2017–18 Liga Națională (men's basketball)
# 2017–18 Liga Națională (men's basketball)

The 2017–18 Liga Națională season was the 68th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. U-BT Cluj-Napoca were the defending champion.

## Competition format

The competition format will be the same as in the previous season.

* 12 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

Timba Timișoara and Politehnica Iași promoted from the last Liga I. There were not any relegations as there were only 11 teams in the previous season and Olimpic Baia Mare withdrew from the competition.

| Team | City | Arena | Capacity |
| - | - | - | - |
| Mureș | Târgu Mureș | Sala Sporturilor | 2,000 |
| Timișoara | Timișoara | Constantin Jude | 2,200 |
| Timba | Timișoara | Constantin Jude | 2,200 |
| FC Arges | Pitești | Trivale | 2,000 |
| Oradea | Oradea | Arena Antonio Alexe | 2,000 |
| Sibiu | Sibiu | Transilvania | 3,000 |
| Dinamo București | București | Dinamo | 2,538 |
| Phoenix Galați | Galați | Dunărea | 1,500 |
| Politehnica Iași | Iași | Polyvalent Hall | 1,500 |
| Craiova | Craiova | Polyvalent Hall | 4,215 |
| Steaua Eximbank | București | Mihai Viteazu | 2,000 |
| Steaua Eximbank | București | Polyvalent Hall | 3,500 |
| U-BT Cluj-Napoca | Cluj-Napoca | Polyvalent Hall | 7,308 |
| U-BT Cluj-Napoca | Cluj-Napoca | Horia Demian | 2,525 |

## Regular season

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Sibiu | 22 | 18 | 4 | 1945 | 1594 | +351 | 40 | Qualification to group 1–6 |
| 2 | U-BT Cluj-Napoca | 22 | 18 | 4 | 1905 | 1643 | +262 | 40 | Qualification to group 1–6 |
| 3 | Timișoara | 22 | 15 | 7 | 1958 | 1712 | +246 | 37 | Qualification to group 1–6 |
| 4 | Oradea | 22 | 15 | 7 | 1970 | 1644 | +326 | 37 | Qualification to group 1–6 |
| 5 | Steaua Eximbank | 22 | 15 | 7 | 1907 | 1645 | +262 | 37 | Qualification to group 1–6 |
| 6 | U FC Arges | 22 | 13 | 9 | 1854 | 1709 | +145 | 35 | Qualification to group 1–6 |
| 7 | Craiova | 22 | 11 | 11 | 2027 | 1926 | +101 | 33 | Qualification to group 7–12 |
| 8 | Phoenix Galați | 22 | 10 | 12 | 1792 | 1765 | +27 | 32 | Qualification to group 7–12 |
| 9 | Timba | 22 | 6 | 16 | 1711 | 1945 | −234 | 28 | Qualification to group 7–12 |
| 10 | Mureș | 22 | 6 | 16 | 1531 | 1954 | −423 | 28 | Qualification to group 7–12 |
| 11 | Politehnica Iași | 22 | 4 | 18 | 1674 | 1903 | −229 | 26 | Qualification to group 7–12 |
| 12 | Dinamo București | 22 | 1 | 21 | 1353 | 2187 | −834 | 23 | Qualification to group 7–12 |

## Second stage

### Group 1–6

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | U-BT Cluj-Napoca | 32 | 23 | 9 | 2750 | 2454 | +296 | 55 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 2 | Sibiu | 32 | 23 | 9 | 2734 | 2418 | +316 | 55 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 3 | Oradea | 32 | 22 | 10 | 2799 | 2441 | +358 | 54 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 4 | Steaua Eximbank | 32 | 21 | 11 | 2686 | 2399 | +287 | 53 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 5 | Timișoara | 32 | 20 | 12 | 2759 | 2494 | +265 | 52 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 6 | U FC Arges | 32 | 15 | 17 | 2615 | 2545 | +70 | 47 | Qualification to Play-offs |

### Group 7–12

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 7 | Craiova | 30 | 18 | 12 | 2861 | 2511 | +350 | 48 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 8 | Phoenix Galați | 30 | 17 | 13 | 2557 | 2335 | +222 | 47 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 9 | Timba | 30 | 9 | 21 | 2372 | 2650 | −278 | 39 | |
| 10 | Politehnica Iași | 30 | 5 | 25 | 2299 | 2749 | −450 | 35 | |
| 11 | Dinamo București | 30 | 3 | 27 | 1954 | 2967 | −1013 | 33 | |
| 12 | Mureș (D) | 22 | 6 | 16 | 1531 | 1954 | −423 | 28 | Withdrew |

* ↑ Mureș did not play the second stage.

## Play-offs

All series were played in a best-of-five games format.

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1U-BT Cluj-Napoca | 1U-BT Cluj-Napoca | 1U-BT Cluj-Napoca | 98 | 78 | 71 | | | | | | |
| 8Phoenix Galați | 8Phoenix Galați | 8Phoenix Galați | 69 | 64 | 67 | | | | | | |
| 8Phoenix Galați | 8Phoenix Galați | 8Phoenix Galați | 69 | 64 | 67 | 1U-BT Cluj-Napoca | 89 | 85 | 71 | 78 | 72 |
| | | | | | | 4Steaua Eximbank | 79 | 75 | 79 | 86 | 76 |
| 4Steaua Eximbank | 89 | 69 | 82 | 74 | 76 | 4Steaua Eximbank | 79 | 75 | 79 | 86 | 76 |
| 5Timișoara | 67 | 74 | 89 | 64 | 69 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 5Timișoara | 67 | 74 | 89 | 64 | 69 | | | | | | | 4Steaua CSM Eximbank | 4Steaua CSM Eximbank | 73 | 75 | 70 | 89 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 3Oradea | 3Oradea | 86 | 70 | 94 | 92 |
| 2Sibiu | 2Sibiu | 2Sibiu | 86 | 82 | 85 | | | | | | | 3Oradea | 3Oradea | 86 | 70 | 94 | 92 |
| 7Craiova | 7Craiova | 7Craiova | 73 | 75 | 84 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 7Craiova | 7Craiova | 7Craiova | 73 | 75 | 84 | 2Sibiu | 2Sibiu | 78 | 85 | 64 | 61 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 3Oradea | 3Oradea | 81 | 78 | 76 | 71 |
| 3Oradea | 3Oradea | 62 | 88 | 83 | 74 | 3Oradea | 3Oradea | 81 | 78 | 76 | 71 |
| 6U FC Arges | 6U FC Arges | 66 | 58 | 70 | 67 | | | | | | |
| Third place | Third place | Third place | Third place |
| 1U-BT Cluj-Napoca | 94 | 90 | 91 |
| 2CSU Sibiu | 89 | 93 | 77 |
