[3][4][5][6] Vasile Stan was born on 11 February 1945 in Bucharest, Romania and he started to play football at age 15 under the guidance of coach Lăzărescu at fourth league side, F.C.M.E.
[1][2] One year later, Stan switched teams again, going to play for Argeș Pitești for which he made his Divizia A debut under coach Ion Bălănescu on 24 September 1967, keeping a clean sheet in a 4–0 home win over Dinamo Bacău.
[1][2][8][9] Then he started to play in European competitions, appearing in four games from the 1972–73 European Cup campaign, eliminating Aris Bonnevoie in the first round, keeping clean sheets in both legs, then in the following one they won a home game with 2–1 against Real Madrid but lost the second leg with 3–1 in which he conceded two goals from Santillana and one from Toni Grande.
[1][13][14] In 1975 he went to play one season for Politehnica Iași where he worked with coach Ilie Oană, making his last Divizia A appearance on 20 June 1976 in a 3–1 home win over FC Constanța, having a total of 204 games in which he conceded 227 goals.
[1][2] Stan ended his career at Muscelul Câmpulung where coach was his former Argeș teammate, Ion Barbu and he was colleague with other former Argeș teammates like Constantin Radu, Radu Jercan and Marian Popescu, managing to promote the team from the third league to the second.