List of Romanian football champions

The Romanian football champions (Romanian: campionii României la fotbal) are the winners of Liga I, Romania's premier annual association football league competition. The title has been contested since 1909 in varying forms of competition. Steaua București has won a record 21 championship titles, thus making it the most prolific team in the Liga I.^[1]^[a] The second most successful team in the league is Dinamo București with 18 championship titles. The Steaua-Dinamo rivalry, also known as the Eternal Derby, is the biggest one in the Romanian football championship, and between the two teams, they have won the championship 44 times and finished as runners-up another 37 times during the 102 completed seasons.

The third most prolific is team is CFR Cluj with 8 championships won, followed by Venus București which won all of its titles during the early editions of the championship, winning 7 trophies before its dissolution in 1949.^[2] Since the first edition in 1909–10, the league has been won by 23 teams representing 12 cities, with nearly two-thirds of all editions (59 titles) being won by teams from the capital, Bucharest. The 2007–08 champions CFR Cluj were the first team outside Bucharest to win the championship in 16 years.

The first Romanian Football Championship was held between December 1909 and January 1910 and included three teams, two from Bucharest and one from Ploiești. The title was decided using a knock-out format, with Olympia București being the inaugural winners.^[3] The knock-out format was used until the 1921–22 season, when a league consisting of seven teams was formed. The regular regional leagues season was followed by a final tournament featuring the first placed teams of each region.^[3] The championship was suspended due to the World Wars from 1916 to 1919 and 1941 to 1946. The competition kept the name Divizia A from 1921 until 2006 when it was changed to Liga I following a trademark dispute.^[4] Between 1955 and 1992, the winner of the championship qualified into the European Champion Clubs' Cup, which was the predecessor of the current UEFA Champions League. The most successful Romanian team to enter this competition is Steaua București, who won the trophy in the 1985–86 season and played the final in the 1988–89 season.^[5]^[6]^[a] For the first time in history, the crowned champion from the 2007–08 season of Liga I qualified directly into the UEFA Champions League group stage, which continued until the UEFA Champions League 2011–12 season.^[7]

The 2015–16 season of the Liga I was the first season to take place since the new playoff/playout system was introduced. Thus in the regular season the 16 teams met twice, a total of 30 matches per team, with the top 6 advancing to the Championship round and the bottom 10 qualifying for the Relegation round.^[8] This season was marked by another milestone, the Giurgiu-based team FC Astra was crowned champions for the first time whilst ending FCSB three-year domination.^[9]

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Season^[10]	Winner^[10]	Runner-up	Third place	Note
1909–10	Olympia București (1)	Colentina București	United Ploiești	^[11]
1910–11	Olympia București (2)	United Ploiești	Colentina București	^[12]
1911–12	United Ploiești (1)	Olympia București	Colentina București	^[13]
1912–13	Colentina București (1)	Cercul Atletic București	Bukarester FC	^[14]
1913–14	Colentina București (2)	Bukarester FC	Cercul Atletic București	^[15]
1914–15	Româno-Americană București (1)	Colentina București	Bukarester FC	^[16]
1915–16	Prahova Ploiești (2)	Bukarester FC	Colțea București	^[17]
1916–19	Cancelled due to World War I.			^[A]
1919–20	Venus București (1)	Tricolor București	Colțea București	^[18]
1920–21^[19]	Tricolor București (1)	Venus București	Prahova Ploiești	^[20]

