LIVE Romania finds its opponent from the barrage for the 2026 World Championship » The draw takes place today

• Romania will fall with one of Italy, Denmark, Turkey and Ukraine in the semi-final of the pool. Also in today's draw, the “tricolors” will also find out who they could play with in the final of the pool, if they qualify.

• Romania will play away regardless of the opponent in the semifinal of the pool. For the play-off final, the host teams will be drawn.

LIVE from 14:00 » The draw of the draw for WC 2026

Romania was assigned to the 4th urn, where all the teams qualified for the play-off through the Nations League are. In the first 3 urns, the teams were allocated according to the FIFA ranking.

Romania will play with a team from pot 1, where the best 4 national teams are in the bracket, judging by the FIFA coefficient. One of the Italy, Denmark, Turkey and Ukraine will be the opponent of the “tricolors”.

The 4 urns at the draw

• Urn 1: Italy, Denmark, Turkey, Ukraine

• Urn 2: Poland, Wales, Czech Republic, Slovakia

• Urn 3: Ireland, Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo

• Urn 4: Sweden, Romania, North Macedonia, Northern Ireland

In the final, Romania would meet one of the teams from the 2 or 3 urns, depending on who wins in the semi-finals.

Romania reached the play-offs via the League of Nations

Romania finished the 2026 WC preliminaries group in 3rd place, below Austria and Bosnia. Mircea Lucescu's team secured their place in the play-offs through the League of Nations.

Romania finished 1st in their League C group in the fall of 2024. Then they took advantage of the fact that the teams that won their groups in League A and League B qualified directly or finished 2nd in the preliminaries, so they did not need the benefits offered by the Nations League.