Sports Roundup
A roundup of the latest performances obtained by athletes from Romania
Daniel Bilț, 12.05.2025, 13:45
Two legs before the end of the play-off stage of Romania’s Football Superleague, FCSB reaped another championship title. The distance between FCSB and the side on the second position, CFR Cluj, is now of 9 points, impossible to recover in the matches left. The fight for the other positions in the ranking seems very interesting though.
CFR Cluj and Universitatea Craiova, the sides fighting for the second position, met on the former’s turf on Saturday. The match ended two-all and CFR has two points more than Universitatea, which has two points more than Universitatea Cluj on the fourth position, which conceded a 2-0 home defeat to FCSB on Sunday. The leg’s last match will be pitching Dinamo against Rapid on Monday.
In the league’s play-out stage on Friday, Unirea Slobozia outperformed Gloria Buzău, in an away game 3-0, while Sepsi clinched a 2-0 home win against FC Botoşani.
On Saturday, UTA Arad secured a 2-1 away win against Farul Constanţa, while Hermannstadt also won at home against Politehnica Iaşi, 1-0. In the leg’s last match on Monday, Petrolul Ploieşti takes on Oţelul Galaţi. Gloria Buzău has demoted to the country’s second league and three sides are struggling to avoid the last place in the ranking, which also spells demotion. Two of them, FC Botoşani and Sfântu Gheorghe, have 26 points each and the third, Slobozia, has 24. In the competition’s last leg, Unirea will be up against Sepsi and FC Botoşani will be taking on Hermannstadt in a home match.
Romania’s male handball side has qualified for the European championship due in Denmark, Sweden and Norway next year.
Romania came third in the preliminaries group 8, which also includes Portugal and Poland. The sides on the first and second positions in the ranking and the best four sides on the third positions have qualified for the prestigious continental competition.
In last week’s games, on Thursday, România secured a 28-24 home win against Portugal and lost away to Poland on Sunday 29-30. Daniel Stanciuc scored most of the goals for the Romanian side, 10 against Poland and 13 against Portugal. The European Championship’s Final Tournament will be taking place between January 15th and February 1st.
Sunday saw the last matches of Romania’s Cup in women’s handball. The cup’s holder is CSM Bucharest, which defeated Bistriţa-Năsăud 34 – 30 in the finals. CSM’s best player was Slovenian Elizabeth Omoregie, with 8 goals scored.
And now the latest from chess competitions.
All rounds of Sunday’s leg of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025, hosted by Bucharest ended in draws. Romanian grand master Bogdan Deac split a point with Nodirbek Abdusatorov, of Uzbekistan, rapid chess champion in 2021. The en titre world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, of India, drew his game against Jan-Krzysztof Duda of Poland. Also in a draw ended the match pitching Praggnanandha Rameshbabu of India against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France, and so did those between the US challenger, Levon Aronian and the French of Iranian descent, Alireza Firouzja, and between the US players Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So. Three players are topping the ranking each with three points, and they are Caruana, Vachier-Lagrave and Rameshbabu
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