The 2006–07 Liga I (known as the Liga I Bürger for sponsorship reasons) was the eighty-ninth season of Liga I, the top-level football league of Romania. Season began on 28 July 2006 and ended on 23 May 2007.

Teams Eighteen teams played in the 2006–07 season. Four teams were from Moldova, four clubs from Transylvania, one from Dobruja and nine from Wallachia four of them coming from the country's capital city Bucharest.

Pandurii Târgu Jiu had been relegated at the end of the previous season but they re-entered Liga I at the expense of Sportul Studenţesc which has been relegated to Liga II due to financial problems. They relegated together with FC Bacău, who finished 16th last season. The other four new teams which gained access to Liga I were Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ and Universitatea Craiova (both winning two of the three series of Liga II), plus Unirea Urziceni (winning the playoff for Liga I) and UTA Arad which bought the place from Liberty Salonta (winner of the third series of Liga II).

Venues

Politehnica Timișoara Steaua București FC U Craiova Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț Dan Păltinișanu Steaua Ion Oblemenco Ceahlăul Capacity: 32,972 Capacity: 28,365 Capacity: 25,252 Capacity: 17,500 Farul Constanța Jiul Petroșani Dinamo București Argeș Pitești Farul Jiul Dinamo Nicolae Dobrin Capacity: 15,520 Capacity: 15,500 Capacity: 15,032 Capacity: 15,000 Național București Oțelul Galați Cotroceni Oțelul Capacity: 14,542 Capacity: 13,500 Rapid București Politehnica Iași Giulești-Valentin Stănescu Emil Alexandrescu Capacity: 11,704 Capacity: 11,390 CFR Cluj FC Vaslui CFR Municipal Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 9,240 Pandurii Târgu Jiu Gloria Bistrița UTA Arad Unirea Urziceni Tudor Vladimirescu Gloria Francisc von Neuman Tineretului Capacity: 9,200 Capacity: 7,800 Capacity: 7,287 Capacity: 7,000

Personnel and kits Team Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt Sponsor Argeș Pitești Alin Chița Lotto Pic Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț Adrian Iencsi Lotto Altex CFR Cluj Vasile Jula Erreà DOMO Group, Polus Center Dinamo București Claudiu Niculescu Nike Omniasig Farul Constanța Mihai Guriță Lotto SNC FC U Craiova Dorel Stoica Erreà Golden Brau Gloria Bistrița Sandu Negrean Nike Darimex, Aldis Jiul Petroșani Ciprian Dinu Nike Atomis Național București Ovidiu Herea Nike Intercons Oțelul Galați Viorel Tănase Nike Mittal Steel Pandurii Târgu Jiu Florin Stângă Lotto USMO Politehnica Iași Bogdan Onuț Umbro Iulius Mall Politehnica Timișoara Dan Alexa Lotto Balkan Petroleum Rapid București Vasile Maftei Lotto Lukoil Steaua București Mirel Rădoi Nike RAFO Unirea Urziceni Bogdan Mara Umbro — UTA Arad Daniel Tudor Erreà Intesa Sanpaolo Vaslui Bogdan Buhuș Umbro —

League table

Positions by round

Results

Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Claudiu Niculescu Dinamo București 18 2 Ionel Ganea Rapid București / Dinamo București 16 3 Ionel Dănciulescu Dinamo București 15 4 Emil Jula Oțelul Galați 14 5 Valentin Badea Steaua București 13 6 Ianis Zicu Rapid București 12 7 Daniel Stan Oțelul Galați 11 Cristian Coroian CFR Cluj Dorel Zaharia Gloria Bistrița 10 Nicolae Dică Steaua București 10 Cyril Théréau Viorel Frunză CFR Cluj / Vaslui Romeo Surdu CFR Cluj

Champion squad

Dinamo BucureștiGoalkeepers: Uladzimir Hayew (11 / 0); Bogdan Lobonț (14 / 0); Florin Matache (7 / 0); Glen Moss (1 / 0); Deniss Romanovs (1 / 0). Defenders: George Blay (31 / 0); Silviu Bălace (9 / 0); Eugen Crăciun (1 / 0); George Galamaz (1 / 0); Lucian Goian (7 / 0); Sergiu Homei (1 / 0); Dorin Mihuț (5 / 0); Cosmin Moți (29 / 1); Nicolae Mușat (2 / 0); Cosmin Pașcovici (4 / 0); Cristian Pulhac (32 / 0); Ștefan Radu (32 / 1); Adrian Scarlatache (6 / 0); Māris Smirnovs (1 / 0). Midfielders: Adrian Cristea (28 / 3); Fabrice Fernandes (5 / 0); Leo Lerinc (1 / 0); Andrei Mărgăritescu (31 / 1); Cătălin Munteanu (32 / 4); Andrei Nițu (2 / 0); Cornel Predescu (8 / 0); Adrian Ropotan (21 / 0); Sreten Stanić (1 / 0); Dennis Șerban (7 / 2); Iulian Tameș (15 / 0); Vojislav Vranjković (9 / 0); Zé Kalanga (21 / 2). Forwards: Ionel Dănciulescu (31 / 15); Ionel Ganea (18 / 14); Liviu Ganea (9 / 2); Valentin Lemnaru (1 / 0); Jean-Philippe Mendy (9 / 0); Claudiu Niculescu (31 / 18). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

Manager: Mircea Rednic.

Attendances

# Club Average 1 Politehnica Timișoara 11,912 2 Steaua București 10,206 3 U Craiova 7,165 4 Politehnica Iași 7,147 5 Dinamo 1948 7,088 6 Vaslui 5,665 7 CFR Cluj 5,588 8 Oțelul Galați 5,588 9 UTA Arad 5,529 10 Pandurii Târgu Jiu 5,424 11 Unirea Urziceni 4,676 12 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 4,647 13 Rapid București 3,971 14 Argeș Pitești 3,553 15 Farul Constanța 3,026 16 Gloria Bistrița 2,562 17 Jiul Petroșani 2,106 18 Național București 1,662 Source:

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