Article by Alexandru Tomuțiu – published on Saturday, October 11, 2025, 11:48 / Updated on Saturday, October 11, 2025 11:52
The Italian Davide Massa (44 years old) will arbitrate the match Romania – Austria, from the preliminaries for the 2026 World Cup.
Romania is convicted of obtaining a positive result in the match that will be played on Sunday, October 12, from 9:45 pm. UEFA sent a brigade from Italy to this match, as in the tour match, when Austria won with a score of 2-1.
Davide Massa will arbitrate Romania – Austria
Davide Massa is the one who will lead from the center the duel on the National Arena. Filippo Meli and Stefano Alassio will be the two assistants, while Simone Sizz will be reserve.
Michael Fabbri and Rosario Abisso will be in the Var room.
Davide Massa also arbitrated Romania – Switzerland 1-0
It will be the third time that Massa will arbitrate the national of Romania. Last time, the Italian had lucky “tricolors”. In November 2023, with him at the center, Romania defeated Switzerland, score 1-0, and obtained the first place in the qualification group at Euro 2024.
The first time Massa arbitrated us happened in 2016, when the “tricolors” were defeated by Ukraine, score 3-4, in a friendly match.
Before this match, Mircea Lucescu's students occupy the 3rd place in Group H, with 7 points obtained in the first 5 matches. Austria is the leader of the group, with 15 points. Bosnia is on 3, with 13 points, but Sergej Barbarbarez's national played an extra match.
Romania – Austria will be broadcast live on Antena 1. The match can also be watched in LiveText on GSP.ro.
