Liga I

Liga I

Country	Romania
Confederation	UEFA
Founded	1909
Number of teams	14
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Liga II
Domestic cup(s)	Cupa României Cupa Ligii Supercupa României
International cup(s)	Champions League Europa League
Current champions	Astra Giurgiu (2015–16)
Most championships	Steaua București (26 titles)
TV partners	Look TV Look Plus Dolce Sport Digi Sport
Website	lpf.ro
2015–16 Liga I

Liga I (also spelled Liga 1) is the Romanian professional league for men's association football clubs. It is currently sponsored by Orange and thus officially known as the Liga 1 Orange^[1] At the top of the Romanian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 14 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Liga II. Liga I was established in 1909 and commenced play for the 1909–10 campaign, and is currently ranked 15th in UEFA's league coefficient ranking list. It is part of the Romanian Professional Football League (LPF). Before the 2006–07 season, it was named Divizia A, but the name had to be changed following the discovery that someone else had registered this trademark.^[2]

History

The first football club's organization formula was "A Divisional College" (Colegiul Divizionar A) founded on 5 October 1970 and led by Mircea Angelescu. Until 1990, the "A Divisional College" was formal without remarkable decisions. During the 90's many changes were implemented, reflected in the new names of the organization, e.g. "A Divisional Team's League", " National Football League", "Professional Club's League", etc. On 10 October 1992, the organization's name became "Professional Football A Division League", led by Mircea Angelescu as president, Dumitru Dragomir as vice-president and Daniel Lăzărescu as general secretary. On 22 January 1993, the name of the organization became "Professional Football League of Romania", an A-Division professional football clubs representation. On 13 October 1993, the Liga II - or B Division - club's members were included. On 30 September 1996, Dumitru Dragomir has been elected president of the "Professional Football League of Romania". The headquarters has been located on 47 Mihai Eminescu Street since February 1997. In December 1977, it was decided that the league would organize the A-Division Championship starting with the 1997–98 championship.

In November 2013, Gino Iorgulescu was elected as the new president of the Romanian Professional Football League, replacing Dumitru Dragomir, who had been president of the league since 1996.^[3]

There are currently 18 teams at this level, of which the bottom four are relegated at the season's end. These teams are replaced by the champions of the two divisions that make up Liga II, the second level of the Romanian football league system.

Starting from the 2007–08 season, the champions and runners-up of the Liga I were eligible to compete in the UEFA Champions League during the following season. The third and fourth placed team were eligible to compete in the UEFA Europa League. Since the 2012–13 season, only one team is eligible for the UEFA Champions League. The 2015–16 season will see two teams again gain a placement in the Champions League qualifying rounds .

The most successful teams over the years have been Steaua București (26 titles) and Dinamo București (18 titles). Other notable teams include UTA Arad (6 titles), Universitatea Craiova and Petrolul Ploiești (4 titles) and Rapid București and CFR Cluj with three titles each. CFR Cluj was the first team from outside of Bucharest to win the championship (in the 2007–08 season) since the 1990–91 season, starting a five-year period of non-Bucharest champions (CFR Cluj with three titles, Unirea Urziceni and Oțelul Galați with one title each). Teams such as Politehnica Timișoara, FC Vaslui or Unirea Urziceni managed good classifications, in front of the Bucharest teams, who have begun to fade since then.

Since the 2012–13 season, Steaua București has become the best performing team with three consecutive titles, as well as good results in the continental competitions.

