2025–26 Liga I

2025–26 Liga I

The 2025–26 Liga I (also known as the 2025–26 SuperLiga Romania for sponsorship reasons) is the 108th season of Liga I, the top football league in Romania. It started on 11 July 2025 and is scheduled to end on 24 May 2026.

FCSB are the two-time defending champions having won their 28th top-flight title the previous season.

Overview

2025–26 Liga I

16 teams will compete in the league – the thirteen teams from the previous season, two teams promoted from Liga II directly and one team promoted via play-off.

Teams promoted from Liga II

Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc became the first team to be promoted after fellow promotion contenders Metaloglobus București earned a draw against Reșița on 25 April 2025. The result means Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc will compete in the top flight for the first time in their history.

Argeș Pitești became the second team to be promoted on 6 May 2025 after defeating Reșița in matchweek 8 of the promotion round. This result saw Argeș Pitești return to the top flight after a two-season absence.

Metaloglobus București became the third team to be promoted after defeating Politehnica Iași 2–1 on aggregate in the promotion/relegation play-off round on 1 June 2025. This result means that Metaloglobus București will compete in the top division for the first time in their history.

Teams relegated to Liga II

Gloria Buzău became the first team to be relegated after suffering a narrow defeat to Farul Constanța on 4 May 2025. This result ended Gloria Buzău's time in Liga I for one season.

Sepsi OSK became the second team to be relegated after suffering a defeat to Unirea Slobozia on 18 May 2025. This result ended Sepsi's time in Liga I for eight seasons.

Politehnica Iași became the third team to be relegated after defeat to Metaloglobus București 2–1 on aggregate in the promotion/relegation play-off round on 1 June 2025. This result ended Iasi's time in Liga I for two seasons.

Teams

Changes

The following teams changed division since the 2024–25 season.

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	2024–25 season
Argeș Pitești↑	Pitești	Orășenesc, at Mioveni	11,000	1st in Liga II
Botoșani	Botoșani	Botoșani Municipal	7,782	12th in Liga I
CFR Cluj	Cluj-Napoca	Dr. Constantin Rădulescu	22,198	2nd in Liga I
Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc↑	Miercurea Ciuc	Miercurea Ciuc Municipal	4,000	3rd in Liga II
Dinamo București	Bucharest	Arcul de Triumf	8,207	6th in Liga I
Farul Constanța	Ovidiu	Central Stadium of the Gheorghe Hagi	4,554	11th in Liga I
FCSB	Bucharest	Arena Națională	55,634	1st in Liga I
Hermannstadt	Sibiu	Sibiu Municipal	12,363	7th in Liga I
Metaloglobus București↑	Bucharest	Clinceni	4,500	Promotion play-off winner
Oțelul Galați	Galați	Oțelul	13,500	8th in Liga I
Petrolul Ploiești	Ploiești	Ilie Oană	15,073	9th in Liga I
Rapid București	Bucharest	Superbet Arena-Giulești	14,047	5th in Liga I
Unirea Slobozia	Slobozia	May 1 Stadium	6,000	Relegation play-off winner
Universitatea Cluj	Cluj-Napoca	Cluj Arena	30,355	4th in Liga I
Universitatea Craiova	Craiova	Ion Oblemenco	30,983	3rd in Liga I
UTA Arad	Arad	Francisc von Neuman	11,500	10th in Liga I

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main Kit sponsor	Other kit sponsor(s)
Argeș Pitești	Bogdan Andone	Andrei Tofan	Macron	Vlad Cazino	List
Botoșani	Marius Croitoru	Andrei Miron	Adidas	Unibet	List
CFR Cluj	Daniel Pancu	Mário Camora	Nike	Don	List
Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc	Róbert Ilyés	Szilárd Vereș	2Rule	MOL	List
Dinamo București	Željko Kopić	Cătălin Cîrjan	Puma	Superbet	List
Farul Constanța	Ianis Zicu	Ionuț Larie	Nike	Superbet	List
FCSB	Mirel Rădoi	Darius Olaru	Nike	Betano	List
Hermannstadt	Dorinel Munteanu	Ionuț Stoica	Nike	Unibet	List
Metaloglobus București	Florin Bratu	George Gavrilaș	Jako	None	List
Oțelul Galați	Stjepan Tomas	João Lameira	Adidas	Mr Bit	List
Petrolul Ploiești	Mehmet Topal	Gheorghe Grozav	Macron	Mr Bit	List
Rapid București	Constantin Gâlcă	Răzvan Onea	Kappa	Superbet	List
Unirea Slobozia	Claudiu Niculescu	Constantin Toma	Adidas	Mr Bit	List
Universitatea Cluj	Cristiano Bergodi	Alexandru Chipciu	Adidas	Superbet	List
Universitatea Craiova	Filipe Coelho	Nicușor Bancu	Puma	Superbet	List
UTA Arad	Adrian Mihalcea	Alexandru Benga	Nike	Favbet	List

