2007–08 Liga I

Liga I

Season	2007–08
Champions	CFR Cluj[1]
Relegated	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ Dacia Mioveni UTA Arad Universitatea Cluj
Champions League	CFR Cluj Steaua Bucureşti
UEFA Cup	Rapid Bucureşti Dinamo Bucureşti Urziceni Urziceni Politehnica Ştiinţa Timişoara
Intertoto Cup	Vaslui
Matches played	306
Goals scored	725 (2.37 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ionel Dănciulescu (21)
Biggest home win	Dinamo 6–1 Oţelul Steaua 5–0 Buzău
Biggest away win	Buzău 0–4 Oţelul
Highest scoring	Dinamo 4–4 Craiova
Longest winning run	Steaua (10)
Longest unbeaten run	CFR (18)
Longest losing run	Craiova, Pandurii (7)
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

The 2007–08 Liga I was the ninety season of Liga I, the top-level football league of Romania. Season began on 27 July 2007 and ended on 7 May 2008. CFR Cluj became champions, winning their first trophy and ending a 17-year-long reign of Bucharest based teams.

CFR Cluj will play in the Champions League group stage, while Steaua Bucureşti qualified for the Champions League third qualifying round. Rapid Bucureşti, Dinamo Bucureşti, Unirea Urziceni and Politehnica Ştiinţa Timişoara qualified for the UEFA Cup first round. The highest placed team that has not qualified for the UEFA Cup is allowed the opportunity to compete in the third round of the UEFA Intertoto Cup, provided they have applied to enter the Intertoto Cup in the next season. Vaslui, Oţelul Galaţi and Gloria Bistriţa are the only teams that have applied,^[2] with Vaslui securing their participation.

Stadiums by capacity and locations

Poli Timișoara	Universitatea Cluj	Steaua Bucureşti	Universitatea Craiova	Rapid Bucureşti	Ceahlăul
Dan Păltinișanu	Ion Moina	Steaua	Ion Oblemenco	Valentin Stănescu	Ceahlăul
Capacity: 32,972	Capacity: 28,000	Capacity: 27,063	Capacity: 25,252	Capacity: 19,100	Capacity: 18,000

Gloria Buzău	Farul Constanţa	Dinamo Bucureşti	Oţelul Galaţi	CFR Cluj	Politehnica Iaşi
Municipal	Farul	Dinamo	Oţelul	Dr. Constantin Rădulescu	Emil Alexandrescu
Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 15,500	Capacity: 15,167	Capacity: 13,932	Capacity: 12,813	Capacity: 11,390

FC Vaslui	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Gloria Bistriţa	UTA Arad	Dacia Mioveni	Unirea Urziceni
Municipal	Tudor Vladimirescu	Gloria	Francisc von Neumann	Dacia	Tineretului
Capacity: 9,240	Capacity: 9,200	Capacity: 7,800	Capacity: 7,287	Capacity: 7,000	Capacity: 7,000

.

Kits and sponsors

Team	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor	Notes
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ	Lotto	Altex
CFR Cluj	Nike	Polus Center Cluj
Dacia Mioveni	Umbro	Consiliul Local Mioveni	Umbro take over as new sponsor
Dinamo Bucureşti	Nike	Orange	Orange take over as new sponsor
Farul Constanţa	Umbro	Şantierul Naval Constanţa	Umbro take over from previous manufacturer, Lotto
Gloria Bistriţa	Puma	Darimex	Puma take over from previous manufacturer, Nike
Gloria Buzău	hummel	Avicola Buzău	hummel take over from previous manufacturer, Nike
Oţelul Galaţi	Nike	Arcelor Mittal
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Uhlsport	USMO	Uhlsport take over from previous manufacturer, Kappa
Politehnica Iaşi	Umbro	Iulius Mall Iaşi
Politehnica Ştiinţa Timişoara	Lotto	Balkan Petroleum	Lotto take over from previous manufacturer, Nike-Converse
Rapid Bucureşti	Lotto	Holsten	Holsten take over as new sponsor
Steaua Bucureşti	Nike	CitiFinancial	CitiFinancial take over as new sponsor
Unirea Urziceni	Joma	Primăria Voluntari	Joma take over from previous manufacturer, Umbro
Universitatea Cluj	Diadora	Majors: Banca Transilvania, Oncos	Diadora take over from previous manufacturer, Uhlsport
Universitatea Craiova	Adidas	editie.ro	Adidas take over from previous manufacturer, Nike
UTA Arad	Uhlsport	San Paolo IMI Bank	Uhlsport take over from previous manufacturer, Errea
Vaslui	Umbro	Same Deutz-Fahr	Same Deutz-Fahr take over as new sponsor