Sponsorship

On 19 December 1998, SABMiller bought the naming rights for four and a half seasons, becoming the first sponsor in the history of the competition. SABMiller changed the name of the competition to "Divizia A Ursus", in order to promote their Ursus beer.^[4]

Starting with the 2004–05 season, European Drinks & Foods, a Romanian $1.3 billion USD revenue company, took over as main sponsor and changed the league's name to "Divizia A Bürger", to promote their Bürger beer.^[5]

On 11 May 2008, Realitatea Media bought the naming rights and changed the name of the competition to "Liga I Realitatea", to promote their Realitatea TV station.^[6]

In late 2008, European Drinks & Foods again bought the rights and the league was renamed as the "Liga I Frutti Fresh", after one of their soft drinks brand.^[7]

For the 2009–10 season, the online betting firm Gamebookers purchased the league naming rights and renamed the division "Liga 1 Gamebookers.com".^[8]

In July 2010, Bergenbier, a StarBev Group company, bought the naming rights for four seasons and changed the name of the competition to "Liga I Bergenbier", in order to promote their Bergenbier beer.^[9]

From the 2015-16 season, the French telecommunications corporation Orange became the main sponsor of the Romanian first league, after purchasing the league naming rights, for two years, and renamed the league in Liga 1 Orange.^[10]

Broadcasting rights

In 2004, Telesport, a small TV network, bought the broadcasting rights for $28 million. The four seasons contract ended in the summer of 2008. Telesport sold some of the broadcasting rights for matches to other Romanian networks, including, TVR1, Antena 1, Național TV and Kanal D.

On 31 March 2008, Antena 1 with RCS & RDS outbid Realitatea Media and Kanal D in the broadcasting rights auction with a bid of €102 million for a three seasons contract.^[11]

In 2011, the broadcasting rights were bought by RCS & RDS for their channels Digi Sport 1, Digi Sport 2 and Digi Sport 3. This channels aired broadcasting of seven of the nine matches from each stage of the championship. The other two matches were broadcast by Antena 1 (an Intact Media Group channel) and Dolce Sport (a channel owned by Telekom Romania).

In March 2014, LPF announced that the rights were sold for a five-year period to a company from the European Union, without specifying the company's name.^[12] A month later, Look TV and Transilvania LIVE were revealed as the TV stations that would broadcast the games from Liga I and Cupa Ligii between 2014 and 2019.^[13]

List of champions

Performances

Performance by club

The teams in Bold play in the 2015–16 season of Liga I.
The teams in Italics no longer exist.
The teams in neither bold or italics are existing past winners of the championship that relegated to Romania's lower leagues.

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Third Place	Winning Years
Steaua București	26	13	9	1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1967–68, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15
Dinamo București	18	20	9	1955, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1976–77, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1999–00, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2006–07
Venus București	7	-	2	1919–20, 1928–29, 1931–32, 1933–34, 1936–37, 1938–39, 1939–40
UTA Arad	6	1	-	1946–47, 1947–48, 1950, 1954, 1968–69, 1969–70
Chinezul Timișoara	6	-	-	1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1924–25, 1925–26, 1926–27
Universitatea Craiova	4	5	9	1973–74, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1990–91
Petrolul Ploiești	4	3	4	1929–30, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1965–66
Ripensia Timișoara	4	2	2	1932–33, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1937–38
Rapid București	3	14	9	1966–67, 1998–99, 2002–03
CFR Cluj	3	-	2	2007–08, 2009–10, 2011–12
Argeș Pitești	2	2	4	1971–72, 1978–79
Colentina București	2	1	2	1912–13, 1913–14
Olympia București	2	1	-	1909–10, 1910–11
Tricolor București II	1	-	-	1920–21
Unirea Tricolor București	1	2	2	1940–41
CA Oradea	1	2	1	1948–49
Prahova Ploiești	1	1	2	1915–16
United Ploiești	1	1	1	1911–12
Colțea Brașov	1	1	-	1927–28
CSM Reșița	1	1	-	1930–31
Unirea Urziceni	1	1	-	2008–09
Astra Giurgiu	1	1	-	2015–16
Româno-Americană București	1	-	-	1914–15
Oțelul Galați	1	-	-	2010–11
Progresul București	-	3	2	-
Victoria Cluj	-	3	-	-
Politehnica Timișoara	-	2	5	-
Bukarester FC	-	2	2	-
Vagonul Arad	-	1	3	-
Sportul Studențesc București	-	1	3	-
Universitatea Cluj	-	1	2	-
FC Vaslui	-	1	2	-
FC Brașov	-	1	2	-
CFR Timișoara	-	1	1	-
Jiul Petroșani	-	1	1	-
Cercul Atletic București	-	1	1	-
ASA 1962 Târgu Mureș	-	1	1	-
ASA Târgu Mureș	-	1	-	-
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	-	1	-	-
Carmen București	-	1	-	-
Societatea Gimnastică Sibiu	-	1	-	-
Gloria Arad	-	1	-	-
Minerul Lupeni	-	1	-	-
Victoria București	-	-	3	-
Mureşul Târgu Mureş	-	-	2	-
Colțea București	-	-	2	-
Jahn Cernăuți	-	-	1	-
Mihai Viteazul Chișinău	-	-	1	-
Banatul Timişoara	-	-	1	-
CA Câmpulung Moldovenesc	-	-	1	-
Corvinul Hunedoara	-	-	1	-
FC Electroputere Craiova	-	-	1	-
Gloria Bistrița	-	-	1	-

