2014–15 Liga II

Liga II

Season	2014–15
Relegated	FC Olt Slatina Unirea Slobozia Săgeata Năvodari Fortuna Poiana Câmpina
Matches played	264 (regular season)
Top goalscorer	13 Marius Matei (Seria I) 9 Vasile Buhăescu (Seria II)
Biggest home win	Gloria Buzău 7-1 Berceni Academica 6-0 Suceava
Biggest away win	Şoimii 0-4 Unirea
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The 2014–15 Liga II is the 75th season of the Liga II, the second tier of the Romanian football league system. The season will begin in September.^[1]

The 23 teams were divided in two series (with 12 and 11 teams, respectively). The regular season will be played in a round-robin tournament. The first six teams from each series will play a play-off for promotion to Liga I. The teams placed 7th to 12th will play in a Relegation play-out. The first team in each series will promote at the end of the season to the Liga I, and the teams placed below the 10th place will relegate to the Liga III.^[2]

Teams

At the end of 2013-14 season, CSMS Iași, Rapid from Seria I and ASA Târgu Mureș, CS Universitatea Craiova promoted to Liga I.
Six teams were relegated to Liga III : Dunărea Galați, Gloria Buzău, Farul Constanța (Seria I), U Craiova, UTA Arad and Minerul Motru .

The winners of the six 2013–14 Liga III series were promoted to Liga II: FCM Dorohoi, FC Voluntari, CS Balotești, FC Caransebeş, Şoimii Pâncota and Fortuna Poiana Câmpina.

After the end of the last season, U Craiova, Dunărea Galați, FC Vaslui and ASC Corona 2010 Brașov were dissolved. Gloria Bistrița and UTA Arad withdrew from Liga II and enrolled to Liga III.

Renamed teams

FC Clinceni was moved to Piteşti and renamed Academica Argeș.

Seria I

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Bacău	Bacău	Letea	17,500
ACS Berceni	Berceni	Berceni	2,600
CF Brăila	Brăila	Municipal	18,000
FC Voluntari	Voluntari	Niţă Pintea	1,000
Farul Constanța	Constanța	Farul	15,500
Gloria Buzău	Buzău	Municipal	18,000
Săgeata Năvodari	Năvodari	Flacăra	5,000
Rapid CFR Suceava	Suceava	Areni	12,000
FCM Dorohoi	Dorohoi	Municipal	2,000
Unirea Slobozia	Slobozia	1 Mai	5,000
CS Balotești	Baloteşti	Central	3,780
Academica Argeș	Pitești	Nicolae Dobrin	17,500

Seria II

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Poli Timișoara	Timișoara	Dan Păltinișanu	32,972
FC Bihor Oradea	Oradea	Iuliu Bodola	18,000
Metalul Reșița	Reșița	Mircea Chivu	12,000
FC Caransebeș	Caransebeş	Parcul Teiuș	1,000
CS Mioveni	Mioveni	Dacia	10,000
Olimpia Satu Mare	Satu Mare	Olimpia	18,000
FC Olt Slatina	Slatina	1 Mai	13,500
Râmnicu Vâlcea	Râmnicu Vâlcea	Municipal	12,000
Unirea Tărlungeni	Tărlungeni	Unirea	1,000
Fortuna Poiana Câmpina	Câmpina	Poiana	4,000
Șoimii Pâncota	Pâncota	Șoimii	2,000

League tables

Seria I

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	FC Voluntari	22	17	2	3	58	18	+40	53	Promotion Play-off
2	Academica Argeș Pitești	22	14	4	4	44	16	+28	46
3	Rapid Suceava	22	11	7	4	39	22	+17	40
4	Gloria Buzău	22	11	4	7	38	30	+8	37
5	Bacău	22	8	6	8	34	28	+6	30
6	CF Brăila	22	7	8	7	29	28	+1	29
7	CS Balotești	22	7	5	10	30	34	−4	26	Relegation play-out
8	FCM Dorohoi	22	6	7	9	30	40	−10	25
9	Farul Constanța	22	5	7	10	28	40	−12	22
10	ACS Berceni	22	4	7	11	28	47	−19	19
11	Unirea Slobozia	21	3	4	14	14	42	−28	0132
12	Săgeata Năvodari	21	6	3	12	14	41	−27	0-371/3

Updated to games played on November 29, 2014.
Source: FRF (Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th head-to-head away goals scored; 6th goal difference; 7th number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
¹ Săgeata Năvodari were deducted fifty-eight points for unpaid debts.^[3]
2 Unirea Slobozia withdrew from the championship due to financial problems and they will lose all the matches from the second part of the season with 3-0.^[4]
3 Săgeata Năvodari was excluded from the championship and they will lose all the matches from the second part of the championship with 3-0.^[5]