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	CFR Cluj (C)	34	23	7	4	52	22	+30	76	2008–09 UEFA Champions LeagueGroup stage
2	Steaua București	34	23	6	5	51	19	+32	75	2008–09 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3	Rapid București	34	18	7	9	52	31	+21	61	2008–09 UEFA Cup First round	RAP: 7 pts DIN: 5 pts UNI: 3 pts
4	Dinamo București	34	17	10	7	55	36	+19	61
5	Unirea Urziceni	34	16	13	5	42	24	+18	61
6	Politehnica Timișoara	34	16	9	9	57	44	+13	57
7	Vaslui	34	12	11	11	44	34	+10	47	2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
8	Oțelul Galați	34	14	4	16	47	50	−3	46
9	Universitatea Craiova	34	12	7	15	42	48	−6	43
10	Gloria Bistrița	34	11	9	14	34	40	−6	42
11	Politehnica Iași	34	11	8	15	37	41	−4	41
12	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	34	11	7	16	36	43	−7	40		PAN 0-1 FAR FAR 1-2 PAN
13	Farul Constanța	34	10	10	14	25	38	−13	40
14	Gloria Buzău	34	10	7	17	30	56	−26	37
15	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț (R)	34	10	6	18	33	46	−13	36	Relegation to 2008–09 Liga II
16	Dacia Mioveni (R)	34	7	10	17	26	43	−17	31
17	UTA Arad (R)	34	6	8	20	30	52	−22	26
18	Universitatea Cluj (R)	34	4	11	19	32	58	−26	23

Source: LT (Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
notes
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
CFR Cluj	6	6	3	4	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	2	1	1
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	13	9	12	13	11	11	10	12	13	9	9	10	9	9	10	10	11	10	13	12	14	15	15	16	16	17	17	16	16	16	15	15	15	15
Universitatea Craiova	1	10	11	12	14	16	18	18	17	14	12	16	12	12	14	11	13	14	11	13	11	11	11	10	10	9	9	9	8	8	8	9	11	9
Dacia Mioveni	14	15	17	18	18	14	14	15	16	17	16	11	11	10	12	12	10	11	12	14	15	14	14	12	12	12	13	13	15	15	16	16	16	16
Dinamo București	3	12	5	6	6	9	6	4	6	5	4	5	4	5	6	7	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	3	4	4	5	5	5	4	4	4	4
Farul Constanța	18	18	18	15	15	15	15	14	15	16	14	14	13	15	16	17	17	15	16	16	13	13	12	13	15	15	15	14	13	13	12	10	12	13
Gloria Bistrița	7	13	7	11	9	8	8	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	13	11	13	10
Gloria Buzău	15	17	15	16	16	17	16	16	14	15	17	17	16	13	11	13	12	13	10	11	12	12	13	14	13	14	14	15	14	14	14	14	14	14
Oțelul Galați	16	16	13	14	12	12	11	11	9	10	10	9	10	11	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	9	8	8	8
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	11	8	10	8	8	5	9	9	10	11	11	12	14	14	15	15	15	16	17	17	18	18	17	15	14	13	11	11	11	12	10	12	10	12
Politehnica Iași	17	11	14	9	10	10	13	13	11	12	13	13	15	17	13	14	14	12	14	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	11	11	13	9	11
Rapid București	4	5	4	1	2	2	2	5	3	3	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Steaua București	5	1	1	2	4	7	7	8	7	7	6	7	7	7	5	5	5	4	4	5	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	1	2	2
Politehnica Știința Timișoara	2	2	2	7	7	6	5	6	4	4	3	4	6	3	4	4	3	6	5	4	5	4	4	4	6	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Universitatea Cluj	12	14	16	17	17	18	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	17	18	17	18	18	18	18
UTA Arad	8	7	9	10	13	13	12	10	12	13	15	15	17	16	17	16	16	17	15	15	16	16	16	17	17	16	16	18	17	18	17	17	17	17
Unirea Urziceni	9	4	8	5	5	4	4	3	2	2	5	2	3	4	3	3	4	3	3	3	4	5	5	5	5	5	6	4	4	4	5	5	5	5
Vaslui	10	3	6	3	1	1	3	2	5	6	7	6	5	6	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7

Source: LT (Romanian)

