Football
Football is the most popular sport in Romania. In 1986, the Romanian football club Steaua Bucureşti became the first Eastern European club ever, and only one of the two (the other being Red Star Belgrade) to win the prestigious European Champions Cup title. In 1989, it played the final again, but lost to AC Milan.
The national team
The Romanian national football team has taken part seven times in the FIFA World Cup, and it had a very successful period through the 1990s, reaching the quarter-finals in the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States, when the "Golden Generation" was at its best.
Handball
Handball is the second most popular sport in Romania, after football. The Romania national handball team has won the Handball World Cup a record four times (1961, 1964, 1970, and 1974)
Olympic Games
Maybe slightly surprising for a country of its size, Romania has been one of the most successful countries in the history of the Summer Olympics (15th overall), with a total of 283 medals won throughout the years, 82 of which are gold medals.[2] The largest amount of medals won by Romania at the Olympics in any sport is gymnastics, with a total of 69 medals, 24 of which are gold.
Top of football teams
The top football teams in Romania include Steaua Bucureşti, Dinamo Bucureşti, Rapid Bucureşti, CFR Cluj, and FC Timişoara.