top professional Romanian football division

Football league
The Liga 1, most frequently spelled as the Liga I ( romanian pronunciation : [ ˈliɡa ɨnˈtɨj ] ; First League ), is a romanian professional league for men ‘s association football clubs. presently sponsored by betting company Casa Pariurilor, it is formally known as the Casa Liga 1. [ 1 ] It is the country ‘s top football competition, being contested by 16 clubs which take region in a promotion and relegation organization with the Liga II. The teams play 30 matches each in the regular season, before entering the championship play-offs or the relegation play-outs according to their put in the regular table.

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The Liga I was established in 1909 and commenced play for the 1909–10 crusade, being presently on the twenty-ninth place in UEFA ‘s league coefficient ranking list. It is administered by the Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal, besides known by the acronym LPF. Before the 2006–07 temper, the contest was known as Divizia A, but the identify had to be changed following the discover that person else had registered that brand. [ 2 ] The best performer to date is FCSB with 26 titles, [ note 1 ] followed by longtime crosstown rival Dinamo București with 18 trophies. Furthermore, of the remaining 21 clubs which came victorious in the rival eight have won it on at least three occasions— Venus București, Chinezul Timișoara, Petrolul Ploiești, Ripensia Timișoara, UTA Arad, Rapid București, Universitatea Craiova, and CFR Cluj. The latter entirely became unusually successful in the twenty-first hundred and is the most dress club outside of Bucharest .

history [edit ]

early championships ( 1909–1921 ) [edit ]

The beginning official national football tournament was organized in 1909 by the recently founded romanian Football Federation, then called the Association of Athletic Societies in Romania ( romanian : Asociațiunea Societăților Atletice din România ). The final examination matches of the beginning romanian Football Championship were held between December 1909 and January 1910 in Bucharest. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The three initiate clubs were Olympia and Colentina from Bucharest and United from Ploiești. Each team played a repair against the other two clubs, totalizing a act of three matches disputed, with Olympia București being crowned as champions of the first romanian Football Championship. [ 3 ] In the adopt years, the tournament was structured into regional groups with the winners of each group participating in a playoff with the eventual winners being declared champions. From 1909 until 1921, the championship was organized as a cup with the winner being crowned as Champions of Romania, [ 3 ] except for between 1916 and 1919, when the rival was suspended due to World War I. [ 6 ] The champions of this period were Olympia and Colentina, each with two titles, and United, Prahova, Venus, Unirea Tricolor București and Româno-Americana, with one title each. [ 3 ]

Divizia A ( 1921–2006 ) [edit ]

The 1921–22 temper marked the first time when a league consist of seven teams was formed. The championship, which had been confined to several regional leagues, became a national competition in 1921 with the initiation of Divizia A and Divizia B. The inaugural address Divizia A temper was won by Chinezul Timișoara. [ 7 ] Before the 1931–32 season, the competition was dominated by Chinezul and Venus București, with Chinezul winning six championships and Venus two championships during the eleven seasons. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] The 1932–33 season saw the rebel of another successful team, Ripensia Timișoara, which alongside rivals Venus, won eight of the take after nine championships, before the contest was suspended in 1940 due to World War II. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] The post-war years were dominated by CCA București, UTA Arad and Petrolul Ploiești. The 1960s saw the gradual egress of Dinamo București, with the help from strikers Gheorghe Ene and Florea Dumitrache —both of whom became some of Divizia A ‘s top all-time scorers. The 1970s saw the get up of Dudu Georgescu, from Dinamo București, who was Divizia A ‘s lead scorekeeper for four seasons between 1974 and 1978. He scored an impressive 156 goals and won the European Golden Shoe award for the acme scorer in Europe doubly, in 1975 and 1977. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Dinamo București besides had two more european Golden Shoe winners in the 1986–87 season in the name of Rodion Cămătaru and in the 1988–89 season in the name of Dorin Mateuţ, with the latter being the last romanian achiever of the trophy. [ 8 ] From the 1959–60 season all the way to the 1999–2000 season all the league championships were won by only seven teams : Steaua ( 16 titles ), Dinamo ( 14 titles ), Universitatea Craiova ( 4 titles ), Rapid București, FC Argeș and UTA Arad ( 2 titles each ), and Petrolul Ploiești ( one title ). [ 3 ] Dinamo București was the beginning romanian team to qualify into the european Champions Cup in the 1956–57 temper of the contest and Universitatea Craiova was the last team from Romania to qualify in the 1991–92 season, before the competition changed its name to the UEFA Champions League. romanian teams qualified to 35 of the 37 seasons of the european Champions Cup, with Dinamo București having thirteen appearances, Steaua București having ten-spot appearances, Universitatea Craiova having four appearances, Petrolul having three appearances, UTA Arad and FC Argeş having two appearances and Rapid București having one appearance. The most crucial results for a romanian team in this rival were achieved by Steaua București which won the trophy in the 1985–86 season, and reached the semi-finals in the 1987–88 season and another final in the 1988–89 season. [ 4 ] other crucial achievements include Universitatea Craiova which reached the quarter-finals in the 1981–82 season and Dinamo București which reached the semi-finals in the 1983–84 season. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] however, after the change of the format in 1992–93 to the current Champions League format, romanian champions have achieved limited successes, with Steaua only reaching the group stage three times before the twenty-first century. The beginning of the 2000s were dominated by teams from the das kapital, with Steaua, Dinamo and Rapid winning all the league titles between 2000 and 2007. [ 3 ]

