Mircea Lucescu announced the preliminary lot for matches with Austria and Cyprus from CM 2026 preliminaries

• On the initial list are 19 players who evolve abroad;

• The final lot, which will consist of one of the strangers below, plus the players in Superliga, will be announced later;

• Austria – Romania is played on Friday, June 7, from 9:45 pm, in Vienna;

• Romania – Cyprus is played on Tuesday, June 10, from 9:45 pm, on the National Arena.

The preliminary group of the Romanian national for the June matches

• Portarii: Florin Niță (Damac | Saudi Arabia, 31/0), Horațiu Moldovan (Sassuolo

• Defenders: Andrei Rațiu (Rayo Vallecano | Spain, 29/1), Deian ⁠sorescu (Gaziantep FK | Turkey, 20/0), Virgil ⁠ghiță (Krakow | Poland, 2/0), Adrian Rus (Pisa | Italy, 22/1), Andrei Burcă (Baniyas Russia, 27/2);

• Midfielders: Marius Marin (Pisa | Italy, 30/0), Răzvan Marin (Cagliari | Italy, 67/12), Nicolae Stanciu (Damac 16/1), Valentin Mihăilă (Parma | Italy, 30/5), Florinel Coman (Cagliari | Italy, 20/2);

• Attackers: Denis Drăguș (Trabzort | Turkey, 22/5), George Pușcaș (Bodrum | Turkey, 46/11).

Compared to the preliminary list from the debut in the qualifications of the 2026 World Cup, for the matches with Bosnia and San Marino, the goalkeeper is found on the list Ionuț Raduwhich crosses a very good shape in Venezia, a team next to which they try to save from series relegation, and Ionuț Nedelcearuthe player of Akron Togliatti.

Ianis Hagi, who was summoned to the first action in the preliminaries, is not now on the list, because of the injury he has recently suffered and who made it unavailable for the games of June.

After the first two matches in the preliminaries, Romania has three points. The “tricolors” lost at home, at home, with Bosnia, score 0-1, and then won in San Marino with 5-1.

Romania's full program in the preliminaries of the World Championship in 2026

March 21
21:45-Cyprus-San Marino 2-0
21:45-Romania-Bosnia and Herzegovina 0-1

March 24
21:45-Bosnia and Herzegovina-Cyprus 2-1
21:45-San Marino-Romania 1-5

June 7
16:00 – Bosnia and Herzegovina – San Marino
21:45 – Austria – Romania

June 10
21:45 – Romania – Cyprus
21:45 – San Marino – Austria

September 6
21:45 – Austria – Cyprus
21:45 – San Marino – Bosnia and Herzegovina

September 9th
21:45 – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Austria
21:45 – Cyprus – Romania

October 9th
21:45 – Austria – San Marino
21:45 – Cyprus – Bosnia and Herzegovina

October 12
16:00 – San Marino – Cyprus
21:45 – Romania – Austria

November 15
19:00 – Cyprus – Austria
21:45 – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Romania

November 18
21:45 – Austria – Bosnia and Herzegovina
21:45 – Romania – San Marino

The ranking in the Romanian group