Romanian national football team (U-21 men)

Romania

Association

Federația Română de Fotbal

confederacy

UEFA

Head coach

Mirel Rădoi

Assistant coach

Florin Constantinovici

captain

Andrei Radu

FIFA code

ROU

home

Away

Successes in tournaments

European Championship

Participation in the finals

2 ( first : 1998 )

Best results

Semi-finals 2019

(As of June 2019)

The Romanian U-21 national football team is a selection team of Romanian football players. It is subordinate to the Federația Română de Fotbal , the Romanian football association, and represents it at the U-21 level, in friendly matches against the national teams of other national associations, but also at the European championship of the European continental association UEFA or the FIFA World Cup. Eligible to play are players who have not yet reached the age of 21 and who are Romanian citizens. In tournaments, the age at the first qualifying game is decisive.

history

At the U-21 Euro 1998 , the Romanians were hosts and thus qualified for the first and so far only time for the European Championship finals. Since the competition started in knockout mode at that time, the tournament was already over for the Romanians after the quarter-finals, as in the first round. They separated from the Netherlands 1: 2, which meant the end when they first participated.

For the 2006 tournament , the team was drawn into Group 1. There it met the Netherlands, the Czech Republic , Macedonia , Finland and Armenia . After a good start with victories over Finland and Macedonia, the disillusionment quickly followed with a 1: 4 defeat against the Czech Republic. After a 2-0 win against rivals from the Netherlands, the team was well on the way to qualifying for the European Championship. But only five days after this victory a 0-1 defeat against outsider Macedonia followed. Although the Romanians did not lose any of the following games, neither the Czechs nor the Dutch showed themselves naked, so that the team only achieved third place and missed the necessary second place by two points.

Since the next European Championship after the EM in 2006 did not take place two years later, as usual, but took place in 2007 , the corresponding qualification was played out in a rapid process. Starting with a preliminary round, over a short group stage with three teams and the play-off games. Romania needed to get into the group stage first. The teams from Germany and Northern Ireland were drawn to the Eastern Europeans . There was only one game against each team, so the teams had one away and one home rights. In the first game on August 16, 2006, the team clearly won against the Northern Irish team 3-0. The German team presented itself less clearly, winning "only" 3-2 on the 2nd matchday against the island footballers from Northern Ireland. The last game on September 5, 2006 between Romania and Germany had to decide for a place in the play-offs. The BRD selection clearly prevailed with 5: 1.

In qualifying for Euro 2009, they met France , Wales , Bosnia-Herzegovina and Malta . To get into the play-off round, victory in this group had to be achieved. On the first match day there was a 1-1 draw against France. The second leg also ended in a draw. So the favorites of these groups took each other's points. Since France had already suffered a defeat against Wales and had to share the points with Romania beforehand, the last matchday of this group on September 9, 2008 was decisive, the French met Bosnia-Herzegovina and won this game 1-0. In the final group game Romania needed a win against Wales, but ultimately lost 3-0 to the group winners in front of their home crowd.

Participation in U-21 European championships

1978	not qualified
1980	not qualified
1982	not qualified
1984	not qualified
1986	not qualified
1988	not qualified
1990	not qualified
1992	not qualified
1994 in France	not qualified
1996 in Spain	not qualified
1998 in Romania	Quarter finals
2000 in Slovakia	not qualified
2002 in Switzerland	not qualified
2004 in Germany	not qualified
2006 in Portugal	not qualified
2007 in the Netherlands	not qualified
2009 in Sweden	not qualified
2011 in Denmark	not qualified
2013 in Israel	not qualified
2015 in the Czech Republic	not qualified
2017 in Poland	not qualified
2019 in Italy	Semifinals

Note : Between 1978 and 1992, the final round of a U-21 European Championship was not played in one country, but instead was played back and forth in the respective participating nations.

Current squad

Squad for the European Championship in Italy and San Marino (June 16-30, 2019).

Surname	society	Date of birth
goalkeeper
Andrei Radu (C)	Italy CFC genoa	77298193500 ♠May 28, 1997
Cătălin Căbuz	Romania FC Viitorul Constanța	77261541650 ♠June 18, 1996
Andrei Vlad	Romania Steaua Bucharest	77371404175 ♠Apr 15, 1999
Defense
Ionuț Nedelcearu	Russia FK Ufa	77256239225 ♠Apr 25, 1996
Alexandru Paşcanu	Romania CFR Cluj	77347868850 ♠Sep 18 1998
Cristian Manea	Romania Steaua Bucharest	77305356425 ♠0Aug 9, 1997
Florin Ștefan	Romania Sepsi OSK	77257727625 ♠0May 9, 1996
Radu Boboc	Romania Viitorul Constanța	77372241400 ♠Apr 24, 1999
Virgil Ghiță	Romania Viitorul Constanța	77337636100 ♠0June 4, 1998
Adrian Rus	Hungary MOL Vidi FC	77252611250 ♠18 Mar 1996
Ricardo Grigore	Romania Dinamo Bucharest	77370659975 ♠0Apr 7, 1999
midfield
Dragoș Nedelcu	Romania Steaua Bucharest	77288146800 ♠Feb 16, 1997
Ianis Hagi	Belgium KRC Genk	77351217750 ♠Oct 22, 1998
Florinel Coman	Romania Steaua Bucharest	77332240650 ♠Apr 10, 1998
Vlad Dragomir	Italy AC Perugia Calcio	77372241400 ♠Apr 24, 1999
Alexandru Cicâldău	Romania Universitatea Craiova	77302286600 ♠0July 8, 1997
Dennis Man	Romania Steaua Bucharest	77345636250 ♠Aug 26, 1998
Andrei Ciobanu	Romania Viitorul Constanța	77324054450 ♠Jan. 18, 1998
Darius Olaru	Romania Gaz Metan Mediaș	77328612675 ♠03rd Mar 1998
Tudor Băluță	England Brighton & Hove Albion	77369543675 ♠27 Mar 1999
attack
George Puşcaş	England Reading FC	77254657800 ♠0Apr 8, 1996
Andrei Ivan	Romania Universitatea Craiova	77284053700 ♠0Jan. 4, 1997
Adrian Petre	Denmark Esbjerg fB	77326380075 ♠Feb 11, 1998