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

Prevseason:	2016–17
Nextseason:	2018–19
Liga Națională
T Bg:	636468
T Color:	white
Champions:	Sepsi SIC (3rd title)
Runners Up:	CSM Satu Mare
Third Place:	Olimpia Brașov
Fourth Place:	Universitatea Cluj
Relegated:	Phoenix Galați
Teams:	10
Games:	114

The 2017–18 Liga Națională season is the 68th 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 2017–18 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

CSM Târgoviște and Politehnica Iași withdrew from the competition and enrolled in the Liga I.^[2]

SCM Timișoara and CSU Alba Iulia were promoted from the previous season of the Liga I.^{[3] [4]}

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
BC Sirius	Târgu Mureș	Sala Sporturilor
CSBT	Alexandria	Dimitrie Ghica
CSM	Satu Mare	Ecaterina Both Arena
CSU	Alba Iulia	Sala Sporturilor
ICIM	Arad	Victoria Sports Hall
Olimpia CSU	Brașov	D.P. Colibași
Phoenix	Galați	Dunărea
SCM	Timișoara	Constantin Jude
Sepsi SIC	Sfântu Gheorghe	Arena Sepsi
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: Tragere la sorti Liga Nationala de Baschet Feminin editia 2017–2018. ro. Romanian Basketball Federation. 25 September 2017. 2017-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20170925133909/http://www.frbaschet.ro/stiri/2017-09-15/tragere-la-sorti-liga-nationala-de-baschet-feminin-editia-2017-2018. dead.
2. http://www.totalbaschet.ro/articol/ULTIM%C4%82-OR%C4%82-CSM-T%C3%A2rgoviste-s-a-retras-din-Liga-Na%C8%9Bional%C4%83-de-Baschet-feminin~53419 CSM Târgoviste s-a retras din Liga Națională de Baschet feminin
3. http://www.tmsport.ro/baschet/foto-scm-timisoara-a-promovat-in-liga-nationala-dupa-un-succes-categoric-cu-agronomia-bucuresti-in-elita-a-acces-si-rapid-bucuresti/ SCM Timișoara a promovat în Liga Națională după un succes categoric cu Agronomia București. În elită a acces și Rapid București
4. https://ziarulunirea.ro/csu-alba-iulia-revine-in-liga-nationala-de-baschet-feminin-formatia-din-cetatea-marii-uniri-profita-de-faptul-ca-agronomia-si-rapid-bucuresti-nu-s-au-inscris-in-prima-liga-426984/ CSU Alba Iulia revine în Liga Naţională de baschet feminin! Formaţia din Cetatea Marii Uniri profită de faptul că Agronomia şi Rapid Bucureşti nu s-au înscris în prima ligă!