The 2017–18 Liga Națională season is the 68th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. Sepsi SIC Sfântu Gheorghe is the defending champion.
Competition format The Romanian Basketball Federation agreed a change in the competition format for the 2017–18 season:
10 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 CSM Târgoviște and Politehnica Iași withdrew from the competition and enrolled in the Liga I.CSM Târgoviste s-a retras din Liga Națională de Baschet feminin. totalbaschet.ro
SCM Timișoara and CSU Alba Iulia were promoted from the previous season of the Liga I.SCM Timișoara a promovat în Liga Națională după un succes categoric cu Agronomia București. În elită a acces și Rapid București . tmsport.roCSU Alba Iulia revine în Liga Naţională de baschet feminin! Formaţia din Cetatea Marii Uniri profită de faptul că Agronomia şi Rapid Bucureşti nu s-au înscris în prima ligă!. ziarulunirea.ro
Team City Arena Capacity BC Sirius Târgu Mureș Sala Sporturilor CSBT Alexandria Dimitrie Ghica CSM Satu Mare Ecaterina Both Arena CSU Alba Iulia Sala Sporturilor ICIM Arad Victoria Sports Hall Olimpia CSU Brașov D.P. Colibași Phoenix Galați Dunărea SCM Timișoara Constantin Jude Sepsi SIC Sfântu Gheorghe Arena Sepsi Universitatea Cluj Napoca Polyvalent Hall / Horia Demian 7,308 / 2,525
Regular season
Play-offs The higher seeded teams played games 1, 2 and 5 at home.
References
External links Official site of the Romanian Basketball Federation Halfcourt.info (Romanian and English) Numaibaschet.ro (Romanian) Baschetromania.ro (Romanian)