| Competition: | Liga II |
| Season: | 2023–24 |
| Promoted: | Unirea Slobozia Gloria Buzău |
| Relegated: | CSM Alexandria Progresul Spartac București Tunari Unirea Dej |
| Continentalcup1: | Europa League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Corvinul Hunedoara |
| Prevseason: | 2022–23 |
| Nextseason: | 2024–25 |
| Updated: | 16 May 2023 |
The 2023–24 Liga II is the 84th 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 eighth 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 four teams will be relegated to Liga III. The season began on 5 August 2023 and is scheduled to end in June 2024.[2]
On 7 August 2023, FC Brașov was excluded from Liga II by the Romanian Football Federation.[12]
Progresul Spartac București was spared from relegation to 2023–24 Liga III season, due to the decision to relegate FC Brașov, decision that vacanted place in the 2022–23 Liga II season.
| Steaua București | Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț | Corvinul Hunedoara | Argeș Pitești | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steaua | Ceahlăul | Michael Klein | Nicolae Dobrin | |
| Capacity: 31,254 | Capacity: 18,000 | Capacity: 16,500 | Capacity: 15,000 | |
| Viitorul Târgu Jiu | CSM Reșița | Gloria Buzău | 1599 Șelimbăr | |
| Tudor Vladimirescu | Mircea Chivu | Municipal | Municipal | |
| Capacity: 12,518 | Capacity: 12,500 | Capacity: 12,321 | Capacity: 12,000 | |
| Slatina | Mioveni | |||
| 1 Mai | Orășenesc | |||
| Capacity: 11,390 | Capacity: 10,000 | |||
| Chindia Târgoviște | Unirea Dej | |||
| Eugen Popescu | Unirea | |||
| Capacity: 8,400 | Capacity: 6,000 | |||
| Unirea Slobozia | Concordia Chiajna | Csíkszereda | Alexandria | |
| 1 Mai | Concordia | Municipal | Municipal | |
| Capacity: 6,000 | Capacity: 5,123 | Capacity: 4,000 | Capacity: 2,000 | |
| Tunari | Progresul Spartac București | Dumbrăvița | Metaloglobus București | |
| Comunal | CNAF | Ștefan Dobay | Metaloglobus | |
| Capacity: 1,700 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slobozia |  Enache Costea | Assistant manager | 31 May 2023 | Pre-season | Adrian Mihalcea | 1 July 2023[13] |
| Mioveni | Vlad Țăranu | End of tenure as a caretaker | 31 May 2023[14] | Constantin Schumacher | 1 July 2023 | |
| Chindia | Anton Petrea | End of contract | 31 May 2023[15] | Dragoș Militaru | 1 July 2023 | |
| Concordia | Eugen Trică | 31 May 2023[16] | Erik Lincar | 1 July 2023[17] | ||
| Dej | Dragoș Militaru | 31 May 2023[18] | Dacian Nastai | 1 July 2023[19] | ||
| Argeș | Bogdan Vintilă | Mutual agreement | 8 June 2023[20] | Alexandru Pelici | 1 July 2023 | |
| Tunari | Gabriel Manu | 14 June 2023 | Florin Stângă | 1 July 2023[21] | ||
| Gloria | Adrian Mihalcea | End of contract | 30 June 2023[22] | Andrei Prepeliță | 1 July 2023 |
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.[23]
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. [23]
The 13th and 14th-placed teams of the Liga I faces the 3rd and 4th-placed team of the Liga II.