Liga I ( 2006–present ) [edit ]

At the beginning of the 2006–07 season the contest was forced to change its list from Divizia A to Liga I due to a brand dispute over the name. [ 2 ] The deepen was made on 15 May 2006, and the romanian Football Federation decided to besides rename the lower leagues ; frankincense Divizia B became Liga II, Divizia C became Liga III, and so on. [ 2 ] The 2006–07 season marked the 16th straight meter a team from Bucharest won the championship, with Dinamo winning the title. Both 2007–08 and 2008–09 saw raw title winners as CFR Cluj and Unirea Urziceni were crowned champions for the first time. [ 3 ] CFR Cluj won their moment championship in 2009–10, while the 2010–11 saw another new winner, Oțelul Galați. Oțelul is the first and lone clubhouse from the region of Moldavia to win a national style so far. CFR Cluj, the 2007–08 winner became the first base romanian team to qualify directly into the 2008–09 group stage of the UEFA Champions League, and the first team other than Steaua to qualify to this phase since the beginning of the new Champions League format in 1992–93. [ 12 ] The 2009–10 champions a well as 2010–11 ones were guaranteed a direct reservation spot into the group stage vitamin a well. [ 13 ] The best results in the group stage was obtained by CFR Cluj in the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League with ten-spot points and third place in a group with Manchester United, Braga, and Galatasaray. The 2010s besides brought new league winners in Liga I, with Astra Giurgiu and Viitorul Constanța clinching the titles in 2015–16 and 2016–17 respectively. [ 14 ] Since 2017 onwards, CFR Cluj won four back-to-back Liga I titles, amassing a sum number of seven home titles as of 2021 .

competition format [edit ]

Starting with 2020, the Liga I has been expanded to a 16-team format. After each team plays the others twice for 30 fixtures, they are ranked by entire points and then divided according to their stead to enter either the championship play-offs or the relegation play-outs. At this stage, the points are halved in two and criteria such as goal difference, goals scored etc. are erased completely. The six clubs which enter the championship play-offs gambling ten games, while the remaining ten in the delegating play-outs will only play each other once, resulting in nine fixtures. The championship play-offs winners are besides crowned winners of the temper ‘s Liga I. The 9th and 10th positions in the play-out are relegated directly to the Liga II, while the 7th- and 8th-placed teams will play a two-legged tie against the 3rd and 4th teams from the second league ‘s mesa. besides, the 1st and 2nd teams from the play-out phase will play a one-legged bet on between each other and the winner will face the end team that completed the play-off phase in a european blot. The winner of that one-legged equal will play next season in the UEFA Europa Conference League. [ 15 ]

Clubs [edit ]

Wins by clubhouse [edit ]

Bold indicates clubs presently playing in 2021–22 Liga I. Teams in italics no long exist. Teams in neither bold or italics are existing past winners of the backing that play in Romania ‘s lower leagues .