Performance by city

The following table lists the Romanian champions by cities.^[14][15]

City	Titles	Winning Clubs
București	61	Steaua (26), Dinamo (18), Venus (7), Rapid (3), Colentina (2), Olympia (2), Tricolor (1), Româno-Americana (1), Unirea Tricolor (1)
Timișoara	10	Chinezul (6), Ripensia (4)
Ploiești	6	Petrolul (4), United (1), Prahova (1)
Arad	6	UTA (6)
Craiova	4	Universitatea (4)
Cluj-Napoca	3	CFR (3)
Pitești	2	Argeș (2)
Oradea	1	CA Oradea (1)
Brașov	1	Colțea (1)
Reșița	1	Reșița (1)
Urziceni	1	Unirea (1)
Galați	1	Oțelul (1)
Giurgiu	1	Astra (1)

All Time Table

The ranking is computed awarding two points for a win, one for a draw. It includes matches played between 1932–33 and 2014–15 season inclusive, some games awarded 3–0 but without play-off or play-out games. The teams in bold play in the 2015–16 season of Liga I. The teams in italics no longer exist.^[16]

#	Team	S	M	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-	Pts
1	Steaua București	67	2053	1143	470	440	3902	2063	+1839	2756
2	Dinamo București	66	2016	1105	443	468	3887	2179	+1708	2653
3	Rapid București	66	1898	854	440	604	2943	2255	+688	2148
4	Universitatea Craiova	46	1492	660	323	509	2216	1727	+489	1643
5	Petrolul Ploiești	57	1627	626	375	626	2248	2154	+94	1627
6	Universitatea Cluj	56	1608	552	339	717	2069	2476	-407	1443
7	Argeș Pitești	44	1404	571	276	557	1846	1797	+49	1418
8	FC Brașov	46	1429	533	313	583	1765	1845	-80	1379
9	Politehnica Timișoara	44	1336	508	321	507	1782	1839	-57	1337
10	FCM Bacău	42	1319	489	262	568	1538	1809	-271	1240
11	Farul Constanța	42	1299	473	260	566	1577	1840	-263	1206
12	Sportul Studențesc București	36	1154	435	256	463	1569	1575	-6	1126
13	UTA Arad	38	1072	420	244	408	1602	1522	+80	1084
14	Jiul Petroșani	41	1197	402	250	545	1403	1845	-442	1054
15	Național București	32	945	379	189	377	1353	1324	+29	947
16	Oțelul Galați	27	894	361	180	353	1096	1115	-19	902
17	Politehnica Iași	28	881	297	187	397	1029	1265	-236	781
18	CFR Cluj	20	644	264	181	199	838	763	+75	709
19	Gloria Bistrița	22	724	269	133	322	903	1003	-100	671
20	ASA 1962 Târgu Mureș	21	690	251	109	330	817	1025	-208	611
21	Astra Giurgiu	12	396	157	109	130	540	422	+118	565
22	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	18	596	202	134	260	689	851	-162	538
23	Corvinul Hunedoara	17	562	210	98	254	831	881	-50	518
24	Bihor Oradea	18	572	181	118	273	683	893	-210	480
25	CSM Reșița	16	482	154	103	225	666	890	-224	411
26	CA Oradea	17	378	145	80	153	633	635	-2	370
27	FC Vaslui	9	302	137	78	87	393	303	+90	352
28	Olt Scornicești	11	373	137	64	172	424	546	-122	338
29	Unirea Tricolor București (Dinamo Brașov, Dinamo Cluj)	16	347	128	78	141	625	669	-44	334
30	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	10	336	114	86	136	376	398	-22	314
31	Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea	10	340	121	64	155	368	533	-165	306
32	CFR Timișoara	11	273	104	70	99	406	392	+14	278
33	Gaz Metan Mediaș	10	324	90	95	139	348	481	-133	275
34	Inter Sibiu	8	272	110	47	115	358	376	-18	267
35	Chindia Târgoviște	9	298	95	64	139	312	469	-157	254
