The 2007–08 Liga II was the 68th season of the second tier of the
Romanian football league system
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. The season began on 25 August 2007 and lasted until 24 May 2008.
The format has been maintained to two series, each of them consisting of 18 teams. At the end of the season, the top two teams of the series promoted to
Liga I
The Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1, is a Romanian professional league for men's association football clubs. Currently sponsored by betting company Superbet, it is officially known as the SuperLiga. It is the country's top ...
and the bottom fourth places from both series relegated to
Liga III
The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III, is the third level of the Romanian football league system. Its name was changed from Divizia C to Liga III before the start of the 2006–07 season. It was the first in this format (six series of 18 ...
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Team changes
To Liga II
Promoted from Liga III
The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III, is the third level of the Romanian football league system. Its name was changed from Divizia C to Liga III before the start of the 2006–07 season. It was the first in this format (six series of 18 ...
* Unirea Focșani Unirea may refer to:
Places in Romania
* Unirea, Alba, a commune
* Unirea, Brăila, a commune
* Unirea, Călărași, a commune
* Unirea, Dolj, a commune and village
* General Berthelot, a commune in Hunedoara, called ''Unirea'' from 1965 to 200 ...
* Dinamo II București A dynamo is a magnetic device originally used as an electric generator.
Dynamo or Dinamo may also refer to:
Places
* Dinamo (Moscow Metro), a station of the Moscow Metro, Moscow, Russia
* Dinamo (Yekaterinburg Metro), a station of the Yekaterinb ...
* Concordia Chiajna
Clubul Sportiv Concordia Chiajna, commonly known as Concordia Chiajna, is a Romanian professional football club based in Chiajna, Ilfov County, which competes in the Liga II.
Founded in 1957, the team's best period was between 2011 and 2019, whe ...
* Severnav Drobeta-Turnu Severin
* Arieșul Turda
* Liberty Salonta
* Inter Gaz București
* Mureșul Deva
Relegated from Liga I
The Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1, is a Romanian professional league for men's association football clubs. Currently sponsored by betting company Superbet, it is officially known as the SuperLiga. It is the country's top ...
* Național București
* Argeș Pitești
* Jiul Petroșani Jiul may refer to these places in Romania:
* the River Jiu ( + )
** Jiul de Vest
** Jiul de Est
The Jiul de Est ("Eastern Jiu", previously also known as ) is a headwater of the river Jiu in Romania. Its source is in the Șureanu Mountains. At ...
From Liga II
Relegated to Liga III
The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III, is the third level of the Romanian football league system. Its name was changed from Divizia C to Liga III before the start of the 2006–07 season. It was the first in this format (six series of 18 ...
* Cetatea Suceava
Cetatea Suceava was a professional football club from Romania, based in Suceava and founded in 2004 and dissolved in 2010.
History
The club was founded in the summer of 2004, to continue the city's football tradition after Foresta was moved bac ...
* Building Vânju Mare
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* FC Snagov
Asociația Club Sportiv Olimpic Snagov commonly known as Olimpic Snagov is a professional Romanian football club based in Snagov, Ilfov County.
Founded in 1997, originally as ''CS Snagov'', the club played five seasons in Divizia B, the second ...
* Baia Mare
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* Chimia Brazi
Club Sportiv Brazi, commonly known as CS Brazi, or simply as Brazi, is a Romanian amateur football club based in Brazi, Prahova County. The club was established in 1968, under the name of ''Chimia Brazi'' by the Brazi oil refinery. In 2002 the ...
* Unirea Dej
Fotbal Club Unirea Dej, commonly known as Unirea Dej, is a Romanian professional football club from Dej, Cluj County, Romania, founded in 1921. They play in the Liga II.
History
It is one of Romania's oldest football teams, although it nev ...
* CF Brăila
* Auxerre Lugoj
Promoted to Liga I
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* Universitatea Cluj
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* Gloria Buzău
* Dacia Mioveni
Clubul Sportiv Mioveni (; ''Mioveni Sports Club''), commonly known as CS Mioveni, or simply as Mioveni, is a Romanian professional football club based in Mioveni, Argeș County, currently playing in the Liga I.
They were founded in 2000 as '' ...
Renamed teams
''Național București'' was renamed as Progresul București.
''Apulum Alba Iulia'' was renamed as Unirea Alba Iulia
Clubul Sportiv Municipal Unirea Alba Iulia, commonly known as Unirea Alba Iulia (), is a Romanian professional football club based in Alba Iulia, Alba County, founded in 1924 and currently playing in the Liga III.
Among the greatest achievemen ...
.