Season^[10]	Winner^[10]	Runner-up	Third place	Top scorer (Club – Goals)^[21]	Note
1921–22	Chinezul Timișoara (1)	Victoria Cluj	AMEF Arad	not available^[B]	^[22]
1922–23	Chinezul Timișoara (2)	Victoria Cluj	Venus București	^[23]
1923–24	Chinezul Timișoara (3)	CA Oradea	Mureșul Târgu Mureș	^[24]
1924–25	Chinezul Timișoara (4)	UCAS Petroșani	Jahn Cernăuți	^[25]
1925–26	Chinezul Timișoara (5)	Juventus București	Vagonul Arad	^[26]
1926–27	Chinezul Timișoara (6)	Colțea Brașov	Unirea Tricolor București	^[27]
1927–28	Colțea Brașov (1)	Jiul Lupeni	Mihai Viteazul Chișinău	^[28]
1928–29	Venus București (2)	România Cluj	Banatul Timișoara	^[29]
1929–30	Juventus București (1)	Gloria CFR Arad	Universitatea Cluj	^[30]
1930–31	UD Reșița (1)	Societatea Gimnastică Sibiu	Prahova Ploiești	^[31]
1931–32	Venus București (3)	UD Reșița	Mureșul Târgu Mureș	^[32]
1932–33	Ripensia Timișoara (1)	Universitatea Cluj	CFR București	Ştefan Dobay (Ripensia Timișoara – 16)	^[33]
1933–34	Venus București (4)	Ripensia Timișoara	Unirea Tricolor București	Ştefan Dobay (Ripensia Timișoara – 25)	^[34]
1934–35	Ripensia Timișoara (2)	CA Oradea	Venus București	Ştefan Dobay (Ripensia Timișoara – 24)	^[35]
1935–36	Ripensia Timișoara (3)	AMEF Arad	Juventus București	Ştefan Barbu (CFR București – 23)	^[36]
1936–37	Venus București (5)	Rapid București	Ripensia Timișoara	Ştefan Dobay (Ripensia – 21) Traian Iordache (Unirea Tricolor București – 21)	^[37]
1937–38	Ripensia Timișoara (4)	Rapid București	Venus București	Árpád Thierjung (Chinezul Timișoara – 22)	^[38]
1938–39	Venus București (6)	Ripensia Timișoara	AMEF Arad	Adalbert Marksteiner (Ripensia Timișoara – 21)	^[39]
1939–40	Venus București (7)	Rapid București	Sportul Studențesc București	István Avar (Rapid București – 21)	^[40]
1940–41	Unirea Tricolor București (2)	Rapid București	Ripensia Timișoara	Ion Bogdan (Rapid București – 21) Valeriu Niculescu (Unirea Tricolor București – 21)	^[41]
1941–46	1942 Heroes Cup and Two unofficial editions were played due to World War II.^[42]				^[C]
1946–47	ITA Arad (1)	Carmen București	CFR Timișoara	Ladislau Bonyhádi (ITA Arad – 26)	^[43]
1947–48	ITA Arad (2)	CFR Timișoara	CFR București	Ladislau Bonyhádi (ITA Arad – 49)	^[44]
1948–49	IC Oradea (1)	CFR București	Jiul Petroșani	Gheorghe Váczi (IC Oradea – 24)	^[45]
1950	Flamura Roşie Arad (3)	Locomotiva București	Știința Timișoara	Andrei Rădulescu (Locomotiva București – 18)	^[46]
1951	CCA București (1)	Dinamo București	Progresul Oradea	Gheorghe Váczi (Progresul Oradea – 23)	^[47]
1952	CCA București (2)	Dinamo București	CA Câmpulung Moldovenesc	Titus Ozon (Dinamo București – 17)	^[48]
1953	CCA București (3)	Dinamo București	Flamura Roșie Arad	Titus Ozon (Dinamo București – 12)	^[49]
1954	Flamura Roşie Arad (4)	CCA București	Dinamo București	Alexandru Ene (Dinamo București – 20)	^[50]
1955	Dinamo București (1)	Flacăra Ploiești	Progresul București	Ion Ciosescu (Ştiinţa Timișoara – 18)	^[51]
1956	CCA București (4)	Dinamo București	Știința Timișoara	Ion Alecsandrescu (CCA București – 18)	^[52]
1957–58	Petrolul Ploiești (2)	CCA București	Știința Timișoara	Ion Ciosescu (Ştiinţa Timișoara – 21)	^[53]
1958–59	Petrolul Ploiești (3)	Dinamo București	CCA București	Gheorghe Ene (Rapid București – 17)	^[54]
1959–60	CCA București (5)	Steagul Roşu Oraşul Stalin	Petrolul Ploiești	Gheorghe Constantin (CCA București – 20)	^[55]
1960–61	CCA București (6)	Dinamo București	Rapid București	Gheorghe Constantin (CCA București – 22)	^[56]
1961–62	Dinamo București (2)	Petrolul Ploiești	Progresul București	Gheorghe Constantin (Steaua București – 24)	^[57]
1962–63	Dinamo București (3)	Steaua București	Știința Timișoara	Ion Ionescu (Rapid București – 20)	^[58]
1963–64	Dinamo București (4)	Rapid București	Steaua București	Constantin Frăţilă (Dinamo București – 19) Cornel Pavlovici (Steaua București – 19)	^[59]
1964–65	Dinamo București (5)	Rapid București	Steaua București	Mihai Adam (Ştiinţa Cluj – 18)	^[60]
1965–66	Petrolul Ploiești (4)	Rapid București	Dinamo București	Ion Ionescu (Rapid București – 24)	^[61]
1966–67	Rapid București (1)	Dinamo București	Universitatea Craiova	Ion Oblemenco (Universitatea Craiova – 17)	^[62]
1967–68	Steaua București (7)	FC Argeș Pitești	Dinamo București	Mihai Adam (Universitatea Cluj – 15)	^[63]
1968–69	UTA Arad (5)	Dinamo București	Rapid București	Florea Dumitrache (Dinamo București – 22)	^[64]
