 Necula earned four caps for the Romanian national side in 1993.In 2004, Necula returned to Naţional București, this time as assistant coach and then in the autumn of 2005 he was for a short while the team's head coach.When Cosmin Olăroiu took over at Steaua Bucureşti in the winter of 2005 he asked Necula to join him as assistant manager.