The 1950

Divizia B The Liga 2, most often spelled as Liga II, is the second level of the Romanian football league system. The league changed its name from Divizia B just before the start of the 2006–07. It is currently sponsored by Casa Pariurilor, a betting c ...

was the 11th season of the second tier of the

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. The format with two series has been maintained, but each of them having 12 teams instead of 14. At the end of the season the winners of the series promoted to Divizia A and the last two places from each one of the series relegated to District Championship. Also this was the first season played in the spring-autumn system, a system imposed by the new leadership of the country which were in close ties with the

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Team changes

To Divizia B

Promoted from

Divizia C The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III, is the third level of the Romanian football league system. Its name was changed from Divizia C to Liga III before the start of the 2006–07 season. It was the first in this format (six series of 18 t ...

* Armata Cluj * CFR Iași * Metalosport Oțelu Roșu *

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Relegated from Divizia A *

CFR Cluj Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj, commonly known as CFR Cluj ( or ), is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, which competes in the Liga I. It was founded in 1907 as ''Kolozsvári Vasutas Sport Club'', whe ...

* CSU Cluj * Metalochimic București * Gaz Metan Mediaș

From Divizia B

Relegated to

* Arsenal Sibiu *

Dermata Cluj Dermata Cluj was a football club from Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, dissolved in 1967. History The shoes factory from Cluj-Napoca called Echo Cluj created the team and was the main sponsor of the team until 1948. Notable players from that time was Da ...

* CFR Ploiești *

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* Grivița CFR București * Solvay Uioara * Dezrobirea Constanța *

CAM Timișoara Clubul Athletic Muncitoresc Timișoara or shorter as CAM Timișoara was a football club based in Timișoara, western Romania. It was founded in the summer of 1936 after the merger of ''Reuniunea de Gimnastică a Muncitorilor din Timișoara'' (Wo ...

* FC Călărași * Șurianul Sebeș Promoted to Divizia A * CFR Sibiu * Metalochimic Reșița

Renamed teams

Most of the teams have changed their names to have Soviet, communist, military or working class related inspiration. Among the popular names used were: ''Partizanul'' (The Partisan), Flamura Roșie (The Red Flag) or Metalul (The Metal), but also some inspired directly from the Moscow teams: Dinamo, Locomotiv or Spartac being the Romanian alternatives for Dynamo, Lokomotiv and Spartak. ''ARLUS Bacău'' was renamed as Flamura Roșie Bacău. ''Astra Română Moreni'' was renamed as Partizanul Moreni. ''CFR Arad'' was renamed as Locomotiva Arad. ''CFR Cluj'' was renamed as Locomotiva Cluj. ''CFR Galați'' was renamed as Locomotiva Galați. ''CFR Iași'' was renamed as Locomotiva Iași. ''CFR Oradea'' was renamed as Locomotiva Oradea. ''CFR Satu Mare'' was renamed as Locomotiva Satu Mare. ''Concordia Ploiești'' was renamed as Partizanul Ploiești. ''CSM Baia Mare'' was renamed as Metalul Baia Mare. ''CSU Cluj'' was renamed as Știința Cluj. ''Dinamo B București'' was moved to Orașul Stalin and renamed as Dinamo Orașul Stalin. ''Gaz Metan Mediaș'' was renamed as Partizanul Mediaș. ''IS Câmpia Turzii'' was renamed as Metalul Câmpia Turzii. ''Metalochimic București'' was renamed as Metalul București. ''Metalosport Oțelu Roșu'' was renamed as Metalul Oțelu Roșu. ''Mica Brad'' was renamed as Metalul Brad. ''Minerul Lupeni'' was renamed as Partizanul Lupeni. ''Politehnica Iași'' was renamed as Știința Iași. ''Textila Sfântu Gheorghe'' was renamed as Flamura Roșie Sfântu Gheorghe. ''Țesătoria Română Pitești'' was renamed as Flamura Roșie Pitești.

Other teams

Socec București and Banca de Stat București merged, Socec being absorbed by Banca de Stat, which also took its place in the second league and was renamed as Spartac București.

League tables

Serie I

Serie II

References

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