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Liga Națională
Liga Națională
Season	2018–19
Teams	13
Finals
Champions	Sepsi SIC
Runners-up	Satu Mare
Third place	ICIM Arad
Fourth place	Olimpia Brașov
	← 2017–18 2019–20 →

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:^[1]^[2]

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

Relegated to Liga I

—

Excluded teams

SCM Timișoara withdrew due to financial problems.^[3]

CSU Alba Iulia withdrew due to organizational problems.^[4]

Renamed teams

BC Sirius was moved to the sports club of Municipality of Târgu Mureș and was renamed as CSM Târgu Mureș.^[5]

CSBT Alexandria was moved to the sports club of Municipality of Alexandria and was renamed as CSM Alexandria.^[6]

Teams

Group A

Location of teams in 2018–19 Liga Națională (Group A)

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
CSM	Satu Mare	Ecaterina Both Arena	400
CSM	Târgoviște	Sala Sporturilor	2,000
ICIM	Arad	Victoria Sports Hall	1,500
Olimpia CSU	Brașov	D.P. Colibași	1,700
Sepsi SIC	Sfântu Gheorghe	Arena Sepsi	3,000
Universitatea	Cluj Napoca	Polyvalent Hall / Horia Demian	7,308 / 2,525

Group B

Location of teams in 2018–19 Liga Națională (Group B)

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
CSM	Alexandria	Dimitrie Ghica	900
Agronomia	București	Arena de Baschet	350
CSM	Târgu Mureș	Sala Sporturilor	2,000
KSE	Târgu Secuiesc	Sala Sporturilor	200
Phoenix	Constanța	Sala Sporturilor	1,500
Rapid	București	Rapid	1,500
U CSM	Oradea	Arena Antonio Alexe	2,000

Regular season

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sepsi SIC	10	10	0	835	618	+217	18^[a]	Qualification to Red Group
2	Satu Mare	10	7	3	710	642	+68	17
3	Olimpia Brașov	10	5	5	752	818	−66	15
4	ICIM Arad	10	4	6	673	677	−4	14
5	Târgoviște	10	4	6	698	747	−49	14
6	Universitatea Cluj	10	0	10	604	770	−166	10

Source: Romanian Basketball Federation
Notes:

^ Sepsi SIC were deducted 2 points because it did not participate in enough 3x3 basketball tournaments.^[7]

Results

Home \ Away	ARD	OLI	STM	SIC	TGV	UCJ
ICIM Arad	—	85–73	52–66	58–68	78–65	66–49
Olimpia Brașov	87–76	—	80–74	71–84	72–91	84–70
Satu Mare	74–59	91–56	—	60–64	76–62	85–65
Sepsi SIC	68–58	96–57	93–54	—	101–69	77–56
Târgoviște	71–63	80–92	57–60	70–87	—	60–51
Universitatea Cluj	56–78	71–80	54–70	65–97	67–73	—

Updated to match(es) played on 19 December 2018. Source: Romanian Basketball Federation
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Phoenix Constanța	12	11	1	828	597	+231	22^[a]	Qualification to Red Group
2	Oradea	12	9	3	724	639	+85	20^[b]	Qualification to Yellow Group
3	Rapid București	12	7	5	785	738	+47	19
4	Târgu Mureș	12	7	5	743	767	−24	19
5	KSE Târgu Secuiesc	12	4	8	715	731	−16	16
6	Alexandria	12	2	10	615	772	−157	14
7	Agronomia București	12	2	10	688	854	−166	14

Source: Romanian Basketball Federation
Notes:

^ Phoenix Constanța was deducted 1 point because it did not participate in enough 3x3 basketball tournaments.^[7]
^ Oradea was deducted 1 point because it did not participate in enough 3x3 basketball tournaments.^[7]

Results

Home \ Away	AGR	ALX	KSE	ORA	PHX	RAP	TGM
Agronomia București	—	61–58	50–66	55–81	68–75	60–59	55–77
Alexandria	72–65	—	61–50	62–77	50–74	52–77	49–57
KSE Târgu Secuiesc	70–53	64–41	—	82–57	42–69	63–74	73–75
Oradea	73–43	61–40	57–46	—	43–77	70–73	58–53
Phoenix Constanța	73–55	66–53	71–53	0–20	—	73–57	73–61
Rapid București	73–59	61–43	59–49	63–65	52–84	—	68–74
Târgu Mureș	77–64	59–46	64–57	45–62	55–93	46–69	—

Updated to match(es) played on 19 December 2018. Source: Romanian Basketball Federation
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