36	Venus București	9	178	106	35	37	491	243	+248	247
37	Ripensia Timișoara	9	178	107	27	44	498	266	+232	241
38	CS Târgu Mureș	10	241	85	46	110	360	418	-58	216
39	FC Baia Mare	7	230	83	35	112	267	370	-103	201
40	Unirea Urziceni	5	170	74	47	49	199	162	+37	195
41	Vagonul Arad	9	184	76	31	77	318	323	-5	183
42	Olimpia Satu Mare	7	222	69	40	113	223	363	-140	178
43	Victoria București	5	169	70	33	66	242	251	-9	173
44	Gloria Buzău	7	238	64	45	129	236	403	-167	173
45	Gloria Arad	8	156	59	31	66	296	332	-36	149
46	Victoria Cluj	8	154	61	23	70	266	294	-28	145
47	Extensiv Craiova (Electroputere Craiova)	5	170	54	36	80	171	213	-42	144
48	Dacia Unirea Brăila	6	178	54	30	94	193	328	-135	138
49	Flacăra Moreni	4	136	53	23	60	180	198	-18	129
50	Dunărea Galați	5	170	44	32	94	174	310	-136	120
51	Concordia Chiajna	4	136	39	41	56	144	192	-48	119
52	Chinezul Timișoara	6	120	46	21	53	281	288	-7	113
53	ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș	3	102	40	28	34	119	113	+6	108
54	Crișana Oradea	6	110	40	20	50	199	232	-33	100
55	Viitorul Constanța	3	102	29	32	41	118	161	-43	90
56	Foresta Fălticeni	3	98	24	27	47	102	145	-43	75
57	Minerul Lupeni	4	101	30	15	56	106	207	-101	75
58	FC Ploiești	5	102	28	16	58	131	255	-124	72
59	Unirea Alba Iulia	3	94	24	21	49	93	171	-78	69
60	FC Botoșani	2	68	24	18	26	76	95	-19	66
61	Phoenix Baia Mare	3	62	26	11	25	96	106	-10	63
62	Ciocanul București	2	56	24	10	22	100	87	+13	58
63	Rocar București	2	64	25	6	33	93	108	-15	56
64	CSMS Iași	2	68	18	15	35	62	89	-27	51
65	FC Onești	2	68	21	6	41	93	159	-66	48
66	CA Câmpulung Moldovenesc	2	33	15	10	8	50	31	+19	40
67	CSU Craiova	1	34	14	11	9	40	34	+6	39
68	Siderurgistul Galați	2	52	13	10	29	62	104	-42	36
69	CS Mioveni	2	68	9	16	43	46	120	-74	34
70	Carmen București	1	26	14	5	7	90	44	+46	33
71	Metalul Câmpia Turzii	2	48	7	19	22	46	86	-40	33
72	Gloria CFR Galați	2	46	13	7	26	54	100	-46	33
73	CAM Timișoara	2	34	12	7	15	54	76	-22	31
74	Ferar Cluj	1	26	13	4	9	44	29	+15	30
75	ACS Poli Timișoara	1	34	10	8	16	26	42	-16	28
76	Săgeata Năvodari	1	34	10	8	16	32	54	-22	28
77	Internațional Curtea de Argeș	1	34	10	6	18	32	49	-17	26
78	Dermata Cluj	1	30	7	11	12	41	50	-9	25
79	CS Turnu Severin	1	34	7	11	16	36	47	-11	25
80	CSM Suceava	1	34	10	5	19	36	69	-33	25
81	FC Craiova	2	50	10	5	35	61	171	-110	25
82	Aurul Brad	1	24	12	0	12	51	43	+8	24
83	Voința Sibiu	1	34	8	8	18	24	45	-21	24
84	Şoimii Sibiu	3	48	5	12	31	42	131	-89	22
85	Victoria Brănești	1	34	5	10	19	35	61	-26	20
86	CS Otopeni	1	34	5	7	22	32	54	-22	17
87	Viitorul București	1	14	6	3	5	33	26	+7	15
88	Vulturii Textila Lugoj	1	18	6	2	10	24	41	-17	14
89	Metalochimic Bucureşti	1	26	5	4	17	50	80	-30	14
90	UM Timișoara	1	30	3	6	21	24	71	-47	12
91	Corona Brașov	1	34	2	8	24	20	69	-49	12
92	AS CFR Brașov	1	18	4	3	11	26	45	-19	11
93	Prahova Ploiesti	1	26	5	1	20	26	97	-71	11
94	Avântul Reghin	1	24	3	3	18	19	57	-38	9
95	Dragoş Vodă Cernăuţi	1	18	4	0	14	26	57	-31	8
96	Braşovia Braşov	2	26	1	3	22	28	85	-57	5
97	Mureşul Târgu Mureş	1	14	1	2	11	15	53	-38	4
98	FC Voluntari	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Current members

