The Romanian national team has learned its opponents in the qualifying matches of the 2024 European Championship, which is hosted by Germany. The tricolors will compete in Group I with Switzerland, Israel, Kosovo, Belarus and Kosovo, and the FRF has analyzed their representatives on the official website.

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Euro 2024: available group for the national team of Romania. Which teams will the tricolors play in the previous matches

Giquie Popescu on Romania’s group in the EURO 2024 qualifying tournament: “If we don’t qualify, this generation should be forgotten”

Presentations of Romania’s opponents from the previous round to EURO 2024, according to FRF:

SWITZERLAND

Winners with Spain and Portugal in this year’s Nations League group, qualified for the 2022 World Cup and present in the quarter-finals of the last EURO 2020

Trained by Murat Yakin, he has extremely valuable players at his disposal from the domestic league as well as from the Bundesliga, Premier League, Ligue 1 and Serie A

Romania were held to a 1-1 draw by Switzerland at EURO 2016 in the second match of a group that also featured France and Albania.

  • Romania’s results in matches with Switzerland: 5 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses.
  • Team type: Sommer – Widmer, Elvedi, Schar, Rodriguez – Froyler, Xhaka – Shaqiri, Sow, Vargas – Embolo.
  • Lot price (Transfermarkt): 192.2 million euros.

ISRAEL

The national team we drew 2-2 away from home in March after leading 2-0 in Eduard Iordenescu’s second game on the national team bench.

Champions Maccabi Haifa are in the Champions League groups, while Hapoel Be’er Sheva beat Universitatea Craiova in the European Cups this season.

  • Results of Romania in matches with Israel: 12 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses
  • Team type: Marciano – Dasa, Goldberg, Vitor, Leidner – Safuri, Peretz, Jaber – Abada, Dabbour, Solomon
  • Lot price (Transfermarkt): 19.25 million euros

KOSOVO

The team was prepared by the Frenchman Alain Giress, against whom Romania has not yet played either a friendly or an official match.

A team built around players based abroad in France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Spain or the Netherlands, with EURO 2020 the first European finals tournament they have competed in qualifying for since the independence of Kosovo.

Finished 2nd in this year’s League of Nations group, behind Greece but ahead of Northern Ireland and Cyprus.

  • Team type: Ujkani – Hdergjonaj – Rrahmani, Kryeziu, Rrudhani – Muslija, Fazliji, Celina – Rashani, Muriqi, Zeneli
  • Lot price (Transfermarkt): 81.65 million euros.

BELARUS

Belarus has never qualified for a final, European or world tournament, and in EURO 2020 qualification they finished 4th out of 5 in their group, ahead of only Estonia.

Foreigners take part in the championships of Poland, Russia, Kazakhstan or Cyprus, and in this year’s group of the League of Nations they took the last place, falling below Kazakhstan, Slovakia and Azerbaijan.

  • Results of Romania in matches with Belarus: 3 wins and 2 draws.
  • Team type: Plotnikov – Polyakov, Yudenkov, Shvetsov, Pechenin – Shauchenko, Klimovich, Yablonsky, Ebong – Bogomolsky, Savitsky.
  • Lot price (Transfermarkt): 12.65 million euros.

ANDORRA

The national team, which consists mainly of players from the domestic league and the lower ranks of Spain, collected 8 points from 6 matches in the Nations League in a group with Latvia, Moldova and Liechtenstein.

Koldo Alvarez has been the head coach of Andorra’s first national team since 2010, and the former goalkeeper is one of the longest-serving technicians on the bench of the European national team.

  • Results of Romania in matches with Andorra: 4 wins
  • Team type: Alvarez – De Pablos, Llovera, Alavedra, Pomares – Rubio, Rebes, Vales, Servos – Vieira, Cucu
  • Lot price (Transfermarkt): 1.68 million euros.

When will the qualifying matches for EURO 2024 take place

The matches of the EURO 2024 qualifying tournament will take place between March and November 2023, and 20 qualification matches will be determined.

A further 3 representative teams will earn a place in the final tournament following the Nations League play-offs in March 2024.

First stage: March 23-25, 2023

II stage: March 26-28, 2023

III stage: June 16-17, 2023

IV stage: June 19-20, 2023

Stage V: September 7-9, 2023

VI stage: September 10-12, 2023

VII stage: October 12-14, 2023

VIII stage: October 15-17, 2023

IX stage: October 16-18, 2023

Stage X: November 19-21, 2023.

The final tournament of EURO 2024 will be held from June 14 to July 14, 2024.