The Romania national football team

Romania national football team

The Romania national football team is the national football team of Romania and is controlled by the Romanian Football Federation.Romania is one of only four national teams, the other three being Brazil, France, and Belgium, that took part in the first three World Cups.However, after that...

 represents the nation of Romania in international association football. It is fielded by the Romanian Football Federation

Romanian Football Federation

The Romanian Football Federation is the governing body of football in Romania. It organizes the Romania national football team and most of the Romanian football competitions. It is based in the Romanian capital city of Bucharest...

 (FRF) and competes as a member of Union of European Football Associations

UEFA

The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....

 (UEFA), which encompasses the countries of Europe. The team played its first official international match on 8 June 1922 against Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia national football team

The Yugoslavia national football team represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in association football. It enjoyed a modicum of success in international competition. In 1992, during the Yugoslav wars, the team was suspended from international...

. Since its first competitive match, more than 500 players have made at least one international appearance for the team. Of them, 86 have served as captain of the national team. This list contains football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 players who have served as captain of the Romanian national team and is listed according to their number of matches captained.

Captains

Appearances and matches captained are composed of FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...

, UEFA European Football Championship

UEFA European Football Championship

The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA . Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current...

, and each competition's required qualification matches, as well as numerous international friendly tournaments and matches. Players are initially listed by amount of matches captained. If there's an equal amount of matches captained, then the player who captained the national team first is listed first. Statistics correct as of 12 June 2011.

Key

§	Still active for the national team
	Captained the team at a major international tournament
GK	Goalkeeper
DF	Defender Defender (association football) Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
MF	Midfielder Midfielder A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...
FW	Forward

List of Romania national team football players who have served as captain of the team

#	Name	Position	National team career	Caps as captain	Total caps	First captaincy
1		MF	1983–2000	65	125
2		DF	1999–2011	50	75
3		DF	1977–1985	43	66
4		DF	1968–1981	39	68
5		DF	1988–2003	34	115
6		MF	1975–1988	23	104
7		DF	1924–1934	22	29
=		FW	1966–1979	22	65
=		GK	1979–1993	22	77
10		DF	1931–1938	19	42
11	§	FW	2000–	16	72
12		MF	1945–1958	14	32
13	Cornel Popa	DF	1958–1967	13	37
14		DF	1949–1960	11	22
15		MF	1969–1980	10	50
16		FW	1922–1928	9	12
=		FW	1971–1981	9	60
=		MF	1975–1987	9	67
19	Bazil Marian	MF	1941–1949	8	18
20		FW	1945–1958	7	48
=	Ion Mihăilescu	MF	1940–1950	7	15
=		FW	1984–1998	7	84
=		DF	1996–2010	7	73
24		FW	1928–1937	6	23
=		DF	1931–1941	6	14
=		DF	1958–1967	6	40
=		DF	1963–1971	6	41
=		MF	1991–2007	6	134
=	§	DF	2002–	6	79
30		FW	1923–1932	5	17
=	Adalbert Androvits	DF	1953–1955	5	7
=		DF	1973–1982	5	47
=		DF	1987–1993	5	30
=		MF	1988–2000	5	74
=		DF	2000–2010	5	67
36		FW	1929–1938	4	37
=		FW	1954–1962	4	24
=		FW	1956–1967	4	39
39	Alexandru Negrescu	DF	1939–1946	3	8
=	Nicolae Reuter	MF	1939–1947	3	14
=		GK	1953–1959	3	16
=		FW	1952–1962	3	22
=	Florin Cheran	DF	1971–1978	3	37
=		DF	1974–1986	3	49
=		DF	1981–1991	3	90
=		FW	1989–1998	3	62
=		DF	1989–2000	3	95
=		DF	1993–2001	3	54
=	§	DF	2003–	3	57
50		FW	1928–1937	2	24
=		FW	1932–1942	2	27
=	Dumitru Pavlovici	GK	1936–1942	2	15
=	Nicolae Georgescu	MF	1955–1965	2	18
=	Ion Barbu	DF	1966–1968	2	7
=		MF	1966–1978	2	47
=		MF	1966–1971	2	33
=		MF	1984–1986	2	5
=		DF	1981–1991	2	83
=		MF	1993–2005	2	68
=	§	GK	1998–	2	78
61		FW	1922–1932	1	8
=	Dumitru Veţianu	DF	1923	1	1
=	Paul Schiller	FW	1922–1924	1	2
=	Mircea Stroescu	GK	1923–1925	1	2
=		MF	1930–1935	1	18
=		FW	1930–1939	1	41
=		FW	1933–1940	1	20
=		FW	1937–1941	1	11
=		GK	1936–1943	1	12
=	Ion Lungu	FW	1949–1950	1	5
=	Gheorghe Băcuţ	MF	1945–1956	1	28
=		MF	1951–1961	1	12
=		FW	1962–1969	1	24
=		DF	1964–1972	1	21
=		FW	1968–1972	1	18
=	Aristică Ghiţă	GK	1969–1972	1	3
=		MF	1974–1983	1	15
=		DF	1983–1990	1	35
=		MF	1998–2007	1	38
=		FW	1993–2005	1	55
=		FW	1998–2006	1	45
=		MF	2001–2005	1	27
=		GK	1988–2005	1	91
=		DF	2000–2006	1	30
=	§	FW	2003–	1	53
=	§	MF	2007–	1	8
=	§	MF	2005–	1	34