Club	Position in 2014–15	First season in Liga I	Number of seasons Liga I	First season of current spell in Liga I	Top division titles	Last Liga I title
ACS Poli Timișoara	1st in Liga II, Seria II	2013–14	2	2015–16	0	n/a
ASA Târgu Mureș	2nd	2010–11	4	2014–15	0	n/a
Astra Giurgiu	3rd	1998–99	12	2009–10	0	n/a
Botoșani	8th	2013–14	3	2013–14	0	n/a
CFR Cluj	4th	1947–48	21	2004–05	3	2011–12
Concordia Chiajna	12th	2011–12	5	2011–12	0	n/a
CSMS Iași	10th	2012–13	3	2014–15	0	n/a
CSU Craiova	5th	2014–15	2	2014–15	0	n/a
Dinamo București	7th	1948–49	67	1948–49	18	2006–07
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	9th	2005–06	11	2005–06	0	n/a
Petrolul Ploiești	6rd	1952	47	2011–12	3	1965–66
Steaua București	1st	1947–48	68	1947–48	26	2014–15
Viitorul Constanța	11th	2012–13	4	2012–13	0	n/a
Voluntari	1st in Liga II, Seria I	2015–16	1	2015–16	0	n/a

Records

Top Ten Players With Most Appearances
As of 21 December 2015

Player		Period	Club	Games
1	Ionel Dănciulescu	1993–13	Electroputere Craiova, Dinamo, Steaua	515
2	Costică Ștefănescu	1969–88	Steaua, Craiova, Brașov	490
3	Florea Ispir	1970–87	ASA Târgu Mureș	485
4	László Bölöni	1970–87	ASA Târgu Mureș, Steaua	484
5	Costel Câmpeanu	1987–05	Bacău, Dinamo, Bistrița, Național, Ceahlăul	470
6	Petre Marin	1993–11	Sportul, Național, Rapid, Steaua, Urziceni, Chiajna	468
7	Paul Cazan	1972–87	Sportul	465
8	Cornel Dinu	1966–83	Dinamo	454
9	Constantin Stancu	1976–90	Argeș	447
10	Ion Dumitru	1967–88	Rapid, Steaua, Timișoara, Craiova	442

