Sports Roundup

Headcoach Gheorghe Hagi has announced the lineup for the November matches of Romania’s national football side

Florin Orban, 26.10.2026, 13:45

Last weekend saw a difficult leg for Romania’s best football sides. Dinamo Bucharest, which is topping the table, barely got a draw on Sunday in their away game against CFR. Adrian Cordea put the hosts into the lead in the 26^th minute, while Cristian Ignat added a second in the game’s second half.

Catalin Cîrjan scored for Dinamo Bucharest in the 78^th minute, and Dutch Dean Zandbergen added a second three minutes later. Dinamo dominated the end of the game, but the score remained the same, two-all.

Rapid Bucharest, presently second in the ranking, had a more difficult match as they were trounced by FCSB in Bucharest 4-1. Filip Stojilkovic put Rapid in the lead in the 11^th minute, and FCSB didn’t manage to score until halftime. However, they made a great comeback in the second half of the game with Croatian Karlo Muhar scoring in the 58^th minute. Algerian Aymen Boutoutaou added a second in the 69^th minute of the match, international Joao Paulo scored a third and Boutoutaou sealed the points nine minutes from time. Final score FCSB 4, Rapid 1.

Here are the other results of the latest Superleague matches. On Friday, Petrolul clinched a 3-1 win against Botosani, and Universitatea Cluj obtained a 3-0 win against Corvinul Hunedoara

On Saturday, Csikszereda got their first victory this season, 2-1 against FC Voluntari. UTA Arad outperformed FC Arges, 1-0. The leg’s biggest score was registered in Ovidiu, on the Black Sea coast, where the local side, Farul Constanta secured a 4-3 win against Otelul Galati.

In the leg’s last match on Monday, Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe will be taking on Universitatea Craiova.

Dinamo tops the First League ranking two points ahead of Rapid Bucharest.

On Sunday, Gheorghe Hagi, the headcoach of the Romanian national football side, announced a list of 27 international players whom he summoned for the November games of our national football side in the Nations League. The lineup includes also three debutants: Marius Corbu, from Ferencvàros Budapest, Ianis Stoica, from the Portuguese side Estrela Amadora, and Rareș Ilie, from the Italian second leaguer, Mantova. On November 14^th, Romania will be up against Poland in Bucharest, then three days later they will be taking on Bosnia and Herțegovina in Zenica, in their last matches of the Nations League.

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