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) |
Lowest attendance | Otopeni–Bistrița (100) |
← 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 |
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 |
Oțelul Galați |
BucharestArgeșBrașovBuzăuCFRCraiovaFarulGaz MetanGloriaOtopeniOțelulPanduriiPoli IașiTimișoaraUrziceniVasluiBucharest teams Dinamo Rapid Steaua2008–09 Liga I (Romania) |
Rapid București | |
Oțelul | Giulești-Valentin Stănescu | ||
Capacity: 13,500 | Capacity: 11,704 | ||
Politehnica Iași | FC Vaslui | ||
Emil Alexandrescu | Municipal | ||
Capacity: 11,390 | Capacity: 9,240 | ||
Pandurii Târgu Jiu | FC Brașov | ||
Tudor Vladimirescu | Silviu Ploeșteanu | ||
Capacity: 9,200 | Capacity: 8,800 | ||
Gloria Bistrița | CS Otopeni | Unirea Urziceni | Gaz Metan Mediaș |
Gloria | Astra | Tineretului | Gaz Metan |
Capacity: 7,800 | Capacity: 7,000 | Capacity: 7,000 | Capacity: 5,300 |
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
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Dinamo București | Cornel Țălnar | Contract not renewed | 17 April 2008 | Mircea Rednic | 17 April 2008 |
Rapid București | Marian Rada | Contract not renewed | 3 June 2008 | José Peseiro | 3 June 2008 |
Vaslui | Emil Săndoi | Contract not renewed | 10 June 2008 | Viorel Hizo | 10 June 2008 |
Otopeni | Liviu Ciobotariu | Contract not renewed | 18 June 2008 | Miodrag Ješić | 21 June 2008 |
Gloria Buzău | Ștefan Stoica | Sacked | 11 August 2008 | Álvaro Magalhães | 12 August 2008 |
Otopeni | Miodrag Ješić | Caretaker | 18 August 2008 | Gabriel Mărgărit | 18 August 2008 |
CFR Cluj | Ioan Andone | Sacked | 30 August 2008 | Maurizio Trombetta | 1 September 2008 |
Otopeni | Gabriel Mărgărit | Sacked | 8 September 2008 | Marian Bucurescu | 8 September 2008 |
Pandurii Târgu Jiu | Eugen Neagoe | Sacked | 21 September 2008 | Sorin Cârțu | 21 September 2008 |
Rapid București | José Peseiro | Sacked | 2 October 2008 | Nicolae Manea | 3 October 2008 |
Gloria Buzău | Álvaro Magalhães | Sacked | 3 October 2008 | Mario Marinică | 9 October 2008 |
Rapid București | Nicolae Manea | Caretaker | 9 October 2008 | José Peseiro | 9 October 2008 |
Steaua București | Marius Lăcătuș | Resigned | 22 October 2008 | Dorinel Munteanu | 26 October 2008 |
Vaslui | Viorel Hizo | Sacked | 1 November 2008 | Viorel Moldovan | 1 November 2008 |
Otopeni | Marian Bucurescu | Resigned | 24 November 2008 | Liviu Ciobotariu | 24 November 2008 |
Timișoara | Dušan Uhrin, Jr. | Sacked | 2 December 2008 | Gavril Balint | 29 December 2008 |
Gloria Buzău | Mario Marinică | Sacked | 17 December 2008 | Constantin Cârstea | 28 January 2009 |
Steaua București | Dorinel Munteanu | Sacked | 31 December 2008 | Marius Lăcătuș | 1 January 2009 |
CFR Cluj | Maurizio Trombetta | Sacked | 6 January 2009 | Ales Jindra and Dušan Uhrin, Jr. |
8 January 2009 |
Politehnica Iași | Ionuț Popa | Resigned | 11 January 2009 | Cristiano Bergodi | 18 January 2009 |
Rapid București | José Peseiro | Sacked | 12 January 2009 | Marian Rada | 14 January 2009 |
CFR Cluj | Ales Jindra and Dušan Uhrin, Jr. |
Sacked | 5 April 2009 | Toni | 6 April 2009 |
Farul Constanța | Ion Marin | Resigned | 13 April 2009 | Lucian Marinof | 13 April 2009 |
Rapid București | Marian Rada | Resigned | 17 April 2009 | Viorel Hizo | 3 May 2009 |
Universitatea Craiova | Nicolo Napoli | Sacked | 15 May 2009 | Ionel Gane | 15 May 2009 |
Steaua București | Marius Lăcătuș | Resigned | 17 May 2009 | Massimo Pedrazzini | 18 May 2009 |
Vaslui | Viorel Moldovan | Resigned | 26 May 2009 | Cristian Dulca | 26 May 2009 |
Timișoara | Gavril Balint | Sacked | 31 May 2009 | Valentin Velcea | 1 June 2009 |
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 | 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 |
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 | Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round |
7 | Universitatea Craiova | 34 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 44 | 25 | +19 | 56 | |
8 | Rapid București | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 44 | 34 | +10 | 55 | |
9 | Brașov | 34 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 35 | 25 | +10 | 55 | |
10 | Argeș Pitești (R) | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 41 | 47 | −6 | 44 | Relegation to Liga II |
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 |
16 | Farul Constanța (R) | 34 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 27 | 56 | −29 | 30 | Relegation to 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 |
Team ╲ Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
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Argeș Pitești | 9 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Brașov | 4 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
CFR Cluj | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Universitatea Craiova | 3 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
Dinamo București | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Farul Constanța | 4 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
Gaz Metan Mediaș | 7 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
Gloria Bistrița | 17 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
Gloria Buzău | 13 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 |
Otopeni | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 |
Oțelul Galați | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 12 |
Pandurii Târgu Jiu | 9 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 11 |
Politehnica Iași | 16 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
Rapid București | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
Steaua București | 13 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
Timișoara | 9 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Unirea Urziceni | 13 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Vaslui | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 5 |
Home \ Away | ARG | BRA | CFR | UCR | DIN | FAR | GAZ | GBI | GBU | OTO | OȚE | PAN | PIA | RAP | STE | TIM | URZ | VAS |
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Argeș Pitești | — | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 5–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
Brașov | 1–0 | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
CFR Cluj | 2–0 | 2–0 | — | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
Universitatea Craiova | 1–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | — | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–1 |
Dinamo București | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | — | 1–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 4–1 |
Farul Constanța | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–4 | — | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 |
Gaz Metan Mediaș | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–5 | 1–1 | 0–1 | — | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 5–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 |
Gloria Bistrița | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | — | 2–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–3 |
Gloria Buzău | 3–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | — | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–5 | 4–1 |
Otopeni | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–4 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 6–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | — | 0–1 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–2 |
Oțelul Galați | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | — | 0–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 |
Pandurii Târgu Jiu | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | — | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–5 | 1–0 |
Politehnica Iași | 4–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | — | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–3 |
Rapid București | 1–3 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | — | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–2 |
Steaua București | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | — | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 |
Timișoara | 2–1 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | — | 1–2 | 3–1 |
Unirea Urziceni | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | — | 1–0 |
Vaslui | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–3 | 0–2 | — |
Source: Liga1.ro (in Romanian)
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Goalkeepers: Giedrius Arlauskis (30 / 0); Cătălin Grigore (2 / 0); Daniel Tudor (2 / 0). Manager: Dan Petrescu. |
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