The 2017–18 Liga Națională season was the 68th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. U-BT Cluj-Napoca were the defending champion.
Competition format The competition format will be the same as in the previous season.
12 teams played the regular season, consisting in a double-legged round robin format. At the end of the regular season, teams are split into two groups, one of them composed by the first six teams and the other one by the rest. In this second stage all points of the regular season are counted and the teams will face each other from its group twice. All teams from the group from 1st to 6th and the two first qualified teams from the bottom group will join the playoffs. In this knockout stage, quarterfinals and semifinals will be played with a best-of-three-games format and the final with a best-of-five one.
Teams Timba Timișoara and Politehnica Iași promoted from the last Liga I. There were not any relegations as there were only 11 teams in the previous season and Olimpic Baia Mare withdrew from the competition.Timba Timișoara și Politehnica Iași au promovat în Liga Națională de baschet masculin. europafm.ro
Team City Arena Capacity Mureș Târgu Mureș Sala Sporturilor2,000 Timișoara Timișoara Constantin Jude2,200 Timba Timișoara Constantin Jude2,200 FC Arges Pitești Trivale2,000 Oradea Oradea Arena Antonio Alexe2,000 Sibiu Sibiu Transilvania3,000 Dinamo București București Dinamo 2,538 Phoenix Galați Galați Dunărea 1,500 Politehnica Iași Iași Polyvalent Hall 1,500 Craiova Craiova Polyvalent Hall4,215 Steaua EximbankBucurești Mihai Viteazu 2,000 Polyvalent Hall3,500U-BT Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca Polyvalent Hall 7,308 Horia Demian 2,525
Regular season
Second stage Group 1–6
Group 7–12
Play-offs All series were played in a best-of-five games format.
References
External links Official site of the Romanian Basketball Federation Halfcourt.info (Romanian and English) Numaibaschet.ro (Romanian) Baschetromania.ro (Romanian)