The 2010–11
Liga I
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 ...
was the ninety-third season of the top-level
football
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league of
Romania
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. 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 February 2011. A total of eighteen teams participated in the league, where
CFR Cluj
Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj, commonly known as CFR Cluj ( or ) or simply CFR, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the Liga I. Founded as ''Kolozsvári Vasut ...
were the defending champions.
Teams
Politehnica Iași,
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț and
Unirea Alba Iulia were relegated to
Liga II
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after finishing the
2009–10 season in the bottom three places. Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț and Unirea Alba Iulia made their immediate return to the second level, while Politehnica Iași ended a six-year tenure in the highest football league of Romania. 15th-placed team
Pandurii Târgu Jiu, who originally were to be relegated as well, were allowed to remain in Liga I after
Internațional Curtea de Argeș withdrew from the league because of financial reasons.
Internațional thus returned to Liga II after having been promoted the previous season.
The four relegated teams were replaced by the champions and runners-up from both
2009–10 Liga II divisions.
Victoria Brănești and
Sportul Studențesc were promoted from Seria I while
Târgu Mureș
Târgu Mureș (, ; ; German language, German: ''Neumarkt am Mieresch'') 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 city in Romania, with 116,033 ...
and
Universitatea Cluj were promoted from Seria II, with Victoria Brănești and Universitatea Cluj being constrained to play their home games on grounds in other cities (than home based) as their did not meet
Liga I
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 ...
requirements.
Venues
Personnel and kits
Managerial changes
League table
Positions by round
Results
Top goalscorers
Source
Liga1.ro
1 Bogdan Stancu was transferred to Galatasaray during the winter transfer window.
Champion squad
References
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Liga I seasons
Romania
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