2023–24 Liga II

The 2023–24 Liga II is the 84th season of the Liga II, the second tier of the Romanian football league system. A total of 20 teams contest the league.

Liga II

Season	2023–24
← 2022–23 2024–25 → All statistics correct as of 16 May 2023.

It is the eighth Liga II season with a single series.^[1] The first two teams will be promoted to Liga I at the end of the season and the third-placed and fourth-placed team will play a play-off match against the 13th-placed and 14th-placed team from Liga I. The last five teams will be relegated to Liga III. The season began on 5 August 2023 and is scheduled to end in June 2024.^[2]

Teams

Team changes

Promoted from 2022–23 Liga III	Relegated from 2022–23 Liga I	Promoted to 2023–24 Liga I	Relegated to 2023–24 Liga III
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț^[3]^[4] (after 7 years of absence) CS Tunari (debut) CSM Alexandria (after 18 years of absence) CSM Reșița (after 2 years of absence) Corvinul Hunedoara (after 15 years of absence)	Argeș Pitești^[5] (after 3 years of absence) Chindia Târgoviște^[6] (after 4 years of absence) CS Mioveni^[7] (after 2 years of absence)	Politehnica Iași^[8] (ended 2-year stay) Oțelul Galați^[9] (ended 1-year stay) Dinamo București^[10] (ended 1-year stay)	Progresul Spartac București^[11] (ended 1-year stay) Ripensia Timișoara (ended 6-year stay) Minaur Baia Mare (ended 1-year stay) Politehnica Timișoara (ended 7-year stay) Unirea Constanța (ended 2-year stay)

Teams excluded by Romanian Football Federation

On 7 August 2023, FC Brașov was excluded from Liga II by the Romanian Football Federation.^[12]

Teams spared from relegation

Progresul Spartac București was spared from relegation to 2023–24 Liga III season, due to the decision to relegate FC Brașov, decision that vacanted place in the 2022–23 Liga II season.

Venues

Steaua București	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	Corvinul Hunedoara	Argeș Pitești
Steaua	Ceahlăul	Michael Klein	Nicolae Dobrin
Capacity: 31,254	Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 16,500	Capacity: 15,000
Viitorul Târgu Jiu	CSM Reșița	Gloria Buzău	1599 Șelimbăr
Tudor Vladimirescu	Mircea Chivu	Municipal	Municipal^[i]
Capacity: 12,518	Capacity: 12,500	Capacity: 12,321	Capacity: 12,000
Slatina	Bucharest   Tunari   Ceahlăul   Alexandria   Reșița   Corvinul   Buzău   Argeș   Mioveni   Chindia   Dej   Dumbrăvița   Miercurea Ciuc   Slatina   Slobozia   Șelimbăr   Târgu Jiu   Bucharest / Ilfov teams: Chiajna Metaloglobus Steaua Progresul class=notpageimage| Locations of the 2023–24 Liga II teams     Chiajna   Steaua   Metaloglobus   Progresul class=notpageimage| Location of Bucharest and Ilfov teams.		Mioveni
1 Mai			Orășenesc
Capacity: 11,390			Capacity: 10,000
FC Brașov			Chindia Târgoviște
Silviu Ploieșteanu			Eugen Popescu
Capacity: 8,800			Capacity: 8,400
Unirea Dej	Unirea Slobozia	Concordia Chiajna	Csíkszereda
Unirea	1 Mai	Concordia	Municipal
Capacity: 6,000	Capacity: 6,000	Capacity: 5,123	Capacity: 4,000
Alexandria	Tunari	Dumbrăvița	Metaloglobus București
Municipal	Comunal	Ștefan Dobay	Metaloglobus
Capacity: 2,000	Capacity: 1,700	Capacity: 1,000	Capacity: 1,000

1. 1599 Șelimbăr was relocated to Municipal Stadium in Râmnicu Vâlcea, because Comunal Stadium in Șelimbăr is under renovations.