Pre-season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of arrival
Rapid București	Octavian Chihaia	End of caretaker role	24 May 2025	Constantin Gâlcă	3 June 2025
UTA Arad	Mircea Rednic	Signed by Standard Liège	24 May 2025	Adrian Mihalcea	5 June 2025
Unirea Slobozia	Adrian Mihalcea	Signed by UTA Arad	24 May 2025	Andrei Prepeliță	7 June 2025
Petrolul Ploiești	Mehmet Topal	End of contract	24 May 2025	Liviu Ciobotariu	9 June 2025
Farul Constanța	Gheorghe Hagi	Resigned as manager	2 June 2025	Ianis Zicu	3 June 2025
Metaloglobus București	Ianis Zicu	Signed by Farul Constanța	3 June 2025	Mihai Teja	14 June 2025

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner	Date of vacancy	Week	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Round	Position
CFR Cluj	Dan Petrescu	Resigned	21 August 2025	6	Regular season	13th	Andrea Mandorlini	22 August 2025
Petrolul Ploiesti	Liviu Ciobotariu	Sacked	16 September 2025	9	14th	Eugen Neagoe	23 September 2025
CFR Cluj	Andrea Mandorlini	25 October 2025	14	13th	Daniel Pancu	31 October 2025
Universitatea Cluj	Ioan Ovidiu Sabău	28 October 2025	14	9th	Cristiano Bergodi	29 October 2025
Universitatea Craiova	Mirel Rădoi	Resigned	10 November 2025	16	4th	Filipe Coelho	11 November 2025
FC Hermannstadt	Marius Măldărășanu	4 December 2025	18	15th	Dorinel Munteanu	8 December 2025
Unirea Slobozia	Andrei Prepeliță	Sacked	4 February 2026	25	13th	Claudiu Niculescu	4 February 2026
Metaloglobus Bucuresti	Mihai Teja	Resigned	2 March 2026	29	16th	Florin Bratu	5 March 2026
FC Botosani	Leo Grozavu	Sacked	4 March 2026	29	8th	Marius Croitoru	8 March 2026
FCSB	Elias Charalambous	Resigned	7 March 2026	30	7th	Mirel Rădoi	10 March 2026
Oțelul Galați	László Balint	Resigned	15 March 2026	31		5th	Stjepan Tomas	17 March 2026
Petrolul Ploiești	Eugen Neagoe	Resigned	25 March 2026	32		13th	Mehmet Topal	28 March 2026

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universitatea Craiova	30	17	9	4	53	27	+26	60	Advances to Play-off
2	Rapid București	30	16	8	6	47	30	+17	56
3	Universitatea Cluj	30	16	6	8	48	27	+21	54
4	CFR Cluj	30	15	8	7	49	40	+9	53
5	Dinamo București	30	14	10	6	42	28	+14	52
6	Argeș Pitești	30	15	5	10	37	28	+9	50
7	FCSB	30	13	7	10	48	40	+8	46	Advances to Play-out
8	UTA Arad	30	11	10	9	39	44	−5	43
9	Botoșani	30	11	9	10	37	29	+8	42
10	Oțelul Galați	30	11	8	11	39	32	+7	41
11	Farul Constanța	30	10	7	13	39	37	+2	37
12	Petrolul Ploiești	30	7	11	12	24	31	−7	32
13	Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc	30	8	8	14	30	58	−28	32
14	Unirea Slobozia	30	7	4	19	27	46	−19	25
15	Hermannstadt	30	5	8	17	29	50	−21	23
16	Metaloglobus București	30	2	6	22	25	66	−41	12

Positions by round

	Leader and Qualification for the Play-off round
	Qualification to the Play-off
	Qualification to the Play-out

Play-off round

2025–26 Liga I

The top six teams from Regular season will meet twice (10 matches per team) for places in UEFA Champions League and UEFA Conference League as well as deciding the league champion. Teams start the Championship round with their points from the Regular season halved, rounded upwards, and no other records carried over from the Regular season.

