Career
He is currently working as the Assistant manager and Goalkeeper coach at Târgu Mureș. He is best known for his spell with Steaua Bucharest in the 1980s and 1990s. Aged 18, Stângaciu signs for Football Club Braşov but after only two years is signed by Steaua Bucureşti, being the second goalkeeper option of the coach Emerich Jenei.
As Helmuth Duckadam retired from football in 1986, Stângaciu becomes the first option of the new coach, Anghel Iordănescu.
He spent the season 1988 - 1989 on loan to Football Club Olt Scorniceşti, as Steaua preferred to sign Silviu Lung, but returned in Bucharest one year later. In 1995 starts his adventure in the Turkish Premier Super Football League, playing for Vanspor and Kocaelispor.
He retired in 2001 and since then was for a while the goalkeepers" coach at FCU Politehnica Timişoara. On 25 March 2008 he was decorated by the president of Romania, Traian Băsescu for the winning of Union of European Football Associations Champions League with Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" — (The Order "The Sportive Merit") class World War II