2024–25 Liga I

The 2024–25 Liga I, known officially as the SuperLiga, is the 107th season of Liga I, the top football league in Romania. The season will start on 12 July 2024.^[1] The newcomers are Unirea Slobozia who are making their debut in Liga I and Gloria Buzău who returned to Liga I after a 15-year absence. The draw took place on 1 July 2024.^[2]

Liga I

Season	2024–25
Dates	12 July 2024 –
Matches played	132
Goals scored	311 (2.36 per match)
Top goalscorer	Daniel Bîrligea (10 goals)
← 2023–24 2025–26 → All statistics correct as of 23 November 2024.

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

The league consists of 16 teams: 14 teams from 2023–24 Liga I and two teams promoted from 2023–24 Liga II.

Teams promoted from the Liga II

The first club to be promoted was Unirea Slobozia, they made their debut in Liga 1.

The second club to be promoted was Gloria Buzău, they returned to Liga I after fifteen years of absence.

Teams relegated to the Liga II

The first club to be relegated was FC U Craiova, ending their three-year stay in the top flight.

The second club to be relegated was Voluntari, ending their nine-year stay in the top flight.

Stadiums and locations

FCSB	Universitatea Craiova	Universitatea Cluj	CFR Cluj
Arena Națională	Ion Oblemenco	Cluj Arena	Dr. Constantin Rădulescu
Capacity: 55,634	Capacity: 30,983	Capacity: 30,201	Capacity: 22,198
Petrolul Ploiești	Rapid București	Oțelul Galați	Hermannstadt
Ilie Oană	Rapid–Giulești	Oțelul	Municipal (Sibiu)
Capacity: 15,073	Capacity: 14,047	Capacity: 13,500	Capacity: 12,363
Gloria Buzău	Bucharest Botoșani CFR Universitatea Farul Hermannstadt Gloria Oțelul Petrolul Politehnica Sepsi Unirea Universitatea UTA Bucharest / Ilfov teams Dinamo FCSB Rapid 2024–25 Liga I (Romania) Dinamo FCSB Rapid Location of Bucharest / Ilfov County teams.		UTA Arad
Stadionul Municipal Buzău			Francisc von Neuman
Capacity: 12,321			Capacity: 11,500
Politehnica Iași			Sepsi OSK
Emil Alexandrescu			Sepsi Arena
Capacity: 11,390			Capacity: 8,400
Dinamo București	Botoșani	Unirea Slobozia	Farul Constanța
Arcul de Triumf	Municipal (Botoșani)	Clinceni Stadium[i]	Viitorul
Capacity: 8,207	Capacity: 7,782	Capacity: 4,502	Capacity: 4,554

1. Unirea Slobozia is currently relocated to Clinceni Stadium in Clinceni because Stadionul 1 Mai in Slobozia is under renovations.

Personnel and sponsorship

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 Shirt sponsor	Other Shirt sponsor
Botoșani	Liviu Ciobotariu	Andrei Miron	Adidas	Unibet	Elsaco, Electroalfa
CFR Cluj	Dan Petrescu	Camora	Nike	Player	MyPlace Residence, Aquavita
Dinamo București	Željko Kopić	Răzvan Patriche	Macron	Superbet	Renovatio
Farul Constanța	Gheorghe Hagi (owner and manager)	Ionuț Larie	Nike	Superbet	Auchan
FCSB	Elias Charalambous	Darius Olaru	Nike	Betano	Walter Tosto, MG
Hermannstadt	Marius Măldărășanu	Ionuț Stoica	Nike	Unibet	Sibiu Municipality, Escudo
Gloria Buzău	Eugen Neagoe	Cristian Dumitru	Joma	Getica 95	Hai Buzău!
Oțelul Galați	Dorinel Munteanu	Juri Cisotti	Adidas	Liberty	Mr Bit
Petrolul Ploiești	Mehmet Topal	Gheorghe Grozav	Macron	Mr Bit	La Cocoș
Politehnica Iași	Emil Săndoi	Mihai Bordeianu	Nike	Maxbet	Iași Municipality
Rapid București	Marius Sumudica	Cristian Săpunaru	Kappa	Superbet	IMAMED
Sepsi OSK	Valentin Suciu	Roland Niczuly	Adidas	Diószegi	Gyermelyi
Unirea Slobozia	Adrian Mihalcea	Adrian Toma	Adidas	Mr Bit	Andisol, Terra Oyl Group, Taboo Events, Ialomița
Universitatea Cluj	Ioan Sabău	Alexandru Chipciu	Adidas	Superbet	AROBS
Universitatea Craiova	Constantin Gâlcă	Nicușor Bancu	Puma	Betano
UTA Arad	Mircea Rednic	Alexandru Benga	Saller	Favbet

