The 2017–18 Divizia A1 season was the 68th season of the
Divizia A1, the highest professional
volleyball
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league in
Romania
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.
CSM Volei Alba Blaj
Clubul Sportiv Municipal Volei Alba Blaj, commonly known as CSM Volei Alba Blaj, is a professional women's volleyball club based in Blaj, Transylvania, Romania, that competed in the CEV Cup.
History
In 2018, Alba reached the CEV Champions L ...
was the defending champion. At the end of the season,
CSM București
Clubul Sportiv Municipal București, commonly known as CSM București is a Romanian professional multi-sports club based in Bucharest.
Departments
Active branches:
*Athletics
*Basketball
*Dancesport
*Handball
*Judo
*Scrabble
*Volleyball
Defunct ...
won their first title.
Competition format
The competition format will be the same as in the previous season.
* 12 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.
Teams
SCM U Craiova and
CSU Galați were relegated to Divizia A2.
Unic Piatra Neamț
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and
SCM Ptești withdrew from Divizia A1.
Agroland Timișoara and
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 ...
promoted from Divizia A2.
Regular season table
Play-off
Play-out
In the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Romanian Volleyball Federation from 26 February 2018 it was decided to cancel the play-out round, places 7–10. The final ranking for these places remains the same as that at the end of the regular season.
References
External links
Official site of the Romanian Volleyball FederationVoleiromania.ro
(Romanian)
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2017 in women's volleyball
2018 in women's volleyball