RRI Sports Club

All Romanian football sides but one are currently on holiday. The country's national eleven is presently training for the upcoming matches in the preliminaries of EURO 2024. The domestic season is over now with Farul Constanta as champions. We recall the club is owned by the man who has been considered the best Romanian footballer ever Gheorghe Hagi, who is also the team's headcoach.

It has been an extraordinary year for Farul, which topped the national championship from the beginning to end. Farul's main challenger proved to be the Bucharest legend FCSB, formerly known as Steaua, but the last head-to-head game went to Farul 3-2, which eventually reaped the trophy.  

Farul will be next playing in the Champions League's preliminaries, while the runner up FCSB, CFR Cluj, the side on the third place, and Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe, winner of Romania's Cup are going into qualifiers for the Conference League.

Tie matches were played for the position currently occupied by CFR. FCU Craiova first took on FC Voluntari, which they defeat in the penalty shootout and were eventually up against CFR Cluj in a decisive game for Conference League. CFR eventually secured a 1-0 win the in the injury time.

Politehnica Iaşi, Oţelul Galaţi and Dinamo Bucureşti have joined Romania's first football league this season. Dinamo Bucharest played two tie matches against FC Arges. Dinamo won the first match 6-1 and lost their second 2-4. The other game for a place in the first football division pitched UTA Arad against Gloria Buzau. UTA won on aggregate after a goaless draw in the first match and 5-1 win in the second. CS Mioveni, Chindia Târgovişte and FC Argeş have been demoted to the second football league.

In their qualifying matches for EURO 2024, our footballers will first take on Kosovo in Pristina, on June 16, then fly to Lucerne in Switzerland for a game against the local representative three days later. After the victories in March against Andorra and Belarus our footballers are ranking second in Group One with the same number of points as Switzerland.

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