2006–07 Liga I

Liga I
Season 2006–07
Champions Dinamo Bucureşti
Relegated Argeş
Progresul
Jiul Petroşani
Champions League Dinamo Bucureşti
Steaua
UEFA Cup CFR Cluj
Rapid Bucureşti
Intertoto Cup Oţelul
Gloria Bistriţa
Matches played 306
Goals scored 706 (2.31 per match)
Average goals/game 2.31
Top goalscorer Niculescu (18)
Biggest home win Steaua 6 – 0 Progresul
(12 Nov 2006)
Biggest away win Oţelul 0 – 7 Rapid Bucureşti
(05 Nov 2006)
Highest scoring Ceahlăul 4 – 3 Oţelul
(04 Mar 2007)
Vaslui 2 – 5 UTA Arad
(05 Aug 2006)
Oţelul 5 – 2 Progresul
(09 Mar 2007)
Oţelul 0 – 7 Rapid
(05 Nov 2006)
Longest winning run Dinamo Bucureşti (13)
Longest unbeaten run Dinamo Bucureşti (17)
Longest losing run Argeş (11)

The 2006-07 season of the Romanian Liga I began on July 28, 2006 and ended on May 23, 2007.

Contents

Clubs

Eighteen teams played in the Liga I 2006-07. Four teams were from Moldova, four clubs from Transylvania, one from Dobrogea and nine from Wallachia four of them coming from the country's capital city Bucharest.

New Teams

Pandurii Târgu-Jiu had been relegated at the end of the previous season but they re-entered Liga I at the expense of Sportul Studenţesc which has been relegated to Liga II due to financial problems. The other four new teams which gained access to Liga I were Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ and Universitatea Craiova (both winning two of the three series of Liga II), plus Unirea Urziceni (wninning the play-off for Liga I) and UTA Arad which bought the place from CF Liberty Salonta (winner of the 3rd serie of Liga II)

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
Head-to-head
1 Dinamo București (C) 34 23 8 3 63 24 +39 77 2007–08 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
2 Steaua București 34 21 8 5 61 22 +39 71 2007–08 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
3 CFR Cluj 34 21 6 7 59 32 +27 69 UEFA Cup 2007-08 Second qualifying round
4 Rapid București 34 16 11 7 63 39 +24 59 2007–08 UEFA Cup First round
5 Oțelul Galați 34 17 5 12 60 56 +4 56 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup Second round
6 Gloria Bistrița 34 16 6 12 42 35 +7 54 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup First round
7 FCU Politehnica Timişoara 34 15 8 11 37 33 +4 53
8 Vaslui 34 13 11 10 41 44 −3 50
9 Universitatea Craiova 34 12 12 10 39 43 −4 48
10 Unirea Urziceni 34 13 8 13 30 29 +1 47
11 Pandurii Târgu Jiu 34 13 5 16 26 35 −9 44
12 UTA Arad 34 11 8 15 28 39 −11 41
13 Politehnica Iași 34 10 10 14 34 41 −7 40
14 Farul Constanţa 34 8 13 13 31 35 −4 37
15 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 34 8 7 19 27 53 −26 31
16 Naţional Bucureşti (R) 34 6 6 22 27 52 −25 24 Relegation to the Liga II ARG 0-3 PRO
PRO 0-2 ARG
17 Argeş Piteşti (R) 34 5 9 20 23 47 −24 24
18 Jiul Petroşani (R) 34 5 5 24 15 47 −32 20

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.

Liga I 2006–07 Winners
Dinamo Bucureşti
18th 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 4 11 14 16 18 17 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 17
CFR Cluj 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 5 10 13 15 10 9 11 10 10 11 12 11 11 12 14 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
Universitatea Craiova 10 14 10 10 12 14 15 15 16 14 14 14 12 10 12 8 11 11 11 11 11 10 14 13 14 14 13 12 12 12 11 10 10 9
Dinamo București 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Farul Constanţa 6 6 4 5 7 12 9 11 12 9 10 12 13 13 11 13 13 14 14 13 12 11 12 12 12 12 14 13 13 14 14 14 14 14
Gloria Bistrița 15 9 11 11 14 11 7 6 8 6 8 8 8 7 6 6 6 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 6
Jiul Petroşani 16 15 17 17 13 13 16 16 15 16 17 17 17 17 18 18 18 17 17 17 17 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 17 18 18
Oțelul Galați 17 17 18 13 9 7 5 4 4 3 3 3 3 5 7 7 7 7 8 7 8 8 8 6 8 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 5
Pandurii Târgu Jiu 7 12 9 12 15 15 13 14 13 13 11 10 10 8 9 9 10 10 12 12 10 13 10 11 11 11 10 9 9 9 10 11 12 11
Politehnica Iași 2 2 5 4 5 4 6 5 7 7 6 6 7 9 10 12 12 13 10 10 13 9 9 9 10 10 11 10 11 10 12 12 13 13
Progresul Bucureşti 14 16 12 14 17 18 14 13 14 15 15 15 16 16 17 17 17 18 18 18 18 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 18 17 16
Rapid București 8 8 7 7 8 6 8 7 5 8 5 5 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Steaua București 11 5 3 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2
Timișoara 12 7 6 9 6 8 4 8 6 5 7 7 6 6 5 5 5 6 5 6 6 6 6 8 7 8 6 6 6 5 5 5 6 7
UTA Arad 9 4 8 6 4 5 10 12 9 10 9 9 9 11 8 11 9 9 9 9 9 12 13 14 13 13 12 14 14 13 13 13 11 12
Unirea Urziceni 18 18 15 8 11 10 12 9 11 12 13 13 14 14 15 14 14 12 13 14 14 14 11 10 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 9 9 10
Vaslui 13 13 16 18 16 16 17 17 17 17 16 16 15 15 13 10 8 8 7 8 7 7 7 7 6 7 8 11 10 11 9 8 8 8

