Liga I

Liga I Bergenbier
Countries  Romania
Confederation UEFA (Europe)
Founded 1909
Number of teams 18
Levels on pyramid 1
Relegation to Liga II
Domestic cup(s) Cupa României
Supercupa României
League cup(s) Champions League
Europa League
Current champions Oţelul Galaţi
(2010–11)
Most championships Steaua Bucureşti (23)
TV partners Digi Sport
Dolce Sport
Antena 1
Website LPF.ro
2011–12 Season

Liga I, or in full, due to sponsorship reasons, Liga I Bergenbier,[1] is the top division of the Romanian football league system. Before the 2006/2007 season, it was called Divizia A, but the name had to be changed following the discovery that someone else had registered the trademark "Divizia A".[2] Liga I was established in 1909 and commenced play for the 1909-10 campaign, and currently enjoys a ranking of 14th in UEFA's league coefficient ranking list.

Liga I is part of the Romanian Professional Football League (LPF).

Contents

History

The first football club's organization formula was "A Divisional College" (Colegiul Divizionar A) founded on October 5, 1970 and led by Mircea Angelescu. Until 1990, the "A Divisional College" was formal without remarkable decisions. During the 90's a lot of 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 October 10, 1992, the organization's name became "Professional Football A Division League", led by Mircea Angelescu - president, Dumitru Dragomir - vice-president and Daniel Lăzărescu - 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 October 13, 1993, the B Division clubs members were included. On September 30, 1996, Dumitru Dragomir has been elected president of the "Professional Football League of Romania". The headquarters is located on 47 Mihai Eminescu Street (since February 1997). In December the same year it was decided that the league will organize the A-Division Championship starting with 1997-1998 edition.

In October 2000, Dumitru Dragomir has been re-elected president of the "Professional Football League of Romania"

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 2, the second level of the Romanian football league system.

Starting in 2007-08, the champions and runners-up of Divizia A are eligible to compete in the UEFA Champions League during the following season. The 3rd and 4th placed team is eligible to compete in the UEFA Europa League.

The most successful teams over the years have been Steaua Bucureşti (23 titles), Dinamo Bucureşti (18 titles), UTA Arad (6 titles), Universitatea Craiova (4 titles) and other notable teams being: Rapid Bucureşti and Petrolul Ploieşti, each with three titles won. CFR Cluj was the first non-Bucharest team to win the championship (in 2007-2008) since the 1990-1991 season.

Sponsorship

On December 19, 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.[3]

Starting with the 2004/05 season, European Food company took over as main sponsor and changed the league's name to "Divizia A Bürger", to promote their Bürger beer.[4]

On May 11, 2008, Realitatea Media bought the naming rights for 5 years and changed the name of the competition to "Liga I Realitatea", to promote their Realitatea TV station.[5]

In late 2008, Frutti Fresh, a Romanian soft drink company bought the rights and the league was named after the brand as Frutti Fresh Liga I.

For the 2009/2010 Season Gamebookers.com - the biggest online betting firm in Romania - purchased the league naming rights and renamed the division "Liga 1 Gamebookers.com".

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 matches to other Romanian networks: TVR1, Antena 1, Naţional TV and Kanal D.

On March 31, 2008, Antena 1 together 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.[6]

In 2011 the broadcasting rights were buy by the RCS&RDS their channel DigiSport will air broadcast 7 out of the 9 matches from each stage of the Championship. The other two matches will be broadcast by Antena 1 (an Intact Media Group channel) and DolceSport (a channel owned by Romtelecom).

List of champions

Year by year

Main article: Liga I Final Tables

Performance by club

Main article: List of Romanian football champions

The teams in bold play in the 2011-12 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 Winning Years
Steaua București
23
13
 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
Dinamo București
18
20
 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
8
0
 1919-20, 1920-21, 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
0
 1921-22, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1924-25, 1925-26, 1926-27
Universitatea Craiova
4
5
 1973-74, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1990-91
Ripensia Timișoara
4
1
 1932-33, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1937-38
Rapid București
3
14
 1966-67, 1998-99, 2002-03
Petrolul Ploiești
3
1
 1957-58, 1958-59, 1965-66
Argeș Pitești
2
2
 1971-72, 1978-79
Colentina București
2
2
 1912-13, 1913-14
CFR Cluj
2
0
 2007-08, 2009-10
Olympia București
2
0
 1909-10, 1910-11
CA Oradea
1
2
 1948-49
Unirea Tricolor București
1
2
 1940-41
Unirea Urziceni
1
1
 2008-09
CSM Reșița
1
1
 1930-31
Juventus București
1
1
 1929-30
Colțea Brașov
1
1
 1927-28
Prahova Ploiești
1
1
 1915-16
United Ploiești
1
1
 1911-12
Oţelul Galați
1
0
 2010-11
Româno-Americană București
1
0
 1914-15

Cities

The following table lists the Romanian champions by cities.

