​The Romanian national football team will play a friendly match with Northern Ireland in March, thus Edi Iordenescu’s team will begin preparations for the 2024 European Championship.

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Romania – Northern Ireland, the first friendly before EURO 2024

The Romanian national team will play two games in March, FRF reports.

The first will take place on Friday, March 22, at the National Arena in the company of a representative of Northern Ireland. The start time of the match will be determined later together with the television that will broadcast the match live.

So far, the teams have met 8 times. Romania won twice, three games ended in a draw, Northern Ireland won three times.

The last time these two teams met was in the autumn of 2020 in the Nations League, and both games ended in a draw (1-1) in both Bucharest and Belfast.

The second preparatory game for EURO 2024, in the diaspora

For the second game in March, which will take place on March 26, a decision is being sought to play the match in a country where the Romanian diaspora is well represented.

This is done in order to bring the national team closer to fans abroad as a thank you for their support in the EURO 2024 qualifiers. Negotiations are progressing and an official announcement will be made in the coming days.

21 national teams have already qualified for Euro 2024, and the three that will complete the standings in Germany will go out of the Nations League playoffs.

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Romania’s matches at Euro-2024

Romania – Play-off B (June 17, Munich, 16:00)

Belgium – Romania (June 22, Cologne, 22:00)

Slovakia – Romania (June 26, Frankfurt, 19:00)

Groups of the Euro-2024 final tournament

Group A: Germany, Hungary, Scotland, Switzerland

Group B: Spain, Albania, Croatia, Italy

Group C: England, Denmark, Slovenia, Serbia

Group D: France, Austria, Netherlands, play-off A (Wales – Finland / Poland – Estonia)

Group E: Belgium, RomaniaSlovakia, playoff B (Bosnia – Ukraine / Israel – Iceland)

Group F: Portugal, Turkey, Czech Republic, play-off C (Georgia – Luxembourg / Greece – Kazakhstan)

How the playoff matches of the selection for Euro-2024 look like

Route A

Wales – Finland

Poland – Estonia

Route B

Bosnia – Ukraine

Israel – Iceland

Route S

Georgia – Luxembourg

Greece – Kazakhstan

Know:

• The matches will be held on March 21 and 26, 2024 in a semi-final/final format. It will be played in one round.

• The winners of each playoff will qualify for Euro 2024.

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