2016–17 Liga Națională (women's basketball) explained

Prevseason:	2015–16
Nextseason:	2017–18
Liga Națională
T Bg:	636468
T Color:	white
Champions:	Sepsi SIC (2nd title)
Runners Up:	Universitatea Cluj
Third Place:	Olimpia Brașov
Fourth Place:	CSM Târgoviște
Teams:	10

The 2016–17 Liga Națională season is the 67th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. Sepsi SIC Sfântu Gheorghe is the defending champion.

Competition format

The Romanian Basketball Federation agreed a change in the competition format for the 2016–17 season:^[1]

• 10 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.
• All teams from the group from 1st to 6th and the two first qualified teams from the bottom group will join the playoffs. In this knockout stage, quarterfinals and semifinals will be played with a best-of-three-games format and the final with a best-of-five one.

Teams

BC Sirius and Politehnica Iași were promoted from the previous season of the Liga I.^[2]

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
BC Sirius	Târgu Mureș	Sala Sporturilor	2,000
CSBT	Alexandria	Dimitrie Ghica	900
CSM	Satu Mare	Ecaterina Both Arena	400
CSM	Târgoviște	Polyvalent Hall	2,000
ICIM	Arad	Victoria Sports Hall	1,500
Olimpia CSU	Brașov	D.P. Colibași	1,700
Phoenix	Galați	Dunărea	1,500
Politehnica	Iași	Polyvalent Hall	1,500
Sepsi SIC	Sfântu Gheorghe	Szabó Kati	1,000
Universitatea	Cluj Napoca	Polyvalent Hall / Horia Demian	7,308 / 2,525

Play-offs

The higher seeded teams played games 1, 2 and 5 at home.

External links

• Official site of the Romanian Basketball Federation
• Halfcourt.info (Romanian and English)
• Numaibaschet.ro (Romanian)
• Baschetromania.ro (Romanian)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Decizii ale Biroului Federal din data de 15.06.2016. ro. Romanian Basketball Federation. 17 June 2016. 11 February 2017. 25 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170225061547/http://www.frbaschet.ro/stiri/2016-06-17/decizii-ale-biroului-federal-din-data-de-15-06-2016. dead.
2. http://www.frbaschet.ro/stiri/2016-04-17/acs-bc-sirius-tg-mures-si-cs-politehnica-national-iasi-au-obtinut-promovarea-in-lnbf---2016-2017 BC Sirius and Politehnica Iași get promoted to Liga Națională