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2017–18 Liga Națională (men's basketball)

The 2017–18 Liga Națională season was the 68th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. U-BT Cluj-Napoca were the defending champion.

Liga Națională
2017–18
12
Oradea (2nd title)
Steaua CSM Eximbank
U-BT Cluj
CSU Sibiu
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

The 2017–18 Liga Națională season was the 68th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. U-BT Cluj-Napoca were the defending champion.

The competition format will be the same as in the previous season.

12 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.

Timba Timișoara and Politehnica Iași promoted from the last Liga I. There were not any relegations as there were only 11 teams in the previous season and Olimpic Baia Mare withdrew from the competition.

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
Mureș	Târgu Mureș	Sala Sporturilor	2,000
Timișoara	Timișoara	Constantin Jude	2,200
Timba	Timișoara	Constantin Jude	2,200
FC Arges	Pitești	Trivale	2,000
Oradea	Oradea	Arena Antonio Alexe	2,000
Sibiu	Sibiu	Transilvania	3,000
Dinamo București	București	Dinamo	2,538
Phoenix Galați	Galați	Dunărea	1,500
Politehnica Iași	Iași	Polyvalent Hall	1,500
Craiova	Craiova	Polyvalent Hall	4,215
Steaua Eximbank	București	Mihai Viteazu	2,000
Polyvalent Hall	3,500
U-BT Cluj-Napoca	Cluj-Napoca	Polyvalent Hall	7,308
Horia Demian	2,525

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	22	18	4	1945	1594	+351	40	Qualification to group 1–6
2	22	18	4	1905	1643	+262	40
3	22	15	7	1958	1712	+246	37
4	22	15	7	1970	1644	+326	37
5	22	15	7	1907	1645	+262	37
6	22	13	9	1854	1709	+145	35
7	22	11	11	2027	1926	+101	33	Qualification to group 7–12
8	22	10	12	1792	1765	+27	32
9	22	6	16	1711	1945	−234	28
10	22	6	16	1531	1954	−423	28
11	22	4	18	1674	1903	−229	26
12	22	1	21	1353	2187	−834	23

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	32	23	9	2750	2454	+296	55	Qualification to Play-offs
2	32	23	9	2734	2418	+316	55
3	32	22	10	2799	2441	+358	54
4	32	21	11	2686	2399	+287	53
5	32	20	12	2759	2494	+265	52
6	32	15	17	2615	2545	+70	47

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
7	30	18	12	2861	2511	+350	48	Qualification to Play-offs
8	30	17	13	2557	2335	+222	47
9	30	9	21	2372	2650	−278	39
10	30	5	25	2299	2749	−450	35
11	30	3	27	1954	2967	−1013	33
12	22	6	16	1531	1954	−423	28	Withdrew

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

Official site of the Romanian Basketball Federation
Halfcourt.info (Romanian and English)
Numaibaschet.ro (Romanian)
Baschetromania.ro (Romanian)

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