The 2012–13 Liga Națională season was the 63rd season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania.

The first half of the season consisted of 16 teams and 240-game regular season (30 games for each of the 16 teams). The season began on 6 October 2012 and ended on 2 April 2013, just before the Playoffs.

Teams

Team City Arena Capacity BC Mureș Târgu Mureș Sala Sporturilor Târgu Mureș 2,000 Dinamo București București Arena de Baschet 300 Asesoft Ploieşti Ploieşti Olimpia Sports Hall 3,500 Gaz Metan Mediaş Mediaş Sala Sporturilor Mediaş 461 U-Mobitelco BT Cluj Cluj Napoca Sala Sporturilor Horia Demian 2,525 Farul Constanţa Constanţa Sala Sporturilor Constanţa 1,500 BC Argeş Piteşti Piteşti Sala Sporturilor Trivale 2,000 BC Timișoara Timișoara Constantin Jude Hall 2,200 SCM Universitatea Craiova Craiova Sala Sporturilor Craiova 4,215 CSM Oradea Oradea Arena Antonio Alexe 2,000 CSU Atlassib Sibiu Sibiu Sala Transilvania 3,000BC Miercurea Ciuc Miercurea Ciuc Sala Sporturilor Miercurea Ciuc 600 CSS Giurgiu Giurgiu Sala Sporturilor Giugiu 300 Timba Timișoara Timișoara Constantin Jude Hall 2,200 Energia Rovinari Târgu Jiu Sala Sporturilor Târgu Jiu 1,500

Regular season Number Team Points GP Wins/Losses Points for/against 1 BC Mures 53 30 23–7 2481–2203 2 CSM Oradea 53 30 23–7 2248–2111 3 CSU Ploiesti 53 30 23–7 2677–2341 4 SCM U Craiova 51 30 21–9 2465–2319 5 CS Gaz Metan Medias 50 30 20–10 2446–2158 6 BC Timișoara 50 30 20–10 2516–2335 7 U-Mobitelco BT Cluj 50 30 20–10 2530–2284 8 CSM Bucuresti 48 30 18–12 2530–2284 9 Energia Rovinari 45 30 15–15 2392–2372 10 CSU Sibiu 44 30 14–16 2329–2292 11 BCM U Pitesti 43 30 13–17 2370–2310 12 CSS Giurgiu 41 30 11–19 2309–2358 13 BC Timba Timișoara 38 30 8–22 2240–2479 14 BC Farul Constanta 37 30 7–23 2048–2443 15 BC Miercurea Ciuc 33 30 3–27 2141–2571 16 CS Dinamo Bucuresti 31 30 1–29 1926–2845

Playoffs In the 2012–13 season, the first eight teams qualify for the play-off and the last eight teams qualify for the play-out. In the play-offs, the teams play by the "best of five" system in the first two rounds, and by the "best of seven" in the finals. For the third place, CSM Oradea won 2–1 against Gaz Metan Mediaş in the "best of three" system.

External links Official site of the Romanian basketball federation Halfcourt.info (Romanian and English) Numaibaschet.ro (Romanian) Baschetromania.ro (Romanian)