1969–70	UTA Arad (6)	Rapid București	Steaua București	Ion Oblemenco (Universitatea Craiova – 19)	^[65]
1970–71	Dinamo București (6)	Rapid București	Steaua București	Constantin Moldoveanu (Poli Iaşi – 15) Florea Dumitrache (Dinamo București – 15) Gheorghe Tătaru (Steaua București – 15)	^[66]
1971–72	FC Argeș Pitești (1)	UTA Arad	Universitatea Cluj	Ion Oblemenco (Universitatea Craiova – 20)	^[67]
1972–73	Dinamo București (7)	Universitatea Craiova	FC Argeș Pitești	Ion Oblemenco (Universitatea Craiova – 21)	^[68]
1973–74	Universitatea Craiova (1)	Dinamo București	Steagul Roșu Brașov	Mihai Adam (CFR Cluj – 23)	^[69]
1974–75	Dinamo București (8)	ASA Târgu Mureş	Universitatea Craiova	Dudu Georgescu (Dinamo București – 33)	^[70]
1975–76	Steaua București (8)	Dinamo București	ASA Târgu Mureş	Dudu Georgescu (Dinamo București – 31)	^[71]
1976–77	Dinamo București (9)	Steaua București	Universitatea Craiova	Dudu Georgescu (Dinamo București – 47)	^[72]
1977–78	Steaua București (9)	FC Argeș Pitești	Politehnica Timișoara	Dudu Georgescu (Dinamo București – 24)	^[73]
1978–79	FC Argeș Pitești (2)	Dinamo București	Steaua București	Marin Radu (FC Argeş – 22)	^[74]
1979–80	Universitatea Craiova (2)	Steaua București	FC Argeș Pitești	Septimiu Câmpeanu (Universitatea Cluj – 24)	^[75]
1980–81	Universitatea Craiova (3)	Dinamo București	FC Argeș Pitești	Marin Radu (FC Argeş – 28)	^[76]
1981–82	Dinamo București (10)	Universitatea Craiova	Corvinul Hunedoara	Anghel Iordănescu (Steaua București – 20)	^[77]
1982–83	Dinamo București (11)	Universitatea Craiova	Sportul Studențesc București	Petre Grosu (FC Bihor Oradea – 20)	^[78]
1983–84	Dinamo București (12)	Steaua București	Universitatea Craiova	Marcel Coraş (Sportul Studenţesc București – 20)	^[79]
1984–85	Steaua București (10)	Dinamo București	Sportul Studențesc București	Gheorghe Hagi (Sportul Studenţesc București – 20)	^[80]
1985–86	Steaua București (11)	Sportul Studențesc București	Universitatea Craiova	Gheorghe Hagi (Sportul Studenţesc București – 31)	^[81]
1986–87	Steaua București (12)	Dinamo București	Victoria București	Rodion Cămătaru (Dinamo București – 44)	^[82]
1987–88	Steaua București (13)	Dinamo București	Victoria București	Victor Piţurcă (Steaua București – 34)	^[83]
1988–89	Steaua București (14)	Dinamo București	Victoria București	Dorin Mateuţ (Dinamo București – 43)	^[84]
1989–90	Dinamo București (13)	Steaua București	Universitatea Craiova	Gavril Balint ( Steaua București – 19)	^[85]
1990–91	Universitatea Craiova (4)	Steaua București	Dinamo București	Ovidiu Cornel Hanganu (Corvinul Hunedoara – 24)	^[86]
1991–92	Dinamo București (14)	Steaua București	Electroputere Craiova	Gábor Gerstenmájer (Dinamo București – 21)	^[87]
1992–93	Steaua București (15)	Dinamo București	Universitatea Craiova	Ilie Dumitrescu (Steaua București – 24)	^[88]
1993–94	Steaua București (16)	Universitatea Craiova	Dinamo București	Gheorghe Craioveanu (Universitatea Craiova – 21)	^[89]
1994–95	Steaua București (17)	Universitatea Craiova	Dinamo București	Gheorghe Craioveanu (Universitatea Craiova – 27)	^[90]
1995–96	Steaua București (18)	Naţional București	Rapid București	Ion Vlădoiu (Steaua București – 25)	^[91]
1996–97	Steaua București (19)	Naţional București	Dinamo București	Sabin Ilie (Steaua București – 31)	^[92]
1997–98	Steaua București (20)	Rapid București	FC Argeș Pitești	Constantin Barbu (FC Arges – 22) Vasile Oană (Gloria Bistrita – 22)	^[93]
1998–99	Rapid București (2)	Dinamo București	Steaua București	Ionel Ganea (Gloria Bistrita – 28)	^[94]
1999–00	Dinamo București (15)	Rapid București	Steaua București	Marian Savu (FC Naţional București – 20)	^[95]
2000–01	Steaua București (21)	Dinamo București	FC Brașov	Marius Niculae (Dinamo București – 20)	^[96]
2001–02	Dinamo București (16)	Naţional București	Rapid București	Cătălin Cursaru (FCM Bacău – 17)	^[97]
2002–03	Rapid București (3)	Steaua București	Gloria Bistrița	Claudiu Răducanu (AFC Steaua – 21)	^[98]
2003–04	Dinamo București (17)	Steaua București	Rapid București	Ionel Dănciulescu (Dinamo București – 21)	^[99]
2004–05	Steaua București (22)	Dinamo București	Rapid București	Gheorghe Bucur (Sportul Studenţesc București – 21) Claudiu Niculescu (Dinamo București – 21)	^[100]
2005–06	Steaua București (23)	Rapid București	Dinamo București	Ionuţ Mazilu (Sportul Studenţesc București – 22)	^[101]

