1996–97 Divizia A

Divizia A
Season 1996–97
Champions Steaua
Relegated Timişoara
Braşov
Champions League Steaua
Cup Winners' Cup Progresul
UEFA Cup Dinamo Bucureşti
Oţelul
Intertoto Cup Rapid
Gloria
Matches played 306
Goals scored 871 (2.85 per match)
Average goals/game 2.85
Top goalscorer Sabin Ilie (31)
Biggest home win Braşov 6 – 0 Jiul
(16 Nov 1996)
Petrolul 7 – 1 Sportul
(07 Jun 1997)
Biggest away win U Cluj 1 – 7 Steaua
(31 May 1997)
Highest scoring Petrolul 4 – 5 Timişoara
(24 Aug 1996)
Steaua 5 – 4 U Cluj
(15 Nov 1996)
U Cluj 5 – 4 Ceahlăul
(23 Nov 1996)
Longest winning run Steaua (5)
Longest unbeaten run Steaua (10)
Longest losing run Timişoara (7)

Contents

League table

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
 Head-to-head
1 Steaua București (C) 34 23 4 7 87 40 +47 73 1997–98 UEFA Champions League First qualifying round
2 Naţional Bucureşti 34 21 5 8 69 36 +33 68 1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Qualifying round
3 Dinamo București 34 18 5 11 56 34 +22 59 1997–98 UEFA Cup First qualifying round
4 Oțelul Galați 34 17 7 10 54 39 +15 58
5 Bacău 34 16 5 13 43 41 +2 53
6 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 34 15 7 12 51 50 +1 52
7 Argeş Piteşti 34 14 8 12 46 37 +9 50
8 Rapid București 34 13 9 12 45 41 +4 48 1997 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group stage
9 Petrolul Ploiești 34 13 7 14 48 43 +5 46 PET 3-0 FAR
FAR 1-0 PET
10 Farul Constanţa 34 14 4 16 46 52 −6 46
11 Universitatea Craiova 34 12 7 15 48 52 −4 43
12 Sportul Studențesc 34 12 6 16 36 52 −16 42
13 Gloria Bistrița 34 11 8 15 38 45 −7 41 1997 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group stage GLO 3-0 JIU
JIU 2-0 GLO
14 Jiul Petroşani 34 12 5 17 33 61 −28 41
15 Universitatea Cluj 34 11 6 17 52 67 −15 39
16 Chindia Târgovişte 34 11 5 18 32 55 −23 38
17 Politehnica Timişoara (R) 34 10 5 19 45 65 −20 35 Relegation to the Divizia B
18 Brașov (R) 34 9 5 20 42 61 −19 32

Source: [1] (Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Divizia A 1996–97 Winners
Steaua
19th Title

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 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
Argeş Piteşti 9 12 6 11 13 13 11 10 12 11 12 9 6 8 9 7 8 9 6 7 6 7 6 5 4 5 5 6 7 6 7 6 7 7
Bacău 14 6 2 5 7 10 8 8 9 13 8 10 12 14 13 14 12 10 11 8 10 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 6 7 6 7 6 5
Brașov 18 10 13 15 15 16 16 16 17 15 16 17 17 17 16 16 16 16 18 18 18 17 17 17 17 17 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 15 7 12 14 14 15 13 12 10 8 7 8 8 9 12 13 11 6 8 10 8 6 5 6 6 6 6 5 4 5 5 5 5 6
Universitatea Craiova 1 4 9 12 12 9 10 13 11 9 11 11 13 10 14 9 14 12 12 12 13 12 14 15 12 12 14 12 8 8 9 8 10 11
Dinamo București 3 2 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Farul Constanţa 10 13 7 3 8 7 9 9 8 10 10 12 10 12 10 11 9 11 13 13 14 13 15 11 13 15 12 15 11 14 10 13 11 10
Gloria Bistrița 17 9 15 16 16 17 17 17 16 18 18 16 16 16 17 18 17 17 16 15 16 16 16 16 16 14 15 13 14 16 13 15 13 13
Jiul Petroşani 2 1 4 2 4 2 7 5 7 7 9 7 9 7 7 6 6 7 10 9 11 14 9 9 11 8 10 11 13 12 15 11 14 14
Oțelul Galați 13 18 11 8 10 8 6 2 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 4
Petrolul Ploiești 11 14 16 17 17 18 18 18 18 17 15 15 15 15 15 15 13 14 14 14 12 11 13 14 15 13 13 14 16 13 16 12 9 9
Progresul Bucureşti 5 3 3 7 3 1 1 4 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 2
Rapid București 7 15 17 18 18 14 15 14 13 12 13 13 11 11 8 10 7 5 7 6 7 9 10 10 8 9 11 8 9 9 8 9 8 8
Sportul Studențesc 16 17 18 13 11 11 12 11 14 14 14 14 14 13 11 12 15 15 15 16 15 15 11 12 14 16 16 16 15 11 12 10 12 12
Steaua București 4 5 14 10 6 4 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1
Timișoara 12 16 10 6 9 12 14 15 15 16 17 18 18 18 18 17 18 18 17 17 17 18 18 18 18 18 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17
Chindia Târgovişte 6 8 5 9 5 6 5 7 4 5 6 5 4 5 5 8 10 13 9 11 9 10 12 13 10 11 9 10 12 15 14 16 16 16
Universitatea Cluj 8 11 8 4 2 5 4 6 6 6 5 6 7 6 6 5 5 8 5 5 5 5 7 7 9 10 8 9 10 10 11 14 15 15