Source: [2] (Romanian)

Results

Home \ Away1 ARG CFR CEA UCR DIN FAR GBI JIU OŢE PAN PIA PRO RAP STE TIM UTA URZ VAS
Argeş Piteşti 0–0 1–0 0–0 2–3 0–1 2–0 0–1 3–1 0–0 0–2 0–3 1–2 0–1 0–2 0–1 1–1 1–1
CFR Cluj 2–0 1–1 5–1 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 3–2 1–2 2–1 5–0 4–0 2–2
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 1–1 1–3 0–2 2–2 0–0 1–0 1–0 4–3 1–0 0–4 1–1 0–3 0–0 1–2 2–1 2–1 3–2
Universitatea Craiova 3–1 0–1 1–0 0–4 1–0 1–2 2–0 0–2 2–2 3–3 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 2–1 0–0 0–0
Dinamo București 2–1 1–0 2–0 0–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 3–0 1–0 5–0 1–0 3–1 1–0 3–1 2–0 1–2 0–0
Farul Constanţa 1–1 0–2 0–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 3–1 2–0 3–0 1–1 1–2 1–1 1–3 0–0 0–1 1–1
Gloria Bistrița 3–1 3–2 2–1 4–1 0–1 3–2 0–0 1–2 2–0 1–0 2–0 3–3 2–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 3–0
Jiul Petroşani 0–1 0–2 0–0 1–2 0–1 1–2 0–1 1–2 0–2 3–1 2–0 1–0 0–2 0–1 2–0 0–1 1–3
Oțelul Galați 5–1 1–3 3–1 4–1 2–1 0–0 1–1 2–1 2–0 3–1 5–2 0–7 2–1 1–0 2–1 3–2 2–0
Pandurii Târgu Jiu 2–1 1–3 1–0 0–2 0–3 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–2
Politehnica Iași 1–0 0–1 1–0 1–1 1–1 0–2 0–1 4–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–3 2–0
Progresul Bucureşti 0–2 0–1 2–0 1–2 1–2 2–0 1–0 0–0 1–3 0–1 2–1 4–0 0–3 0–2 1–2 0–2 0–1
Rapid București 2–1 3–1 4–1 1–1 1–4 3–2 4–0 1–0 3–3 1–1 3–0 2–1 2–3 2–0 4–0 1–0 2–0
Steaua București 2–0 4–2 2–0 3–0 2–4 3–0 2–1 3–0 3–0 1–0 1–0 6–0 1–1 3–1 0–0 3–0 3–1
Timișoara 3–1 3–1 2–0 1–5 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 2–0 1–0 2–2
UTA Arad 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 0–1 3–0 1–1 3–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 0–3 2–1 1–0 0–1
Unirea Urziceni 0–0 0–0 2–0 1–2 1–1 0–1 0–1 3–0 1–0 1–0 0–2 2–0 1–1 1–2 2–0 1–0 1–0
Vaslui 1–0 0–0 3–2 3–3 1–2 1–3 3–2 2–0 3–1 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–5 0–0

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 goal scorers

Last updated on May 24, 2007

Goalscorers Goals Team
Claudiu Niculescu
18
Dinamo Bucureşti
Ionel Ganea
16
Rapid Bucureşti / Dinamo Bucureşti
Ionel Dănciulescu
15
Dinamo Bucureşti
Emil Jula
14
Oţelul Galaţi
Valentin Badea
13
Steaua Bucureşti
Daniel Stan
13
Oţelul Galaţi
Ianis Zicu
13
Rapid Bucureşti
Cristian Coroian
11
CFR Cluj
Dorel Zaharia
11
Gloria Bistriţa
Nicolae Dică
10
Steaua Bucureşti
Cyril Théréau
10
Steaua Bucureşti
Viorel Frunză
10
CFR Cluj / FC Vaslui
Romeo Surdu
10
CFR Cluj
Gigel Bucur
9
Poli Timişoara
Ionuţ Mazilu
9
Rapid Bucureşti
Ionuţ Bâlbă
8
Poli Iaşi
Bogdan Mara
8
Unirea Urziceni / UTA Arad
Gabriel Mureşan
8
Gloria Bistriţa
Ciprian Tănasă
8
FC Argeş

See also

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