The 2022–23 Liga II (referred to as the Liga II Casa Pariurilor for sponsorship reasons) is the 83rd season of the Liga II, the second tier of the Romanian football league system. A total of 20 teams contest the league.
It is the seventh Liga II season with a single series.[1] The first two teams will be promoted to Liga I at the end of the season and the third-placed and fourth-placed team will play a play-off match against the 13th-placed and 14th-placed team from Liga I. The last five teams will be relegated to Liga III. The season began on 6 August 2022 and is scheduled to end in June 2023.[2]
Academica Clinceni and Gaz Metan Mediaș relegated to Liga II at the end of the 2021–22 Liga I season. On 27 June 2022, Academica and Gaz Metan were relegated directly to Liga III, by the Romanian Football Federation, which denied a second tier licence for both clubs, due to important financial problems and unpaid debts to current and former players and managers.[3]
FC Buzău was renamed back as FC Gloria Buzău, due to brand rights.[4]
Due to Academica and Gaz Metan exclusion by the Romanian Football Federation, their places were occupied by Politehnica Timișoara and Unirea Constanța, best two ranked teams from the relegated five registered at the 2021–22 Liga II.[3]
Steaua București | Gloria Buzău | Oțelul Galați | Viitorul Târgu Jiu | |
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Steaua | Municipal | Oțelul | Tudor Vladimirescu | |
Capacity: 31,254 | Capacity: 18,000 | Capacity: 13,500 | Capacity: 12,518 | |
1599 Șelimbăr | Politehnica Iași | Slatina | FC Brașov | |
Municipal | Emil Alexandrescu | 1 Mai | Silviu Ploieșteanu | |
Capacity: 12,000 | Capacity: 11,390 | Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 8,800 | |
Dinamo București | Minaur Baia Mare | |||
Marin Anastasovici | Viorel Mateianu | |||
Capacity: 8,500 | Capacity: 8,000 | |||
Unirea Dej | Unirea Slobozia | |||
Unirea | 1 Mai | |||
Capacity: 6,000 | Capacity: 6,000 | |||
Concordia Chiajna | Ripensia Timișoara | Unirea Constanța | Csíkszereda | |
Concordia | Electrica | Clinceni | Municipal | |
Capacity: 5,123 | Capacity: 5,000 | Capacity: 4,500 | Capacity: 4,000 | |
Politehnica Timișoara | Progresul Spartac București | Dumbrăvița | Metaloglobus București | |
Știința | CNAF | Ștefan Dobay | Metaloglobus | |
Capacity: 2,600 | Capacity: 1,600 | Capacity: 1,000 | Capacity: 1,000 | |
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | |
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Dinamo | Dušan Uhrin Jr. | End of contract | 31 May 2022[5] | Pre-season | 21 July 2022[6] | ||
Poli Iași | 31 May 2022[7] | 7 June 2022[8] | |||||
Viitorul Tg. Jiu | End of tenure as a caretaker | 31 May 2022 | 5 July 2022[9] | ||||
Unirea Slobozia | Signed by Chindia | 31 May 2022[10] | 13 June 2022[11] | ||||
Poli Timișoara | Antonio Foale | End of tenure as a caretaker | 31 May 2022 | 21 June 2022[12] | |||
Brașov | Călin Moldovan | End of contract | 31 May 2022[13] | 21 June 2022[14] | |||
Metaloglobus | Nicolae Grigore | 31 May 2022[15] | Eugen Trică | 1 July 2022 | |||
Slatina | Ovidiu Burcă | 30 June 2022[16] | Daniel Oprescu | 1 July 2022[17] | |||
Unirea Constanța | Leonard Strizu | 30 June 2022 | Dacian Nastai | 1 July 2022[18] | |||
Metaloglobus | Eugen Trică | Released | 12 September 2022[19] | 20th | Florin Drăghici (caretaker) | 13 September 2022[20] | |
Metaloglobus | Florin Drăghici (caretaker) | End of tenure as a caretaker | 20 September 2022 | 20th | Eusebiu Tudor | 20 September 2022 | |
Concordia Chiajna | Ianis Zicu | Mutual agreement | 20 September 2022[21] | 14th | Eugen Trică | 22 September 2022[22] | |
Poli Timișoara | Bogdan Andone | Released | 23 September 2022[23] | 18th | Octavian Benga | 27 September 2022[24] | |
Gloria Buzău | Cristian Pustai | 4 October 2022[25] | 8th | Adrian Mihalcea | 5 October 2022[26] | ||
Poli Iași | Claudiu Niculescu | Mutual agreement | 10 October 2022[27] | 5th | Leontin Grozavu | 14 October 2022[28] | |
Minaur Baia Mare | Ciprian Danciu | Released | 17 October 2022[29] | 16th | Mihai Iosif | 19 October 2022[30] | |
1599 Șelimbăr | Eugen Beza | Mutual agreement | 4 November 2022[31] | 10th | Claudiu Niculescu | 7 November 2022[32] | |
Csíkszereda | Francisc Dican | Released | 30 November 2022[33] | 6th | Barna Bajkó (caretaker) | 4 December 2022[34] |
A promotion play-off tournament between the best 6 teams (after 19 rounds) will be played to decide the two teams that will be promoted to Liga I, meanwhile the third-placed and fourth-placed teams would play another play-off match against the 13th-placed and 14th-placed teams from Liga I. The teams will start the promotion play-offs with all the points accumulated in the regular season.[35]
A relegation play-out tournament between the last 14 ranked teams at the end of the regular season was played to decide the five teams that will be relegated to Liga III. Two play-out groups were made: the first group consisted of teams ranked 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 18 and 19, and the second group consisted of teams ranked 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17 and 20, at the end of the regular season. The teams started the relegation play-out with all the points accumulated in the regular season. Two teams from each group were relegated to Liga III, while the 5th placed teams in both groups will meet in a tie to avoid relegation.[35]
The 13th and 14th-placed teams of the Liga I faces the 3rd and 4th-placed team of the Liga II.
The 5th-placed teams of the Liga II relegation play-out groups face each other in order to determine the last relegated team to Liga III.
Regular season and promotion play-off overall statistics.
Updated to matches played on 21 May 2023.[36]
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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1 | Bogdan Chipirliu | Steaua București | 17 |
2 | Milcho Angelov | FC Brașov | 16 |
3 | Lóránt Kovács | Csíkszereda | 10 |
Claudiu Dragu | Viitorul Târgu Jiu | ||
Dragoș Huiban | Metaloglobus București | ||
6 | Angelo Cocian | Unirea Dej | 9 |
Alexandru Pop | Unirea Dej | ||
Shayon Harrison | Poli Iași | ||
Lamine Ghezali | Dinamo Bucuresti | ||
10 | Cătălin Hlistei | Poli Iași | 8 |
Alexandru Boiciuc | Gloria Buzau | ||
Richárd Jelena | Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc | ||
Adrian Chica-Rosa | FC Brașov | ||
Tsvetelin Chunchukov | Steaua București |