2017–18 Liga Națională (men's basketball) explained

The 2017–18 Liga Națională season was the 68th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. U-BT Cluj-Napoca were the defending champion.

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.
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.

Timba Timișoara and Politehnica Iași promoted from the last Liga I. There were not any relegations as there were only 11 teams in the previous season and Olimpic Baia Mare withdrew from the competition.^[1]

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
Mureș	Târgu Mureș	Sala Sporturilor	2,000
Timișoara	Timișoara	Constantin Jude	2,200
Timba	Timișoara	Constantin Jude	2,200
FC Arges	Pitești	Trivale	2,000
Oradea	Oradea	Arena Antonio Alexe	2,000
Sibiu	Sibiu	Transilvania	3,000
Dinamo București	București	Dinamo	2,538
Phoenix Galați	Galați	Dunărea	1,500
Politehnica Iași	Iași	Polyvalent Hall	1,500
Craiova	Craiova	Polyvalent Hall	4,215
Steaua Eximbank	București		2,000
Steaua Eximbank	București	Polyvalent Hall	3,500
U-BT Cluj-Napoca	Cluj-Napoca		7,308
U-BT Cluj-Napoca	Cluj-Napoca	Horia Demian	2,525

All series were played in a best-of-five games format.