The 2015–16 Liga I (also known as Liga 1 Orange for sponsorship reasons) was the 98th season of the

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 ...

, the top professional league for Romanian

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

clubs. The season began 10 July 2015 and ended on 29 May 2016, being the first to take place since the play-off/play-out format has been introduced.

FC Steaua București FC Steaua București was a Romanian professional football club of which two current entities are claiming the records. The original ''FC Steaua București'' team was part of the namesake CSA Steaua București sports club and belonged to the Minist ...

were the defending champions for a third consecutive time, but they did not retain the title. Astra Giurgiu became winners for the first time in their history.

Teams

The last six teams from the 2014–15 season were relegated to their respective 2015–16

Liga II The Liga 2, most often 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 Liga II, 2006–07. It is currently Sponsor (commercial), sp ...

division.

Gaz Metan Mediaș GAZ or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (russian: ГАЗ or Го́рьковский автомоби́льный заво́д, , Gorky Automobile Plant) is a Russian automotive manufacturer located in Nizhny Novgorod, formerly known as Gorky (Го� ...

Brașov Brașov (, , ; german: Kronstadt; hu, Brassó; la, Corona; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Kruhnen'') is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the administrative centre of Brașov County. According to the latest Romanian census ( 2011), Brașov has a po ...

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

Rapid București Rapids are sections of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence. Rapids are hydrological features between a ''run'' (a smoothly flowing part of a stream) and a ''cascad ...

, Oțelul Galați and Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț. The first team from each of the two divisions of

2014–15 Liga II The 2014–15 Liga II was the 75th season of the Liga II, the second tier of the Romanian football league system. The 23 teams were divided into two series (with 12 and 11 teams, respectively). The regular season was played in a round-robin tourna ...

advanced to Liga I. Voluntari promoted as the winners of Seria I. It is their first season in Liga I.

ACS Poli Timișoara Asociația Club Sportiv Poli Timișoara (), commonly known as ACS Poli Timișoara, Poli Timișoara or simply ACS Poli, was a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Timișoara, Timiș County. The team was founded in 2012, the y ...

promoted as the winners of Seria II. It is their second season in Liga I.

Venues

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Managerial changes

Regular season

In the regular season the 14 teams will meet twice, a total of 26 matches per team, with the top 6 advancing to the Championship round and the bottom 8 qualifying for Relegation round.

Table

Results

Positions by round

Championship play-offs

The top six teams from Regular season met twice (10 matches per team) for places in

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and

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as well as deciding the league champion. Teams started the Championship round with their points from the Regular season halved, rounded upwards, and no other records carried over from the Regular season.

Table

Results

Positions by round

Relegation play-outs

The bottom eight teams from regular season will meet twice (14 matches per team) to contest against relegation. Teams start the Relegation round with their points from the Regular season halved, rounded upwards, and no other records carried over from the Regular season. The winner of the Relegation round finishes 7th in the overall season standings, the second placed team – 8th, and so on, with the last placed team in the Relegation round being 14th.

Table

Results

Positions by round

Promotion/relegation play-offs

The 12th-placed team of the

faces the winner of the match between second place from

, Seria I and second place from Seria II.

First round

Second round

Notes: * Voluntari qualified for

2016–17 Liga I The 2016–17 Liga I (also known as Liga 1 Betano for sponsorship reasons) was the 99th season of the Liga I, the top professional league for Romanian association football clubs. The season began on 22 July 2016 and concluded on 5 June 2017, bein ...

and UTA Arad qualified for 2016–17 Liga II.

Season statistics

Top scorers

:''Updated to matches played on 29 May 2016''

Hat-tricks

Clean sheets

:''Updated to matches played on 29 May 2016'' --> ^* Only goalkeepers who played all 90 minutes of a match are taken into consideration.

Discipline

:''As of 29 May 2016''

Player

*Most yellow cards: 13 **

Adrian Ropotan Adrian Ropotan (born 8 May 1986) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Adrian Ropotan was born in Galați on 8 May 1986, playing his first Divizia A match for Dinamo București on 18 March 2006 in a 2–0 victory ag ...

( Pandurii Târgu Jiu) ** Gabriel Mureșan (

Târgu Mureș Târgu Mureș (, ; hu, Marosvásárhely ) is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the 16th largest Romanian city, with 134,290 inhabitants as of the 2011 census. It lies on the Mureș River, th ...

) *Most red cards: 3 **

Steliano Filip Steliano Filip (born 15 May 1994) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays for Nemzeti Bajnokság I club Mezőkövesd. He started his career as a winger, but was moved to a defensive position and became a left back. Club career Filip sta ...

( Dinamo București)

Club

*Most yellow cards: 119 ** Petrolul Ploiești *Most red cards: 14 **

Champion squad

Monthly awards

Notes

References

External links

Official website
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