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]

TeamCityArenaCapacity
BC MureșTârgu MureșSala Sporturilor
2,000
BC TimișoaraTimișoaraConstantin Jude
2,200
BCM U PiteștiPiteștiTrivale
2,000
CSM U OradeaOradeaArena Antonio Alexe
2,000
CSU SibiuSibiuTransilvania
3,000
Dinamo BucureștiBucureștiDinamo
2,538
Olimpic Baia MareBaia MareLascăr Pană
2,048
Phoenix GalațiGalațiDunărea
1,500
SCM U CraiovaCraiovaPolyvalent Hall
4,215
Steaua CSM EximbankBucureștiMihai Viteazu
2,000
Polyvalent Hall
3,500
U-BT ClujCluj NapocaPolyvalent Hall
7,308
Horia Demian
2,525

Regular season

PosTeamPldWLPFPAPDPtsQualification
1U-Banca Transilvania2824424072129+27852Qualification to Play-offs
2CSU Sibiu28181021852094+9146
3Steaua CSM Eximbank28171122612142+11945
4CSM U Oradea28151321592105+5443
5BC Timișoara28131522162272−5641
6BCM U Pitești28111721572271−11439
7BC Mureș24121219341923+1136Qualification to Play-offs
8SCM U Craiova2481618871946−5932
9Phoenix Galați2481618772023−14632
10Dinamo București2461818071985−17830
11Olimpic Baia Mare (W)0000000Withdrew

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