Play-off table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		UCV	UCJ	RAP	CFR	ARG	DIN
1	Universitatea Craiova	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	33	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round						0–1
2	Universitatea Cluj	2	2	0	0	3	1	+2	33	Qualification to Conference League second qualifying round					2–1
3	Rapid București	2	1	0	1	3	3	0	31	Qualification to European competition play-offs							3–2
4	CFR Cluj	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	30					1–0
5	Argeș Pitești	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	28			0–1
6	Dinamo București	2	0	0	2	2	4	−2	26		0–1

Play-out round

2025–26 Liga I

The bottom ten teams from the regular season meet once to contest against relegation. Teams started the play-out round with their points from the Regular season halved, rounded upwards, and no other records carried over from the Regular season. The winner of the Relegation round finish 7th in the overall season standings, the second placed team – 8th, and so on, with the last placed team in the Relegation round being 16th.

Play-out table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		FCS	UTA	BTS	FAR	OTE	CMC	PET	UNS	HER	MET
7	FCSB	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1	27	Qualification to European competition play-offs			1–0								0–0
8	UTA Arad	2	1	0	1	3	3	0	25											3–2
9	Botoșani	2	1	0	1	3	5	−2	24	Qualification to European competition play-offs									3–2
10	Farul Constanța	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	23									2–0
11	Oțelul Galați	2	0	0	2	3	5	−2	21							2–3
12	Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1	20					1–1
13	Petrolul Ploiești	2	0	0	2	0	3	−3	16	Qualification to relegation play-offs
14	Unirea Slobozia	2	1	0	1	4	4	0	16
15	Hermannstadt	2	1	0	1	5	3	+2	15	Relegated to Liga II				3–0
16	Metaloglobus București	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1	10								1–0

European play-offs

2025–26 Liga I

In the semi-final the 7th and 8th-placed teams of the Liga I typically play a one-legged match on the ground of the better placed team (7th place). In the final, the winner of the play-out semi-final will play the highest ranked team of the play-off tournament, that did not already qualify for European competitions. The winner of the final will enter the second qualifying round of the Conference League.

Bracket

	Semi-final			Final
	7					3
	8

Promotion/relegation play-offs

2025–26 Liga I

The 13th and 14th-placed teams of the Liga I faces the 3rd and 4th-placed team of the Liga II.

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
13th/14th-placed of Liga I	PO	3rd/4th-placed of Liga II	TBD	TBD
13th/14th-placed of Liga I	PO	3rd/4th-placed of Liga II	TBD	TBD

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Jovo Lukić	Universitatea Cluj	16
2	Alexandru Dobre	Rapid București	15
3	Andrei Cordea	CFR Cluj	11
Florin Tănase	FCSB
5	Alexandru Ișfan	Farul Constanța	10
6	Valentin Costache1	UTA Arad	9
Márton Eppel	Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc
Meriton Korenica	CFR Cluj
Ricardo Matos	Argeș Pitești
Steven Nsimba	Universitatea Craiova

1 Valentin Costache was transferred to Noah during the winter transfer window.

Top assists

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Alin Roman	UTA Arad	12
2	Issouf Macalou	Universitatea Cluj	11
3	Florin Tănase	FCSB	8
4	Dan Nistor	Universitatea Cluj	7
Claudiu Petrila	Rapid Bucuresti
6	Ștefan Baiaram	Universitatea Craiova	6
Darius Olaru	FCSB
Hervin Ongenda	FC Botosani
Eduard Radaslavescu	Farul Constanta
10	Silviu Balaure	Hermannstadt	5
Anderson Ceará	Csíkszereda
Catalin Cirjan	Dinamo Bucuresti
Anzor Mekvabishvili	Universitatea Craiova
Louis Munteanu1	CFR Cluj
Lorand Paszka	Csíkszereda
Adrian Păun	CFR Cluj
Florin Purece	Metaloglobus

