2008–09 Liga I

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Season 2008–09 Biggest home win Otopeni 6–0 Farul Champion FC Unirea Urziceni Matches played 306		Champions Unirea Urziceni Dates 26 Jul 2008 – 10 Jun 2009 Goals scored 707

Champions League Unirea Urziceni Timişoara Europa League Dinamo Bucureşti CFR Cluj Vaslui Steaua Bucureşti Top goalscorer Gheorghe Bucur, Florin Costea (17) Relegated FC Argeș Pitești, SSC Farul Constanța, CS Otopeni, FC Gloria Buzău People also search for 2009–10 Liga I, 2007–08 Liga I

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. Unirea Urziceni were the defending champions.

Promoted

Teams promoted from Liga II at the beginning of the season.

Serie 1 Champions: Braşov

Serie 2 Champions: Argeş Piteşti

Serie 1 Runners-up: Otopeni

Serie 2 Runners-up: Gaz Metan Mediaş

Relegated

Teams relegated to Liga II at the end of season.

Argeş Piteşti

Farul Constanţa

Otopeni

Gloria Buzău

Stadiums by capacity and locations

League table

Source: LPF (Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
Note: Timişoara were docked 6 points after not respecting a ruling from CAS. However, this decision was revoked by the CAS on 11 June 2009.
¹ CFR Cluj as the 2008–09 Cupa României winners qualified for the play-off round of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League.
² Argeş Piteşti were relegated to the Liga II due to allegations of referee bribery. Gaz Metan as best-placed relegated team were therefore spared from relegation.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Positions by round

_{Timişoara finish the championship on the place 3 and Dinamo on the place 2. But after finish championship Timişoara has received the 6 points and advanced to ranks 2.}

Source: kicker.de (German)

Results

Source: LPF (Romanian)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Source: Liga1.ro (Romanian)

Scoring

First goal of the season: Andrei Prepeliţă for Craiova against Iaşi, 64 minutes (Round 1 – 26 July 2008)

Last goal of the season: Claudiu Niculescu for Dinamo against Argeş, 90+3 minutes (Round 34 – 10 June 2009)

Fastest goal in a match: Andrei Cristea for Iaşi against Pandurii, 10 seconds (Round 30 – 9 May 2009)

Fastest two goals in a match: Pandurii 1–1 Bistriţa, minutes 2 and 4 seconds (Round 14 – 8 November 2008)

Goal scored at the latest point in a match: Cristian Oroş for Braşov against Unirea, 90+4 minutes (Round 1 – 26 July 2008)

First own goal of the season: Zhivko Zhelev (Oţelul) for Gaz Metan, 31 minutes (Round 1 – 27 July 2008)

Two own goals by the same team in a match: Diogo and Alexandru Tudose (both Buzău) for CFR, minutes 14 and 79 (Round 2 – 3 August 2008)

Two goals in one minute and one second: Farul 1–1 Braşov, between 5:53 and 6:54 (Round 13 – 1 November 2008)

Three goals in three minutes: Farul 1–4 Steaua, minutes 89, 90 and 90+2 (Round 7 – 13 September 2008)

Six goals in 30 minutes: Gaz Metan 5–1 Timişoara, minutes 60 through 90 (Round 3 – 9 August 2008)

Most goals in one half: Gaz Metan 0–0 at half time, 5–1 final Timişoara (Round 3 – 9 August 2008)

Widest winning margin: Otopeni 6–0 Farul (Round 34 – 10 June 2009)

Hattricks scored: 4

Alexandru Curtean for Gaz Metan against Timişoara, minutes 65, 75 and 81 (Round 3 – 9 August 2008)

Marius Niculae for Dinamo against Vaslui, minutes 24, 78 and 90 (Round 24 – 11 April 2009)

Marius Niculae for Dinamo against Bistriţa, minutes 20, 56 and 72 (Round 26 – 21 April 2009)

Victoraş Iacob for Otopeni against Farul, minutes 4, 34 and 50 (Round 34 – 10 June 2009)

Cards

First yellow card: Attila Hadnagy for Braşov against Unirea, 19 minutes (Round 1 – 26 July 2008)

First red card: Rafael Pereira for Gaz Metan against Dinamo, 22 minutes (Round 2 – 3 August 2008)

Most red cards in a single match: 3

Dinamo 1–0 Craiova – 2 for Dinamo (Júlio César, Adrian Ropotan) and 1 for Craiova (Josh Mitchell) (Round 6 – 30 August 2008)

Argeş 1–1 Craiova – 2 for Craiova (Mircea Bornescu, Michael Baird) and 1 for Argeş (Daniel Bălaşa) (Round 10 – 3 October 2008)

Match without any cards: Unirea 1–1 Steaua (Round 34 – 10 June 2009)

References

2008–09 Liga I Wikipedia

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