Cosmin Tilincă

Cosmin Augustin Tilincă (born 1 August 1979) is a Romanian former footballer.

Club career Tilincă was born on 1 August 1979 in Turda, Romania and began playing junior-level football at local club Arieșul. In 1997 he started to play for Arieșul's senior squad in Divizia C. In 2002 he went to play at Divizia B level, signing with CFR Cluj. He scored his first goal on 11 June 2005 in a 2–1 home victory against FC Brașov. With those seven goals scored, Tilincă was the top-scorer of the competition, and earned the nickname Tili-goal.

In February 2007 he signed with Farul Constanța which paid €40,000 to CFR, being wanted there by coach Basarab Panduru. Until the end of the season, Tilincă made 11 league appearances for Farul, scoring once in a 1–1 draw against Steaua București. He then went to Gloria Bistrița for the 2007–08 season. They reached the final where he netted once and provided the assist to Dorel Zaharia's goal in a 2–1 home victory against Atlético Madrid, but the second leg was lost with 1–0, thus losing the final on the away goals rule. In 2008, Tilincă joined Pandurii Târgu Jiu where on 6 November 2009 he netted his last goal in the Romanian league in a 1–1 draw against his former side, Gloria Bistrița. He made his last first league appearance on 22 May 2010 in Pandurii's 1–0 away win over Unirea Alba Iulia, totaling 135 matches with 23 goals in the competition.

Afterwards, Tilincă returned to his hometown at Arieșul, playing for them in the Romanian lower leagues until 2015. However, due to an injury suffered in a training match against Sportul Studențesc București, he did not get to play in those games.

Honours CFR Cluj Divizia B: 2003–04 UEFA Intertoto Cup runner-up: 2005 Gloria Bistrița UEFA Intertoto Cup runner-up: 2007