Rating
19
Below average — bottom 9% · Glicko-2 788 ±83
Record
8-0-18
30.8% of 26 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-19.7
17.9 for, 37.5 against
Home advantage
+37.2
Points per match better at home
Attack
-30%
17.9 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-35%
37.5 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- 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)
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Uruguay2025-11-22 · home21–31lost
USA2025-11-15 · home18–26lost
Canada2025-11-08 · home31–21won- Uruguay2025-07-12 · away8–70lost
Chile2025-07-05 · away16–40lost
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.
Biggest win: 29-14 v Uruguay
Heaviest defeat: 0-84 v Scotland
Below average — bottom 9%
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.
Teams that play alike sit close together. The two axes hold 67% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (45%) rises with more average margin, less points conceded. Component 2 (22%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.
9 of 45 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 its name is in the tooltip.
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.