Source: [2] (Romanian)

Results

Home \ Away1 ARG BAC BRA CEA UCR DIN FAR GBI JIU OŢE PET PRO RAP SPO STE TIM TGV UCL
Argeş Piteşti 3–0 2–0 4–1 0–1 0–0 4–1 2–0 3–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 2–2 1–0 1–2 1–0 2–1 2–1
Bacău 1–2 1–0 1–1 4–2 2–0 3–0 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 1–0 3–2
Brașov 3–0 1–1 1–0 1–2 2–1 3–1 2–1 6–0 0–0 2–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–4 3–1 2–0 2–3
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 2–1 3–1 3–1 2–0 1–1 4–2 0–0 4–1 0–2 3–2 1–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 3–1
Universitatea Craiova 1–3 1–1 5–0 3–1 0–2 2–3 1–1 0–0 2–0 1–1 2–0 3–1 1–2 3–2 0–0 1–1 4–1
Dinamo București 4–1 1–0 2–1 4–1 2–0 5–2 3–0 3–0 2–0 3–1 0–1 2–0 2–1 0–0 2–0 2–1 3–0
Farul Constanţa 2–1 4–0 1–0 3–0 2–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 3–1 1–0 1–2 0–1 1–0 3–0 2–2 3–1 0–0
Gloria Bistrița 3–2 2–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 3–2 3–0 5–0 2–1 1–1 0–2 0–1 1–1 4–0 1–2 0–1
Jiul Petroşani 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–2 2–4 1–0 3–0 2–0 1–1 0–1 2–1 1–1 4–1 0–2 3–2 2–1 2–1
Oțelul Galați 1–0 1–2 2–1 2–1 5–1 3–1 1–0 3–0 0–1 3–0 2–0 1–1 3–0 1–5 2–0 6–1 2–0
Petrolul Ploiești 1–1 2–0 4–2 1–0 0–0 0–1 3–0 3–0 4–1 1–0 0–1 1–1 7–1 1–1 4–5 1–1 1–0
Progresul Bucureşti 3–1 1–0 6–1 3–0 2–0 2–1 1–3 2–0 4–0 1–3 4–1 3–1 2–0 2–1 5–1 4–1 4–3
Rapid București 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–3 2–0 3–0 2–0 1–1 3–0 3–4 0–1 2–4 1–1 0–2 4–1 2–0 1–0
Sportul Studențesc 1–1 2–0 3–1 1–2 4–2 0–5 2–1 2–1 1–1 0–2 0–1 0–0 2–0 0–3 1–0 2–1 0–0
Steaua București 2–1 1–5 3–0 3–3 3–0 3–1 2–1 2–0 6–2 2–1 3–0 3–1 3–1 3–1 5–1 4–1 5–4
Timișoara 1–3 4–1 2–1 3–2 0–4 3–0 0–0 5–2 0–1 3–0 1–2 1–1 1–2 0–1 1–0 2–1 4–1
Chindia Târgovişte 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 0–2 1–1 2–0 0–1 2–0 0–0 2–1 1–3 1–0 1–0 1–4 1–0 0–0
Universitatea Cluj 0–1 0–2 3–2 5–4 3–0 1–1 3–1 1–0 2–0 1–1 2–1 0–3 2–2 1–4 1–7 4–1 5–1

Source: [3] (Romanian)
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

See also

References

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