Top Ten Highest Goalscorers
As of 21 December 2015

Player		Period	Club	Goals
1	Dudu Georgescu	1970–86	Progresul, Reșița, Dinamo, Bacău, Buzău, Moreni	252 (Ø 0,68)
2	Ionel Dănciulescu	1993–13	Electroputere Craiova, Dinamo, Steaua	214 (Ø 0,41)
3	Rodion Cămătaru	1974–89	Craiova, Dinamo	198 (Ø 0,52)
4	Marin Radu	1974–89	Argeș, Olt Scornicești, Steaua, Sibiu	190 (Ø 0,49)
5	Florea Dumitrache	1966–83	Dinamo, Jiul, Corvinul	170 (Ø 0,47)
5	Ion Oblemenco	1964–76	Rapid, Craiova	170 (Ø 0,62)
7	Mircea Sandu	1970–87	Național, Sportul	167 (Ø 0,41)
8	Victor Pițurcă	1975–89	Olt Scornicești, Steaua	166 (Ø 0,55)
9	Mihai Adam	1962–76	U Cluj, Vagonul Arad, CFR	160 (Ø 0,45)
10	Titus Ozon	1947–64	Unirea Tricolor, Dinamo, Brașov, Național, Rapid	157 (Ø 0,58)

Top Ten Foreign Players With Most Appearances
As of 21 December 2015

Player		Period	Club	Games
1	Ricardo Cadu	2006–14	CFR	202
2	Takayuki Seto	2009–15	Astra	194
3	Nuno Viveiros	2008–00	Politehnica Iași, Brașov, Vaslui, U Cluj	188
4	Ousmane N'Doye	2008–00	FC Vaslui, Dinamo, Astra Giurgiu, Săgeata Năvodari, ASA Târgu Mureș	182
5	Mike Temwanjera	2007–14	Vaslui	174
6	Nana Falemi	1997–09	Petrolul, Steaua, Vaslui, Mediaș	169
7	Pablo Brandan	2007–00	Urziceni, Steaua, CS U Craiova, ASA Târgu Mureș	158
8	Júnior Morais	2011–00	Astra	158
9	Artavazd Karamyan	2004–10	Rapid, Timișoara, Steaua, Urziceni	152
10	Jaka Štromajer	2007–13	Pandurii, Oțelul	144

Top Ten Highest Foreign Players Goalscorers
As of 21 December 2015

Player		Period	Club	Goals
1	Wesley	2009–14	Vaslui, CSMS Iași	65 (Ø 0,53)
2	Pantelis Kapetanos	2008–14	Steaua, CFR	48 (Ø 0,38)
3	Eric	2008–15	Mediaș, Pandurii	43 (Ø 0,30)
4	Bojan Golubović	2012–00	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț, CSMS Iași	41 (Ø 0,34)
5	Kehinde Fatai	2008–15	Farul, Astra	41 (Ø 0,28)
6	Mike Temwanjera	2007–14	Vaslui	39 (Ø 0,22)
7	Sulejman Demollari	1991–95	Dinamo	36 (Ø 0,36)
8	Tha'er Bawab	2010–00	Gloria Bistrița, Gaz Metan Mediaș, CS U Craiova, Steaua	36 (Ø 0,26)
9	Hamza Younés	2012–13	Petrolul Ploiești	34 (Ø 0,65)
10	Ousmane N'Doye	2008–00	FC Vaslui, Dinamo, Astra Giurgiu, Săgeata Năvodari, ASA Târgu Mureș	32 (Ø 0,17)

Top Ten Youngest Debutants
As of 21 December 2015. The teams written in bold are the ones the players debuted at

