The 2005–06 Divizia B was the 66th season of the second tier of the

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. The format has been maintained to three series, each of them consisting of 16 teams. At the end of the season, the winners of the series promoted to

Divizia A Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

and the last six places from all the series relegated to

Divizia C The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III, is the third level of the Romanian football league system. It was founded in 1936 and was called Divizia C until 2006. An exception was the seasons 1992–93 to 1996–97, in which the league was call ...

. A promotion play-off was played between the runners-up of the Divizia B series to decide the fourth promoted team. A special ranking was made between the 10th place teams of every series and the team with the worst ranking in this standing was relegated, as well. These changes in promotion and relegation rules were made because starting with the next season,

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Team changes

To Divizia B

Promoted from

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* Portul Constanța *

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* CFR Timișoara * Minerul Lupeni * Forex Brașov * Gloria Bistrița II * FCM Reșița** Relegated from

* Apulum Alba Iulia * FC Brașov * FC U Craiova

From Divizia B

Relegated to

* Tricotaje Ineu** * Internațional Pitești** *

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* Building Vânju Mare * Oașul Negrești * Unirea Focșani * Oltul Slatina * ACU Arad * Politehnica Timișoara * Rulmentul Alexandria * Corvinul Hunedoara Promoted to

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* Jiul Petroșani

Note (**)

Tricotaje Ineu sold its

Divizia B The Liga 2, most commonly 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 football season. It is currently sponsored by Casa Pariu ...

place to FCM Reșița. Internațional Pitești sold its

place to Astra Ploiești, club which split from Petrolul Ploiești, after only one season since their merge. CS Deva sold its

place to Corvinul 2005 Hunedoara, an unofficial successor of Corvinul Hunedoara, club which was dissolved at the end of the previous season.

Renamed teams

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and renamed as Altay Medgidia. ''FC Oradea'' was renamed as Bihor Oradea. ''CSM Reșița'' split from the merge with FC U Craiova, which second team was in the last season of the third tier and was renamed as FCM Reșița.

League tables

Seria I

Seria II

Seria III

Promotion play-off

In the following season, the

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was expanded from 16 teams to 18 teams, therefore the

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decided that a promotion playoff group would be played at the end of the season, between the second placed teams from each series of the Liga II, in order to establish the fourth promoted team (in exchange to the two teams relegated from the Liga I). The winner of this group,

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, promoted to the Liga I, along with the three winners of the series.

Possible relegation

At the end of the season, a special table was made between 10th places from the 3 series. The last team in this table was also relegated in the

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. In this table, 10th place teams are included without the points obtained against teams that relegated in their series.

Top scorers

;18 goals * Tiberiu Șerban ( Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț) ;14 goals * Dorel Zaharia (

) ;8 goals * Dumitru Gheorghe (

) * Lucian Itu ( Minerul Lupeni) * János Székely ( Universitatea Cluj) ;7 goals * Claudiu Boaru (

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) ;5 goals * Claudiu Ionescu (

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) * Radu Neguț (

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) ;4 goals * Mircea Bornescu ( FC U Craiova) * Laurențiu Buș ( Universitatea Cluj) * Daniel Stan ( Bihor Oradea)

References

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