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 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 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. 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 ...

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Team changes

To Liga II

Promoted from

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* Juventus București * Alro Slatina * ACU Arad * Voința Sibiu Relegated from

* Internațional Curtea de Argeș** * Politehnica Iași** * Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț * Unirea Alba Iulia

From Liga II

Relegated to

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** *

FCM Bacău Asociația Sportivă a Suporterilor FCM 1950 Bacău (also known as ASS FCM 1950 Bacău, FCM 1950 Bacău or FCM Bacău) was a Romanian association football, football football team, club based in Bacău, Bacău County, Moldavia. Founded in 1950 a ...

* Fortuna Covaci *

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Cetatea Suceava Club Sportiv Municipal 1932 Cetatea Suceava, commonly known as CSM Cetatea Suceava or Cetatea Suceava, is a Romanian football (soccer), football club based in Suceava, Suceava County. The club was originally established in 1932, under the name o ...

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Promoted to

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* Sportul Studențesc *

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

Note (**)

''Internațional Curtea de Argeș'' withdrew from

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

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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 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. 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 Association football, football Club (organization), club last based in the city of Giurgiu, Giurgiu County. Founded in 1921 in Ploiești as ' ...

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 (), commonly known as CS Mioveni or simply Mioveni, was a Romanian professional football club based in Mioveni, Argeș County, that competed in the Liga II. The team was founded in 2000 as ''AS Mioveni'' and began playin ...

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.

References

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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