Season^[10]	Winner^[10]	Runner-up	Third place	Top scorer (Club – Goals)^[21]	Note
2006–07	Dinamo București (18)	Steaua București	CFR Cluj	Claudiu Niculescu (Dinamo București – 18)	^[102]
2007–08	CFR Cluj (1)	Steaua București	Rapid București	Ionel Dănciulescu (Dinamo București – 21)	^[103]
2008–09	Unirea Urziceni (1)	FC Timișoara	Dinamo București	Gheorghe Bucur (FC Timișoara – 17) Florin Costea (FC U Craiova – 17)	^[104]
2009–10	CFR Cluj (2)	Unirea Urziceni	FC Vaslui	Andrei Cristea (Dinamo București – 16)	^[105]
2010–11	Oțelul Galați (1)	FC Timișoara	FC Vaslui	Ianis Zicu (FC Timișoara – 18)	^[106]
2011–12	CFR Cluj (3)	FC Vaslui	Steaua București	Wesley (FC Vaslui – 27)	^[107]
2012–13	Steaua București (24)	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Petrolul Ploiești	Raul Rusescu (FCSB – 21)	^[108]
2013–14	Steaua București (25)	Astra Giurgiu	Petrolul Ploiești	Liviu Antal (FC Vaslui – 14)	^[109]
2014–15	Steaua București (26)	ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș	CFR Cluj	Grégory Tadé (CFR Cluj – 18)	^[110]
2015–16	Astra Giurgiu (1)	Steaua București	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Ioan Hora (Pandurii Târgu Jiu – 19)	^[111]
2016–17	Viitorul Constanța (1)	Steaua București	Dinamo București	Azdren Llullaku (Gaz Metan Mediaș – 16)	^[112]
2017–18	CFR Cluj (4)	Steaua București	Universitatea Craiova	George Țucudean (Viitorul Constanța, CFR Cluj – 15) Harlem Gnohéré (FCSB – 15)	^[113]
2018–19	CFR Cluj (5)	FCSB	Viitorul Constanța	George Țucudean (CFR Cluj – 18)	^[114]
2019–20	CFR Cluj (6)	Universitatea Craiova	Astra Giurgiu	Gabriel Iancu (Viitorul Constanța – 18)	^[115]
2020–21	CFR Cluj (7)	FCSB	Universitatea Craiova	Florin Tănase (FCSB – 24)
2021–22	CFR Cluj (8)	FCSB	Universitatea Craiova	Florin Tănase (FCSB – 20)
2022–23	Farul Constanța (1)	FCSB	CFR Cluj	Marko Dugandžić (Rapid București – 22)
2023–24	FCSB (1)	CFR Cluj	Universitatea Craiova	Florinel Coman (FCSB – 18) Philip Otele (CFR – 18)
2024–25	FCSB (2)	CFR Cluj	Universitatea Craiova	Louis Munteanu (CFR – 23)
2025–26	Universitatea Craiova (5)	Universitatea Cluj	CFR Cluj	Jovo Lukić (U Cluj – 18)

