1997–98 Divizia A

The 1997–98 Divizia A was the eightieth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania.

Divizia A

Season	1997–98
Champions	Steaua București[1]
Relegated	Chindia Târgovişte Sportul Studenţesc Jiul Petroşani
Champions League	Steaua București
Cup Winners' Cup	Rapid București
UEFA Cup	Argeş Piteşti Oţelul Galaţi
Intertoto Cup	Naţional București
Matches played	306
Goals scored	891 (2.91 per match)
Top goalscorer	Vasile Oană, Constantin Barbu (21)
Biggest home win	Oţelul 7–0 Jiul Craiova 7–0 Jiul
Biggest away win	Reşiţa 1–6 Rapid Jiul 0–5 Argeş Jiul 0–5 Gloria
Highest scoring	Bacău 5–3 Argeş Dinamo 6– 2 Bacău Dinamo 5–3 Farul Dinamo 7–1 Jiul Jiul 2–6 Rapid
Longest winning run	Argeş (8)
Longest unbeaten run	Rapid (13)
Longest losing run	Sportul (10)
← 1996–97 1998–99 →

Teams

Argeș

Oțelul

CSM Reșița

Universitatea

Ceahlăul

FCM Bacău

Gloria

Farul

Universitatea

Petrolul

NC Foresta

Chindia

Jiul

Bucharest

Bucharest teams:
Steaua
Rapid
Național Dinamo
Sportul Studențesc

Location of teams in 1997-98 Divizia A

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Steaua București (C)	34	25	5	4	83	36	+47	80	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Rapid București	34	24	6	4	70	24	+46	78	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
3	Argeș Pitești	34	20	5	9	56	38	+18	65	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
4	Oțelul Galați	34	20	4	10	54	28	+26	64
5	Național București	34	18	6	10	57	40	+17	60	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
6	Dinamo București	34	17	3	14	66	50	+16	54
7	Reșița	34	15	6	13	55	49	+6	51
8	Universitatea Craiova	34	15	4	15	65	46	+19	49[a]
9	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	34	14	7	13	46	49	−3	49[a]
10	Bacău	34	12	9	13	41	42	−1	45
11	Gloria Bistrița	34	13	5	16	56	63	−7	44
12	Farul Constanța	34	13	4	17	36	52	−16	43
13	Universitatea Cluj	34	11	7	16	42	40	+2	40[b]
14	Petrolul Ploiești	34	11	7	16	41	45	−4	40[b]
15	Foresta Suceava	34	10	9	15	32	41	−9	39
16	Chindia Târgoviște (R)	34	10	8	16	40	67	−27	38	Relegation to Divizia B
17	Sportul Studențesc București (R)	34	5	4	25	32	65	−33	19
18	Jiul Petroşani (R)	34	3	1	30	19	116	−97	10

Source: LT (in 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.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. CRA 4-1 CEA; CEA 3-2 CRA
2. UCL 2-0 PET; PET 2-1 UCL

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Argeș Pitești	5	4	4	3	2	1	1	1	1	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3
Bacău	8	11	7	9	11	11	12	12	13	15	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	14	16	15	15	14	12	13	13	12	12	12	11	12	10
Reșița	3	5	5	6	6	7	7	7	7	8	7	6	7	8	8	7	8	8	7	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	7	7	8	8	7
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	10	12	15	10	12	12	9	9	11	9	13	10	10	11	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	8	9	9	9	9	10	9	10	9	9	9	9	9
Universitatea Craiova	6	10	6	8	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	8	8	7	6	5	6	7	8	8	8	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	8	8	7	7	8
Dinamo București	12	16	12	14	9	8	8	8	8	7	8	7	6	6	7	8	7	6	6	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Farul Constanța	15	14	16	12	14	15	15	16	16	14	12	14	13	13	14	14	12	11	12	13	12	12	12	10	10	10	9	10	9	10	11	12	11	12
Foresta Fălticeni	13	15	13	16	10	10	10	11	9	11	11	13	12	12	13	13	15	15	14	14	15	15	14	14	15	15	12	14	13	14	14	15	16	15
Gloria Bistrița	1	8	10	7	8	9	11	10	12	10	10	9	11	10	11	12	13	12	13	12	13	13	13	11	11	11	11	11	14	11	10	10	10	11
Jiul Petroşani	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18
Oțelul Galați	2	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	2	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	5	5	4	4	4	4	4
Petrolul Ploiești	16	13	14	11	13	13	14	13	10	12	9	12	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	11	11	13	13	13	14	12	11	13	13	13	13	14
Național București	4	2	2	2	4	4	2	2	5	2	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	5	5	5	5	5
Rapid București	11	6	8	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	3	4	3	2	1	2	1	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	1	2
Sportul Studențesc București	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	15	14	13	14	11	14	14	15	15	14	14	15	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17
Steaua București	7	3	3	4	3	3	4	4	3	3	2	2	1	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	2	1
Chindia Târgoviște	9	7	9	13	15	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	16	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	16	16	16	15	16
Universitatea Cluj	14	9	11	15	16	14	13	14	15	16	15	15	15	15	12	11	11	13	11	11	11	10	10	12	12	14	15	15	16	15	15	14	14	13

