The 2018–19 Liga Națională season is the 69th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. Sepsi SIC is the defending champion.
Competition format The Romanian Basketball Federation agreed a change in the competition format for the 2018–19 season:Decizii ale Consiliului Director din 23.05.2018 . frbaschet.ro Formatul nou al LNBF a fost aprobat. totalbaschet.ro
13 teams (divided into 2 value groups: A and B) played the regular season, consisting in a double-legged round robin format. Group A consist of the top 6 ranked teams from the 2017–18 Liga Națională. Group B consist of the 9th place from the 2017–18 Liga Națională and top 6 ranked teams from the 2017–18 Liga I. At the end of the regular season, teams are split into four groups (Red, Yellow, Blue and Green). Red Group consist of the Group A teams and the winner of the Group B. Yellow Group consist of the other teams from Group B, ranked 2–7. All teams from the Red Group (from 1st to 7th place) and the winner of the Yellow Group will join the play-offs. In this knockout stage, quarterfinals and semifinals will be played with a best-of-five-games format. To decide the teams ranked between 5th and 8th place will be used the best-of-three-games format. The rest of the teams from the Yellow, Blue and Green Groups (16 teams) will form 2 groups of 8 teams and will play to decide the final rankings. Liga I was dissolved, so no team will relegate.
Team changes
Promoted from Liga I CSM Târgoviște Phoenix Constanța U CSM Oradea Rapid București Agronomia București KSE Târgu Secuiesc
Relegated to Liga I —
Excluded teams SCM Timișoara withdrew due to financial problems.Inca o echipa de prima liga din Timisoara arunca prosopul. SCM – baschet feminin – este istorie. S-a desfiintat. Cine urmeaza?. opiniatimisoarei.ro
CSU Alba Iulia withdrew due to organizational problems.CSU Alba Iulia nu va juca în următoarea ediție a LNBF. totalbaschet.ro
Renamed teams BC Sirius was moved to the sports club of Municipality of Târgu Mureș and was renamed as CSM Târgu Mureș.Fosta BC Sirius trece și ea la CSM. zi-de-zi.ro
CSBT Alexandria was moved to the sports club of Municipality of Alexandria and was renamed as CSM Alexandria.S-a stabilit sistemul de desfășurare al Ligii Naționale de Baschet Feminin, ediția 2018–2019 . totalbaschet.ro
Teams Group A
Team City Arena Capacity CSM Satu Mare Ecaterina Both Arena400 CSM Târgoviște Sala Sporturilor2,000 ICIM Arad Victoria Sports Hall1,500 Olimpia CSU Brașov D.P. Colibași1,700 Sepsi SIC Sfântu Gheorghe Arena Sepsi3,000 Universitatea Cluj Napoca Polyvalent Hall / Horia Demian 7,308 / 2,525
Group B
Team City Arena Capacity CSM Alexandria Dimitrie Ghica900 Agronomia București Arena de Baschet350 CSM Târgu Mureș Sala Sporturilor2,000 KSE Târgu Secuiesc Sala Sporturilor200 Phoenix Constanța Sala Sporturilor1,500 Rapid București Rapid1,500 U CSM Oradea Arena Antonio Alexe2,000
Regular season Group A
Results
Group B
Results
Second stage Red Group
Results
Yellow Group
Results
Play-offs All series were played in a best-of-five games format, excluding the third place match.
Bracket
5th to 8th All series were played in a best-of-three games format.
9th to 13th
Final rankings TeamQualification or relegation 1 Sepsi SIC 2 Satu Mare 3 ICIM Arad 4 Olimpia Brașov 5 Târgoviște 6 Universitatea Cluj-Napoca 7 Phoenix Constanța 8 Oradea 9 Târgu Mureș10 Rapid București11 Agronomia București12 KSE Târgu Secuiesc13 Alexandria
References
External links Official site of the Romanian Basketball Federation Halfcourt.info (Romanian and English) Numaibaschet.ro (Romanian) Baschetromania.ro (Romanian)