2017–18 Liga Națională (men's basketball)

The 2017–18 Liga Națională season was the 68th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. U-BT Cluj-Napoca were the defending champion.

Liga Națională
Season2017–18
Number of teams12
Finals
ChampionsOradea (2nd title)
  Runners-upSteaua CSM Eximbank
Third placeU-BT Cluj
Fourth placeCSU Sibiu

Competition format

The competition format will be the same as in the previous season.

  • 12 teams played the regular season, consisting in a double-legged round robin format.
  • At the end of the regular season, teams are split into two groups, one of them composed by the first six teams and the other one by the rest. In this second stage all points of the regular season are counted and the teams will face each other from its group twice.
  • All teams from the group from 1st to 6th and the two first qualified teams from the bottom group will join the playoffs. In this knockout stage, quarterfinals and semifinals will be played with a best-of-three-games format and the final with a best-of-five one.

Teams

Timba Timișoara and Politehnica Iași promoted from the last Liga I. There were not any relegations as there were only 11 teams in the previous season and Olimpic Baia Mare withdrew from the competition.[1]

Location of teams in 2017–18 Liga Națională
Team City Arena Capacity
Mureș Târgu Mureș Sala Sporturilor 2,000
Timișoara Timișoara Constantin Jude 2,200
Timba Timișoara Constantin Jude 2,200
FC Arges Pitești Trivale 2,000
Oradea Oradea Arena Antonio Alexe 2,000
Sibiu Sibiu Transilvania 3,000
Dinamo București București Dinamo 2,538
Phoenix Galați Galați Dunărea 1,500
Politehnica Iași Iași Polyvalent Hall 1,500
Craiova Craiova Polyvalent Hall 4,215
Steaua Eximbank București Mihai Viteazu 2,000
Polyvalent Hall 3,500
U-BT Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca Polyvalent Hall 7,308
Horia Demian 2,525

Regular season
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 Sibiu 22 18 4 1945 1594 +351 40 Qualification to group 1–6
2 U-BT Cluj-Napoca 22 18 4 1905 1643 +262 40
3 Timișoara 22 15 7 1958 1712 +246 37
4 Oradea 22 15 7 1970 1644 +326 37
5 Steaua Eximbank 22 15 7 1907 1645 +262 37
6 U FC Arges 22 13 9 1854 1709 +145 35
7 Craiova 22 11 11 2027 1926 +101 33 Qualification to group 7–12
8 Phoenix Galați 22 10 12 1792 1765 +27 32
9 Timba 22 6 16 1711 1945 −234 28
10 Mureș 22 6 16 1531 1954 −423 28
11 Politehnica Iași 22 4 18 1674 1903 −229 26
12 Dinamo București 22 1 21 1353 2187 −834 23
Source: Romanian Basketball Federation

Second stage

Group 1–6
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 U-BT Cluj-Napoca 32 23 9 2750 2454 +296 55 Qualification to Play-offs
2 Sibiu 32 23 9 2734 2418 +316 55
3 Oradea 32 22 10 2799 2441 +358 54
4 Steaua Eximbank 32 21 11 2686 2399 +287 53
5 Timișoara 32 20 12 2759 2494 +265 52
6 U FC Arges 32 15 17 2615 2545 +70 47
Source: Romanian Basketball Federation

Group 7–12
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification or relegation
7 Craiova 30 18 12 2861 2511 +350 48 Qualification to Play-offs
8 Phoenix Galați 30 17 13 2557 2335 +222 47
9 Timba 30 9 21 2372 2650 −278 39
10 Politehnica Iași 30 5 25 2299 2749 −450 35
11 Dinamo București 30 3 27 1954 2967 −1013 33
12 Mureș[lower-alpha 1] (D) 22 6 16 1531 1954 −423 28 Withdrew
Source: Romanian Basketball Federation
(D) Disqualified
Notes:
  1. Mureș did not play the second stage.

Play-offs

All series were played in a best-of-five games format.

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
                      
 
 
 
 
1
U-BT Cluj-Napoca		987871
 
 
 
8
Phoenix Galați		696467
 
1
U-BT Cluj-Napoca		8985717872
 
 
 
4
Steaua Eximbank		7975798676
 
4
Steaua Eximbank		8969827476
 
 
 
5
Timișoara		6774896469
 
4
Steaua CSM Eximbank		73757089
 
 
 
3
Oradea		86709492
 
2
Sibiu		868285
 
 
 
7
Craiova		737584
 
2
Sibiu		78856461
 
 
 
3
Oradea		81787671
 
3
Oradea		62888374
 
 
6
U FC Arges		66587067
 

References
  1. Timba Timișoara și Politehnica Iași au promovat în Liga Națională de baschet masculin. europafm.ro
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