Results

Home ╲ Away

CFR

CEA

UCR

MIO

DIN

FAR

GBI

GBU

OȚE

PAN

PIA

RAP

STE

TIM

UCL

UTA

URZ

VAS

CFR Cluj

2–1

4–1

1–0

1–1

2–1

1–0

2–0

3–1

1–2

2–1

1–0

0–0

2–2

2–0

2–0

2–0

1–0

Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț

0–0

1–0

1–1

0–3

0–1

2–0

4–0

0–1

2–1

1–0

0–1

0–1

2–1

3–0

1–1

0–0

1–1

Universitatea Craiova

1–3

3–2

1–0

1–1

4–0

1–1

3–1

1–1

1–0

2–1

1–1

1–2

2–1

1–1

0–1

0–1

2–1

Dacia Mioveni

0–0

2–1

1–2

1–2

2–3

0–0

0–0

1–0

1–1

2–1

1–2

1–2

2–2

1–0

0–1

0–3

2–2

Dinamo București

1–2

2–1

4–4

1–1

0–0

0–1

2–0

6–1

1–2

2–1

0–2

2–1

1–1

2–1

3–1

1–1

0–2

Farul Constanța

0–2

2–0

3–1

1–1

0–1

1–0

0–0

0–2

1–2

1–1

0–0

0–1

1–1

0–0

1–0

0–1

2–1

Gloria Bistrița

2–2

0–1

0–1

1–0

1–1

1–0

3–2

2–1

3–1

2–0

1–2

1–3

0–0

2–0

2–1

2–2

0–0

Gloria Buzău

1–2

4–1

1–0

0–1

1–2

1–0

1–0

0–4

1–3

1–1

1–0

1–1

2–1

3–2

1–0

0–0

1–1

Oțelul Galați

0–1

4–1

2–1

3–1

0–1

2–0

2–0

2–3

3–1

0–0

0–1

0–1

3–1

2–1

2–1

3–2

0–3

Pandurii Târgu Jiu

0–1

1–0

2–0

1–0

0–1

0–1

1–3

3–0

1–0

1–0

1–3

0–1

1–3

2–2

2–1

1–1

1–1

Politehnica Iași

1–0

1–0

2–1

1–0

2–5

1–1

2–0

3–0

2–2

1–0

0–2

2–1

2–1

3–0

4–1

2–3

0–1

Rapid București

1–2

5–1

2–0

3–0

1–2

2–0

2–2

0–0

4–2

1–0

3–0

0–3

0–1

1–2

2–3

1–1

2–1

Steaua București

3–1

2–1

1–0

2–0

1–0

3–0

1–0

5–0

3–1

0–0

1–0

0–0

1–1

4–0

2–1

1–0

1–0

Politehnica Știința Timișoara

1–0

3–2

1–3

1–2

1–1

4–1

3–1

1–0

4–1

3–1

3–1

1–1

2–0

3–0

2–0

0–0

2–1

Universitatea Cluj

0–1

1–1

2–0

0–0

1–2

1–2

2–2

1–2

2–1

1–1

1–1

1–2

2–1

1–2

2–2

0–2

2–3

UTA Arad

0–3

0–1

0–1

1–0

1–3

0–1

0–1

2–1

0–1

3–3

0–0

1–0

1–1

2–3

1–1

1–2

1–1

Unirea Urziceni

1–1

2–0

2–2

0–2

0–0

0–0

2–0

2–0

0–0

1–0

1–0

0–1

1–0

4–1

3–2

1–0

2–0

Vaslui

0–2

0–1

2–0

3–0

2–1

1–1

2–0

4–1

2–0

1–0

0–0

2–4

0–1

3–0

0–0

2–2

1–1

Source: LT (Romanian)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ionel Dănciulescu	Dinamo Bucureşti	21
2	Emil Jula	Oţelul Galaţi	17
3	Gigel Bucur	Politehnica Ştiinţa Timişoara	16
	Marko Ljubinković	Vaslui
5	Florin Costea	Universitatea Craiova	15
6	Eugen Trică	CFR Cluj	14
	Florin Bratu	Dinamo Bucureşti
8	Cristian Coroian	Gloria Bistriţa	11
9	Cristian Fabbiani	CFR Cluj	10
10	Ionuţ Mazilu	Rapid Bucureşti	9
	Nicolae Dică	Steaua Bucureşti
	Cristian Dănălache	Unirea Urziceni

Source: LPF (Romanian)

Notes

⁽¹⁾ Delta Tulcea won the first serie of Liga II, but did not apply for the license necessary for playing in Liga I in the 2007-08 season. The highest ranked relegated team in the previous season, namely Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ (15th place in 2006-07 season), will continue in Liga I.^[3][4]
(2) Timişoara change of name following name conflict with FC Politehnica Timișoara.^[5]

References

1. 2007–08 Liga I
2. "Sorti favorabili pentru echipele romanesti: Traseu facil in Intertoto". RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian). 2008-04-21. Archived from the original on 26 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
3. "(Romanian) FRF nu le va permite tulcenilor să evolueze în Liga I.". Prosport. 2007-05-31. Archived from the original on 2007-06-02. Retrieved 2007-06-10.
4. "(Romanian) Viorel Duru: "Ceahlăul rămâne în Liga I."". Prosport. 2007-06-12. Archived from the original on 2007-06-14. Retrieved 2007-06-12.
5. "(Romanian) Schimbă numele echipei!". Prosport. 2007-06-07. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2007-06-10.