2020–21 season [edit ]

The following 16 clubs are competing in the Liga I during the 2020–21 temper .
On 19 December 1998, SABMiller bought the diagnose rights for four and a half seasons, becoming the first patronize in the history of the competition. SABMiller changed the name of the rival to “ Divizia A Ursus ”, to promote their Ursus beer. [ 17 ] Starting with the 2004–05 season, european Drinks & Foods, a romanian $ 1.3 billion USD tax income company, took over as main patronize and changed the league ‘s identify to “ Divizia A Bürger ”, to promote their Bürger beer. [ 18 ] On 11 May 2008, Realitatea Media bought the list rights and changed the diagnose of the rival to “ Liga I Realitatea ”, to promote their Realitatea television receiver station. [ 19 ] In belated 2008, European Drinks & Foods again bought the rights and the league was renamed as the “ Liga I Frutti fresh ”, after one of their soft drinks brand. [ 20 ] For the 2009–10 season, the on-line betting firm Gamebookers purchased the league naming rights and renamed the division “ Liga 1 Gamebookers.com ”. [ 21 ] In July 2010, Bergenbier, a StarBev Group company, bought the appoint rights for four seasons and changed the list of the competition to “ Liga I Bergenbier ”, to promote their Bergenbier beer. [ 22 ] From the 2015–16 season, the french telecommunication pot Orange became the main presenter of the Romanian first league, after purchasing the league naming rights, for two years, and renamed the league in Liga 1 Orange. [ 23 ] From the 2017–18 season, the international on-line gambling hustler Betano became the main patronize of the Romanian first base league, after purchasing the league naming rights, for two years, and renamed the league in ‘Liga 1 Betano ‘. For the 2019–20 season, the national on-line bet on hustler Casa Pariurilor became the main sponsor of the Romanian first league, after purchasing the league naming rights, and renamed the league in ‘Casa Liga 1 ‘ .

Media coverage [edit ]

In 2004, Telesport, a little television receiver network, bought the circulate rights for $ 28 million. The four seasons narrow ended in the summer of 2008. Telesport sold some of the circulate rights for matches to early romanian networks, including, TVR1, Antena 1, Național television receiver, and Kanal D.

On 31 March 2008, Antena 1 with RCS & RDS outbid Realitatea Media and Kanal D in the broadcast rights auction with a bid of €102 million for a three seasons contract. [ 24 ] In 2011, the circulate rights were bought by RCS & RDS for their channels Digi Sport 1, Digi Sport 2 and Digi Sport 3. This channels aired broadcasting of seven of the nine matches from each degree of the backing. The other two matches were broadcast by Antena 1 ( an Intact Media Group channel ) and Dolce Sport ( a duct owned by Telekom Romania ). In March 2014, LPF announced that the rights were sold for a five-year time period to a company from the European Union, without specifying the company ‘s diagnose. [ 25 ] A calendar month later, Look TV and Look Plus were revealed as the television receiver stations that would broadcast the games from Liga I and Cupa Ligii between 2014 and 2019. [ 26 ]

EA Sports [edit ]

On 27 August 2019, Liga I signed a condense with EA Sports for the rights of the league for FIFA 20. It is the inaugural time that the Liga I is featured in a sports video-game. [ 27 ]

Records [edit ]

Players [edit ]

 Player obtained Player obtained romanian citizenship and represented Romania internationally

 

Player obtained romanian citizenship, but did not represent Romania internationally

 

Player obtained romanian citizenship, but did not represent Romania internationally

Managers [edit ]

Referees [edit ]

International competitions [edit ]

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]

  1. a b cUEFA and LPF attribute the league titles won up to 2003 by the historic Steaua București to FCSB. The CSA Steaua București sports club, which refounded their football team in 2017, also asserts the ownership of the 21 trophies from that period and won them in a domestic court case—this would make the latter team the most successful one in Romania and leave FCSB with only five titles.