Moldovan national football team

Republic of Moldova
Republica Moldova

Association	Federația Moldovenească de Fotbal
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	Jako
Head coach	Engin Fırat (since November 2019)
captain	Artur Ioniță
Record scorer	Serghei Cleșcenco (11)
Record player	Alexandru Epureanu (91)
Home stadium	Stadionul Zimbru
FIFA code	MDA
FIFA rank	175th (959 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey Third jersey
Balance sheet
238 games 48 wins 55 draws 135 losses
statistics
First international game Moldova 2-4 Georgia ( Chișinău , Moldova ; July 2, 1991 )
Biggest win Moldova 5-0 Pakistan ( Amman , Jordan ; August 18, 1992 )
Biggest defeat Sweden 6-0 Moldova ( Gothenburg , Sweden ; June 6, 2001 )
(As of January 9, 2020)

The Moldovan national team is the selection of the Republic of Moldova . Since independence in 1991, Moldova has never qualified for a football world or European championship final. As part of the USSR and the CIS, Moldova took part in the World Championships from 1958 to 1990 and the European Championships from 1960 to 1992. Moldovan players played no role in the Soviet national team. After the break-up of the Soviet Union into several independent states, Moldova took part in qualifying for the 1996 European Championship for the first time.

In September 2007, Moldova achieved its best position in the FIFA world rankings with 52nd place, currently the team is currently in its worst place with 175th place (as of April 2020).

Participation of Moldova in the soccer world championship

• 1930 to 1938 - Did not participate, was part of Romania
• 1950 to 1990 - Did not take part, was part of the USSR national football team .
• 1994 - Did not participate, was not a FIFA member
• 1998 to 2018 - not qualified

Participation of Moldova in the European Football Championship

• 1960 to 1992 - Did not participate, was part of the USSR national football team .
• 1996 to 2021 - not qualified

Expanded squad of the Moldovan national football team 2019

No.	player	society	Games	Gates	Last use
goal
12	Nicolae Cebotari	FC Sfîntul Gheorghe	00	0
01	Dumitru Celeadnic	Sheriff Tiraspol	01	0	02/21/2019
23	Alexei Koșelev	Fortuna Sittard	19th	0	October 14, 2019
	Dorian Răilean	FC Petrocub Sărata-Galbenă	01	0	02/21/2019
Defense
	Igor Armaș	FC Voluntari	55	5	07.09.2019
	Maxim Cojocaru	Sheriff Tiraspol	01	0	07.09.2019
03	Stefan Efros	FC Speranța Nisporeni	03	0	09/10/2019
22nd	Dinu Graur	Astra Giurgiu	13	0	October 14, 2019
	Ion Jardan	Zimbru Chișinău	29	0	06/11/2019
13	Valerii Macriţchii	FC Dinamo-Auto Tiraspol	02	0	02/21/2019
04th	Victor Mudrac	FC Petrocub Sărata-Galbenă	03	0	October 14, 2019
05	Veaceslav Posmac	Sheriff Tiraspol	36	2	October 14, 2019
14th	Anatolia Prepeliţă	Zimbru Chișinău	02	0	October 14, 2019
02	Oleg Reabciuk	FC Paços de Ferreira	16	0	October 14, 2019
15th	Iaser Țurcan	FC Petrocub Sărata-Galbenă	04th	0	09/10/2019
midfield
	Vladimír Ambros	FC Petrocub Sărata-Galbenă	11	1	03/25/2019
18th	Gheorghe Anton	Sheriff Tiraspol	07th	0	October 14, 2019
	Cătălin Carp	CFR Cluj	27	1	07.09.2019
09	Eugeniu Cebotaru	FC Academica Clinceni	65	1	October 14, 2019
	Eugeniu Cociuc	Səbail FK	16	0	06/11/2019
21st	Mihail Ghecev	Sheriff Tiraspol	01	0	09/10/2019
11	Radu Ginsari	Krylya Sovetov Samara	37	7th	10/11/2019
07th	Artur Ioniță	Cagliari Calcio	43	3	October 14, 2019
08th	Maxim Mihaliov	FC Dinamo-Auto Tiraspol	13	0	10/11/2019
0	Ion Nicolăescu	FK Shakhtsor Salihorsk	07th	0	03/25/2019
06th	Artiom Rozgoniuc	FC Sfîntul Gheorghe	11	0	October 14, 2019
17th	Constantin Sandu	FC Speranța Nisporeni	07th	0	October 14, 2019
20th	Eugene Sidorenco	Zimbru Chișinău	35	7th	October 14, 2019
16	Alexandru Suvorov	FC Sfîntul Gheorghe	56	5	October 14, 2019
	Dan Taras	FC Petrocub Sărata-Galbenă	00	0
	Veaceslav Zagaevschii	FC Milsami	03	0	02/21/2019
attack
	Alexandru Antoniuc	FC Milsami	44	3	06/11/2019
19th	Alexandru Boiciuc	Karpaty Lviv	08th	0	October 14, 2019
	Vadim Cemîrtan	FC Sfîntul Gheorghe	04th	0	09/10/2019
	Vitalie Damaşcan	Fortuna Sittard	12	1	06/11/2019
10	Alexandru Dedov	FC Petrocub Sărata-Galbenă	55	3	09/10/2019
	Andrei Macriţchii	FC Dinamo-Auto Tiraspol	02	0	02/21/2019
	Nicolae Milinceanu	FC Vaduz	08th	0	02/21/2019
	Sergiu Plătică	FC Milsami	11	0	02/21/2019

