Mircea Lucescu announced the 26 players called up for Romania's matches against Canada and Cyprus. Two names in premiere.

The Romanian national team will play two matches at the beginning of September, against Canada (friendly) and Cyprus (in the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup). Coach Mircea Lucescu has announced the 26 players called up.

"Il Luce" maintains most of the names called up in previous actions of the "tricolors". He has, however, relied on two names making their debut: Ștefan Baiaram, the Craiova forward, and Andrei Borza, the left-back from Rapid.

The squad called up by Mircea Lucescu for the matches against Canada and Cyprus:

Goalkeepers: Horațiu MOLDOVAN (Real Oviedo | Spain, 14/0), Ștefan TÂRNOVANU (FCSB, 3/0), Răzvan SAVA (Udinese | Italy, 0/0);

Defenders: Andrei RAȚIU (Rayo Vallecano | Spain, 31/1), Deian SORESCU (Gaziantep FK | Turkey, 21/0), Andrei BURCĂ (Yunnan Yukun | China, 41/1), Bogdan RACOVIȚAN (Raków | Poland, 4/0), Virgil GHIȚĂ (Hannover 96 | Germany, 3/0), Mihai POPESCU (FCSB, 4/1), Nicușor BANCU (Universitatea Craiova, 47/2), Andrei BORZA (FC Rapid 1923, 0/0);

Midfielders: Adrian ȘUT (FCSB, 7/0), Marius MARIN (Pisa | Italy, 31/0), Vladimir SCRECIU (Universitatea Craiova, 4/0), Răzvan MARIN (AEK Athens | Greece, 68/12), Nicolae STANCIU (Genoa | Italy, 82/15), Darius OLARU (FCSB, 26/0), Florin TĂNASE (FCSB, 21/5), Dennis MAN (PSV | Netherlands, 37/10), David MICULESCU (FCSB, 2/0), Alexandru MITRIȚĂ (Zhejiang FC | China, 25/4), Ștefan BAIARAM (Universitatea Craiova, 0/0), Alexandru DOBRE (FC Rapid 1923, 2/0);

Forwards: Denis DRĂGUȘ (Eyüpspor | Turkey, 24/5), Daniel BÎRLIGEA (FCSB, 4/1), Louis MUNTEANU (CFR Cluj, 1/0).