Player		Age	Match	Season
1	Nicolae Dobrin	14 years, 10 months and 5 days	Știința Cluj - Dinamo Pitești 5–1	1961–62
2	Rareș Lazăr	15 years, one month and 19 days	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț - FC Vaslui 2–0	2013–14
3	Răzvan Popa	15 years, 2 months and 13 days	Dinamo - Sportul Studențesc 1–3	2011–12
4	Codrin Epure	15 years, 2 months and 21 days	FC Vaslui - Astra 1-4	2013–14
5	Marius Niculae	15 years, 6 months and 6 days	Dinamo - Farul Constanța 5-2	1996–97
6	Ion Geolgău	15 years, 8 months and 18 days	Universitatea Craiova - UTA 3–1	1976–77
7	Constantin Gângioveanu	15 years, 8 months and 21 days	Dinamo - Universitatea Craiova 5–0	2004–05
8	Roberto Hașnaș	15 years, 9 months and 21 days	FC Brașov - Gloria Bistrița 4–1	2012–13
9	Marian Drăghiceanu	15 years, 10 months and 10 days	Oțelul Galați - Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 4–1	2014–15
10	George Mareș	15 years, 10 months and 15 days	Sportul Studențesc - CS Mioveni 0–0	2011–12

UEFA ranking

Liga I UEFA Ranking history

The national league rankings for the 2015–16 season of UEFA competitions is based upon results in UEFA competitions from the 2011–12 through 2015–16 seasons. The previous rank, which was used to calculate team allocations for 2014–15 competitions, is given in parentheses.

• 10. (09) Eredivisie
• 11. (12) Süper Lig
• 12. (11) Swiss Super League
• 13. (14) Czech First League
• 14. (13) Superleague Greece
• 15. (15) Liga I
• 16. (17) Prva HNL
• 17. (16) Austrian Bundesliga
• 18. (18) Cypriot First Division
• 19. (19) Ekstraklasa
• 20. (24) Allsvenskan

Teams in International Competitions

From the quarter-finals upwards.

• Steaua București: European Cup winners in 1986 and finalists in 1989, European Super Cup winners in 1986, Intercontinental Cup finalists in 1986, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup quarter finalists in 1972 and 1993, UEFA Cup semi-finalists in 2006.
• Dinamo București: European Cup semi-finalists in 1984, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup semi-finalists in 1990.
• Universitatea Craiova: European Cup quarter finalists in 1982, UEFA Cup semi-finalists in 1983.
• Rapid București: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup quarter finalists in 1973, UEFA Cup quarter finalists in 2006.
• Petrolul Ploiești: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup quarter finalists in 1963.
• Bacău: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup quarter finalists in 1970.
• UTA Arad: UEFA Cup quarter finalists in 1972.
• Victoria București: UEFA Cup quarter finalists in 1989.

See also

• List of foreign Liga I players
• List of Romanian expatriate footballers
• List of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues
• List of Romanian football club owners
• Liga II
• Liga III
• Liga IV
• Liga I Feminin

References

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2. Cotidianul, Divizia A a fost mitraliată (The "A Division" was gunned down), accessed on 3 February 2007
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6. "Liga I de fotbal se va numi din vară Liga I Realitatea". Realitatea TV (in Romanian). 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
7. "LPF a schimbat numele Ligii I". Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). 2008-07-25.
8. "Liga 1 Gamebookers.com, noul nume al întrecerii interne". prosport.ro (in Romanian). 2009-11-05.
9. "Bergenbier este noul sponsor al Ligii I". Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). 19 July 2010.
10. "Orange este noul partener principal al Ligii 1 de fotbal!". Orange. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
11. "Antena 1 dă 85 milioane de euro plus TVA și câștigă licitația pentru drepturile de televizare ale partidelor din Liga 1". Hotnews.ro (in Romanian). 2008-03-31. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
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14. http://www.romaniansoccer.ro/clubs/clubs.shtml
15. http://www.liga1.ro/html/arhiva
16. "Romania - clasamentul all-time 1932-2009" (in Romanian). 10 June 2009.

External links

• Romanian Professional Football League official website
• Results and statistics since 1932
• Liga I table, fixtures and results, player info and team evolution