Record player

As of January 9, 2020

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	position	Period
01.	Alexandru Epureanu	91	7th	Defense	2006–
02.	Victor Golovatenco	79	3	Defense	2004-2017
03.	Radu Rebeja	74	2	midfield	1991-2008
04th	Serghei Cleșcenco	69	11	attack	1991-2006
05.	Eugeniu Cebotaru	65	1	midfield	2007–
06th	Alexandru Gacan	63	5	midfield	2005–
07th	Igor Armaș	58	5	Defense	2008–
08th.	Alexandru Suvorov	57	5	midfield	2006–2014, 2019–
09.	Ion Testemițanu	56	5	Defense	1991-2008
10.	Valeriu Catînsus	55	0	Defense	1999-2009
	Alexandru Dedov	55	3	midfield	2012–
12.	Igor Bugaiov	54	8th	attack	2007-2017
13.	Serghei Rogaciov	52	9	attack	1996-2007

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Record goal scorers

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Quota	Period
01.	Serghei Cleșcenco	11	69	0.16	1991-2006
02.	Serghei Rogaciov	9	52	0.17	1996-2007
03.	Igor Bugaiov	8th	54	0.15	2007-2017
	Sergiu Dadu	8th	30th	0.27	2002-2013
	Iurie Miterev	8th	36	0.22	1992-2006
06th	Alexandru Epureanu	7th	91	0.08	2006–
	Viorel Frunza	7th	37	0.19	2002-2015
	Radu Ginsari	7th	39	0.18	2012–
	Eugene Sidorenco	7th	35	0.20	2010–

player

• Alexandru Curtianu (1994-2001), 38 games, 2 goals
• Henrique Luvannor (2013–2014), naturalized Brazilian, 4 games, 2 goals
• Igor Oprea (1992–2001), 44 games, 4 goals

Trainer

• Ion Caras (1991-1992, 1992-1997, 2012-2014)
• Evgeniy Piunovskiy (1992)
• Alexandru Maţiura (1998, interim; 1999–2001)
• Ivan Danilianţ (1998–1999)
• Alexandru Spiridon (2001, 2018-2019)
• Wiktor Passulko (2002-2005)
• Anatol Teslev (2002)
• Igor Dobrowolski (2007–2009, 2016–2017)
• Gavril Balint (2010-2011)
• Alexandru Curtianu (2014-2015)
• Ștefan Stoica (2015, interim)
• Semen Altman (2019)
• Engin Fırat (2019–)

International matches against German-speaking national teams

→ Main article : List of the international matches of the Moldovan national football team

Games against Germany

(Results from Moldova's perspective)

1. December 14, 1994 in Chișinău 0-3 (0-2), European Championship qualification
2. October 8, 1995 in Leverkusen 1: 6 (0: 3), European Championship qualification
3. October 14, 1998 in Chișinău 1: 3 (1: 3), European Championship qualification
4. June 4, 1999 in Leverkusen 1: 6 (0: 3), European Championship qualification

Games against Austria

(Results from Moldova's perspective)

1. September 7, 2002 in Vienna 0: 2 (European Championship qualification)
2. June 7, 2003 in Tiraspol 1-0 (European Championship qualification)
3. October 9, 2014 in Chișinău 1: 2 (European Championship qualification)
4. September 5, 2015 in Vienna 0: 1 (European Championship qualification)
5. March 24, 2017 in Vienna 0: 2 (World Cup qualification)
6. 9 October 2017 in Chișinău 0: 1 (World Cup qualification)

Games against Liechtenstein

(Results from Moldova's perspective)

1. November 15, 2014 in Chișinău 0: 1 (European Championship qualification)
2. June 14, 2015 in Vaduz 1: 1 (European Championship qualification)

Games against Switzerland

(Results from Moldova's perspective)

1. March 28, 2009 in Chișinău 0-2 (World Cup qualification)
2. April 1, 2009 in Geneva 0-2 (World Cup qualification)
3. June 3, 2016 in Lugano 1: 2

Trivia

The second book by British writer Tony Hawks , Matchball in Moldova , is about the author's encounter with the eleven Moldovan internationals who were on the pitch in the 4-0 defeat in England in 1999. As a result of a bet Hawks had to defeat all football players in tennis , which he ultimately succeeded. Hawks beat the following players: Denis Romanenco , Oleg Fistican , Marin Spynu , Ion Testimițanu , Vitalie Culibaba , Serghei Stroenco , Radu Rebeja , Alexandru Curtianu , Oleg Şişchin , Iurie Miterev and Serghei Rogaciov .

See also

• List of international matches for the Moldovan national football team
• Moldovan national football team (U-17 juniors)

Web links

Commons : Moldovan national soccer team  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the association (Romanian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Numbers for the game against Albania on October 14, 2019
3. ↑ ^{a b} Status: October 14, 2019