Second stage

Red Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sepsi SIC	22	21	1	1860	1291	+569	41^[a]	Qualification to Play-offs
2	Satu Mare	22	16	6	1682	1385	+297	38
3	Olimpia Brașov	22	10	12	1570	1719	−149	32
4	ICIM Arad	22	9	13	1490	1509	−19	31
5	Târgoviște	22	9	13	1414	1572	−158	31
6	Phoenix Constanța	24	14	10	1546	1459	+87	26^[b]
7	Universitatea Cluj	22	4	18	1376	1772	−396	26

Source: Romanian Basketball Federation
Notes:

^ Sepsi SIC were deducted 2 points because it did not participate in enough 3x3 basketball tournaments.^[7]
^ Phoenix Constanța was deducted 1 point and also entered in the Red Group only with half of the points won in the Group B.^[8]

Results

Home \ Away	ARD	OLI	PHX	STM	SIC	TGV	UCJ
ICIM Arad	—	72–82	75–48	70–65	54–92	61–64	88–62
Olimpia Brașov	53–70	—	74–60	49–94	53–91	75–59	88–72
Phoenix Constanța	71–63	57–72	—	52–70	41–81	43–58	72–53
Satu Mare	78–62	90–79	98–70	—	76–51	82–41	105–41
Sepsi SIC	91–62	87–58	82–60	82–58	—	90–54	104–54
Târgoviște	52–70	69–61	50–63	78–74	49–78	—	87–71
Universitatea Cluj	74–70	80–74	86–81	68–82	54–96	57–55	—

Updated to match(es) played on 23 March 2019. Source: Romanian Basketball Federation
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

Yellow Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Târgu Mureș	22	14	8	1426	1341	+85	36^[a]	Qualification to Play-out
2	Oradea	22	11	11	1236	1325	−89	32^[b]	Qualification to Play-offs
3	Rapid București	22	14	8	1501	1371	+130	31^[c]	Qualification to Play-out
4	Alexandria	22	6	16	1194	1372	−178	28
5	Agronomia București	22	6	16	1307	1480	−173	28
6	KSE Târgu Secuiesc	22	10	12	1341	1347	−6	27^[d]

Source: Romanian Basketball Federation
Notes:

^ Târgu Mureș was ineligible to qualify for the play-offs being a team new founded.^[9]
^ Oradea was deducted 1 point because it did not participate in enough 3x3 basketball tournaments.^[7]
^ Rapid București were deducted 5 points due to youth squads irregulations.^[10]
^ KSE Târgu Secuiesc were deducted 5 points due to youth squads irregulations.^[10]

Results

Home \ Away	AGR	ALX	KSE	ORA	RAP	TGM
Agronomia București	—	50–47	83–64	76–82	60–69	59–64
Alexandria	60–54	—	65–63	70–43	69–77	53–42
KSE Târgu Secuiesc	59–43	69–53	—	60–44	48–82	75–61
Oradea	43–69	65–54	44–67	—	42–61	33–70
Rapid București	64–66	68–63	69–75	84–54	—	50–68
Târgu Mureș	74–59	69–45	72–46	75–62	88–92	—

Updated to match(es) played on 23 March 2019. Source: Romanian Basketball Federation
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

All series were played in a best-of-five games format, excluding the third place match.

Bracket

Quarter-finals					Semi-finals				Final



ICIM Arad		65	56	64

Târgoviște		61	37	51
					Satu Mare	77	75	86

					Olimpia Brașov	59	58	68
Satu Mare		72	72	74

Universitatea Cluj		58	54	53
									Sepsi SIC	66	57	47	56	59

									Satu Mare	54	49	52	59	56
Sepsi SIC		130	106	116

Oradea		36	29	28
					Sepsi SIC	91	85	83

					ICIM Arad	64	68	46	Third place
Olimpia Brașov	69	73	65	76

Phoenix Constanța	72	59	56	64
									Olimpia Brașov				75	69

									ICIM Arad				83	84

5th to 8th

All series were played in a best-of-three games format.

Semi-finals			Final



Phoenix Constanța	51	50

Universitatea Cluj	63	70
			Târgoviște	68	81

			Universitatea Cluj	50	68
Târgoviște	84	74

Oradea	27	30
			Third place



			Phoenix Constanța	60	71

			Oradea	50	46

9th to 13th

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
9	Târgu Mureș	4	3	1	284	222	+62	7
10	Rapid București	4	3	1	286	246	+40	7
11	Agronomia București	4	2	2	243	236	+7	6
12	KSE Târgu Secuiesc	4	1	3	225	288	−63	5
13	Alexandria	4	1	3	243	289	−46	5

Updated to match(es) played on 25 April 2019. Source: Romanian Basketball Federation

Final rankings

	Team	Qualification 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 Mureș
10	Rapid București
11	Agronomia București
12	KSE Târgu Secuiesc
13	Alexandria