2016–17 Liga Națională (men's basketball)

The 2016–17 Liga Națională season was the 67th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. CSM U Oradea was the defending champion.

Liga Națională
Season2016–17
Number of teams11
Regular season
RelegatedOlimpic Baia Mare
Finals
ChampionsU-Banca Transilvania
5th title
  Runners-upSteaua CSM Eximbank
Third placeCSM U Oradea
Fourth placeCSU Sibiu
Finals MVPOusmane Barro (Cluj-Napoca)

Competition format

The Romanian Basketball Federation agreed a change in the competition format for the 2016–17 season:[1]

  • 11 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

Olimpic Baia Mare and Ploiești were promoted from the previous season of the Liga I, but only Olimpic joined the league.[2]

Location of teams in 2016–17 Liga Națională
Team City Arena Capacity
BC Mureș Târgu Mureș Sala Sporturilor
2,000
BC Timișoara Timișoara Constantin Jude
2,200
BCM U Pitești Pitești Trivale
2,000
CSM U Oradea Oradea Arena Antonio Alexe
2,000
CSU Sibiu Sibiu Transilvania
3,000
Dinamo București București Dinamo
2,538
Olimpic Baia Mare Baia Mare Lascăr Pană
2,048
Phoenix Galați Galați Dunărea
1,500
SCM U Craiova Craiova Polyvalent Hall
4,215
Steaua CSM Eximbank București Mihai Viteazu
2,000
Polyvalent Hall
3,500
U-BT Cluj Cluj Napoca Polyvalent Hall
7,308
Horia Demian
2,525

Regular season
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 U-Banca Transilvania 28 24 4 2407 2129 +278 52 Qualification to Play-offs
2 CSU Sibiu 28 18 10 2185 2094 +91 46
3 Steaua CSM Eximbank 28 17 11 2261 2142 +119 45
4 CSM U Oradea 28 15 13 2159 2105 +54 43
5 BC Timișoara 28 13 15 2216 2272 −56 41
6 BCM U Pitești 28 11 17 2157 2271 −114 39
7 BC Mureș 24 12 12 1934 1923 +11 36 Qualification to Play-offs
8 SCM U Craiova 24 8 16 1887 1946 −59 32
9 Phoenix Galați 24 8 16 1877 2023 −146 32
10 Dinamo București 24 6 18 1807 1985 −178 30
11 Olimpic Baia Mare (W) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Withdrew
Source: Romanian Basketball Federation
(W) ?

Play-offs
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
                      
 
 
 
 
1
U-Banca Transilvania		100104107
 
 
 
8
SCM U Craiova		747871
 
1
U-Banca Transilvania		86103597684
 
 
 
4
CSM U Oradea		7396698578
 
4
CSM U Oradea		748586
 
 
 
5
Timișoara		668184
 
1
U-Banca Transilvania		878475
 
 
 
3
Steaua CSM Eximbank		858061
 
2
CSU Sibiu		7654896282
 
 
 
7
BC Mureș		6675877068
 
2
CSU Sibiu		79887963
 
 
 
3
Steaua CSM Eximbank		84808181
 
3
Steaua CSM Eximbank		8410589
 
 
6
BCM U Pitești		619072
 
 
Third place
 
    
 
 
 
 
4
CSM U Oradea		637072
 
 
2
CSU Sibiu		696671
 

References
  1. "Decizii ale Biroului Federal din data de 15.06.2016" (in Romanian). Romanian Basketball Federation. 17 June 2016. Archived from the original on 25 February 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
  2. CSM Ploiesti and BCM Olimpic Baia Mare get promoted to Liga Nationala
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