Radu Horia Niculescu (born 2 March 1975) is a former Romanian profesional

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who played as a striker.

International career

Niculescu won 15 caps for Romania, scoring twice, between 1994 and 2000. He played at the

1998 FIFA World Cup The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the Association football, football world championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams. The finals tournament was held in France from 10 June to 1 ...

as a substitute against

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and

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International stats

:''Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Niculescu goal''.

Honours

Șoimii IPA Sibiu *

Divizia C The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III, is the third level of the Romanian football league system. It was founded in 1936 and was called Divizia C until 2006. An exception was the seasons 1992–93 to 1996–97, in which the league was call ...

: 1989–90 Inter Sibiu *

Balkans Cup The Balkans Cup was an international football competition for clubs from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. It was introduced in 1961 and was very popular in the 1960s (the 1967 final attracted 42,000 spectators), being ...

: 1990–91 Național București *

Cupa României The Cupa României () is a Association football, football cup competition for List of football clubs in Romania, Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1933–34 Cupa României, 1933–34, except during World War II. It is the Romania ...

runner-up: 1996–97 Steaua București *

Divizia A Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

: 2000–01 Galatasaray *

Süper Lig The Süper Lig (, ''Super League''), also known as Trendyol Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Turkey and the highest level of the Turkish football league system. In the 2023–2024 season, twen ...

: 2001–02

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* * 1975 births Living people Footballers from Sibiu Romanian men's footballers Romania men's youth international footballers Romania men's under-21 international footballers Romania men's international footballers Romanian expatriate men's footballers 1998 FIFA World Cup players FC Inter Sibiu players FC Progresul București players FCSB players FC Rapid București players FC Dinamo București players FC U Craiova 1948 players Galatasaray S.K. footballers MKE Ankaragücü footballers Changchun Yatai F.C. players Liga I players Liga III players China League One players Men's association football forwards Süper Lig players Expatriate men's footballers in China Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Romanian expatriate sportspeople in China 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-footy-forward-1970s-stub