Introduction
Flavius Vladimir Stoican (born 24 November 1976 in Vânju Mare) is a Romanian football manager.
He started his footballer career at FC Drobeta and soon he left the team for Universitatea Craviova where he played for seven years. Dinamo București bought him in 2002 and he joined the "Red Dogs". From Shakhtar Donetsk, Mircea Lucescu spotted him and Flavius moved to Donetsk. He played four years for Shakhtar and moved to FC Metalist Kharkiv where he did not find a place in the team and he moved back for a year to Dinamo București.
Stoican made 19 appearances for the Romania national football team.
After ending his player career, Stoican started as coach for Minerul Valea Copcii. He managed CSM Reșița in the 2010–11 season and in July 2011 he came to Dinamo where he became responsible for the second team. After only six months, he resigned from Dinamo II and took control of Chindia Târgoviște. He resigned from Chindia in September 2012, following a poor serie of results.
In October 2012, Stoican became head coach at CS Mioveni, with a primary objective to help the team promote to Liga I.
In August 2013,he came back to Dinamo satellite team, Dinamo II from Liga III, to help the team promote back to Liga II. On 22 September 2013, Stoican was promoted as head coach to the main team of Dinamo. His contract was ended by mutual agreement on 12 November 2014, when Dinamo was placed sixth in Liga I and was eliminated from the Romanian Cup.
Managerial stats
As of: 6 May 2015
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | Win % | ||||
| Dinamo II București |  | 13 July 2011 | 03 January 2012 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 26.67 |
| Chindia Târgoviște | | 09 January 2012 | 04 September 2012 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 19 | 25.00 |
| CS Mioveni | | 01 October 2012 | 12 May 2013 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 16 | 29.41 |
| Dinamo II București | | 23 August 2013 | 22 September 2013 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 75.00 |
| Dinamo București | | 22 September 2013 | 12 November 2014 | 26 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 40 | 26 | 57.69 |
| Dinamo București | | 12 March 2015 | 06 May 2015 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 20.00 |
| Total | 88 | 33 | 28 | 27 | 111 | 97 | 37.50 | |||
Honours
Player
- Dinamo București
- Romanian League Championship: 2003–04
- Romanian Cup: 2002–03, 2003–04
- Shakhtar Donetsk
- Ukrainian Premier League: 2004–05, 2005–06
- Ukrainian Cup: 2003-04
- Ukrainian Super Cup: 2005