1 Louis Munteanu was transferred to D.C. United during the winter transfer window.

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Team	Clean sheet
1	David Lazar	FC Arges/Hermannstadt	13
2	Edvinas Gertmonas	Universitatea Cluj	11
3	Giannis Anestis	FC Botosani	10
Cosmin Dur-Bozoancă	Oțelul Galați
5	Devis Epassy	Dinamo București	8
6	Marian Aioani	Rapid București	7
Ștefan Târnovanu	FCSB
8	Raul Bălbărău	Petrolul Ploiești	6
Pavlo Isenko	Universitatea Craiova
Eduard Pap	Csíkszereda
Laurențiu Popescu	Universitatea Craiova

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Round
Daniel Armstrong	Dinamo Bucuresti	FCSB	4–3 (H)	2 August 2025	4
Florin Tănase	FCSB	Dinamo Bucuresti	4–3 (A)
Patrick	Otelul Galati	CFR Cluj	4-1 (H)	24 August 2025	7
Jovo Lukić	Universitatea Cluj	Hermannstadt	3-0 (H)	7 December 2025	19
Andrei Cordea	CFR Cluj	Csikszereda	3-1 (H)	12 December 2025	20

Attendances

Overall

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Argeș Pitești	49,132	6,000	1,701	3,510	n/a†
2	Botoșani	57,427	6,972	614	3,589	+11.4%†
3	CFR Cluj	64,654	11,000	1,132	4,310	−4.2%†
4	Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc	22,320	4,000	500	1,571	n/a†
5	Dinamo București†	166,913	34,700	4,600	11,127	−15.2%†
6	Farul Constanța	48,418	4,083	1,137	3,026	+9.6%†
7	FCSB†	131,477	30,903	2,456	9,002	−19.3%†
8	Hermannstadt	55,596	6,238	1,861	3,706	−8.5%†
9	Metaloglobus București	11,075	3,200	78	761	n/a†
10	Oțelul Galați	83,139	10,000	2,044	5,196	−6.6%†
11	Petrolul Ploiești	60,367	10,000	1,760	4,024	−34.9%†
12	Rapid București†	177,350	26,871	6,138	11,084	−2.2%†
13	Unirea Slobozia†	19,865	4,180	216	1,324	+18.6%†
14	Universitatea Cluj†	122,036	20,155	1,850	7,627	−19.3%†
15	Universitatea Craiova	226,518	25,026	4,537	14,157	+55.3%†
16	UTA Arad	105,253	10,347	3,783	6,578	−9.4%†
	League total	1,421,313	34,700	78	5,731	−12.3%†

