitor looking for the club arrives there.
Fixtures and match experience0.0 / 26The site publishes no reference to matches or results.Suggestion: Publish the schedule, the results and the table on the club’s own domain, not only on the ticketing one.
Content and information0.0 / 19The entire content reduces to the page the site redirects to, /ro/club/.Suggestion: Rebuild the site around its own content — news, squad, club — rather than around a single page.
Mobile app0.0 / 14The club publishes no application in either store.Suggestion: Start with an application that handles matchday: the ticket, the fixture, the result and the notification.
My Account0.0 / 15The site does not allow a supporter account to be created.Suggestion: Introduce a club account, used for the site, the shop and the tickets alike.
Online shop94.0 / 100The shop, shop.fcsb.ro, is professionally built and dedicated to the club.Suggestion: Bring the site and the shop under one identity; the shop is the only finished part and deserves to be the starting point.The store is not part of the total above — it has its own table.
Findings, by severity
CriticalMedium effortUI/UX impact
Most of the site redirects to one page
21 of the 29 internal destinations linked from the entry page answer with a 302 to /ro/club/ — news, squad, results, table, staff, academy, history, FCSB TV, video, photos, contact and legal terms. Reproduced in a real browser with a session cookie and a same-site referer, so it is not bot handling.
Fix: Diagnose the routing or CMS publication state before anything else on this list. Nothing else can be measured until pages resolve.
CriticalQuick winOnline shop
Theme placeholder content live on the ticketing domain
bilete-fcsb.ro publishes its template's demo articles — “The team will make a small vacation to the Caribbean”, dated June 12th 2018, and “Jenny Jackson won't be able to play the next game” — alongside lorem ipsum, in English.
Fix: Delete or replace the demo module today. It is content, not code, and it sits on the domain that asks for card details.
CriticalMedium effortMy Account
Tracking fires before consent, and no policy is reachable
The Facebook pixel sets _fbp on first load of fcsb.ro. No cookie banner appears at 1440×900 or 390×844, and /ro/dispozitii-legale/ redirects away, so the site serves no privacy policy or terms.
Fix: Add consent management, gate the pixel behind it, restore the legal pages, and untick the pre-selected marketing toggles on bilete-fcsb.ro.
CriticalStrategic investmentFixtures and match experience
No fixtures, results or league table anywhere
The heaviest category in the framework scores 0 of 65 criterion points. Every route that would carry match information redirects to the club page.
Fix: Build a match centre fed by a data source, with each fixture's own ticket link attached to it.
HighStrategic investmentMy Account
No supporter identity of any kind
No account, newsletter, membership, notification, poll or competition on any page that returns 200. The only login in the estate belongs to the ticketing provider.
Fix: Introduce one supporter account across site, tickets and store — starting with newsletter capture, which needs no platform work.
HighQuick winContent and information
Content dated to 2020 and to 2024
The stadium page still says Arena Națională “va găzdui 4 partide la UEFA EURO 2020, care se va desfășura în iunie 2020”. The sidebar promotes “Echipament FCSB 2023 - 2024” and “Bilete online meciuri acasa 2023 - 2024”. No page carries a publication date.
Fix: Rewrite the stadium page with address, transport and access details, and refresh the sidebar promotions to the current season.
HighQuick winUI/UX impact
Site search cannot return a result
The Google Custom Search box posts to /ro/cauta/, and that page redirects to /ro/club/. A query never reaches results.
Fix: Restore the results route, or remove the search box until it works — a search that cannot answer is worse than none.
MediumQuick winUI/UX impact
Default Apache 404, and the custom error page is itself broken
A missing URL returns Apache's stock 404, which reports: “Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.” robots.txt returns the same page.
Fix: Ship a branded 404 with navigation and search, and repair the ErrorDocument directive.
MediumStrategic investmentOnline shop
Three identities, three accounts, one supporter
fcsb.ro, bilete-fcsb.ro and shop.fcsb.ro differ in layout, palette and account system, with no single sign-on. The club-site link to ticketing is still written as http:// in the markup.
Fix: Unify header, footer and account across the three, even before any platform consolidation.
0100
Excellent
90–100. Serves supporters and the club's commercial goals without friction.
Good
75–89. Sound, with specific gaps rather than structural ones.
Acceptable
60–74. Works, but leaves important opportunities on the table.
Weak
40–59. Essential supporter tasks are slow, incomplete or leave the site.
Critical
0–39. Critical redesign required: core journeys fail or are absent.
