2017–18 Liga I

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Liga I 2017–18
Season information
Winners	CFR Cluj
Relegated	Juventus București
Season statistics
Matches played	249
Goals scored	581
Top goalscorer	George Țucudean (15 goals)
Biggest home win	FCSB 7–0 Poli Timișoara (22 October 2017)
Biggest away win	Juventus București 0–5 Concordia Chiajna (24 November 2017)
Highest scoring	ACS Poli Timișoara 4–3 CFR Cluj (26 August 2017) Viitorul Constanța 5–2 CSM Politehnica Iași (30 September 2017) FCSB 7–0 Poli Timișoara (22 October 2017) CS U Craiova 2–5 FCSB (29 October 2017) Astra Giurgiu 4–3 Gaz Metan Mediaș (9 February 2018) Concordia Chiajna 3–4 Dinamo București (12 February 2018)
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The 2017–18 Liga I (also known as 2017–18 Liga I Betano) is the 100th season of Liga I, the top-level football league of Romania. The season began in July 2017 and will end in June 2018. Viitorul Constanța are the defending champions. This is the third season to take place since the playoff/playout rule has been introduced. The official fixture schedule was released on 7 July 2017.

Teams

The last two teams from the 2016–17 season, Pandurii Târgu Jiu and Târgu Mureș, relegated to 2017–18 Liga II. The first two teams from 2016–17 Liga II, Juventus București and Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe promoted to Liga I. A promotion/relegation play-off will be played between 12th place from Liga I and UTA Arad 3rd place from Liga II.

Venues

Steaua București	Poli Timișoara	Universitatea Craiova	CFR Cluj
Arena Națională	Dan Păltinișanu	Ion Oblemenco	Dr. Constantin Rădulescu
Capacity: 55,634	Capacity: 32,972	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 23,500
Dinamo București	Juventus București
Dinamo	Ilie Oană
Capacity: 15,032	Capacity: 15,073
Botoșani	Politehnica Iași
Municipal	Emil Alexandrescu
Capacity: 12,000	Capacity: 11,390
Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe	Astra Giurgiu
Silviu Ploeșteanu	Marin Anastasovici
Capacity: 8,800	Capacity: 8,500
Gaz Metan Mediaș	Concordia Chiajna	Voluntari	Viitorul Constanța
Gaz Metan	Concordia	Anghel Iordănescu	Viitorul
Capacity: 7,814	Capacity: 5,123	Capacity: 4,600	Capacity: 4,500

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
ACS Poli Timișoara	Popa, IonuțIonuț Popa	Marius Croitoru	Joma	Casa Rusu
Astra Giurgiu	Iordănescu, EdwardEdward Iordănescu	Cristian Săpunaru	Joma	Tinmar
Botoșani	Enache, CostelCostel Enache		Nike	Elsaco
CFR Cluj	Petrescu, DanDan Petrescu	Mário Camora	Masita	Enex
Concordia Chiajna	Alexa, DanDan Alexa	Cristian Bălgrădean	Lotto	—
CS U Craiova	Mangia, DevisDevis Mangia	Andrei Ivan	Joma	Sticky
CSM Politehnica Iași	Stoican, FlaviusFlavius Stoican		Nike	Blue Air
Dinamo București	Contra, CosminCosmin Contra	Steliano Filip	Macron	Orange
Gaz Metan Mediaș	Pustai, CristianCristian Pustai		Joma	Romgaz
Juventus București		Valentin Bărbulescu	Joma	—
Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe	Suciu, ValentinValentin Suciu	Attila Hadnagy	Adidas	Gyermelyi
Steaua București	Tănase, ViorelViorel Tănase	Denis Alibec	Nike	City Insurance
Viitorul Constanța	Hagi, GheorgheGheorghe Hagi	Romario Benzar	Nike	Lotto Snacks
Voluntari	Niculescu, ClaudiuClaudiu Niculescu	Vasile Maftei	Puma	Academia de Fotbal Voluntari

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Steaua București	Reghecampf, LaurențiuLaurențiu Reghecampf	Mutual agreement	31 May 2017	Pre-season	Tănase, ViorelViorel Tănase	1 June 2017
Astra Giurgiu	Șumudică, MariusMarius Șumudică	End of contract	31 May 2017	Pre-season	Iordănescu, EdwardEdward Iordănescu	1 June 2017
CS U Craiova	Mulțescu, GheorgheGheorghe Mulțescu	End of contract	31 May 2017	Pre-season	Mangia, DevisDevis Mangia	1 June 2017<
Botoșani	Grozavu, LeontinLeontin Grozavu	End of contract	5 June 2017	Pre-season	Enache, CostelCostel Enache	5 June 2017
CSM Politehnica Iași	Neagoe, EugenEugen Neagoe	End of contract	5 June 2017	Pre-season	Stoican, FlaviusFlavius Stoican	9 June 2017
CFR Cluj	Miriuță, VasileVasile Miriuță	Mutual agreement	6 June 2017	Pre-season	Petrescu, DanDan Petrescu	12 June 2017

Regular season

In the regular season the 14 teams will meet twice, a total of 26 matches per team, with the top 6 advancing to the Championship round and the bottom 8 qualifying for Relegation round.

