Romania national football team
| Nickname | Tricolorii (The Tricolours) | |||
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| Association | Federația Română de Fotbal (FRF) | |||
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | |||
| Head coach | Mircea Lucescu | |||
| Captain | Nicolae Stanciu | |||
| Most caps | Dorinel Munteanu (134) | |||
| Top scorer | Adrian Mutu Gheorghe Hagi (35) | |||
| Home stadium | Various | |||
| FIFA code | ROU | |||
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| FIFA ranking | ||||
| Current | 49 2 (19 January 2026) | |||
| Highest | 3 (September 1997) | |||
| Lowest | 57 (February 2011, September 2012) | |||
| First international | ||||
| Kingdom of SCS 1–2 Romania (Belgrade, Kingdom of SCS; 8 June 1922) | ||||
| Biggest win | ||||
| Romania 9–0 Finland (Bucharest, Romania; 14 October 1973) | ||||
| Biggest defeat | ||||
| Hungary 9–0 Romania (Budapest, Hungary; 6 June 1948) | ||||
| World Cup | ||||
| Appearances | 7 (first in 1930) | |||
| Best result | Quarter-finals (1994) | |||
| European Championship | ||||
| Appearances | 6 (first in 1984) | |||
| Best result | Quarter-finals (2000) | |||
| Website | frf.ro (in Romanian) | |||
The Romania national football team (Romanian: Echipa națională de fotbal a României) represents Romania in men's international association football. It is controlled by the Romanian Football Federation (FRF; Federația Română de Fotbal), the governing body responsible for football in Romania. The team is commonly nicknamed the Tricolorii ("the Tricolours") and usually plays its home matches at the Arena Națională in Bucharest.
Romania has appeared at seven editions of the FIFA World Cup, and was one of only four European nations—alongside Belgium, France, and Yugoslavia—to compete at the inaugural tournament in 1930. The team qualified for all pre-World War II editions of the competition, returned in 1970, and later produced a golden generation during the 1990s that reached three consecutive World Cups from 1990 to 1998. Romania's best World Cup campaign came in 1994, when led by playmaker Gheorghe Hagi defeated Argentina 3–2 in the round of 16, before narrowly losing to Sweden on penalties in the quarter-finals.
The national team has also qualified for the UEFA European Championship six times, making its debut in 1984 and most recently competing in 2024. Its best result came at Euro 2000, where Romania advanced from a group of death containing Germany, Portugal, and England, before being eliminated by eventual runners-up Italy in the quarter-finals.
In regional competitions, Romania was the most successful side at the Balkan Cup, winning the tournament a record four times between 1929 and 1980.