Romania play Poland on Saturday, 14 November 2026, at 21:45 at the Arena Națională, in matchday 5 of the Nations League. The Romanian Football Federation says it is the last match of the year in front of their own supporters. In Poland, Biznesistyl notes a broadcast at 20:45 on the clock there, on TVP 1.

On Friday the Poles trained once more at ZWAR Międzylesie, then flew to Bucharest. From the airport, coach Jan Urban and Bartosz Mazurek, in his first call-up, went straight to the stadium for the pre-match press conference, Biznesistyl writes, sourcing the Polish federation.

Mazurek is 19 and plays in midfield. It was his first press conference with the senior national team, and a chance of a debut. “I have just walked out onto the pitch and I feel excited. This is why you play football: to play for the Poland national team and in stadiums like this one in Bucharest. I don’t think I have ever played in a ground this big and this beautiful. Am I stressed before a possible debut? No. It drives me and excites me more than it stresses me,” he said. If he gets the chance, he will try to show his best and he is making no promises in advance. Digi Sport’s Romanian version also has him saying he has never played in such a stadium, that he wanted the eagle on his chest, and that last year he could not even score from the penalty spot.

Urban put the teams in the same position: “If Romania want to overtake us, they have to win both matches and wait for us to slip. If we want to fight for second place, we have to win and count on Bosnia and Herzegovina slipping. I expect an open match.”

In a second comment, the coach said a draw helps neither side. Romania could not play Bosnia with full stands, and tomorrow they will have that support. “A wonderful atmosphere is certainly waiting for us.” He added that Polish supporters stay with the team when it wins and when it loses.

Urban has every called-up player available, with one exception: Jan Bednarek cannot play on Saturday, suspended for cards, Biznesistyl writes. In the first match of this edition, Poland beat Romania 6-0 at the PGE Narodowy in Warsaw. Robert Lewandowski scored three, Piotr Zieliński and Jan Bednarek also scored, and one goal was an own goal by Virgil Ghiță. From the 22nd minute Romania played with ten men, after Radu Drăgușin was sent off for a foul. Urban says the extra man made the job easier, but that the six goals and the attacking play until the end also took quality. In Bucharest he expects a different match. The FRF talks of a chance of revenge, after the away defeat, when Romania played with ten men for more than an hour.

Digi Sport lists Romania’s other group results as defeats as well: Sweden–Romania 2-1, Romania–Bosnia 2-4 and Romania–Sweden 0-1, so four losses in four matches, with Gică Hagi on the bench. The last group game is on 17 November, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A day before the match, the FRF said, in Digi Sport’s account, that fewer than 10,000 tickets were left. The Arena Națională ticket windows were open on Friday from 12:00 to 20:00 and on Saturday from 12:00 to 22:30. The ground holds 55,634 and is the largest stadium in Romania. Polish supporters were allocated between 2,700 and 3,000 tickets, with buffer zones between the stands. On the FRF page, the prices announced when tickets went on sale run from 50 lei in the ends to 130 lei in the centre of stands 1 and 2, 10 lei for children under 15, 30 lei for people aged 15 to 24, plus a 2-lei processing fee.

Image: Wikimedia Commons — the Arena Națională at its opening, Romania–France, 6 September 2011 (Amorphisman, CC BY-SA 3.0). The photo is not from the 14 November 2026 match.

Sources consulted: Mazurek, impressed by the Arena Națională — Digi Sport; Poland, before the match in Bucharest — Biznesistyl; Fewer than 10,000 tickets — Digi Sport; Tickets for Romania–Poland — Romanian Football Federation.