2016–17 Liga Națională (women's basketball)

Liga Națională
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The 2016–17 Liga Națională season is the 67th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. Sepsi SIC Sfântu Gheorghe is the defending champion.

Competition format

The Romanian Basketball Federation agreed a change in the competition format for the 2016–17 season:^[1]

10 teams played the regular season, consisting in a double-legged round robin format.

At the end of the regular season, teams are splitted into two groups, one of them composed by the first six teams and the other one by the rest. In this second stage all points of the regular season are counted and the teams will face each other from its group twice.

All teams from the group from 1st to 6th and the two first qualified teams from the bottom group will join the playoffs. In this knockout stage, quarterfinals and semifinals will be played with a best-of-three-games format and the final with a best-of-five one.

BC Sirius and Politehnica Iași were promoted from the previous season of the Liga I.^[2]

Location of teams in 2016–17 Liga Națională

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
BC Sirius	Târgu Mureș	Sala Sporturilor	2,000
CSBT	Alexandria	Dimitrie Ghica	900
CSM Satu Mare	Satu Mare	Ecaterina Both Arena	400
CSM Târgoviște	Târgoviște	Polyvalent Hall	2,000
ICIM	Arad	Victoria Sports Hall	1,500
Olimpia CSU	Brașov	D.P. Colibași	1,700
Phoenix	Galați	Dunărea	1,500
Politehnica	Iași	Polyvalent Hall	1,500
Sepsi SIC	Sfântu Gheorghe	Szabó Kati	1,000
Universitatea	Cluj Napoca	Polyvalent Hall / Horia Demian	7,308 / 2,525

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sepsi SIC	18	17	1	1378	1080	+298	35	Qualification to group 1–6
2	CSM Târgoviște	18	14	4	1228	1049	+179	32
3	Universitatea Cluj	18	12	6	1353	1249	+104	30
4	Olimpia Brașov	18	12	6	1323	1211	+112	30
5	Phoenix Galați	18	9	9	1296	1322	−26	27
6	CSM Satu Mare	18	8	10	1249	1322	−73	26
7	CSBT Alexandria	18	7	11	1313	1344	−31	25	Qualification to group 7–10
8	ICIM Arad	18	7	11	1237	1255	−18	25
9	BC Sirius	18	3	15	1233	1488	−255	21
10	Politehnica Iași	18	1	17	1149	1439	−290	19

Updated to match(es) played on 13 February 2017. Source: Romanian Basketball Federation

Liga Națională
Seasons	2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17
2016–17 Clubs	Alexandria BC Sirius CSM Satu Mare CSM Târgoviște ICIM Arad Olimpia Brașov Phoenix Galați Politehnica Iași Sepsi SIC U Cluj
Associated competitions	Romanian Cup Romanian Supercup
Category

2016–17 in European women's basketball
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Domestic leagues	Hungary Romania Serbia Spain Turkey United Kingdom
Regional leagues	Adriatic League Baltic League Central Europe League Eastern European League
Domestic cups	Hungary Scotland Serbia Spain
Continental competitions	EuroLeague EuroCup SuperCup
International competitions	2016 Summer Olympics Qualifying EuroBasket Women 2017 Qualification Games of the Small States of Europe

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