The 2017–18 Liga Națională season is the 68th season of the
Liga Națională, the highest professional
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
league in
Romania
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.
Sepsi SIC Sfântu Gheorghe is the defending champion.
Competition format
The
Romanian Basketball Federation
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The Romanian Basketball Federation opera ...
agreed a change in the competition format for the 2017–18 season:
* 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
CSM Târgoviște and
Politehnica Iași withdrew from the competition and enrolled in the
Liga I
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.
SCM Timișoara and
CSU Alba Iulia were promoted from the previous season of the Liga I.
CSU Alba Iulia revine în Liga Naţională de baschet feminin! Formaţia din Cetatea Marii Uniri profită de faptul că Agronomia şi Rapid Bucureşti nu s-au înscris în prima ligă!
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Regular season
Play-offs
The higher seeded teams played games 1, 2 and 5 at home.
References
External links
Official site of the Romanian Basketball FederationHalfcourt.info
(Romanian and English)
Numaibaschet.ro
(Romanian)
Baschetromania.ro
(Romanian)
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...