Source: LT (in Romanian)

Results

Home \ Away	ARG	BAC	RES	CEA	UCR	DIN	FAR	FOR	GBI	JIU	OȚE	PET	NAT	RAP	SPO	STE	CHI	UCL
Argeș Pitești	—	4–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–3	0–0	3–2	2–1	0–2
Bacău	5–3	—	0–1	2–0	0–1	3–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	3–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0
Reșița	2–1	1–1	—	5–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	4–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–6	2–1	0–2	6–1	2–0
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	2–0	1–0	1–0	—	3–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	6–1	0–0	0–0	1–3	2–1	3–1	1–2	2–2	1–0
Universitatea Craiova	1–2	0–2	1–1	4–1	—	2–1	4–1	2–0	4–0	7–0	0–2	2–1	5–1	2–2	1–0	1–2	4–0	2–0
Dinamo București	2–0	6–2	1–1	2–0	3–0	—	5–3	2–0	4–3	7–1	2–0	3–0	4–2	0–2	2–0	1–3	4–1	2–1
Farul Constanța	1–1	0–3	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	—	1–0	4–2	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	2–2	1–0	1–3
Foresta Fălticeni	1–2	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	3–1	0–2	—	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	4–2	0–2	2–0	0–0
Gloria Bistrița	3–2	3–1	4–1	2–1	2–0	3–2	4–1	0–0	—	3–0	0–3	2–1	3–1	2–3	3–0	0–1	1–1	2–2
Jiul Petroşani	0–5	3–2	1–1	1–4	2–5	2–5	1–0	0–3	0–5	—	0–2	0–2	1–2	2–6	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–4
Oțelul Galați	1–0	1–2	3–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	7–0	—	2–0	3–2	1–0	4–0	0–2	2–1	3–0
Petrolul Ploiești	2–3	2–2	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	4–1	2–0	1–1	—	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	4–1	2–1
Național București	0–0	2–0	2–0	5–1	3–2	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	—	1–2	2–1	1–4	5–1	1–0
Rapid București	1–2	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–0	2–1	5–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	—	1–0	1–1	3–0	2–0
Sportul Studențesc București	0–2	3–0	1–4	0–0	1–3	1–0	4–0	2–2	2–3	3–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–4	—	1–1	4–1	0–1
Steaua București	3–1	1–0	5–1	3–1	2–1	5–0	1–0	3–1	5–2	5–1	1–3	0–1	2–4	2–2	4–1	—	5–0	2–1
Chindia Târgoviște	2–4	1–1	2–1	0–3	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	4–0	4–2	1–1	2–0	0–2	2–1	1–2	—	2–0
Universitatea Cluj	0–2	0–0	3–1	3–3	2–2	0–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	0–1	4–0	2–3	1–1	—

Source: LT (in Romanian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Position[2]	Player	Club	Goals
1	Vasile Oană	Gloria Bistriţa	21
	Constantin Barbu	Argeş Piteşti
3	Cătălin Munteanu	Steaua București	17
4	Ionel Dănciulescu	Steaua București	14
	Valentin Ștefan	Oțelul Galați
	Ionuț Luțu	Universitatea Craiova
7	Lucian Marinescu	Rapid București	13

Champion squad

Steaua București[3]

Goalkeepers: Zoltan Ritli (30 / 0); Daniel Gherasim (3 / 0); Eugen Nae (1 / 0). Defenders: Laurențiu Reghecampf (30 / 1); Valeriu Răchită (27 / 3); Marius Baciu (13 / 2); Tiberiu Csik (20 / 1); Erik Lincar (16 / 0); Adrian Matei (28 / 3); Iulian Miu (29 / 1); Roland Nagy (4 / 0). Midfielders: Marius Coporan (11 / 0); Mugurel Cornățeanu (6 / 0); Lavi Hrib (22 / 1); Marius Sebastian Luca (8 / 3); Damian Militaru (27 / 2); Cătălin Munteanu (33 / 17); Narcis Răducan (16 / 1); Laurențiu Roșu (14 / 3); Iosif Rotariu (26 / 7); Dennis Șerban (24 / 4). Forwards: Cristian Ciocoiu (28 / 10); Ionel Dănciulescu (25 / 14); Marius Lăcătuș (31 / 8). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Mihai Stoichiță.

See also

• 1997–98 Divizia B
• 1997–98 Divizia C
• 1997–98 Divizia D
• 1997–98 Cupa României