Season | 2008–09 |
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Champions | Unirea Urziceni |
Relegated | Argeș Pitești Farul Constanța Otopeni Gloria Buzău |
Champions League | Unirea Urziceni Timișoara |
Europa League | Dinamo București CFR Cluj Vaslui Steaua București |
Matches played | 306 |
Goals scored | 707 (2.31 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Gheorghe Bucur, Florin Costea (17) |
Biggest home win | Otopeni 6–0 Farul |
Biggest away win | Pandurii 1–5 Unirea Buzău 1–5 Unirea Otopeni 0–4 CFR |
Highest scoring | Argeș 5–2 Dinamo Vaslui 4–3 Timișoara Gaz Metan 2–5 Universitatea |
Longest winning run | Timișoara (7) |
Longest unbeaten run | Urziceni (13) |
Longest winless run | Buzău (19) |
Longest losing run | Otopeni, Buzău (7) |
Highest attendance | Timișoara–Steaua (30,000) [1] |
Lowest attendance | Otopeni–Bistrița (100) [2] |
← 2007–08 2009–10 → |
The 2008–09 Liga I was the ninety-first season of Liga I, the top-level football league of Romania. Season began on 26 July 2008 and ended on 10 June 2009. CFR Cluj were the defending champions.
Teams promoted from Liga II at the beginning of the season.
Teams relegated to Liga II at the end of season.
FC Timișoara | Steaua București | FC U Craiova | CFR Cluj |
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Dan Păltinișanu | Steaua | Ion Oblemenco | Dr. Constantin Rădulescu |
Capacity: 32,972 | Capacity: 28,365 | Capacity: 25,252 | Capacity: 23,500 |
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Gloria Buzău | Farul Constanța | Dinamo București | Argeș Pitești |
Municipal | Farul | Dinamo | Nicolae Dobrin |
Capacity: 18,000 | Capacity: 15,520 | Capacity: 15,032 | Capacity: 15,000 |
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Oțelul Galați | Rapid București | ||
Oțelul | Giulești-Valentin Stănescu | ||
Capacity: 13,500 | Capacity: 11,704 [lower-roman 1] | ||
Politehnica Iași | FC Vaslui | ||
Emil Alexandrescu | Municipal | ||
Capacity: 11,390 | Capacity: 9,240 | ||
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Pandurii Târgu Jiu | FC Brașov | ||
Tudor Vladimirescu | Silviu Ploeșteanu | ||
Capacity: 9,200 | Capacity: 8,800 | ||
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Gloria Bistrița | CS Otopeni [lower-roman 2] | Unirea Urziceni | Gaz Metan Mediaș |
Gloria | Astra | Tineretului | Gaz Metan |
Capacity: 7,800 | Capacity: 7,000 | Capacity: 7,000 | Capacity: 5,300 |
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Unirea Urziceni (C) | 34 | 21 | 7 | 6 | 51 | 20 | +31 | 70 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
2 | FC Timișoara | 34 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 58 | 38 | +20 | 67 [lower-alpha 1] | Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round |
3 | Dinamo București | 34 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 56 | 30 | +26 | 65 | Qualification to Europa League play-off round [lower-alpha 2] |
4 | CFR Cluj | 34 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 44 | 26 | +18 | 59 | |
5 | Vaslui | 34 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 44 | 37 | +7 | 57 | Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round |
6 | Steaua București | 34 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 44 | 27 | +17 | 56 [lower-alpha 3] | Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round |
7 | Universitatea Craiova | 34 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 44 | 25 | +19 | 56 [lower-alpha 3] | |
8 | Rapid București | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 44 | 34 | +10 | 55 [lower-alpha 4] | |
9 | Brașov | 34 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 35 | 25 | +10 | 55 [lower-alpha 4] | |
10 | Argeș Pitești (R) | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 41 | 47 | −6 | 44 | Relegation to Liga II [lower-alpha 5] |
11 | Pandurii Târgu Jiu | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 27 | 36 | −9 | 43 | |
12 | Oțelul Galați | 34 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 37 | 48 | −11 | 40 | |
13 | Gloria Bistrița | 34 | 11 | 5 | 18 | 32 | 44 | −12 | 38 | |
14 | Politehnica Iași | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 32 | 47 | −15 | 37 | |
15 | Gaz Metan Mediaș | 34 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 36 | 51 | −15 | 36 | Spared from relegation [lower-alpha 5] |
16 | Farul Constanța (R) | 34 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 27 | 56 | −29 | 30 | Relegation to 2009–10 Liga II |
17 | Otopeni (R) | 34 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 32 | 54 | −22 | 22 | |
18 | Gloria Buzău (R) | 34 | 4 | 5 | 25 | 23 | 62 | −39 | 17 |
Source: Liga1.ro (in Romanian)
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