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Rapid București	Bogdan Lobonț (caretaker)	End of contract	30 June 2024	Pre-season	Neil Lennon	1 July 2024
Petrolul Ploiești	László Balint	Sacked	30 June 2024		Mehmet Topal	1 July 2024
Botoșani	Bogdan Andone		25 July 2024	16th	Liviu Ciobotariu	25 July 2024[3]
Rapid București	Neil Lennon		20 August 2024	12th	Marius Șumudică	20 August 2024[4]
Gloria Buzău	Andrei Prepeliță	Mutual Agreement	4 September 2024[5]	16th	Eugen Neagoe	5 September 2024
Politehnica Iași	Anthony da Silva	Resigned	4 September 2024[6]	14th	Emil Săndoi	11 September 2024
Sepsi OSK	Bernd Storck	Sacked	5 September 2024	12th	Valentin Suciu (caretaker)	10 September 2024

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universitatea Cluj	21	10	7	4	32	18	+14	37	Qualification for play-off round
2	Dinamo București	21	9	9	3	30	19	+11	36
3	Universitatea Craiova	21	9	8	4	33	21	+12	35
4	CFR Cluj	21	9	8	4	36	26	+10	35
5	FCSB	20	9	7	4	30	21	+9	34
6	Petrolul Ploiești	21	7	10	4	23	21	+2	31
7	Sepsi OSK	21	8	6	7	28	23	+5	30	Qualification for play-out round
8	Rapid București	21	6	11	4	24	19	+5	29
9	Hermannstadt	21	7	5	9	24	32	−8	26
10	Oțelul Galați	21	5	9	7	17	21	−4	24[a]
11	Farul Constanța	21	5	9	7	20	27	−7	24[a]
12	UTA Arad	20	5	7	8	20	24	−4	22[b]
13	Politehnica Iași	20	6	4	10	20	30	−10	22[b]
14	Unirea Slobozia	21	6	4	11	21	31	−10	22[b]
15	Botoșani	20	4	6	10	17	27	−10	18
16	Gloria Buzău	21	4	4	13	18	33	−15	16

Updated to match(es) played on 23 December 2024. Source: LPF (in 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) Goals scored; 7) Play-off.^[7]
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Oțelul Galați 3; Farul Constanța 0.
2. Head-to-head points: UTA Arad 4; Politehnica Iași 4; Unirea Slobozia 3.

Results

Home \ Away	BOT	CFR	DIN	FAR	FCS	GLO	HER	IAS	OTE	PET	RAP	SPS	UCJ	UCV	UNS	UTA
Botoșani		18 Jan	8 Feb	0–0	1–0	3–3	1–2	1–1	2–3	0–2	2–0	1 Feb	1–2	22 Feb	8 Mar	1–0
CFR Cluj	3–0		3–2	25 Jan	2–2	8 Mar	5 Feb	2–1	21 Dec	22 Feb	1–1	3–3	2–3	0–2	3–0	1–3
Dinamo București	2–2	1–1		15 FEB	0–2	4–1	1 MAR	2–0	5 FEB	4–1	21 DEC	1–1	25 JAN	2–1	1–0	1–0
Farul Constanța	0–1	0–3	1–1		1–1	8 FEB	3–2	2–0	0–1	1 FEB	22 FEB	2–1	8 MAR	3–2	0–1	18 JAN
FCSB	2–1	1 FEB	22 FEB	3–2		3–2	18 JAN	0–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	8 FEB	1–1	8 MAR	3–0	2–0
Gloria Buzău	5 FEB	0–1	0–1	1–0	15 FEB		3–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–2	0–2	25 JAN	1 MAR
Hermannstadt	2–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	2–0	22 FEB		6–2	7 DEC	8 FEB	8 MAR	0–4	2–1	0–0	1–1	1 FEB
Politehnica Iași	1–0	15 FEB	2–2	2–2	21 DEC	1–2	25 JAN		2–1	1 MAR	1–2	1–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	5 FEB
Oțelul Galați	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–4	1 FEB	1–0	8 MAR		18 JAN	8 FEB	2–0	22 FEB	1–1	0–2	1–1
Petrolul Ploiești	25 JAN	0–0	0–1	1–1	5 FEB	0–0	4–1	3–1	0–0		1–0	8 MAR	0–0	1–1	21 DEC	15 FEB
Rapid București	15 FEB	2–2	1–1	5–0	1 MAR	16 DEC	1–0	18 JAN	0–0	1–1		2–2	0–2	25 JAN	5 FEB	2–0
Sepsi OSK	3–0	1 MAR	1–1	5 FEB	0–1	2–0	15 FEB	1–0	25 JAN	1–1	2–0		0–0	1–2	0–1	1–0
Universitatea Cluj	1 MAR	7 DEC	1–0	1–1	1–2	18 JAN	3–1	8 FEB	2–0	4–1	1 FEB	3–0		1–1	15 FEB	0–1
Universitatea Craiova	0–0	0–2	18 JAN	1 MAR	1–1	5–1	3–1	1 FEB	15 FEB	0–0	1–1	2–1	5 FEB		3–0	4–2
Unirea Slobozia	1–0	1–1	1 FEB	0–1	2–2	2–1	1–2	22 FEB	1 MAR	1–2	1–2	18 JAN	2–2	8 FEB		0–1
UTA Arad	21 DEC	8 FEB	8 MAR	1–1	25 JAN	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	22 FEB	0–0	1–2	3–4