Regular season table

2017–18 Liga I Regular Season table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	CFR Cluj	26	18	5	3	42	13	+29	59	Qualification to Championship round
2	FCSB	26	16	7	3	52	18	+34	55
3	Universitatea Craiova	26	14	9	3	41	26	+15	51
4	Astra Giurgiu	26	12	8	6	38	27	+11	44
5	Viitorul Constanța	26	13	5	8	34	21	+13	44
6	CSM Politehnica Iași	26	11	6	9	34	31	+3	39
7	Botoșani	26	11	6	9	28	26	+2	39	Qualification to Relegation round
8	Dinamo București	26	11	6	9	39	31	+8	39
9	Concordia Chiajna	26	8	4	14	36	37	−1	28
10	Voluntari	26	7	7	12	25	35	−10	28
11	ACS Poli Timișoara	26	6	9	11	22	37	−15	27
12	Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe	26	5	4	17	15	44	−29	19
13	Gaz Metan Mediaș	26	2	10	14	14	39	−25	16
14	Juventus București	26	1	8	17	12	47	−35	11

Source: Liga 1, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Regular season positions by round

Team/ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
ACS Poli Timișoara	5	9	10	7	7	9	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	8	10	9	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	11
Astra Giurgiu	6	10	5	5	4	5	6	6	2	3	3	5	4	4	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	4	4	4	4
Botoșani	8	4	1	1	1	2	2	4	5	5	5	4	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	8	8	7
CFR Cluj	7	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Concordia Chiajna	11	11	12	12	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	11	11	9	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	11	11	11	11	9
CSM Politehnica Iași	12	12	8	10	10	8	8	8	10	8	10	9	10	11	9	8	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	6
CS U Craiova	3	3	6	6	6	3	3	2	3	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Dinamo București	1	5	4	4	5	6	5	5	7	7	7	7	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	8
Gaz Metan Mediaș	13	13	14	14	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	13	12	13	13	13	13
Juventus București	14	14	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe	10	8	11	8	8	10	10	9	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	13	12	13	12	12	12	12
FCSB	4	1	3	3	3	4	4	3	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Viitorul Constanța	2	7	9	11	11	11	11	10	9	10	8	10	8	7	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	5	5	5
Voluntari	9	6	7	9	9	7	9	11	8	9	9	8	9	10	8	10	10	10	10	11	11	10	10	9	9	10

Championship round

The top six teams from Regular season will meet twice (10 matches per team) for places in 2018–19 UEFA Champions League and 2018–19 UEFA Europa League as well as deciding the league champion. Teams start the Championship round with their points from the Regular season halved, rounded upwards, and no other records carried over from the Regular season.

Championship round table

2017–18 Liga I Championship round table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	CFR Cluj  (C) (Q)	10	5	5	0	12	6	+6	20	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	FCSB	10	6	3	1	14	6	+8	21	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
3	Universitatea Craiova	10	3	3	4	10	10	0	12	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
4	Viitorul Constanța	10	3	4	3	13	11	+2	13	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
5	Astra Giurgiu	10	3	2	5	9	11	−2	11
6	CSM Politehnica Iași	10	1	1	8	5	19	−14	4

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Championship round results

Home \ Away	AST	CFR	IAS	UCV	FCSB	VII
Astra Giurgiu		0–2	3–0	1–0	0–3	0–2
CFR Cluj	1–1		2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0
CSM Politehnica Iași	0–3	1–1		1–2	1–0	0–2
CS Universitatea Craiova	1–0	0–0	4–1		0–1	3–3
FCSB	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–0		2–1
Viitorul Constanța	1–1	1–2	1–0	0–0	2–2

Updated to games played on 20 May 2018
Source: Liga 1
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship round positions by round

Team/ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Astra Giurgiu	5	4	5	5	5	5	4	4	5	5
CFR Cluj	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1
CSM Politehnica Iași	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Universitatea Craiova	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	3
FCSB	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2
Viitorul Constanța	4	5	4	4	4	4	5	5	3	4

Relegation round

The bottom eight teams from regular season will meet twice (14 matches per team) to contest against relegation. Teams start the Relegation round with their points from the Regular season halved, rounded upwards, and no other records carried over from the Regular season. The winner of the Relegation round finishes 7th in the overall season standings, the second placed team - 8th, and so on, with the last placed team in the Relegation round being 14th.

