2016–17 Liga Națională (women's basketball)

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.

Liga Națională
Competition details
Teams 10
Final positions
Champions Sepsi SIC (2nd title)
Runners-up Universitatea Cluj
Third place Olimpia Brașov
Fourth place CSM Târgoviște
← 2015–16

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 split 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.

Teams

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 Ecaterina Both Arena
400
CSM 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

Regular season
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 Sepsi SIC 28 26 2 2154 1638 +516 54 Qualification to playoffs
2 Universitatea Cluj 28 20 8 2086 1887 +199 48
3 CSM Târgoviște 28 18 10 1793 1710 +83 46
4 Olimpia Brașov 28 15 13 1978 1967 +11 43
5 Phoenix Galați 28 13 15 1993 2089 −96 41
6 CSM Satu Mare 28 10 18 1900 2019 −119 38
7 ICIM Arad 24 13 11 1728 1608 +120 37 Qualification to playoffs
8 CSBT Alexandria 24 11 13 1784 1788 −4 35
9 BC Sirius 24 4 20 1632 1958 −326 28
10 Politehnica Iași 24 2 22 1517 1901 −384 26
Updated to match(es) played on 22 March 2017. Source: Romanian Basketball Federation

Play-offs

The higher seeded teams played games 1, 2 and 5 at home.

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
                   
 
 
 
 
2 Universitatea Cluj687300
 
 
 
7 ICIM Arad565900
 
2 Universitatea Cluj699000
 
 
 
3 CSM Târgoviște656200
 
3 CSM Târgoviște5157570
 
 
 
6 CSM Satu Mare6453430
 
1 Sepsi SIC64727285
 
 
 
2 Universitatea Cluj66666876
 
4 Olimpia Brașov749600
 
 
 
5 Phoenix Galați727500
 
1 Sepsi SIC898000
 
 
 
4 Olimpia Brașov447700
 
1 Sepsi SIC818500
 
 
8 CSBT Alexandria647500
 
 
Third place
 
     
 
 
 
 
3 CSM Târgoviște555900
 
 
4 Olimpia Brașov5982
 

References
  1. "Decizii ale Biroului Federal din data de 15.06.2016" (in Romanian). Romanian Basketball Federation. 17 June 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
  2. BC Sirius and Politehnica Iași get promoted to Liga Națională
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