Liga I

Romania 's highest level football league. The official name is Liga I, and it is also called Liga 1 by adding Arabic numerals. It is also called LPF or Liga 1 Betano, named after the betting company Betano, the league's main sponsor.

It is currently composed of 14 clubs, and the lower league, Liga II, and the elevation agent. He plays two games per team and runs up to 26 rounds and will run the split round like the K -League 1 after the regular league ends. The top six teams compete in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League tickets in the top flute, while the lower eight teams fight for automatic relegation and relegation offers in the subcomput. The Champions League tickets are given to the first place in the top flute, and the league rankings are low, so they will advance to the second qualifiers. The second team will be given the Europa League second qualifiers and the third team will receive the first qualifier ticket. The Cup Kupa Romani A win team is also given a Europa League third qualifier ticket. In the subcleans, eight teams compete to avoid relegation, and the lower 2 teams are automatically relegated to the second division in the next season, and the third lowest team is the second -part league, Liga II's third team and home and away. When entering the playoffs, divide it in half of the regular league points (if you are odd, after half, and then round, out of the victory, don't bring it from the regular league). There are a few things to consider when ranking here.

1. Points
2. Comparison of the two clubs when points are equal
3. Comparison of overall goal difference (goal difference in overall record) when points and overall records are the same
4. Comparison of the number of points scored when points, record, and overall goal difference are the same
5. Total Goal Difference Comparison
6. Total score comparison
7. If all of the above are the same, additional playoff matches

The club with the most wins is FCSB , a team that is familiar to some as it often appears in the Champions League or Europa League , winning 26 times. FC Dinamo Bucharest is chasing them with 18th place.

However, many teams in the league have poor finances, which often leads to non-payment of salaries. In July 2022, the International Football Players' Association (FIFpro), along with the Chinese Super League , Algeria, Greece (Superliga Ellada 2), Libya, Saudi Professional League , and Super Lig, will also organize the Romanian Liga I for professional soccer players. He warned people to be careful about moving to that country, saying that unfair transactions, including widespread contract violations, are taking place. Among them, Romania and Turkiye are said to have repeatedly and repeatedly committed contract violations, including non-payment of salaries, at several clubs.

Unlike poor domestic leagues, neighboring countries often produce their own water -level players. In particular, Serie A has been adjacent to Romania and has been accelerating Romanian athletes' Serie A since the acquisition of Genoa, Romanian manager Dan Suku. In addition , it is becoming a familiar stage for Romanian players, with Christian Kibu as the manager of Parma Carlcho .

In the 2019-20 season, COVID-19 's global ruins, Liga I was also suspended, and the season was forced to operate. Riga I eliminated the direct relegation, and the top two teams of II, the second division, were automatically promoted, and the winner of the upcoming playoffs of Riga I4 and Liga II's third team was to join the next season. As a result, Liga I expanded from 14 teams to 16 teams.

Three Korean players have played in Liga I in Romania. Not recently, but more than 10 years ago, in 2007, Jeonnam Dragons and Bucheon SK[8] Kim Gil- sik, who played for O'Chelul Galachi, made 19 appearances and scored two goals. In Sports 2.0, a now-defunct weekly sports magazine, when Kim Gil-sik told his teammates that they came from Korea and the money they received from Korea when he was playing in Romania, his teammates reacted in a puzzled way, asking why they came here. In fact, while playing in the Romanian league, he did not receive enough money and had to fight legal battles. As such, the Romanian league also has serious financial problems. Of course, nationally popular teams like Steaua Bucharest are an exception.

Ironically, in the 2010–11 season Galáchi won the Romanian Liga 1 for the first and last time. For nearly 50 years, a team that had won the 2nd to 4th division championships..... In addition to winning the Super Cup and recording a double championship , the team was relegated to the 2nd division in less than 5 years, but the team was relegated to the 2nd division due to financial problems. has been disbanded Now it is a 3rd division team re-founded by passionate fans with money.

A more famous player, Park Jae-hong, who played 31 games for the national team from 2000 to 2005, joined Universitatea Cluj, a second division team during the 2006-2007 season, in the winter and became the second Korean to advance to Romanian Liga I in the 2007-08 season.[9] Afterwards, Park Jae-hong played in 14 games in the first half of the 2007-08 season, scoring 2 goals, and played as a starting defender. However, due to the same problem of non-payment of wages as Kim Gil-sik, he eventually transferred to Gyeongnam FC in the middle of the season and left Romania. Universitate Cluj, Park Jae-hong's team, was in such a mess that it was relegated to the second division after one season and even to the fourth division in the mid-2010s. Fortunately, the 2020-21 season is a second division team.

The last Korean Romanian first division player to date is Kim Byung - oh, currently a member of Busan I - Park .

Due to weak league finances such as delayed wage payments, which made Kim Gil-sik and Park Jae-hong difficult, the ransom of Romanian players is not too expensive, even for players from their country's prestigious teams. For this reason, in the international soccer transfer market, where low-cost, high-efficiency has recently become a trend, demand for top-notch Romanian league players is quite high, especially in the K-League. For this reason, there are many cases in which, although not domestic players, quite a few Romanian players came from Liga I to the K-League. The best-known figure is Adrian Neaga . Other than that, Mihai Drugusch and Gabriel Popescu, who played for Suwon.[10] etc. Even after that , Romanian national players such as Aurelian Kitchu and Jean-Claude Bozga experienced Liga I and advanced to the K-League . advanced Among non-Romanian players, there is an example like Gordan Bunoja . Recently, unfortunately, except for Kichu, the Romanian players have not been able to show a good look because the environment is not well suited. Sergio Busch has also failed, and Daniel Popa, who recently joined Daejeon, is also showing a failure.[11]

In the 2025 season, the 22-23 season scoring King Marco Dujiji played in FC Seoul.

Although they have a little more skill than this, large prospects also advance to Spain, England, and Italy, and players rated one level lower than that often transfer to the Russian league. Recently, many have advanced to the Turkish Super League, which favors Romanian players.

* A tilted club is a disbanded club