The 2018–19 Liga Națională is the 61st season of Romanian Handball League, the top-level men's professional handball league. The league comprises 14 teams. Dinamo București are the defending champions, for the third season in a row.Dinamo e CAMPIOANA României la handbal masculin! Meci decisiv DRAMATIC cu Steaua + incidente la final. gsp.ro
Team changes
To Liga Națională Promoted from Divizia AÎnfrângere pentru HCDS ll, în faţa Ştiinţei Bacău. cugetliber.ro CSM Bacău HC Buzău Universitatea Cluj
From Liga Națională Relegated to Divizia A HC Vaslui Politehnica Iași Odorheiu Secuiesc
Notes: HC Buzău promoted via an extra play-off match, after the winner of Divizia A, Seria B, CSM Oradea declined its participation.
HC Vaslui withdrew from the championship and Universitatea Cluj was invited to fill the vacancy.HC Vaslui s-a retras din Liga Naţională. Cu cine joacă HCDS în etapa a noua?. cugetliber.ro Încă o echipă de handbal în Liga Naţională. “U” Cluj a acceptat invitaţia FRH. cjsport.ro
Teams
Club Ground(s) Capacity CSM Bacău Sala Sporturilor 2,000 CSM București Sala Sporturilor "Rapid" 1,500 CSM Făgăraș Sala Colegiul Național "Radu Negru" 150 CSM Focșani Sala Sporturilor "Vrancea" 1,400 CSU Suceava Sala Sporturilor500 Dinamo București Sala Dinamo 2,538 Dobrogea Constanța Sala Sporturilor 2,100 Dunărea Călăraşi Sala Polivalentă 1,500 HC Buzău Sala Sporturilor "Romeo Iamandi" 1,868 Minaur Baia Mare Sala Sporturilor "Lascăr Pană" 2,048 Politehnica Timișoara Sala Constantin Jude 1,540 Potaissa Turda Sala de sport "Gheorghe Bariţiu" 600 Steaua București Sala Sporturilor "Concordia" 600 Universitatea Cluj Sala Sporturilor "Horia Demian" 2,525
League table
Play-off First round The top eight teams from regular season will be distributed in two main groups consisting of four teams each. In the group the teams will meet twice (6 matches per team) and at the end, they will qualify for the knockout phase. Teams start the group phase with a certain number of points (6, 4 or 2), depending on the place occupied in the regular season.
Seria A
Seria B
Second round The teams that played in the first round of the play-offs will also play in the second round, but for different objectives, depending on the rankings obtained in the previous round. The winners of the Seria A and Seria B groups will play in the league final, the second places will compete for the "bronze medal" and a place in the 2019–20 EHF Cup, the third places will fight for the 5th place and the last ranked teams will play against each other for the 7th place. All the finals were played in a best-of-three games format.
League table – positions 1–4
TeamQualification or relegation 1 Dinamo București 2019–20 EHF Champions League 2 Dobrogea Constanța 2019–20 EHF Cup 3 Potaissa Turda 4 CSM București 2019–20 EHF Challenge Cup
League table – positions 5–8
Team 5 Dunărea Călărași 6 Steaua București 7 Politehnica Timișoara 8 Focșani
Play-out The bottom six teams from regular season will meet twice (10 matches per team) to contest against relegation. Teams start the play-out round with a number of points ranging from 1 to 5, depending on the place occupied in the regular season. The winner of the Relegation round finishes 9th in the overall season standings, the second placed team - 10th, and so on, with the last placed team in the Relegation round being 14th.
Promotion/relegation play-offs The 11th and 12th-placed teams of the Liga Națională faced the 3rd and 4th-placed teams of the Divizia A promotion tournament. The first two places promoted to Liga Națională and the last two relegated to Divizia A. The play-offs were played on neutral ground, in Drobeta-Turnu Severin.
Season statistics
Number of teams by counties Pos.County (județ) No. of teams Team(s) 1 Bucharest (capital) 3 CSM București, Dinamo and Steaua 2 Cluj 2 Potaissa Turda and Universitatea Cluj 3 Bacău 1 Bacău Brașov 1 Făgăraș Buzău 1 Buzău Călărași 1 Dunărea Călăraşi Constanța 1 Dobrogea Constanța Maramureș 1 Minaur Baia Mare Suceava 1 Suceava Timiș 1 Politehnica Timișoara Vrancea 1 Focșani
References
External links Romanian Handball Federaration