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Romania

Five years of results, read from this team's own point of view.

Rating

56

Above average — top 35% · Glicko-2 1265 ±87

Record

22-1-32

40.0% of 55 matches in the last five years

Average margin

-9.1

23.5 for, 32.6 against

Home advantage

+20.8

Points per match better at home

Attack

-11%

23.5 scored per match, against the placed field's average

Defence

-19%

32.6 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average

Stejarii (The Oaks)
Head coach
David Gérard
Captain
Cristi Boboc
Union
Federația Română de Rugby
Emblem
Oak leaf
Home ground
Arcul de Triumf Stadium
First match
1912 21–0 (Colombes, France; 26 June 1919) All military sides
Most caps
Florin Vlaicu (129)
Leading scorer
Florin Vlaicu (1,030)
Most tries
Cătălin Fercu (33)
World Cups
9, from 1987
Best World Cup
Pool stage (1987, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2023)

Anthem

Deşteaptă-te române!Wake up, Romanian

Romanian · April, 1990 · 2:19

Words
Romanian lyrics 1. Deşteaptă-te, române, din somnul cel de moarte, În care te-adânciră barbarii de tirani Acum ori niciodată croieşte-ţi altă soarte, La care să se-nchine şi cruzii tăi duşmani. 2. Acum ori niciodată să dăm dovezi în lume Că-n aste mâni mai curge un sânge de roman, Şi că-n a noastre piepturi păstrăm cu fală-un nume Triumfător în lupte, un nume de Traian. 4. Priviţi, măreţe umbre, Mihai, Ştefan, Corvine, Româna naţiune, ai voştri strănepoţi, Cu braţele armate, cu focul vostru-n vine, “Viaţa-n libertate ori moarte” strigă toţi. 11. Preoţi, cu crucea-n frunte căci oastea e creştină, Deviza-i libertate şi scopul ei preasfânt. Murim mai bine-n luptă, cu glorie deplină, Decât să fim sclavi iarăşi în vechiul nost’pământ. English translation 1. Wake up, Romanian, from your deadly sleep Into which you’ve been sunk by the barbaric tyrants Now, or never, your fate renew, To which your enemies will bow to. 2. Now or never let’s give proof to the world That in these veins still flows a Roman blood, That in our chests we still maintain our pride in a name The victor in his battles, the name of Trajan! 4. Watch on, shadows of highnesses, Mihai, Stefan, Corvinus, The Romanian Nation, your great grandchildren, With weapons in their arms, with your fire in their veins, “Life in freedom or death!” shout all. 11. Priests, lead with your crucifixes! Because our army is Christian, The motto is Liberty and its goal is holy, Better to die in battle, in full glory, Than to once again be slaves upon our ancient ground!

Recording and words from nationalanthems.info, used under CC BY 4.0.

From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.

Recent results
  • Samoa2026-07-1838–37won
  • Uruguay2026-07-11 · away36–36drew
  • Chile2026-07-04 · away31–48lost
  • Spain2026-03-15 · away23–29lost
  • Georgia2026-03-08 · away30–53lost

Newest first, from Romania's own point of view. Home and away are as the record stores them; a fixture the record does not mark neutral is listed as one side's home, which is right for a league round and wrong for a final played at a third ground.

Shape
Matches decided by seven or fewer22%
Matches totalling 50 or more67%
Margin swing28.5 points
Last five, most recent firstwondrewlostlostlostW1

Biggest win: 56-5 v Belgium

Heaviest defeat: 0-84 v Scotland

Where they stand (of 65 ranked teams)
Rating56
1Q1 32Med 49Q3 6492

Above average — top 35%

Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Romania. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.

Most similar teams
Teams with too few matches to rate confidently, which are most of the outliers.

Teams that play alike sit close together. The two axes hold 72% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (42%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (30%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.

29 of 66 teams sit too close together to name without covering another team's point, so they are drawn unlabelled. Every dot is still a link to that team, and hovering one names it.

  1. 1Netherlands0.37
  2. 2Korea0.42
  3. 3Croatia0.52
  4. 4Tonga0.55
  5. 5Japan0.58

Distance in the projection above, nearest first.

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