Gavrilă Birău (also known as Gabor Biro; born 10 February 1945) is a Romanian former football right defender and manager.
[1][3][4] He played junior level football at Textila Sfântu Gheorghe as a forward and in 1963 coach Gheorghe Ola called him up at a Romania youth team for a match against Turkey in which he was seen by UTA Arad's coach Nicolae Dumitrescu who proposed him to come at UTA and Birău accepted, Dumitrescu giving his Divizia A debut on 14 March 1965 in a 1–0 home victory against Steagul Roșu Brașov, also from this point on his playing position was right back.
[1][3] His first performance was reaching the 1966 Cupa României final which was lost with 4–0 in front of Steaua București, afterwards he won two consecutive titles, Dumitrescu using him 30 matches in both of these seasons, scoring a goal in the second one.
[1][3][4][5][6][8] He spent 12 seasons at UTA, his last Divizia A match being a 3–2 away loss against ASA Târgu Mureș, having a total of 319 appearances and three goals scored in the competition, also making 14 appearances in European competitions.
[3][4] A book about him was written by Radu Romănescu and Ionel Costin, called Gabi Birău – povestea fundașului de fier (Gabi Birău – the story of the iron defender), which was released with the occasion of his 73rd birthday.