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning years
Steaua București	28	21	1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1967–68, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2023–24, 2024–25
Dinamo București	18	20	1955, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1976–77, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1999–00, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2006–07
CFR Cluj	8	2	2007–08, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
Venus București	7	1	1919–20, 1928–29, 1931–32, 1933–34, 1936–37, 1938–39, 1939–40
UTA Arad	6	1	1946–47, 1947–48, 1950, 1954, 1968–69, 1969–70
Chinezul Timișoara	6	—	1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1924–25, 1925–26, 1926–27
Universitatea Craiova	5	5	1973–74, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1990–91, 2025–26
Petrolul Ploiești	4	3	1929–30, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1965–66
Ripensia Timișoara	4	2	1932–33, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1937–38
Rapid București	3	14	1966–67, 1998–99, 2002–03
Argeș Pitești	2	2	1971–72, 1978–79
Colentina București	2	2	1912–13, 1913–14
Unirea Tricolor București	2	1	1920-21, 1940–41
Prahova Ploiești	2	1	1911–12, 1915–16
Olympia București	2	1	1909–10, 1910–11
Club Atletic Oradea	1	2	1948–49
Astra Giurgiu	1	1	2015–16
Unirea Urziceni	1	1	2008–09
CSM Reșița	1	1	1930–31
Colțea Brașov	1	1	1927–28
Farul Constanța	1	—	2022–23
FC Viitorul Constanța	1	—	2016-17
Oțelul Galați	1	—	2010–11
Româno-Americană București	1	—	1914–15
Progresul București	—	3	–
Victoria Cluj	—	3	–
Politehnica Timișoara	—	2	–
Bukarester	—	2	–
Universitatea Cluj	—	2	–
Vagonul Arad	—	1	–
Sportul Studențesc București	—	1	–
Vaslui	—	1	–
SR Brașov	—	1	–
CFR Timișoara	—	1	–
Jiul Petroșani	—	1	–
Cercul Atletic București	—	1	–
ASA Târgu Mureș (1962)	—	1	–
ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș	—	1	–
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	—	1	–
Carmen București	—	1	–
Societatea Gimnastică Sibiu	—	1	–
Gloria Arad	—	1	–
Minerul Lupeni	—	1	–

City	Titles	Winning clubs
Bucharest	63	Steaua București (28),^[a] Dinamo (18), Venus (7), Rapid (3), Colentina (2), Olympia (2), Unirea Tricolor (2), Româno-Americana (1)
Timișoara	10	Chinezul (6), Ripensia (4)
Cluj-Napoca	8	CFR (8)
Arad	6	UTA (6)
Ploiești	6	Petrolul (4), Prahova United (2)
Craiova	5	Universitatea (5)
Constanța	2	Farul (2)
Pitești	2	Argeș (2)
Oradea	1	Club Atletic (1)
Brașov	1	Colțea (1)
Reșița	1	CSM (1)
Urziceni	1	Unirea (1)
Galați	1	Oțelul (1)
Giurgiu	1	Astra (1)

List of Romanian football champions

List

Romanian Football Championship (1909–1921)

Divizia A (1921–2006)

Liga I (2006–present)

Total titles won

By city

Maps

See also

Footnotes

References

External links

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