The store, on its own
For most clubs the store is a different website — a different domain, usually a different vendor, sometimes a retailer the club does not own. So it is scored on its own 100 points here, and the five categories a club’s own site owns are re-weighted to 100 between themselves. The league average is 40.4 out of 100, and the best is FCSB on 94.0.
Romanian clubs ranked by their online store score, out of 100 points.
5 categories score the club’s own site, weighted to a hundred points between them. The weights are the argument: what a supporter actually came to do — judge the club at a glance, follow the match, finish a task — is worth more than what happens to be easy to measure. The store is the sixth, and it has a table of its own.
Findings are kept apart: what was observed directly, what was measured, what is genuinely missing, and what could not be tested. Nothing is called missing until it has been looked for in the navigation, the footer, the search and the pages where it belongs. A criterion that could not be tested is marked Not verified and leaves the denominator — it is never counted as a zero, because a club should not be marked down for what the audit could not reach.
UI/UX impact
26
What a supporter sees and what they can then do: hierarchy, typography, imagery, labels and brand presence at a glance, and what it takes to finish a task afterwards — the next home match, a ticket, a player, the shop. Menu clarity, search, depth and dead ends belong here too, because a supporter experiences look and journey as one impression of the club, not two.
Fixtures and match experience
26
Upcoming fixtures, results, the table, lineups and reports — and whether they are native and club-branded or a third-party widget dropped into a page.
Content and information
19
Whether the squad, the fixtures, the stadium and the contact details are current, consistent and findable — and whether anything on the site was last true two seasons ago.
Mobile app
14
Whether the club has a native app at all, whether anyone still updates it, and whether it does the things only an owned home-screen surface can — push on a goal, the ticket in the wallet, one account shared with the website.
My Account
15
Whether a supporter can have an account with the club at all: one sign-in shared across site, tickets and store, a membership and digital card, saved tickets and order history, notifications and preferences, and data collected with permission rather than without it.
What the table says
All 16 clubs, walked page by page rather than measured from a distance. The best site in Romania’s top flight is Oțelul Galați on 37.5 of 100, and it sits in the Critical band with the other fifteen. The league averages 19.3 for the site a club owns and 40.4 for the shop beside it. Its weakest column is Mobile app, at 3% of what was available to it.
Every club in the league is Critical.
Sixteen sites, sixteen Critical grades. The best of them — Oțelul Galați on 37.5 — would have to nearly double to reach the bottom of Acceptable, and the worst, FCSB on 1.2, is a website that redirects away from itself. The distance from first to last is real, but it is a distance between degrees of the same failure. No supporter in the country is served well by their club online.
The match is the worst-served thing on a football club’s website.
Fixtures, results and the table are the heaviest column in the framework, and the league scores 10% of it, with five clubs scoring nothing there at all. Most of the rest publish a score and stop: no line-up, no report, no page for the match just played, and at several clubs no way to find out when the next one is. The single thing every visitor came for is the thing least often finished.
Fifteen of sixteen clubs do not know who their supporters are.
One club in the country — FK Csíkszereda — has a login of its own. The rest have none, or have one that belongs to a shop and registers on a shop’s terms, and fifteen of them have no app on any store. A club with neither cannot name a single person who visits it, cannot reach them on a matchday, and starts every season from nothing. My Account averages 5% and mobile 3%: not scores so much as absences.
The shops are twice as good as the clubs.
The store averages 40.4 against 19.3 for the sites they sit beside — and the gap is widest exactly where the site is worst. FCSB scores 1.2 for its website and 94.0 for its shop. Dinamo București is barely different. The craft exists in Romanian football, and it is spent where the money arrives this week rather than where the relationship is built. At three clubs — FC Argeș, FC Botoșani, FC Voluntari — there is no shop at all.
The gap is operational, not financial.
Nothing separating the top of this table from the bottom costs a transfer fee. It is publishing without waiting on a developer, a match page that ends when the match does, an account the club owns rather than rents, an app somebody updates, a consent banner that is answered before the trackers fire. Those are platform decisions, made once — which is why a club at the bottom of this table could pass the ones above it inside a season.
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We run this framework against a single club and hand back the full report: the scorecard, the supporter-task results, every finding with its evidence and severity, and a roadmap in priority order.
The audits were carried out between 1 and 8 September 2026. Every club was scored against the same framework, from evidence observed on its own live site, which makes the scores comparable with each other and with nothing else. Criteria that could not be tested are excluded from a category's total rather than scored zero. A site changed since then still carries the score it earned here.
