The 2016–17 Liga Națională season is the 67th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. Sepsi SIC Sfântu Gheorghe is the defending champion.
Competition format The Romanian Basketball Federation agreed a change in the competition format for the 2016–17 season:
10 teams played the regular season, consisting in a double-legged round robin format. At the end of the regular season, teams are split into two groups, one of them composed by the first six teams and the other one by the rest. In this second stage all points of the regular season are counted and the teams will face each other from its group twice. All teams from the group from 1st to 6th and the two first qualified teams from the bottom group will join the playoffs. In this knockout stage, quarterfinals and semifinals will be played with a best-of-three-games format and the final with a best-of-five one.
Teams BC Sirius and Politehnica Iași were promoted from the previous season of the Liga I.BC Sirius and Politehnica Iași get promoted to Liga Națională
Team City Arena Capacity BC Sirius Târgu Mureș Sala Sporturilor 2,000 CSBT Alexandria Dimitrie Ghica 900 CSM Satu Mare Ecaterina Both Arena 400 CSM Târgoviște Polyvalent Hall 2,000 ICIM Arad Victoria Sports Hall 1,500 Olimpia CSU Brașov D.P. Colibași 1,700 Phoenix Galați Dunărea 1,500 Politehnica Iași Polyvalent Hall 1,500 Sepsi SIC Sfântu Gheorghe Szabó Kati 1,000 Universitatea Cluj Napoca Polyvalent Hall / Horia Demian 7,308 / 2,525
Regular season
Play-offs The higher seeded teams played games 1, 2 and 5 at home.
References
External links Official site of the Romanian Basketball Federation Halfcourt.info (Romanian and English) Numaibaschet.ro (Romanian) Baschetromania.ro (Romanian)