City Titles Winning Clubs
Bucureşti
59
 Steaua (23), Dinamo (18), Venus (8), Rapid (3),
Colentina (2), Olympia (2), Juventus (1),
Româno-Americana (1), Unirea Tricolor (1)
Timişoara
10
 Chinezul (6), Ripensia (4),
Arad
6
 UTA (6)
Ploieşti
5
 Petrolul (3), Prahova (1), United (1)
Craiova
4
 Universitatea (4)
Piteşti
2
 Argeş (2)
Cluj-Napoca
2
 CFR (2)
Galaţi
1
 Oţelul (1)
Braşov
1
 Colţea (1)
Oradea
1
 CAO (1)
Reşiţa
1
 CSM (1)
Urziceni
1
 Unirea (1)

All-time table (1932 - 2011)

The ranking is computed awarding two points for a win, one for a draw. It includes matches played in the 2010/11 season. The teams in bold plays in the 2011/12 season of Liga I. The teams in italics no longer exist.[7]

# Team S M W D L GF GA Pts
1 Steaua Bucureşti 63 1910 1054 436 420 3637 1955 2544
2 Dinamo Bucureşti 62 1880 1041 410 429 3683 2029 2492
3 Rapid Bucureşti 63 1798 815 411 572 2789 2163 2041
4 Universitatea Craiova 46 1492 660 323 508 2216 1728 1643
5 Argeş Piteşti 44 1404 571 276 557 1845 1797 1418
6 Politehnica Timişoara 49 1336 508 321 507 1782 1839 1337
7 Universitatea Cluj 52 1474 511 300 663 1926 2304 1320
8 FC Braşov 42 1293 488 278 527 1611 1674 1254
9 FCM Bacău 42 1319 489 262 568 1538 1809 1240
10 Farul Constanţa 42 1299 473 260 566 1577 1839 1206
11 Petrolul Ploieşti 41 1223 466 267 490 1550 1546 1199
12 Sportul Studenţesc Bucureşti 35 1120 429 244 449 1532 1519 1102
13 UTA Arad 38 1071 419 244 408 1599 1522 1082
14 Jiul Petroşani 41 1197 402 250 545 1403 1845 1054
15 Naţional Bucureşti 32 945 380 189 376 1355 1320 949
16 Oţelul Galaţi 23 758 316 147 295 919 936 781
17 Politehnica Iaşi 28 881 297 187 397 1028 1264 781
18 Gloria Bistriţa 21 690 266 124 300 883 934 656
19 ASA Târgu Mureş 21 690 251 109 330 817 1025 611
20 CFR Cluj 16 508 202 139 167 628 631 543
21 Corvinul Hunedoara 17 562 210 98 254 831 881 518
22 Bihor Oradea 18 572 181 118 273 683 893 480
23 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ 14 460 166 98 196 560 657 430
24 CSM Reşiţa 16 482 154 103 225 667 891 411
25 CA Oradea 17 378 145v 80 153 630 635 370
26 Olt Scorniceşti 11 357 137 64 156 424 498 338
27 Unirea Tricolor Bucureşti

(Dinamo Braşov, Dinamo Cluj)