Relegation round table

Template:2017–18 Liga I Relegation round table

Relegation round results

Home \ Away	ACS	BOT	CON	DIN	GAZ	JUV	SPS	VOL
ACS Poli Timișoara		0–1	1–0		0–0	2–0	2–2	2–3
Botoșani			0–1	0–1		0–0	2–2	1–0
Concordia Chiajna		0–0		0–4	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–1
Dinamo București	1–0	2–0	3–1		3–0	1–2
Gaz Metan Mediaș	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–3				1–0
Juventus București	1–0	0–3		0–2	0–3		0–2
Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe	3–0		0–2	2–0	2–1	2–1		2–2
Voluntari	1–0	1–1		2–4	1–2	0–1	1–2

Updated to games played on 21 May 2018
Source: Liga 1
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation round positions by round

Team/ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
ACS Poli Timișoara	11	11	11	11	12	13	13	13	13	13
Botoșani	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Concordia Chiajna	10	10	10	12	10	11	12	11	11	10
Dinamo București	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Gaz Metan Mediaș	13	13	12	13	13	12	10	12	12	11
Juventus București	14	14	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe	12	12	14	10	9	10	9	10	9	9
Voluntari	9	9	9	9	11	9	11	9	10	12

Liga I play-off

The 12th-placed team of the Liga I faces the 3rd-placed team of the Liga II.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
TBD	–	Chindia Târgoviște	–	–

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Season statistics

Top scorers

Updated to matches played on 17 May 2018.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	George Țucudean	Viitorul Constanța (11) / CFR Cluj (4)	15
2	Harlem Gnohéré	FCSB	14
3	Alexandru Mitriță	CS U Craiova	12
	Paul Batin	Concordia Chiajna
5	Gustavo	CS U Craiova	11
	Alexandru Ioniță	Astra Giurgiu (10) / CFR Cluj (1)
7	Florin Tănase	FCSB	10
	Dennis Man	FCSB
	Alexandru Băluță	CS U Craiova
	Mihai Roman	Botoșani
11	Constantin Budescu	FCSB	9
	Andrei Cristea	CSM Politehnica Iași

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Alexandru Tudorie	Voluntari	Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe	3–0	02017-09-10-10 September 2017
George Țucudean4	Viitorul Constanța	CSM Iași	5–2	02017-09-30-30 September 2017
Harlem Gnohéré	FCSB	ACS Poli Timișoara	7–0	02017-10-22-22 October 2017
Alexandru Mitriță	Universitatea Craiova	CSM Politehnica Iași	4–1	02018-04-14-14 April 2018
Ely	Gaz Metan Mediaș	Juventus București	3–0	02018-04-22-22 April 2018

⁴ Player scored four goals

Clean sheets

Updated to matches played on 17 May 2018.

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Alberto Cobrea	Botoșani	13
	Giedrius Arlauskis	CFR Cluj
	Jaime Penedo	Dinamo București
4	Plamen Iliev	Astra Giurgiu	12
5	Victor Rîmniceanu	Viitorul Constanța (10) / Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe (1)	11
6	Florin Niță1	FCSB	10
7	Cosmin Vâtcă	CFR Cluj	8
8	Nicolae Calancea	CS U Craiova	7
9	Dragoș Balauru	Voluntari	6
	Virgil Drăghia	Juventus București
	Cristian Bălgrădean	Concordia Chiajna (2) / FCSB (4)
12	Alexandru Greab	Gaz Metan Mediaș	5
	Miodrag Mitrović	CS U Craiova
	Valentin Cojocaru	Viitorul Constanța

¹ Florin Niță was transferred to Sparta Prague during the winter transfer window.

Discipline

As of 17 May 2018

Player

• Most yellow cards: 13
  • Valentin Crețu (Gaz Metan Mediaș)
  • István Fülöp (Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe)
• Most red cards: 2
  • Anatole Abang (Astra Giurgiu)
  • Ionuț Cioinac (CSM Politehnica Iași)
  • Diogo Salomão (Dinamo București)
  • Kévin Boli (CFR Cluj)
  • Kamer Qaka (CSM Politehnica Iași)
  • Mădălin Mihăescu (CSM Politehnica Iași)
  • Mihai Pintilii (FCSB)
  • Gabriel Cânu (ACS Poli Timișoara)
  • Dragoș Balauru (Voluntari)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 114
  • CSM Politehnica Iași
• Most red cards: 9
  • Astra Giurgiu

External links

• Official website (Romanian)

Football in Romania

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