2006–07 Liga I

Liga I
Season	2006–07
Champions	Dinamo București
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 →

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.

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. They relegated together with FC Bacău, who finished 16th last season. 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
Dan Păltinișanu	Steaua	Ion Oblemenco	Ceahlăul
Capacity: 32,972	Capacity: 28,365	Capacity: 25,252	Capacity: 17,500

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

Național București	Bucharest Argeș CFR Ceahlăul Craiova Farul Gloria Jiul Oțelul Pandurii Poli Iași Poli Timișoara Urziceni UTA Vaslui Bucharest teams Dinamo Național Rapid Steaua 2006–07 Liga I (Romania) Dinamo Național Rapid Steaua class=notpageimage\| Location of Bucharest teams.		Oțelul Galați
Cotroceni			Oțelul
Capacity: 14,542			Capacity: 13,500

Rapid București			Politehnica Iași
Giulești-Valentin Stănescu			Emil Alexandrescu
Capacity: 11,704^[i]			Capacity: 11,390

CFR Cluj^[ii]			FC Vaslui
CFR			Municipal
Capacity: 10,000			Capacity: 9,240

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

^ 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

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt Sponsor
Argeș Pitești	Constantin Cârstea	Alin Chița	Lotto	Pic
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	Aurel Șunda	Adrian Iencsi	Lotto	Altex
CFR Cluj	Cristiano Bergodi	Vasile Jula	Erreà	DOMO Group, Polus Center
Dinamo București	Mircea Rednic	Claudiu Niculescu	Nike	Omniasig
Farul Constanța	Marin Ion	Mihai Guriță	Lotto	SNC
FC U Craiova	Florin Cioroianu	Dorel Stoica	Erreà	Golden Brau
Gloria Bistrița	Ioan Sabău	Sandu Negrean	Nike	Darimex, Aldis
Jiul Petroșani	Gheorghe Poenaru	Ciprian Dinu	Nike	Atomis
Național București	Eugen Nae	Ovidiu Herea	Nike	Intercons
Oțelul Galați	Petre Grigoraș	Viorel Tănase	Nike	Mittal Steel
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Eugen Neagoe	Florin Stângă	Lotto	USMO
Politehnica Iași	Ionuț Popa	Bogdan Onuț	Umbro	Iulius Mall
Politehnica Timișoara	Valentin Velcea	Dan Alexa	Lotto	Balkan Petroleum
Rapid București	Răzvan Lucescu	Vasile Maftei	Lotto	Lukoil
Steaua București	Cosmin Olăroiu	Mirel Rădoi	Nike	RAFO
Unirea Urziceni	Dan Petrescu	Bogdan Mara	Umbro	—
UTA Arad	Marius Lăcătuș	Daniel Tudor	Erreà	Intesa Sanpaolo
Vaslui	Viorel Hizo	Bogdan Buhuș	Umbro	—

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dinamo București (C)	34	23	8	3	63	24	+39	77	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2	Steaua București	34	21	8	5	61	22	+39	71	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
3	CFR Cluj	34	21	6	7	59	32	+27	69	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4	Rapid București	34	16	11	7	63	39	+24	59	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
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:

^ 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

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
Argeș Pitești	4	11	14	16	18	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	17
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	5	10	13	15	10	9	11	10	10	11	12	11	11	12	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
CFR Cluj	1	1	1	1	1	3	3	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3
Dinamo București	3	3	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Farul Constanța	6	6	4	5	7	12	9	11	12	9	10	12	13	13	11	13	13	14	14	13	12	11	12	12	12	12	14	13	13	14	14	14	14	14
FC U Craiova	10	14	10	10	12	14	15	15	16	14	14	14	12	10	12	8	11	11	11	11	11	10	14	13	14	14	13	12	12	12	11	10	10	9
Gloria Bistrița	15	9	11	11	14	11	7	6	8	6	8	8	8	7	6	6	6	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	7	6
Jiul Petroşani	16	15	17	17	13	13	16	16	15	16	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	18	18
Național București	14	16	12	14	17	18	14	13	14	15	15	15	16	16	17	17	17	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	18	17	16
Oțelul Galați	17	17	18	13	9	7	5	4	4	3	3	3	3	5	7	7	7	7	8	7	8	8	8	6	8	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	5	5
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	7	12	9	12	15	15	13	14	13	13	11	10	10	8	9	9	10	10	12	12	10	13	10	11	11	11	10	9	9	9	10	11	12	11
Politehnica Iași	2	2	5	4	5	4	6	5	7	7	6	6	7	9	10	12	12	13	10	10	13	9	9	9	10	10	11	10	11	10	12	12	13	13
Politehnica Timișoara	12	7	6	9	6	8	4	8	6	5	7	7	6	6	5	5	5	6	5	6	6	6	6	8	7	8	6	6	6	5	5	5	6	7
Rapid București	8	8	7	7	8	6	8	7	5	8	5	5	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Steaua București	11	5	3	3	3	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2
Unirea Urziceni	18	18	15	8	11	10	12	9	11	12	13	13	14	14	15	14	14	12	13	14	14	14	11	10	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	9	9	10
UTA Arad	9	4	8	6	4	5	10	12	9	10	9	9	9	11	8	11	9	9	9	9	9	12	13	14	13	13	12	14	14	13	13	13	11	12
Vaslui	13	13	16	18	16	16	17	17	17	17	16	16	15	15	13	10	8	8	7	8	7	7	7	7	6	7	8	11	10	11	9	8	8	8

