Marian Aliuță

Marian Aliuță (born 4 February 1978) is a Romanian retired footballer who played as midfielder.

Career Aliuță started to play football at Steaua București and as soon as he reached the age of 18 is loaned to Steaua Mizil and then to Chindia Târgovişte and Gloria Bistriţa. Released from him contract with Steaua București, Aliuță signed with FC Farul Constanţa in 1997 and then with Sheriff Tiraspol one year later.

Year 1999 finds him in Ukraine, playing for Shakhtar Donetsk from where he returned to Romania in 2002 to finally make his debut for Steaua București. At that time being, with US$135,000 the highest paid footballer from Divizia A. Despite being voted as The Best Player of Divizia A at the end of 2002–03 season, Aliuță leaves Steaua București after an altercation with the club's Chief Executive Mihai Stoica. Rapid Bucharest is his next club, which he left after only few weeks to play in Korea for Chunnam Dragons and then in the 2005–06 season he played for FC Metalurg Donetsk.

In November 2006, he signed a two-year contract with Iraklis. After a 1-year spell in Greece, he returned to Romania where he signed for FC Timişoara, a club with a huge fan base. In the summer of 2008, he moved to UEFA Cup contenders FC Vaslui. But after only 11 games he had a dispute with the club's powerful owner, Adrian Porumboiu and was given a free transfer. In the beginning of 2009 signed for the Azerbaijan club Neftchi Baku, joining his long-time friend Adrian Neaga.

Honours Club Sheriff Tiraspol Moldovan Cup: 1998–99

Shakhtar Donetsk Ukrainian Premier League: 2001–02 Ukrainian Cup: 2000–01, 2001–02

Vaslui UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2008