Updated to match(es) played on 21 December 2024. Source: LPF (in Romanian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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
Botoșani	14	16	10	13	16	10	14	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	14	14	15
CFR Cluj	2	4	8	10	6	7	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	3	2	2	2	1
Dinamo București	13	7	6	5	4	4	3	6	3	3	3	3	3	2	4	4	4	4
Farul Constanța	16	12	16	9	14	8	8	11	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	11	11	11
FCSB	7	10	13	15	9	13	15	10	11	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	2
Gloria Buzău	9	11	7	11	11	16	16	16	16	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	16	16
Hermannstadt	11	14	15	16	10	14	9	7	7	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	15	13
Politehnica Iași	15	8	11	14	15	9	13	14	10	11	11	11	11	11	8	9	9	12
Oțelul Galați	1	6	2	1	2	3	4	3	2	7	7	7	7	8	9	10	10	9
Petrolul Ploiești	12	15	9	8	8	5	6	5	6	2	2	2	2	4	3	3	3	6
Rapid București	5	9	12	12	13	12	7	9	12	10	10	10	10	12	7	7	7	8
Sepsi OSK	4	1	3	4	5	6	10	12	8	8	8	8	8	9	10	8	8	7
Unirea Slobozia	3	5	5	6	12	15	11	8	9	12	12	12	12	11	12	13	13	14
Universitatea Cluj	6	2	4	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3
Universitatea Craiova	10	3	1	2	1	1	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5
UTA Arad	8	13	14	7	7	11	12	13	14	9	9	9	9	10	11	12	12	10

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

Source: LPF (in Romanian)

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 20 December 2024

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Daniel Birligea	FCSB/CFR Cluj	10
2	Astrit Selmani	Dinamo București	9
	Vladislav Blanuta	Universitatea Cluj
4	Alexandru Mitriță	Universitatea Craiova	8
	Louis Munteanu	CFR Cluj
	Alexandru Tudorie	Petrolul Ploiesti
7	Dan Nistor	Universitatea Cluj	6
	Darius Olaru	FCSB
	Dmytro Pospelov	Unirea Slobozia
	Ștefan Baiaram	Universitatea Craiova
	Dennis Politic	Dinamo Bucuresti

Top assists

As of 20 December 2024

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Astrit Selmani	Dinamo Bucuresti	5
	Claudiu Petrila	Rapid Bucuresti
	Alin Roman	Politehnica Iasi
4	Alexandru Mitrita	Universitatea Craiova	4
	Dan Nistor	Universitatea Cluj
	Mamadou Thiam	Universitatea Cluj
	Florin Purece	Unirea Slobozia
	Marius Ștefănescu	FCSB
	Simão Rocha	CFR Cluj

Clean sheets

As of 20 December 2024

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Iustin Popescu	Otelul Galati	8
	Lukáš Zima	Petrolul Ploiești
	Edvinas Gertmonas	Universitatea Cluj
4	Jesus Fernandez	Politehnica Iasi	6
5	Giannis Anestis	FC Botosani	5
	Benjamin Siegrist	Rapid București
	Laurențiu Popescu	Universitatea Craiova
	Ștefan Târnovanu	FCSB

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