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
1599 Șelimbăr	Claudiu Niculescu	Ionuț Năstăsie	Nike	—
Alexandria	Ștefan Odoroabă	Cosmin Neagu	Joma	Alexandrion Group
Argeș Pitești	Eugen Neagoe	Grigore Turda	Macron	Getica 95
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	Cristian Pustai	Alexandru Ichim	Masita	—
Chindia Târgoviște	Vasile Miriuță	Vlad Prejmerean	Macron	—
Concordia Chiajna	Erik Lincar	Dorin Codrea	Joma	—
Corvinul Hunedoara	Florin Maxim	Marius Chindriș	Joma	Primăria Hunedoara
Csíkszereda	Róbert Ilyés	Dávid Kelemen	2Rule	Csíkszereda
CSM Reșița	Flavius Stoican	Marian Drăghiceanu	Puma	Invest in Reșița
CSM Slatina	Daniel Oprescu	Cătălin Doman	Macron	Primăria Slatina
Dumbrăvița	Cosmin Stan	Costel Zurbagiu	Macron	Primăria Dumbrăvița
Gloria Buzău	Andrei Prepeliță	Ionuț Andrei Șerban	Joma	Superbet
Metaloglobus București	Ianis Zicu	Georgian Honciu	Jako	—
Mioveni	Constantin Schumacher	Ionuț Burnea	Macron	—
Progresul București	Andrei Erimia	Eugen Lixandru	Team	Kulterra
Steaua București	Daniel Oprița	Horia Iancu	Adidas	Get's Bet
Tunari	Ștefan Odoroabă	Liviu Oșca	Nike	Pinum
Unirea Dej	Dragoș Militaru	Marius Cătinean	Hummel	Dendiarom
Unirea Slobozia	Adrian Mihalcea	Constantin Toma	Joma	CJ Ialomița
Viitorul Târgu Jiu	Călin Cojocaru	Denis Brînzan	Nike	Artego

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Slobozia	Enache Costea	Assistant manager	31 May 2023	Pre-season	Adrian Mihalcea	1 July 2023^[13]
Mioveni	Vlad Țăranu	End of tenure as a caretaker	31 May 2023^[14]		Constantin Schumacher	1 July 2023
Chindia	Anton Petrea	End of contract	31 May 2023^[15]		Dragoș Militaru	1 July 2023
Concordia	Eugen Trică		31 May 2023^[16]		Erik Lincar	1 July 2023^[17]
Dej	Dragoș Militaru		31 May 2023^[18]		Dacian Nastai	1 July 2023^[19]
Argeș	Bogdan Vintilă	Mutual agreement	8 June 2023^[20]		Alexandru Pelici	1 July 2023
Tunari	Gabriel Manu		14 June 2023		Florin Stângă	1 July 2023^[21]
Gloria	Adrian Mihalcea	End of contract	30 June 2023^[22]		Andrei Prepeliță	1 July 2023

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	1599 Șelimbăr	15	9	5	1	17	8	+9	32	Qualification for Promotion play-off
2	Corvinul Hunedoara	15	9	4	2	23	11	+12	31
3	Unirea Slobozia	14	8	4	2	13	5	+8	28
4	Gloria Buzău	14	7	4	3	19	15	+4	25
5	Mioveni	14	6	5	3	16	8	+8	23
6	Steaua București	15	5	7	3	29	18	+11	22
7	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	14	6	4	4	21	12	+9	22	Qualification for Relegation play-out Group A
8	Concordia Chiajna	14	5	6	3	20	11	+9	21	Qualification for Relegation play-out Group B
9	Chindia Târgoviște	14	5	5	4	19	10	+9	20
10	Viitorul Târgu Jiu	14	4	8	2	14	13	+1	20	Qualification for Relegation play-out Group A
11	Reșița	15	5	5	5	23	23	0	20
12	Dumbrăvița	14	5	4	5	16	15	+1	19	Qualification for Relegation play-out Group B
13	Csíkszereda	14	5	4	5	11	12	−1	19
14	Slatina	14	4	5	5	13	14	−1	17	Qualification for Relegation play-out Group A
15	Metaloglobus București	14	4	5	5	12	17	−5	17
16	Argeș Pitești	14	3	6	5	12	12	0	15	Qualification for Relegation play-out Group B
17	Tunari	14	2	5	7	11	26	−15	11
18	Unirea Dej	14	3	1	10	10	27	−17	10	Qualification for Relegation play-out Group A
19	Alexandria	14	2	2	10	9	22	−13	8
20	Progresul Spartac	14	0	1	13	8	37	−29	1	Qualification for Relegation play-out Group B

Updated to match(es) played on 30 November 2023 (2 of 3 matches played). Source: FRF (in Romanian)
Rules for classification: During Season: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals scored. End of Season: 1) Points, 2) Head-to-head points, 3) Head-to-head goal difference, 4) Goal difference, 5) Goals scored

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