The 2016–17 Liga Națională was the 59th season of Romanian Handball League, the top-level men's professional handball league. The league comprises fourteen teams. Dinamo București were the defending champions.

Teams

Club Ground(s) Capacity Adrian Petrea Reșița Sala Polivalentă Reșița 1,669 CSM București Sala Sporturilor Rapid București 1,500 CSM Făgăraș Sala Colegiul National "Radu Negru" Făgăraș 150 CSM Focșani Sala Sporturilor "Vrancea" Focșani 1,400 CSU Suceava Sala Sporturilor Suceava 500 Dinamo București Sala Dinamo 2,538 Dobrogea Sud Constanța Sala Sporturilor Constanța 2,100 Dunărea Călărași Sala Polivalentă 1,500 HC Odorheiu Secuiesc Sala Sporturilor Odorheiu Secuiesc 1,250 HC Vaslui Sala Sporturilor Vaslui 1,500 CSM Satu-Mare Sala Sporturilor Satu-Mare 3,000 Politehnica Timișoara Sala Constantin Jude 1,540 Potaissa Turda Sala de sport "Gheorghe Bariţiu" Turda 600 Steaua București Sala Sporturilor "Concordia" 600

League table

Standings

Play-Off Knockout phase

League table – positions 1–4

TeamQualification or relegation 1 Dinamo București (C, Q) 2017–18 EHF Champions League 2 CSM București (Q) 2017–18 EHF Cup 3 Potaissa Turda (Q) 2017–18 EHF Challenge Cup 4 Dobrogea Constanța (Q) 2017–18 EHF Cup

League table – positions 5–8

Team 5 HC Odorheiu Secuiesc 6 Politehnica Timișoara 7 Dunărea Călărași 8 HC Vaslui

Play-Out

Season statistics

Number of teams by counties Pos.County (județ) No. of teams Team(s) 1 Bucharest (capital) 3 CSM București, Dinamo and Steaua 2 Brașov 1 CSM Făgăraș Caraș-Severin 1 Adrian Petrea Reșița Călărași 1 Dunărea Călăraşi Cluj 1 Potaissa Turda Constanța 1 HC Dobrogea Sud Harghita 1 HC Odorheiu Secuiesc Satu Mare 1 CSM Satu Mare Suceava 1 CSU Suceava Timiș 1 SCM Politehnica Timişoara Vaslui 1 HC Vaslui Vrancea 1 CSM Focșani

Top goalscorers As of 30 November 2016:

RankPlayerTeamGoals1 Gabriel Bujor HC Vaslui942 Andrei Mihalcea HC Odorhei782 Dalibor Čutura HC Dobrogea Sud Constanța782 Filip Marjanović Poli Timișoara785 Guillaume Saurina CSM București746 Vitaly Komogorov HC Odorhei717 Ionuț Georgescu CSA Steaua708 Irakli Chikovani AHC Dunărea Călărași69

References

External links Romanian Handball Federaration