The 2010–11 Liga II was the 71st season of the second tier of the

Romanian football league system The Romanian football league system, also known as the football pyramid, refers to the system in Romanian club football that consists of several football leagues bound together hierarchically by promotion and relegation. The first three leagues ar ...

. The season started on 28 August 2010 and ended on 4 June 2011. FRF approved the new system with two divisions of 16 teams each, compared to the divisions of 18 teams used last season, thus coming back to the system that was used in the 1953 season, between the 1968–69 season and the 1972–73 season, in the 2001–02 season and in the 2002–03 season. At the end of the season, the top two teams of the series promoted to

Liga I The Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1, is a Romanian professional league for men's association football clubs. Currently sponsored by betting company Superbet, it is officially known as the SuperLiga. It is the country's top ...

and the bottom three places from both series relegated to

Liga III 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 ...

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Team changes

To Liga II

Promoted from

* CF Brăila * Viitorul Constanța * Juventus București *

Alro Slatina ACS FC Olt Slatina (formerly known as CS Alro Slatina) was a Romanian professional football club from Slatina, Olt County, Romania, founded in 2006 and dissolved in 2015. History The club was founded in the summer of 2006 after the merger of A ...

* ACU Arad * Voința Sibiu Relegated from

* Internațional Curtea de Argeș** * Politehnica Iași** * Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț *

Unirea Alba Iulia Clubul Sportiv Municipal Unirea Alba Iulia, commonly known as Unirea Alba Iulia (), is a Romanian professional football club based in Alba Iulia, Alba County, founded in 1924 and currently playing in the Liga III. Among the greatest achievemen ...

From Liga II

Relegated to

Baia Mare Baia Mare ( , ; hu, Nagybánya; german: Frauenbach or Groß-Neustadt; la, Rivulus Dominarum) is a municipality along the Săsar River, in northwestern Romania; it is the capital of Maramureș County. The city lies in the region of Maramureș ...

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FCM Bacău Asociația Sportivă a Suporterilor FCM 1950 Bacău, commonly known as ASS FCM 1950 Bacău, FCM 1950 Bacău or simply as FCM Bacău, is a Romanian football club based in Bacău, Bacău County. Founded in 1950 as ''Dinamo Bacău'', the club from ...

Fortuna Covaci Fortuna Covaci was a Romanian professional football club from Covaci, Timiș County, Romania. The club last played in the Liga VI. History The club was named Fortuna after Fortuna Düsseldorf, the famous German club, because the owner is a hug ...

Jiul Petroșani Jiul may refer to these places in Romania: * the River Jiu ( + ) ** Jiul de Vest ** Jiul de Est * A village in Țuglui Țuglui is a commune in Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroad ...

Râmnicu Sărat Râmnicu Sărat (also spelled ''Rîmnicu Sărat'', , german: Rümnick or ''Rebnick''; tr, Remnik) is a city in Buzău County, Romania, in the historical region of Muntenia. It was first attested in a document of 1439, and raised to the rank of ' ...

Drobeta-Turnu Severin Drobeta-Turnu Severin (), colloquially Severin, is a city in Mehedinți County, Oltenia, Romania, on the northern bank of the Danube, close to the Iron Gates. "Drobeta" is the name of the ancient Dacian and Roman towns at the site, and the modern ...

Cetatea Suceava Cetatea Suceava was a professional football club from Romania, based in Suceava and founded in 2004 and dissolved in 2010. History The club was founded in the summer of 2004, to continue the city's football tradition after Foresta was moved back ...

* CFR Timișoara Promoted to

Victoria Brănești Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

Târgu Mureș Târgu Mureș (, ; hu, Marosvásárhely ) is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the List of cities and towns in Romania, 16th largest Romanian city, with 134,290 inhabitants as of the 2011 Romania ...

* Sportul Studențesc *

Universitatea Cluj Fotbal Club Universitatea Cluj (), commonly known as Universitatea Cluj or simply as U Cluj, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the Liga I, the first ...

Note (**)

''Internațional Curtea de Argeș'' withdrew from

at the end of the season and was relegated directly in the

Liga IV Liga IV is the fourth level of the Romanian football league system. Its name was changed from Divizia D into Liga IV before the start of play for the 2006–07 season. Current format Liga IV has 42 divisions. The divisions are regionalised a ...

Mureșul Deva Club Sportiv Municipal Deva, commonly known as CSM Deva, is a Romanian professional football club based in Deva, Hunedoara County. The club was originally established in 1921 under the name of ''Mureșul Deva'' and since 1964 was a constant pr ...

was spared from relegation. ''FC Politehnica Iași (1945)'' was dissolved after relegation from

. A successor team was founded by the merge of Navobi Iași and

Tricolorul Breaza Clubul Sportiv Orășenesc Tricolorul Breaza, commonly known as Tricolorul Breaza, is a Romanian football club based in Breaza, Prahova County and currently playing in the Liga IV – Prahova County, the fourth tier of the Romanian football le ...

and enrolled directly in the second league, due to the vacant place left by

. The new team was named ACSMU Politehnica Iași. ''Săgeata Stejaru'' left its second league licence to the newly formed

Săgeata Năvodari Săgeata is a commune in Buzău County, Muntenia, Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgari ...

. The new entity was founded by the former owners of Săgeata Stejaru, team which was subsequently enrolled in the lower leagues.

Renamed teams

''Dunărea Giurgiu'' signed a partnership with

side

Astra Ploiești Asociația Fotbal Club Astra Giurgiu (), commonly known as Astra Giurgiu or simply Astra, was a Romanian football club based in the city of Giurgiu, Giurgiu County. Founded in 1921 in Ploiești as ''Clubul Sportiv Astra-Română'', it spent the m ...

and started to be its second squad. ''Dunărea Giurgiu'' was renamed as Astra II Giurgiu. ''Dacia Mioveni'' ended its sponsorship contract with

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and was renamed as

CS Mioveni Clubul Sportiv Mioveni (; ''Mioveni Sports Club''), commonly known as CS Mioveni, or simply as Mioveni, is a Romanian professional football club based in Mioveni, Argeș County, currently playing in the Liga I. They were founded in 2000 as ''AS ...

Seria I

Stadia and locations

League table

Top scorers

Seria II

Stadia and locations

League table

Top scorers

Promotion play-off

At the end of the season, FRF decided that a promotion playoff round would be played between Săgeata Năvodari and Voința Sibiu, third and fourth respectively in each series, following the relegation of five teams from the

2010–11 Liga I The 2010–11 Liga I was the ninety-third season of the top-level football league of Romania. The season commenced on 23 July 2010 and ended on 21 May 2011. A winter break where no matches were played was held between 11 December 2010 and 18 Fe ...

. Winners of the promotion spot came Voința Sibiu after winning 2–0 on aggregate score.

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2010–11 in Romanian football

Team changes

To Liga II

From Liga II

Note (**)

Renamed teams

Seria I

Stadia and locations

League table

Top scorers

Seria II

Stadia and locations

League table

Top scorers

Promotion play-off

See also

References