The 2006–07 Liga I was the eighty-ninth season of Liga I, the top-level football league of Romania. Season began on 28 July 2006 and ended on 23 May 2007.
| Season | 2006–07 |
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| Champions | Dinamo București[1] |
| Relegated | Argeș Pitești Național București Jiul Petroșani |
| Champions League | Dinamo București Steaua București |
| UEFA Cup | CFR Cluj Rapid București |
| Intertoto Cup | Oțelul Galați Gloria Bistrița |
| Matches played | 306 |
| Goals scored | 706 (2.31 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Claudiu Niculescu (18) |
| Biggest home win | Steaua 6–0 Naţional |
| Biggest away win | Oțelul 0–7 Rapid |
| Highest scoring | Ceahlăul 4–3 Oțelul Vaslui 2–5 UTA Oțelul 5–2 Național Oțelul 0–7 Rapid |
| Longest winning run | Dinamo (13) |
| Longest unbeaten run | Dinamo (17) |
| Longest winless run | Jiul (12) |
| Longest losing run | Argeș (11) |
← 2005–06 2007–08 → | |
Teams
Eighteen teams played in the 2006–07 season. Four teams were from Moldova, four clubs from Transylvania, one from Dobruja and nine from Wallachia four of them coming from the country's capital city Bucharest.
Pandurii Târgu Jiu had been relegated at the end of the previous season but they re-entered Liga I at the expense of Sportul Studenţesc which has been relegated to Liga II due to financial problems. The other four new teams which gained access to Liga I were Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ and Universitatea Craiova (both winning two of the three series of Liga II), plus Unirea Urziceni (winning the playoff for Liga I) and UTA Arad which bought the place from Liberty Salonta (winner of the third series of Liga II).
Venues
| Politehnica Timișoara | Steaua București | FC U Craiova | Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț |
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| Dan Păltinișanu | Steaua | Ion Oblemenco | Ceahlăul |
| Capacity: 32,972 | Capacity: 28,365 | Capacity: 25,252 | Capacity: 17,500 |
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| Farul Constanța | Jiul Petroșani | Dinamo București | Argeș Pitești |
| Farul | Jiul | Dinamo | Nicolae Dobrin |
| Capacity: 15,520 | Capacity: 15,500 | Capacity: 15,032 | Capacity: 15,000 |
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| Național București |
Location of Bucharest teams. |
Oțelul Galați | |
| Cotroceni | Oțelul | ||
| Capacity: 14,542 | Capacity: 13,500 | ||
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| Rapid București | Politehnica Iași | ||
| Giulești-Valentin Stănescu | Emil Alexandrescu | ||
| Capacity: 11,704[i] | Capacity: 11,390 | ||
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| CFR Cluj[ii] | FC Vaslui | ||
| CFR | Municipal | ||
| Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 9,240 | ||
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| Pandurii Târgu Jiu | Gloria Bistrița | UTA Arad | Unirea Urziceni |
| Tudor Vladimirescu | Gloria | Francisc von Neuman | Tineretului |
| Capacity: 9,200 | Capacity: 7,800 | Capacity: 7,287 | Capacity: 7,000 |
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- ^ Capacity of Giulești-Valentin Stănescu Stadium has been reduced from 19,100 to 11,704 due to advanced degradation of the resistance structure of the South End.
- ^ CFR Cluj was relocated to Unirea Stadium from Dej for the first five home matches of this season because CFR Stadium was under renovations.
Personnel and kits
League table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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| 1 | Dinamo București (C) | 34 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 63 | 24 | +39 | 77 | Champions League Group Stage |
| 2 | Steaua București | 34 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 61 | 22 | +39 | 71 | |
| 3 | CFR Cluj | 34 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 59 | 32 | +27 | 69 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | Rapid București | 34 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 63 | 39 | +24 | 59 | |
| 5 | Oțelul Galați | 34 | 17 | 5 | 12 | 60 | 56 | +4 | 56 | Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round |
| 6 | Gloria Bistrița | 34 | 16 | 6 | 12 | 42 | 35 | +7 | 54 | Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round |
| 7 | Politehnica Timișoara | 34 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 37 | 33 | +4 | 53 | |
| 8 | Vaslui | 34 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 41 | 44 | −3 | 50 | |
| 9 | FC U Craiova | 34 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 39 | 43 | −4 | 48 | |
| 10 | Unirea Urziceni | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 30 | 29 | +1 | 47 | |
| 11 | Pandurii Târgu Jiu | 34 | 13 | 5 | 16 | 26 | 35 | −9 | 44 | |
| 12 | UTA Arad | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 28 | 39 | −11 | 41 | |
| 13 | Politehnica Iași | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 34 | 41 | −7 | 40 | |
| 14 | Farul Constanța | 34 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 31 | 35 | −4 | 37 | |
| 15 | Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 27 | 53 | −26 | 31 | Spared from relegation[a] |
| 16 | Național București (R) | 34 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 27 | 52 | −25 | 24[b] | Relegation to Liga II |
| 17 | Argeș Pitești (R) | 34 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 23 | 47 | −24 | 24[b] | |
| 18 | Jiul Petroşani (R) | 34 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 15 | 47 | −32 | 20 |
Source: LT (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) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
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.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
- ^ Delta Tulcea, the winner of the Liga II, Seria I, was denied the right to participate in next season of Liga I because it failed to meet the licensing requirements, therefore Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ was spared from relegation.
- ^ a b ARG 0-3 PRO; PRO 0-2 ARG
Positions by round
Source: LT (in Romanian)
Results
Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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| 1 |  Claudiu Niculescu
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Dinamo București | 18 |
| 2 | Ionel Ganea
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Rapid București / Dinamo București | 16 |
| 3 | Ionel Dănciulescu
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Dinamo București | 15 |
| 4 | Emil Jula
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Oțelul Galați | 14 |
| 5 | Valentin Badea
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Steaua București | 13 |
| Daniel Stan
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Oțelul Galați | ||
| Ianis Zicu
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Rapid București | ||
| 8 | Cristian Coroian
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CFR Cluj | 11 |
| Dorel Zaharia
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Gloria Bistrița | ||
| 10 | Nicolae Dică
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Steaua București | 10 |
 Cyril Théréau
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 Viorel Frunză
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CFR Cluj / Vaslui | ||
| Romeo Surdu
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CFR Cluj |