| 20th August 1997, 19.45 CET |
 ROMANIA 4:2 MACEDONIA  |
| HT 2:0 |
| Goals: 36′, 63′ Viorel Moldovan, 40′ Constantin Gâlcă, 66′ Ilie Dumitrescu – 52′, 90′ Miroslav Gjokikj |
| Stadium: Steaua in Bucharest |
| Attendance: 16.000 |
| ROU |
MKD |
| 2. |
Dan Petrescu |
1. |
Sasha Ilikj (GK)  29′ |
| 3. |
Daniel Prodan 19′  74′ |
2. |
Risto Milosavov |
| 4. |
Anton Doboş |
3. |
Goce Sedloski |
| 5. |
Constantin Gâlcă 84′ |
4. |
Ljupcho Markovski |
| 6. |
Gheorghe Popescu (C) |
5. |
Igor Sasha Nikolovski |
| 7. |
Tibor Selymes |
6. |
Ljubodrag Miloshevikj |
| 8. |
Dennis Şerban |
7. |
Srgjan Zaharievski 70′ |
| 9. |
Viorel Moldovan 80′ |
8. |
Djevdet Shainovski 41′ 46′ |
| 10. |
Adrian Ilie |
9. |
Gjorgji Hristov 30′ |
| 11. |
Ilie Dumitrescu 6′ |
10. |
Viktor Trenevski 71′ |
| 23. |
Bogdan Stelea (GK) |
11. |
Artim Shakjiri |
| Substitutes: |
| 12. |
Dumitru Stângaciu (GK) |
12. |
Miroslav Gjokikj  46′ |
| 13. |
Gabriel Popescu 84′ |
13. |
Husein Beganovikj |
| 14. |
Laurenţiu Reghecampf |
14. |
Sasho Miloshevski 71′ |
| 15. |
Gheorghe Craioveanu 80′ |
15. |
Goran Lazarevski |
| 16. |
Liviu Ciubotariu 74′ |
16. |
Vlatko Goshev |
| 17. |
Marius Baciu |
17. |
Nedjmedin Memedi 70′ |
| 18. |
Ilie Sabin |
18. |
Dancho Celeski (GK) |
| Coaches: |
| Anghel Iordănescu |
Gjokica “Gjoko” Hadjievski |
| Officials: |
Referee: Metin Tokat 
|
| Assistants: Aykut Günülü, Maskut Balta |
| Fourth official: Mustafa Culcu |