 16 347 128 78 141 625 669 334
28 Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea 10 340 121 64 155 368 533 306
29 CFR Timişoara 11 273 104 70 99 406 392 278
30 Inter Sibiu 8 272 110 47 115 358 276 267
31 Juventus Bucureşti 12 268 102 61 105 501 479 265
32 Chindia Târgovişte 9 298 95 64 139 312 469 254
33 Venus Bucureşti 9 180 108 35 37 499 248 251
34 Ripensia Timişoara 9 184 110 28 46 512 277 248
35 FC Vaslui 6 200 84 58 58 247 208 226
36 Astra Ploieşti 7 226 77 62 87 264 260 216
37 CS Târgu Mureş 10 241 85 46 110 360 418 216
38 FC Baia Mare 7 230 83 35 112 267 370 201
39 Unirea Urziceni 5 170 74 47 49 199 162 195
40 Vagonul Arad 9 184 76 31 77 318 323 183
41 Olimpia Satu Mare 7 222 69 40 113 223 363 178
42 Victoria Bucureşti 5 153 70 33 50 242 203 173
43 Gloria Buzău 7 238 64 45 129 236 403 173
44 Pandurii Târgu Jiu 6 200 57 52 91 166 234 166
45 Gaz Metan Mediaş 6 188 49 53 86 205 309 151
46 Gloria Arad 8 156 59 31 66 296 332 149
47 Victoria Cluj 8 154 61 23 70 266 294 145
48 Extensiv Craiova 5 170 54 36 80 171 213 144
49 Dacia Unirea Brăila 6 178 54 30 94 193 328 138
50 Flacăra Moreni 4 136 53 23 60 180 198 129
51 Dunărea Galaţi 5 170 44 32 94 174 310 120
52 Chinezul Timişoara 6 120 46 21 53 281 288 113
53 Crişana Oradea 6 110 40 20 50 199 232 100
54 Foresta Fălticeni 3 98 24 27 47 102 145 75
55 Minerul Lupeni 4 101 30 15 56 106 204 75
56 FC Ploieşti 5 102 28 16 58 131 255 72
57 Unirea Alba Iulia 3 94 24 21 49 93 171 69
58 Phoenix Baia Mare 3 62 26 11 25 96 106 63
59 Ciocanul Bucureşti 2 56 24 10 22 100 87 58
60 Rocar Bucureşti 2 64 25 6 33 93 107 56
61 FC Oneşti 2 68 21 6 41 94 160 48
62 CA Câmpulung Moldovenesc 2 33 15 10 8 50 31 40
63 Siderurgistul Galaţi 2 52 13 10 29 62 104 36
64 FCM Târgu Mureş 1 34 12 9 13 34 41 33
65 Carmen Bucureşti 1 26 14 5 7 90 44 33
66 Metalul Câmpia Turzii 2 48 7 19 22 46 86 33
67 Gloria CFR Galaţi 2 46 13 7 26 54 100 33
68 CAM Timişoara 2 34 12 7 15 54 76 31
69 Ferar Cluj 1 26 13 4 9 44 29 30
70 Internaţional Curtea de Argeş 1 34 10 6 18 32 49 26
71 Dermata Cluj 1 30 7 11 12 41 50 25
72 CSM Suceava 1 34 10 5 19 36 69 25
73 FC Craiova 2 50 10 5 35 61 171 25
74 Mica Brad 1 24 12 0 12 51 43 24
75 CS Mioveni 1 34 7 10 17 26 43 24
76 Şoimii Sibiu 3 48 5 12 31 42 131 22
77 Victoria Brăneşti 1 34 5 10 19 35 61 20
78 CS Otopeni 1 34 5 7 22 32 54 17
79 Viitorul Bucureşti 1 14 6 3 5 33 26 15
80 Vulturii Lugoj 1 18 6 2 10 24 41 14
81 Metalochimic Bucureşti 1 26 5 4 17 50 80 14
82 UM Timişoara 1 30 3 6 21 24 71 12
83 Aripile CFR Braşov 1 18 4 3 11 26 45 11
84 Prahova Ploieşti 2 32 10 1 21 42 99 21
85 Avântul Reghin 1 24 3 3 18 19 57 9
86 Dragoş Vodă Cernăuţi 1 18 4 0 14 26 57 8
87 Braşovia Braşov 2 26 1 3 22 28 85 5
88 Mureşul Târgu Mureş 1 14 1 2 11 15 53 4
89 Concordia Chiajna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
90 Voinţa Sibiu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Records

The ranking include matches played and goals scored in the 2010/11 season.[8]

Top Ten Players With Most Appearances[9]
Player Period Club[10] Games
1 Costică Ştefănescu 1969–88 Steaua, Craiova, Braşov 490
2 Florea Ispir 1970–87 Târgu Mureş 485
3 László Bölöni 1970–87 Târgu Mureş, Steaua 484
4 Costel Câmpeanu 1987–05 Bacău, Dinamo, Bistriţa, Naţional, Ceahlăul 470
5 Paul Cazan 1972–87 Sportul 465
6 Cornel Dinu 1966–83 Dinamo 454
7 Petre Marin 1993–00 Sportul, Naţional, Rapid, Steaua, Urziceni, Chiajna 453
8 Ionel Dănciulescu 1993–00 Electroputere, Dinamo, Steaua 451
9 Constantin Stancu 1976–90 Argeş 447
10 Ion Dumitru 1967–88 Rapid, Steaua, Timişoara, Craiova 442
Top Ten Highest Goalscorers[11]
Player Period Club[12] Goals
1 Dudu Georgescu 1970–86 Progresul, Reşiţa, Dinamo, Bacău, Buzău, Moreni 252 (Ø 0,68)
2 Rodion Cămătaru 1974–89 Craiova, Dinamo 198 (Ø 0,52)
3 Ionel Dănciulescu 1993–00 Electroputere, Dinamo, Steaua 194 (Ø 0,43)
4 Marin Radu 1974–89 Argeş, Olt Scorniceşti, 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 Naţional, Sportul 167 (Ø 0,41)
8 Victor Piţurcă 1975–89 Olt Scorniceşti, 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, Braşov, Naţional, Rapid 157 (Ø 0,58)

The ranking include matches played and goals scored in the 2010/11 season.

