Nicolae Bonciocat

Club career Bonciocat was born on 13 April 1898 in Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary. He started playing football in the 1920–21 regional season at Universitatea Cluj. He was the team's top-scorer in the following two seasons with four goals netted in each, in the second one being tied with Aurel Guga. He won his first regional championship in the 1923–24 season which helped the team qualify to the national league where they were defeated by Clubul Atletic Oradea in the quarter-finals, with Bonciocat again being the team's top-scorer with six goals. In the following season he helped "U" win another regional title, being the team's top-scorer with five goals but they got eliminated again in the quarter-finals, this time by UCAS Petroșani. In the 1925–26 season, Bonciocat scored a personal record of 14 goals as the team finished in second place. In his last season spent with "U" Cluj, Bonciocat scored three goals as the team won a third regional title, then got past AMEF Arad with 3–0 in the quarter-finals of the 1926–27 national league, reaching the semi-finals where they were defeated with 2–1 by eventual champions, Chinezul Timișoara.

Afterwards in 1927 he went to play for one season at România Cluj with whom he won another regional league, being eliminated in the quarter-finals of the national league with 2–0 by Jiul Lupeni.

International career Bonciocat made his debut for Romania's national team on 27 May 1924 when coach Adrian Suciu used him the entire match in a 6–0 loss to Netherlands in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One year later, he played one more game, this time under coach Teofil Moraru, a friendly which ended with a 2–1 home loss to Turkey.

Death Bonciocat died on 22 March 1967, aged 68.