Anghel Iordănescu - International Matches as Coach


The outstanding Romanian coach coached two national teams (Romania and Greece) for (in total) 108 international matches, and thereby belongs to the select company of coaches with 100 or more international matches. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.

For his international matches as player, see Anghel Iordănescu - Goals in International Matches.


Born: 4- 5-1950
Country: Romania 
Matches as Coach:		108	(W59-D26-L23 - GF202-GA96 - %66.67)
Matches as Coach for Romania:  	101	(W55-D24-L22 - GF191-GA89 - %66.34)
Matches as Coach for Greece:  	  7	(W 4-D 2-L 1 - GF 11-GA 7 - %71.43)

Age First Match: 43 yr 127 d	    8- 9-1993 vs. Faroe Islands 4-0
Age Last Match:  66 yr  46 d	   19- 6-2016 vs. Albania 0-1
National Team Career: 22 yr 284 d 

Coach for Romania
Caps    Date  	Venue   	Opponent       Score 	Competition
first tenure
  1    8- 9-93	Toftir  	Faroe Islands	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
  2   22- 9-93	București	Israel  	1-0	
  3   13-10-93	București	Belgium 	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
  4   17-11-93	Cardiff 	Wales   	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
  5   13- 2-94	Hongkong	United States	2-1	Carlsberg Cup
  6   16- 2-94	Changwon	South Korea	2-1	
  7   23- 3-94	Belfast 	N. Ireland	0-2	
  8   20- 4-94	București	Bolivia 	3-0	
  9   25- 5-94	București	Nigeria  	2-0	
 10    1- 6-94	București	Slovenia	0-0	
 11   12- 6-94	Mision Viejo	Sweden  	1-1	
 12   18- 6-94	Pasadena	Colombia	3-1	World Cup
 13   22- 6-94	Pontiac 	Switzerland	1-4	World Cup
 14   26- 6-94	Pasadena	United States	1-0	World Cup
 15    3- 7-94	Pasadena	Argentina	3-2	World Cup
 16   10- 7-94	Stanford	Sweden   	2-2 [1]	World Cup
 17    7- 9-94	București	Azerbaijan	3-0	European Ch. Qualifier
 18    8-10-94	Saint-Etienne	France   	0-0	European Ch. Qualifier
 19   12-10-94	London  	England 	1-1	
 20   12-11-94	București	Slovakia	3-2	European Ch. Qualifier
 21   14-12-94	Tel-Aviv	Israel  	1-1	European Ch. Qualifier
 22    8- 2-95	Kalamata	Greece  	0-1	
 23   15- 2-95	İzmir   	Turkey  	1-1	
 24   29- 3-95	București	Poland  	2-1	European Ch. Qualifier
 25   26- 4-95	Trabzon 	Azerbaijan	4-1	European Ch. Qualifier
 26    7- 6-95	București	Israel  	2-1	European Ch. Qualifier
 27    6- 9-95	Zabrze  	Poland  	0-0	European Ch. Qualifier
 28   11-10-95	București	France   	1-3	European Ch. Qualifier
 29   15-11-95	Košice  	Slovakia	2-0	European Ch. Qualifier
 30   27- 3-96	Beograd 	Yugoslavia	0-1	
 31   24- 4-96	București	Georgia 	5-0	
 32    1- 6-96	București	Moldova 	3-1	
 33   10- 6-96	Newcastle	France   	0-1	European Champ.
 34   13- 6-96	Newcastle	Bulgaria	0-1	European Champ.
 35   18- 6-96	Leeds      	Spain   	1-2	European Champ.
 36   14- 8-96	București	Israel  	2-0	
 37   31- 8-96	București	Lithuania	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
 38   18- 9-96	București	UA Emirates	1-2	
 39    9-10-96	Reykjavík	Iceland 	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 40   14-12-96	Skopje  	Macedonia	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
 41   29- 3-97	București	Liechtenstein	8-0	World Cup Qualifier
 42    2- 4-97	Vilnius 	Lithuania	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 43   30- 4-97	București	Ireland 	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 44   20- 8-97	București	Macedonia	4-2	World Cup Qualifier
 45    6- 9-97	Eschen  	Liechtenstein	8-1	World Cup Qualifier
 46   10- 9-97	București	Iceland 	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 47   11-10-97	Dublin  	Ireland 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 48   19-11-97	Palma/Mallorca	Spain   	1-1	
