[4] Stelian Anghel was born on 7 March 1952 in Brașov, Romania, starting to play junior level football in 1967 at local club Steagul Roșu.
[1] In 1971 he moved to neighboring club, Metrom where started playing senior level football in Divizia C, helping it finish the season on the first place, earning promotion to the second league.
[1][6] He won the only trophy of his career, the 1979–80 Cupa României, being used by coach Ion Ionescu all the minutes in the 2–1 win over Steaua București from the final, also in the same season he scored a personal record of 14 goals in the league.
[1][3] Stelian Anghel played two games at international level for Romania, making his debut on 12 May 1976 under coach Ștefan Kovács in a 1–0 away loss in front of Bulgaria at the 1973–76 Balkan Cup.
[11][13] After he ended his career, Anghel was president at Politehnica Timișoara, his biggest achievement was eliminating Atlético Madrid in the first round of the 1990–91 UEFA Cup.