Source: LT (in Romanian)

Results

Home \ Away	ARG	CEA	CFR	DIN	FAR	FCU	GLO	JIU	OȚE	NAȚ	PAN	PIS	PTM	RAP	STE	URZ	UTA	VAS
Argeș Pitești	—	1–0	0–0	2–3	0–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	0–3	3–1	0–0	0–2	0–2	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	1–1	—	1–3	2–2	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	4–3	1–0	0–4	1–2	0–3	0–0	2–1	2–1	3–2
CFR Cluj	2–0	1–1	—	2–1	1–0	5–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–2	1–2	4–0	5–0	2–2
Dinamo București	2–1	2–0	1–0	—	2–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	5–0	3–1	3–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	0–0
Farul Constanța	1–1	0–1	0–2	1–1	—	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–0	3–0	1–3	1–2	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–1
FC U Craiova	3–1	1–0	0–1	0–4	1–0	—	1–2	2–0	1–0	0–2	2–2	3–3	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–0
Gloria Bistrița	3–1	2–1	3–2	0–1	3–2	4–1	—	0–0	2–0	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–3	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–0
Jiul Petroșani	0–1	0–0	0–2	0–1	1–2	1–2	0–1	—	1–2	2–0	0–2	3–1	0–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	2–0	1–3
Național București	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–2	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	—	1–3	0–1	2–1	0–2	4–0	0–3	0–2	1–2	0–1
Oțelul Galați	5–1	3–1	1–3	2–1	0–0	4–1	1–1	2–1	5–2	—	2–0	3–1	1–0	0–7	2–1	3–2	2–1	2–0
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	2–1	1–0	1–3	0–3	1–0	0–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	2–1	—	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–2
Politehnica Iași	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–1	4–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	—	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–3	1–0	2–0
Politehnica Timișoara	3–1	2–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	1–5	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	—	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–2
Rapid București	2–1	4–1	3–1	1–4	3–2	1–1	4–0	1–0	2–1	3–3	1–1	3–0	2–0	—	2–3	1–0	4–0	2–0
Steaua București	2–0	2–0	4–2	2–4	3–0	3–0	2–1	3–0	6–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	—	3–0	0–0	3–1
Unirea Urziceni	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–2	2–0	1–1	1–2	—	1–0	1–0
UTA Arad	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–3	1–0	—	0–1
Vaslui	1–0	3–2	0–0	1–2	1–3	3–3	3–2	2–0	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–5	—

Source: LT (in Romanian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank^[2]^[3]	Player	Club	Goals
1	Claudiu Niculescu	Dinamo București	18
2	Ionel Ganea	Rapid București / Dinamo București	16
3	Ionel Dănciulescu	Dinamo București	15
4	Emil Jula	Oțelul Galați	14
5	Valentin Badea	Steaua București	13
6	Ianis Zicu	Rapid București	12
6	Daniel Stan	Oțelul Galați	11
	Cristian Coroian	CFR Cluj
	Dorel Zaharia	Gloria Bistrița
10	Nicolae Dică	Steaua București	10
	Cyril Théréau	Steaua București
	Viorel Frunză	CFR Cluj / Vaslui
	Romeo Surdu	CFR Cluj

Champion squad

Dinamo București^[4]
Goalkeepers: Uladzimir Hayew (11 / 0); Bogdan Lobonț (14 / 0); Florin Matache (7 / 0); Glen Moss (1 / 0); Deniss Romanovs (1 / 0). Defenders: George Blay (31 / 0); Silviu Bălace (9 / 0); Eugen Crăciun (1 / 0); George Galamaz (1 / 0); Lucian Goian (7 / 0); Sergiu Homei (1 / 0); Dorin Mihuț (5 / 0); Cosmin Moți (29 / 1); Nicolae Mușat (2 / 0); Cosmin Pașcovici (4 / 0); Cristian Pulhac (32 / 0); Ștefan Radu (32 / 1); Adrian Scarlatache (6 / 0); Māris Smirnovs (1 / 0). Midfielders: Adrian Cristea (28 / 3); Fabrice Fernandes (5 / 0); Leo Lerinc (1 / 0); Andrei Mărgăritescu (31 / 1); Cătălin Munteanu (32 / 4); Andrei Nițu (2 / 0); Cornel Predescu (8 / 0); Adrian Ropotan (21 / 0); Sreten Stanić (1 / 0); Dennis Șerban (7 / 2); Iulian Tameș (15 / 0); Vojislav Vranjković (9 / 0); Zé Kalanga (21 / 2). Forwards: Ionel Dănciulescu (31 / 15); Ionel Ganea (18 / 14); Liviu Ganea (9 / 2); Valentin Lemnaru (1 / 0); Jean-Philippe Mendy (9 / 0); Claudiu Niculescu (31 / 18). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Mircea Rednic.