Top Ten Foreign Players With Most Appearances
Player Period Club Games
1 Nana Falemi 1997–09 Petrolul, Steaua, Vaslui, Mediaş 169
2 Artavazd Karamyan 2004–10 Rapid, Timişoara, Steaua, Urziceni 152
3 Antonio Semedo 2006–10 CFR, Steaua, Urziceni 132
4 Ricardo Cadu 2006–00 CFR 129
5 Mariko Daouda 2002–08 Craiova, Dinamo, Argeş, Mioveni 125
6 Adnan Gušo 2002–07 Craiova, Argeş, Dinamo, Pandurii 123
7 Jonathan McKain 2003–07 Naţional, Timişoara 113
8 Ersin Mehmedović 2005–11 Timişoara, Naţional, Urziceni, Dinamo 108
9= Milorad Bukvić 2000–08 Oţelul, Argeş, Vaslui 107
9= Emmanuel Culio 2007–10 CFR 107
Top Ten Highest Foreign Players Goalscorers[13]
Player Period Club[14] Goals
1 Sulejman Demollari 1991–94 Dinamo 36 (Ø 0,36)
2 Wesley 2009–00 Vaslui 32 (Ø 0,40)
3 Jérémie N'Jock 2002–09 UTA, Craiova 28 (Ø 0,38)
4 Pantelis Kapetanos 2008–00 Steaua, CFR 27 (Ø 0,40)
5 Eric 2008–11 Mediaş 26 (Ø 0,30)
6= Marko Ljubinković 2006–10 Vaslui 24 (Ø 0,25)
6= Gueye Mansour 2004–11 Timişoara, Buzău 24 (Ø 0,25)
6= Mike Temwanjera 2007–00 Vaslui 24 (Ø 0,24)
9 Spadacio 2008-11 Rapid 21 (Ø 0,22)
10 Lukáš Magera 2008–11 Timişoara 20 (Ø 0,23)

UEFA Ranking

For updated information on UEFA coefficients as they change throughout the 2011–12 season, see UEFA coefficient#League coefficient.

The national league rankings for the 2012–13 season of UEFA competitions is based upon results in UEFA competitions from the 2006–07 through 2010–11 seasons. The previous rank, which was used to calculate team allocations for 2011–12 competitions, is given in parentheses.

Best results by Romanian teams in the international competitions

From the quarter-finals upwards.

Liga I transfers

See also

References

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  2. ^ Cotidianul, Divizia A a fost mitraliată (The "A Division" was gunned down), accessed on February 3, 2007
  3. ^ "Un milion de dolari pentru fotbalul romanesc" (in Romanian). Ziua. December 20, 1998. http://www.ziua.net/display.php?id=18174&data=1998-12-20. Retrieved 2008-03-10. 
  4. ^ "Cum au ajuns Bergenbier, Timisoreana si Burger titulari pe terenul de fotbal" (in Romanian). Ziarul Financiar. June 4, 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20080511155908/http://www.zf.ro/articol_126922/cum_au_ajuns_bergenbier__timisoreana_si_burger_titulari_pe_terenul_de_fotbal_.html. Retrieved 2008-03-10. 
  5. ^ "Liga I de fotbal se va numi din vară Liga I Realitatea" (in Romanian). Realitatea TV. 2008-05-11. http://www.realitatea.net/liga-i-de-fotbal-se-va-numi-din-vara-liga-i-realitatea_279152.html. Retrieved 2008-05-12. 
  6. ^ "Antena 1 da 85 milioane de euro plus TVA si castiga licitatia pentru drepturile de televizare ale partidelor din Liga 1" (in Romanian). Hotnews.ro. 2008-03-31. http://economie.hotnews.ro/stiri-media_publicitate-2695614-update-antena-1-85-milioane-euro-plus-tva-castiga-licitatia-pentru-drepturile-televizare-ale-partidelor-din-liga-1-sorin-oancea-nu-cedam-nici-optiune.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-31. 
  7. ^ "Romania - clasamentul all-time 1932-2009" (in Romanian). June 10, 2009. http://lucrurineinteresante.blogspot.com/2008/05/romania-clasamentul-all-time-1932-2008.html. 
  8. ^ "Romania - Clasament all-time meciuri jucate in Liga I si goluri inscrise in Liga I" (in Romanian). August 17, 2008. http://www.romaniansoccer.ro/. 
  9. ^ Romania - All-Time Most Matches Played in Liga I
  10. ^ where player played the most games.
  11. ^ Romania - Top Scorers
  12. ^ where player shot the most goals
  13. ^ Romania - Top Scorers
  14. ^ where player shot the most goals

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