Home match played

<table><thead><tr><th>Team \ Match played</th><th>Regular season</th><th>Play-off & Play-out</th><th>Other</th><th>Total</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Argeș Pitești</td><td>6.000</td><td>3.611</td><td>4.170</td><td>2.500</td><td>4.000</td><td>3.000</td><td>5.200</td><td>3.700</td><td>2.018</td><td>3.186</td><td>3.972</td><td>2.402</td><td>1.701</td><td>3.672</td><td>3.525</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>52.657</td></tr><tr><td>Botoșani</td><td>4.612</td><td>3.480</td><td>4.216</td><td>4.320</td><td>6.000</td><td>6.972</td><td>2.614</td><td>4.364</td><td>6.166</td><td>5.416</td><td>3.812</td><td>614</td><td>1.013</td><td>2.316</td><td>2.083</td><td>1.512</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>59.510</td></tr><tr><td>CFR Cluj</td><td>3.882</td><td>2.884</td><td>3.633</td><td>1.800</td><td>11.000</td><td>4.114</td><td>2.480</td><td>2.500</td><td>6.455</td><td>2.319</td><td>1.132</td><td>1.350</td><td>9.538</td><td>3.117</td><td>8.450</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>64.654</td></tr><tr><td>Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc</td><td>4.000</td><td>2.150</td><td>1.988</td><td>1.897</td><td>1.500</td><td>2.000</td><td>1.598</td><td>1.500</td><td>1.424</td><td>924</td><td>862</td><td>500</td><td>1.088</td><td>889</td><td>1.250</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>23.570</td></tr><tr><td>Dinamo București</td><td>6.800</td><td>23.215</td><td>10.912</td><td>8.021</td><td>11.176</td><td>34.700</td><td>8.741</td><td>8.792</td><td>4.800</td><td>8.200</td><td>4.600</td><td>5.100</td><td>15.548</td><td>5.923</td><td>10.385</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>166.913</td></tr><tr><td>Farul Constanța</td><td>3.382</td><td>3.486</td><td>4.083</td><td>4.000</td><td>3.000</td><td>2.986</td><td>2.674</td><td>2.000</td><td>4.038</td><td>2.067</td><td>1.137</td><td>2.148</td><td>3.819</td><td>3.948</td><td>2.866</td><td>2.784</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>48.418</td></tr><tr><td>FCSB</td><td>6.000</td><td>7.514</td><td>6.083</td><td>8.700</td><td>5.130</td><td>11.403</td><td>5.187</td><td>8.105</td><td>28.510</td><td>30.903</td><td>5.500</td><td>2.642</td><td>3.344</td><td>2.456</td><td>5.024</td><td>7.543</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>144.044</td></tr><tr><td>Hermannstadt</td><td>3.517</td><td>6.238</td><td>5.230</td><td>2.875</td><td>3.000</td><td>2.200</td><td>2.745</td><td>8.351</td><td>2.225</td><td>2.923</td><td>2.190</td><td>5.786</td><td>3.870</td><td>2.585</td><td>1.861</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>55.596</td></tr><tr><td>Metaloglobus București</td><td>386</td><td>750</td><td>3.200</td><td>2.432</td><td>250</td><td>78</td><td>1.630</td><td>1.116</td><td>110</td><td>328</td><td>269</td><td>208</td><td>103</td><td>215</td><td>348</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>11.423</td></tr><tr><td>Oțelul Galați</td><td>6.262</td><td>9.996</td><td>10.000</td><td>5.729</td><td>5.000</td><td>5.511</td><td>2.025</td><td>5.571</td><td>4.378</td><td>2.748</td><td>3.711</td><td>2.044</td><td>9.140</td><td>3.064</td><td>4.510</td><td>3.450</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>83.139</td></tr><tr><td>Petrolul Ploiești</td><td>10.000</td><td>4.313</td><td>3.823</td><td>7.884</td><td>7.251</td><td>2.898</td><td>3.140</td><td>2.500</td><td>3.108</td><td>2.745</td><td>1.760</td><td>2.281</td><td>1.553</td><td>3.072</td><td>4.039</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>60.367</td></tr><tr><td>Rapid București</td><td>11.271</td><td>12.000</td><td>26.871</td><td>11.708</td><td>10.123</td><td>9.092</td><td>10.182</td><td>9.268</td><td>7.458</td><td>8.137</td><td>6.138</td><td>8.179</td><td>8.117</td><td>13.728</td><td>12.600</td><td>12.478</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>177.350</td></tr><tr><td>Unirea Slobozia</td><td>300</td><td>398</td><td>400</td><td>500</td><td>1.000</td><td>1.500</td><td>630</td><td>340</td><td>216</td><td>1.400</td><td>2.801</td><td>1.420</td><td>1.410</td><td>3.370</td><td>4.180</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>19.865</td></tr><tr><td>Universitatea Cluj</td><td>8.000</td><td>1.850</td><td>13.354</td><td>8.732</td><td>14.066</td><td>4.112</td><td>14.691</td><td>2.876</td><td>5.217</td><td>3.226</td><td>4.026</td><td>2.489</td><td>3.437</td><td>3.355</td><td>12.450</td><td>20.155</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>122.036</td></tr><tr><td>Universitatea Craiova</td><td>10.000</td><td>10.302</td><td>13.500</td><td>16.263</td><td>16.784</td><td>22.440</td><td>8.676</td><td>18.574</td><td>10.842</td><td>23.350</td><td>9.368</td><td>6.915</td><td>4.537</td><td>25.026</td><td>14.520</td><td>14.611</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>226.518</td></tr><tr><td>UTA Arad</td><td>7.348</td><td>6.146</td><td>8.779</td><td>6.953</td><td>6.362</td><td>6.000</td><td>7.000</td><td>4.856</td><td>4.273</td><td>4.018</td><td>9.841</td><td>9.312</td><td>5.872</td><td>3.783</td><td>10.347</td><td>4.363</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>105.253</td></tr><tr><td>League total</td><td>1.421.313</td></tr></tbody></table>