The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) announced, on Wednesday, the calendar and the new regulations valid for the Romanian Cup, 2024/2025 edition. The FRF remitted, today, a press release posted on the official website of the local forum.
“The regulations of the Romanian Cup underwent a series of changes following the meeting of the Executive Committee of the FRF on April 24, 2024. In the group phase, only in the duel between the teams from the first value urn in stage 3, the home team will always be the first team drawn from the urn at the draw by lot, i.e. the team mentioned in the regulation as “1A”. mIn the rest of the games, starting from the 1st round and up to the group stage, the teams of the lower category or lower ranked in the previous championship will remain the organizers of the games.
Starting with the play-off phase, the organization costs will be fully borne by the host team. Also, the following program of the Romanian Cup for the 2024-2025 season was validated, with the proviso that the rounds of the national phase preceding the play-off may undergo changes depending on the total number of teams participating in the competition:
THE REGIONAL PHASE
Groups: 10 / 13 / 17 July 2024
Finals: 20 July 2024
NATIONAL PHASE
Round 1: 31 July 2024
Market 2: August 7, 2024
Market 3: August 14, 2024
Play-off: 28 august 2024
Group stage, stage 1: 30 October 2024
Group stage, stage 2: 4 December 2024
Group stage, stage 3: 18 December 2024
Quarter-finals: 2 April 2025
Semi-finals: 23 April 2025
Final: May 14, 2025″, the FRF press release states.
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