Article by Darius Stanescu – published on Sunday, June 08, 2025, 12:39 / Updated Sunday, June 08, 2025 12:41
Lithuanian Donatas Rumsas (37 years old) is the referee who will lead from the center Romania – Cyprus, from the preliminaries of the 2026 World Cup.
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Romania – Cyprus is played on Tuesday, June 10, from 9:45 pm, on the National Arena. The match will be LiveText on GSP.ro and on TV on Prima TV.
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Throughout the day, on GSP.ro all the details and information transmitted by the newspaper correspondents will be before the match with Cyprus.
Two days before the 4th stage of the preliminaries for the 2026 World Championship, the arbitration brigade that will run the match that Romania is obliged to win.
Lithuania brigade in Romania – Cyprus
Donatas Rumsas was delegated by the UEFA to officiate from the center the match on Romania's own ground against Cyprus.
The Litianian will be assisted by Aleksandr Radius and Dovydas Suziedėlis, while the reserve will be Robertas Valikonis.
In the lime room there will be Donatas Simenas and Orestas Abramavicius.
Lithuanian central, in the center of a scandal before a match in the Champions League
Lithuanian referee Donatas Rumsas was involved in a scandal last season in the Champions League, when, one night before the Dinamo Kiev – Rangers match, his two colleagues in the Var room were arrested because they were surprised on the street in a state of intoxication and that they stole an indicator.
UEFA officials changed the two problem referees from the match.
Also, the Rumsas referee met with Romania, at Euro 2024, during the match with Belgium in the E. Lithuanian group was then the reserve referee in the brigade led by Szymon Marciniak.
Romania obtained only three points after the first three matches in the preliminaries for the World Championship. The tricolors occupy the second place in the group, being 6 points away from the leader of the group, Bosnia, who has victories on the line.
Romania meets Cyprus for the third time in less than 1 year. The two national ones also met in the Nations League, in the autumn of 2024.
The tricolors prevailed in both matches with Cyprus of Group J, 3-0 away and 4-1 on their own ground.