Seria II

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Poli Timișoara	20	12	6	2	30	8	+22	42	Promotion Play-off
2	Metalul Reșița	20	10	6	4	26	19	+7	36
3	FC Olt Slatina	20	9	7	4	28	19	+9	34
4	Unirea Tărlungeni	20	9	6	5	22	13	+9	33
5	CS Mioveni	20	9	5	6	17	12	+5	32
6	Olimpia Satu Mare	20	7	4	9	17	19	−2	25
7	CSM Râmnicu Vâlcea	20	5	9	6	18	17	+1	24	Relegation play-out
8	FC Caransebeș	20	5	6	9	19	27	−8	21
9	FC Bihor Oradea	20	3	8	9	13	20	−7	17
10	Șoimii Pâncota	20	3	6	11	18	28	−10	15
11	Fortuna Poiana Câmpina	20	5	3	12	16	42	−26	0141

Updated to games played on November 29, 2014.
Source: FRF (Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th head-to-head away goals scored; 6th goal difference; 7th number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
¹ Fortuna Poiana Câmpina were deducted four points for unpaid debts.^[6]
2 Fortuna Poiana Câmpina withdrew from the championship and they will lose all the matches from the second part of the season with 3-0.^[7]

Promotion play-offs

At the end of the regular season, the first six teams from each series will play a Promotion play-off and the winners will promote to the Liga I. The teams will start the play-off with the number of points gained in the regular season only against the other qualified teams.

Seria I

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Voluntari	26	20	3	3	69	23	+46	63
2	Academica Argeș	26	18	4	4	57	17	+40	58
3	Gloria Buzău	26	13	4	9	44	39	+5	43
4	Rapid CFR Suceava	26	11	8	7	42	34	+8	41
5	Bacău	26	9	6	11	37	34	+3	33
6	Brăila	26	7	10	9	32	34	−2	31

Updated to games played on May 8, 2014.
Source: FRF (Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th head-to-head away goals scored; 6th goal difference; 7th number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Seria II

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Poli Timișoara	23	14	7	2	35	9	+26	49
2	Metalul Reșița	23	11	8	4	30	21	+9	41
3	Mioveni	24	11	7	6	24	16	+8	40
4	Olt Slatina (R)	20	9	7	4	28	19	+9	0341
5	Unirea Tărlungeni	23	9	7	7	25	18	+7	34
6	Olimpia Satu Mare	23	7	4	12	19	28	−9	25

Updated to games played on May 31, 2014.
Source: FRF (Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th head-to-head away goals scored; 6th goal difference; 7th number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
¹ FC Olt Slatina withdrew from the championship.^[8]

Relegation play-outs

At the end of the regular season, after the play-out the teams that finish 11-12 from each series will relegate to the Liga III and the 10th place from Seria I will play a play-out match with the 10th place of Seria II, the winner will remain in Liga II while the team which will lose this match will relegate to Liga III.

Seria I

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Balotești	26	9	6	11	35	37	−2	33
2	Dorohoi	26	8	7	11	38	45	−7	31
3	Berceni	26	7	8	11	33	48	−15	29
4	Farul Constanța	26	5	7	14	31	52	−21	22
5	Unirea Slobozia (R)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	001	Relegation to Liga III
6	Săgeata Năvodari (R)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	001

Updated to games played on May 8, 2014.
Source: FRF (Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th head-to-head away goals scored; 6th goal difference; 7th number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

¹ Unirea Slobozia and Săgeata Năvodari were excluded from the relegation play-outs.^[9]

Seria II

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Râmnicu Vâlcea	24	7	10	7	22	21	+1	31
2	FC Caransebeş	24	6	7	11	23	30	−7	25
3	Șoimii Pâncota	24	4	9	11	20	29	−9	21
4	Bihor Oradea	24	4	9	11	16	26	−10	21
5	Fortuna Poiana Câmpina (R)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	001	Relegation to Liga III

Updated to games played on May 8, 2014.
Source: FRF (Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th head-to-head away goals scored; 6th goal difference; 7th number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

¹ Fortuna Poiana Câmpina was excluded from the relegation play-outs.^[10]

References

See also

• 2014–15 Liga I
• 2014–15 Liga III

2014–15 Liga II Seria I Academica Argeș Bacău Balotești Berceni Brăila Dorohoi Farul Constanța Gloria Buzău Rapid CFR Suceava Săgeata Năvodari Unirea Slobozia Voluntari Seria II Bihor Oradea Caransebeș Fortuna Câmpina Metalul Reșița Mioveni Olimpia Satu Mare Olt Slatina Poli Timișoara Râmnicu Vâlcea Șoimii Pâncota Unirea Tărlungeni

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