''Unirea Focșani'' was renamed as CSM Focșani
Clubul Sportiv Municipal Focșani, commonly known as CSM Focșani, or simply Focșani, is a Romanian professional football (soccer), football football team, club from Focşani, Vrancea County, founded in 1953 as ''Spartac Focșani''.
History
Th ...
.
''Severnav Drobeta-Turnu Severin'' was renamed as FC Drobeta-Turnu Severin
FC Drobeta-Turnu Severin was a Romanian professional football club from Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Mehedinți County, Romania, founded in 1958 and dissolved in 2011.
History
''FC Drobeta-Turnu Severin'' was never able to reach the Liga I, playing ...
.
League tables
Seria I
Seria II
Top scorers
;24 goals
* Attila Hadnagy ( FC Brașov)
;20 goals
* Claudiu Boaru
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(Gaz Metan Mediaș
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)
;17 goals
* Marius Pena
Marius George Pena (born 2 May 1985) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a forward.
He is the son of Gheorghe Pena, a striker who played in the 80's for Progresul București, Olt Scornicești and Steaua București.
Career
On 14 Sept ...
(Concordia Chiajna
Clubul Sportiv Concordia Chiajna, commonly known as Concordia Chiajna, is a Romanian professional football club based in Chiajna, Ilfov County, which competes in the Liga II.
Founded in 1957, the team's best period was between 2011 and 2019, whe ...
)
;16 goals
* Kallé Soné (Otopeni
Otopeni () is a town in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, some north of Bucharest along the DN1 road to Ploiești. It has 15,850 inhabitants, of which 99.0% are ethnic Romanians. One village, Odăile, is administered by the city.
Henri Coandă ...
)
;14 goals
* Adrian Dulcea
Pavel Adrian Dulcea (born 25 November 1978) is a Romanian former striker. Currently he is a manager.
Club career
He started his career in his home town, in the 1995/96 season, at FC Râmnicu Vâlcea in Romanian Second League. The oldest k ...
( Argeș Pitești)
* Robert Ilyes ( FC Brașov)
;12 goals
* Iulian Tameș
Iulian Tameș (born 6 December 1978) is a Romanian footballer who plays as a central offensive midfielder for Liga III side Vedița Colonești. In his career, Tameș also played for important teams such as Dinamo București, FC Argeș Pitești ...
( Argeș Pitești)
;8 goals
* Costin Curelea
Costin Romeo Curelea (born 11 July 1984) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a striker and currently he is an assistant coach at CFR Cluj.
Career
In his first league match for Sportul Studenţesc, a Liga II game against Dacia Mioven ...
( Sportul Studențesc)
;6 goals
* Viorel Ferfelea ( Sportul Studențesc)
* Daniel Costescu
Daniel Ștefan Costescu (born 14 July 1976) is a Romanian former footballer who usually played as a striker. He scored 46 goals in 235 matches in the Romanian First Division, 47 goals in 141 matches in the Romanian Second Division and 8 goals ...
( Progresul București)
;5 goals
* Alexandru Bourceanu (Dunărea Galați
Dunărea may refer to:
* Dunărea, the Romanian name for the river Danube in Central Europe
* Dunărea (river), a tributary of the Danube in Constanța County, Romania
* Dunărea, a village in the commune Seimeni, Constanța County, Romania
See a ...
)
* Sorin Pană (Otopeni
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Henri Coandă ...
)
* Radu Neguț
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Honours
Pandurii Târgu Jiu
*Divizia B: 2004–05
Al Ettifaq
* GCC Champions League: 2006
Voința Sibiu
*Liga III
The Liga 3, most often spelled as Liga III ...
(Forex Brașov
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)
* Gabriel Apetri
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(Jiul Petroșani Jiul may refer to these places in Romania:
* the River Jiu ( + )
** Jiul de Vest
** Jiul de Est
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)
See also
*2007–08 Liga I
The 2007–08 Liga I was the ninety season of Liga I, the top-level football league of Romania. Season began on 27 July 2007 and ended on 7 May 2008. CFR Cluj became champions, winning their first trophy and ending a 17-year-long reign of Bucha ...
*2007–08 Liga III
The 2007–08 Liga III season was the 52nd season of Liga III, the third tier of the Romanian football league system. It was the second in this format (six series of 18 teams each).
The winners of each division got promoted to the 2008-09 Liga II ...
References
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Liga II seasons
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Biomechanics and medicine
* Risk of mortality, a medical classification to estimate the likelihood of death for a patient
* Rupture of membranes, a term used during pregnancy to describe a rupture of the amniotic sac
* ...
2007–08 in Romanian football