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National team · Romania

«Romania men's national volleyball team»

33 Matches
17 wins
16 losses
65–62 Sets
+3 Difference
2.0 Average per match
Form L 11 Sep · Home Switzerland · 1:3 L 12 Sep · Home Germany · 2:3 W 14 Sep · Home Turkey · 3:1 W 16 Sep · Home France · 3:2 W 20 Sep · Away Ukraine · 3:0 L 22 Sep · Away France · 0:3

Volleyball found its way into Romania as an organised sport in the early years of the twentieth century, and by 1931 the game had grown enough to need a governing body of its own: the Federația Română de Volei took charge that year. It waited until 1949 for its first outing on the world stage, finishing fifth at the FIVB World Championship in Prague, and reached its first European Championship the year after.

What followed was two decades in which Romania stood among the continent's best. Silver at the 1955 and 1958 European Championships built toward the peak: gold in 1963, won on home ground under coach Nicolae Sotir, with Horatiu Nicola captaining the side. Bronze followed twice more, in 1971 and 1977, the second of those medals shared by Mircea Tutovan, who went on to close out his playing days with a Champions League title at Dinamo Bucharest in 1981 after some 300 caps for the national side. The world championship brought two further silvers, in 1956 and 1966, and in 1980 Romania took Olympic bronze in Moscow under William Schreiber, who had also played in the 1963 European-winning squad.

Since then the roster has turned over into a generation built abroad: Adrian Aciobăniței captains the side and has twice been named Romania's Player of the Year, and Bela Bartha won the Italian Scudetto with Trentino. Group qualifying results have kept coming — Romania topped its group for the 2023 European Championship without reaching the final tournament — and in 2026 the country returns to hosting duties, sharing the European Championship with Finland and Italy. The team's matches at home run through Cluj-Napoca, Brașov, and Bucharest, where the Sala Polivalentă, holding 5,300, remains the ground the national side calls its own.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
22 Sep CEV European Championship France A 0:3 L
20 Sep CEV European Championship Ukraine A 3:0 W
16 Sep CEV European Championship France H 3:2 W
14 Sep CEV European Championship Turkey H 3:1 W
12 Sep CEV European Championship Germany H 2:3 L
11 Sep CEV European Championship Switzerland H 1:3 L

Standing

CEV European Championship

Group stage · Group D

# Team M W L Goals Pts
2 Germany 5 4 1 12:7 11
3 Croatia 4 0 4 4:12 1
3 Romania 5 3 2 12:10 9
4 Latvia 5 2 3 8:11 6
5 Turkey 5 1 4 6:12 3
Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 33
33 Matches
17 wins
16 losses
65–62 Sets
+3 Difference
2.0 Average per match
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 33
17wins: 17 · 51% 16losses: 16 · 48%
wins losses
Scored and conceded last matches
11 Sep · Home Switzerland · 1:3
12 Sep · Home Germany · 2:3
14 Sep · Home Turkey · 3:1
16 Sep · Home France · 3:2
20 Sep · Away Ukraine · 3:0
22 Sep · Away France · 0:3
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 33 16 17
Scored 65 32 33
Conceded 62 33 29
Average per match 2.0 2.0 1.9
Conceded per game 1.9 2.1 1.7
Difference +3 −1 +4

Fixtures of Romania

Honours of Romania

  • European Championship 1963 1
  • European Championship 1955, 1958 2
  • FIVB World Championship 1956, 1966 2
  • European Championship 1971, 1977 2
  • FIVB World Championship 1960, 1962 2
  • Olympic Games 1980 1

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