 49   18- 3-98	București	Israel  	0-1	
 50    8- 4-98	București	Greece  	2-1	
 51   22- 4-98	Brussel 	Belgium 	1-1	
 52    3- 6-98	București	Paraguay	3-2	
 53    6- 6-98	Ploiești	Moldova 	5-1	
 54   15- 6-98	Lyon    	Colombia	1-0	World Cup
 55   22- 6-98	Toulouse	England 	2-1	World Cup
 56   26- 6-98	Saint-Denis	Tunisia 	1-1	World Cup
 57   30- 6-98	Bordeaux	Croatia 	0-1	World Cup
second tenure
 58   13- 2-02	Saint-Denis	France   	1-2	
 59   27- 3-02	Constanța	Ukraine 	4-1	
 60   17- 4-02	Bydgoszcz	Poland  	2-1	
 61   21- 8-02	Constanța	Greece  	0-1	
 62    7- 9-02	Sarajevo	Bosnia-Herzeg.	3-0	European Ch. Qual.
 63   12-10-02	București	Norway  	0-1	European Ch. Qual.
 64   16-10-02	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	7-0	European Ch. Qual.
 65   20-11-02	Timișoara	Croatia 	0-1	
 66   12- 2-03	Larnaka 	Slovakia	2-1	Cyprus Tournament
 67   29- 3-03	București	Denmark 	2-5	European Ch. Qual.
 68   30- 4-03	Kaunas  	Lithuania	1-0	
 69    7- 6-03	Craiova 	Bosnia-Herzeg.	2-0	European Ch. Qual.
 70   11- 6-03	Oslo    	Norway  	1-1	European Ch. Qual.
 71   20- 8-03	Donetsk 	Ukraine 	2-0	
 72    6- 9-03	Ploiești	Luxembourg	4-0	European Ch. Qual.
 73   10- 9-03	København	Denmark 	2-2	European Ch. Qual.
 74   11-10-03	București	Japan   	1-1	
 75   16-11-03	Ancona  	Italy   	0-1	
 76   18- 2-04	Larnaka 	Georgia 	3-0	Cyprus Tournament
 77   31- 3-04	Glasgow 	Scotland	2-1	
 78   28- 4-04	București	Germany 	5-1	
 79   27- 5-04	Dublin  	Ireland 	0-1	
 80   18- 8-04	București	Finland 	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 81    4- 9-04	Craiova 	Macedonia	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 82    8- 9-04	Andorra La V.	Andorra 	5-1	World Cup Qualifier
 83    9-10-04	Praha   	Czech Republic	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 84   17-11-04	Yerevan 	Armenia 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
third tenure
 85   14-11-14	București	N. Ireland	2-0	European Ch. Qual.
 86   18-11-14	București	Denmark 	2-0	
 87   29- 3-15	Ploiești	Faroe Islands	1-0	European Ch. Qual.
 88   13- 6-15	Belfast 	N. Ireland	0-0	European Ch. Qual.
 89    4- 9-15	Budapest	Hungary 	0-0	European Ch. Qual.
 90    7- 9-15	București	Greece  	0-0	European Ch. Qual.
 91    8-10-15	București	Finland 	1-1	European Ch. Qual.
 92   11-10-15	Tórshavn	Faroe Islands	3-0	European Ch. Qual.
 93   17-11-15	Bologna 	Italy   	2-2	
 94   23- 3-16	Giurgiu 	Lithuania	1-0	
 95   27- 3-16	Cluj    	Spain   	0-0	
 96   25- 5-16	Como    	Congo-Kinshasa	1-1	
 97   29- 5-16	Torino    	Ukraine 	3-4	
 98    3- 6-16	București	Georgia 	5-1	
 99   10- 6-16	Saint-Denis	France   	1-2	European Champ.
100   15- 6-16	Paris   	Switzerland	1-1	European Champ.
101   19- 6-16	Lyon    	Albania 	0-1	European Champ.

[1] Romania lost 4-5 on penalty kicks. 

Coach for Greece
Caps    Date  	Venue   	Opponent       Score 	Competition
  1    6- 9-98	Athinai 	Slovenia	2-2	European Ch. Qualifier
  2   14-10-98	Athinai 	Georgia 	3-0	European Ch. Qualifier
  3   18-11-98	Tiranë  	Albania 	0-0	European Ch. Qualifier
  4    3- 2-99	Larnaka 	Finland 	2-1	Cyprus Tournament
  5    5- 2-99	Larnaka 	Belgium 	1-0	Cyprus Tournament
  6   10- 3-99	Athinai 	Croatia 	3-2	
  7   27- 3-99	Athinai 	Norway  	0-2	European Ch. Qualifier

 
Total Record

Matches	Won Draw Lost	For-Against     Points	Percentage

    108	 59  26  23	202-  96	144	66.67


Types of Matches

Friendlies		 41
European Ch. Qualifier	 29
World Cup Qualifier	 18
World Cup		  9
European Championship	  6
Other Tournaments	  5 

Total matches:  	108



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