2019 Cupa României Final (women's football)

The first two matches for Fortuna Becicherecu Mic in the competition were plagued by the inability of the opponents to field enough players on matchday. Scheduled mid-week on 31 October and 21 November, the second and third rounds against Banat Girls Reșița and Juventus Timișoara respectively, were both stopped early in the game at 2–0 for Fortuna, and subsequently awarded 3–0.

The first full match played by Fortuna in the 2018–19 edition of the cup was the quarter final played at home on 24 March against Heniu Prundu Bârgăului and it finished at a clear and unprecedented 8–0 for Fortuna,[3] although Fortuna were to lose against Heniu 0–1 in the Liga I match played at less than a month distance, on 20 April.[4]

Fortuna met rivals U Olimpia Cluj in the semifinals. The match was played at home on 15 May and was won 2–0, due to the goals scored by Larisa Grigore.[5] With this win, Fortuna became the only Romanian team to ever beat Olimpia twice in the same season, with the first time being on 10 March, in an away Liga I match.[6] Still, Fortuna was to lose against Olimpia 0–7 just 4 days after the cup semifinal, in an away Liga I play-off match.

Vasas Femina did not play any of its cup matches at home in this edition.

Its first game was in the 2nd round on 28 October, where it met Csiksereda Miercurea Ciuc which it defeated with a clear 9–0.[7] The third round match was played on 18 November against Navobi Iași and won 4–0, with a hat-trick from Rita Mitri and another goal by Carolina Țabur.[8]

In the quarterfinals, it trashed Fair Play București 8–0 on 27 March,[9] while in the semifinals, Vasas traveled to Galați to play against Universitatea on 15 May and won the game by 4–1, even though they just lost a Liga I match 0–4 against the same team and on the same pitch a week before, on 8 May.[10]

Fortuna had a selection of footballers who spent most of their careers in the western part of Romania, notably at CFR Timișoara, who folded in early autumn, meaning that Fortuna had received at the start of the season an influx of new young players who played well with the already existing squad. A notable additional presence was former Romania national team member and top youth national team goalscorer Alexandra Lunca, who joined the team this season. An important absence for Fortuna was goalkeeper Mihaela Durlă, who defended Fortuna's goal for the first part of the season. Youth national team player Bianca Ienovan was uncertain for the match due to a recent injury, but eventually she was benched for the final. Other available players on matchday, that could have been included were Rebeca Pavel (#17) who had been announced for the final,[13] Andrada Rusu (#22) and Cristina Costa (#8), the latter having had injury problems this season.

Vasas[14] had a core of 4 players from the Moldova women's national football team (Violeta Mițul, Nadejda Colesnicenco, Margarita Panova and Carolina Țabur), Romania national youth team star Ana Maria Vlădulescu, in addition to a large base of local homegrown players of Hungarian ethnicity, a lot of which have been previously selected for Romania's youth national squads. Coach Andrași did not field Mădălina Marinescu, who was previously announced for the final.[15]