| 20th August 1997, 19.45 CET | |||
 ROMANIA 4:2 MACEDONIA  |
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| HT 2:0 | |||
| Goals: 36′ (pen), 63′ Viorel Moldovan, 40′ Constantin Gâlcă, 66′ Ilie Dumitrescu – 52′, 90′ Miroslav Djokikj | |||
| Stadium: Steaua in Bucharest |
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| 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 (C) |
| 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 Shainoski 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. | Dancho Celeski (GK) |
| 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. | Miroslav Djokikj 46′ |
| 17. | Marius Baciu | 17. | Nedjmedin Memedi 70′ |
| 18. | Ilie Sabin | 18. | Vlatko Goshev |
| Coaches: | |||
| Anghel Iordănescu |
Gjokica “Gjoko” Hadjievski |
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| Officials: | |||
Referee: Metin Tokat  |
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| Assistants: Aykut Günülü, Maskut Balta |
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| Fourth official: Mustafa Culcu |
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