Ștefan Dobay

The native form of this personal name is Dobay István. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Ștefan Dobay

Personal information
Full name	Ștefan Dobay
Date of birth	(1909-09-26)26 September 1909
Place of birth	Újszentes, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	7 April 1994(1994-04-07) (aged 84)
Place of death	Târgu Mureș, Romania
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1925–1926	Sparta CFR Timișoara
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1926–1929	Banatul Timișoara	61	(34)
1930–1940	Ripensia Timișoara	153	(127)
1940–1941	CA Cluj	8	(2)
1941–1942	Törekvés SE	9	(4)
1945–1948	Flacăra Mediaș	7	(3)
Total		238	(170)
International career
1930–1939	Romania	41	(19)
Managerial career
1947–1948	Flacăra Mediaș
1949	Farul Constanța
1950	Locomotiva Târgu Mureș
1951	Flacăra Mediaș
1952–1953	Locomotiva Târgu Mureș
1953–1954	Romania
1954	Dinamo Orașul Stalin
1955	Locomotiva Târgu Mureș
1956	CCA București
1957	CFR Cluj
1958	UTA Arad
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ștefan Dobay (Hungarian: Dobay István, 26 September 1909 – 7 April 1994), was a Romanian footballer who played as a striker and manager.

He played for Ripensia Timișoara and the Romania national football team for whom he got 41 caps, scored 19 goals and he appeared at the 1934 and 1938 World Cups as a forward and scoring a goal in each tournament.

Honours

Player

Ripensia Timișoara

• Romanian League: 4
  • 1932–33, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1937–38
• Romanian Cup: 2
  • 1933–34, 1935–36

Romania

• Balkan Cup: 2
  • 1933, 1936

Individual

• Romanian League:
  • Top Scorer (4): 1932–33, 1933–34, 1934–35, 1936–37

Manager

CCA / Steaua București

• Romanian League: 1
  • 1956

Selected publications

• Dobay, Ștefan (2014). Șut... goool!. Artprint. ISBN 978-9-7376-3936-3.

External links

• Ștefan Dobay at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
• Ștefan Dobay at National-Football-Teams.com