Romania women's national handball team


The Romanian women's national team represents Romania in senior women's international handball and is controlled by the Romanian Handball Federation, the governing body for handball in Romania. It competes in the three major international tournaments; the Olympic Games, the IHF World Championship and the EHF European Championship.
Since first entering the tournament in 1957, Romania are the only team to have appeared in all 24 tournaments to date.
They were crowned winners in the IHF World Championship one time: 1962, and finished as runners-up in 1973 and 2005 and also finished third in 2015. Since first entering in 1994, Romania have never won the EHF European Championship, with their best performances being a third-place finish in 2010.

Honors

IHF World Championship
EHF European Championship
GF World Cup

Olympic Games

World Championship

GF World Cup

Current squad

Squad for the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship in Japan.
Caps and goals af of 10 December 2019.
Head coach: Tomas Ryde

Notable players

;IHF World Player of the Year
;EHF Player of the Year
;MVP
;All-Star Team members
;Top scorers
;Other notable players
;Medal leaders
;World Championship
PlayerGold

Coaching history

Individual all-time records

Most matches played

Total number of matches played in official competitions only.
#PlayerMatches
1Mariana Tîrcă335
2Valentina Cozma322
3Aurelia Brădeanu273
4Valentina Ardean-Elisei256
5Marilena Doiciu237
6Maria Török-Duca226
7Steluța Luca223
8Ramona Farcău214
9Simona Arghir-Sandu206
9Lidia Drăgănescu206

Last updated: 29 September 2019

Most goals scored

Total number of goals scored in official matches only.
#PlayerGoalsMatchesAverage
1Mariana Tîrcă20433356.09
2Steluța Luca10132234.54
3Valentina Cozma9803223.04
5Carmen Amariei8551824.69
4Valentina Ardean-Elisei9152563.57
6Cristina Neagu7721874.12
7Ramona Farcău6892143.21
8Aurelia Brădeanu6852732.50
9Lidia Drăgănescu6582063.19
10Maria Török-Duca6262262.76

Last updated: 29 September 2019