2018–19 Divizia A1 (women's volleyball)

The 2018–19 Divizia A1 season was the 69th season of the Divizia A1, the highest professional volleyball league in Romania. CSM București was the defending champion. At the end of the season, Alba Blaj won their fourth title. Agroland Timișoara and Penicilina Iași were relegated.

Divizia A1
Teams	10
Regular season
Relegated	Agroland Timișoara Penicilina Iași
Finals
Champions	Alba Blaj (4th title)
Runners-up	CSM București
Third place	Târgoviște
Fourth place	Știința Bacău
← 2017–18 2019–20 →

Competition format

The competition format will be the same as in the previous season.

• 12 teams played the regular season, consisting in a double-legged round robin format.
• At the end of the regular season, teams are split into two groups, one of them composed by the first six teams and the other one by the rest. In this second stage all points of the regular season are counted and the teams will face each other from its group twice.

Team changes

Promoted from Divizia A2^[1][2]

• CSU Galați

CSU Oradea

Relegated to Divizia A2

• —

Excluded teams

CSU Oradea promoted to Divizia A1, but due to the lack of funds chose not to join the championship and enrolled again in the Divizia A2.^[3]

Medicina Târgu Mureș encountered financial problems and entered in a partnership with the newly founded CSM Târgu Mureș, becoming the women's volleyball section of the sports club. The team was enrolled in the Divizia A2.^[4]

Teams

Agroland

Alba Blaj

CSM

Dinamo

Galați

Lugoj

Penicilina

Știința

Târgoviște

U Cluj

Location of teams in 2018–19 Divizia A1

Team	City	Arena	Capacity
Agroland	Timișoara	Constantin Jude	2,200
Alba	Blaj	Timotei Cipariu	400
CSM	Bucharest	Sala Elite	500
CSM	Lugoj	I.K. Ghermănescu	400
CSM	Târgoviște	Polyvalent Hall	2,000
CSU	Galați	Dunărea	1,500
Dinamo	București	Dinamo	2,538
Penicilina	Iași	Polyvalent Hall	1,500
Știința	Bacău	Sala Sporturilor	2,000
Universitatea	Cluj-Napoca	Horia Demian	2,525

Regular season table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Alba Blaj	15	14	1	43	44	5	8.800	1199	853	1.406	Qualification to Play-off
2	CSM București	15	13	2	38	39	8	4.875	1115	829	1.345
3	Târgoviște	15	11	4	32	35	18	1.944	1177	1043	1.128
4	Știința Bacău	15	9	6	26	30	21	1.429	1155	1070	1.079
5	Lugoj	15	5	10	15	18	33	0.545	1042	1133	0.920
6	Dinamo București	15	4	11	13	17	35	0.486	984	1211	0.813
7	Universitatea Cluj	15	4	11	11	13	35	0.371	924	1109	0.833	Qualification to Play-out
8	Galați	15	1	14	4	6	43	0.140	842	1183	0.712
9	Agroland Timișoara (E)	0	0	0	0[a]	0	0	—	0	0	—	Withdrew
10	Penicilina Iași (E)	0	0	0	0[b]	0	0	—	0	0	—

Source: Romanian Volleyball Federation
(E) Eliminated
Notes:

1. Agroland Timișoara withdrew from the championship in the first part of the season and all their results were canceled.^[5]
2. Penicilina Iași was excluded from the championship in the first part of the season and all their results were canceled.^[6]

Play-off

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Alba Blaj (C, Q)	25	23	2	69	72	11	6.545	2014	1502	1.341	Qualification to CEV Women's Champions League
2	CSM București (Q)	25	21	4	63	66	15	4.400	1914	1439	1.330	Qualification to Women's CEV Cup
3	Târgoviște (Q)	25	16	9	47	53	37	1.432	1966	1828	1.075	Qualification to CEV Women's Challenge Cup
4	Știința Bacău (Q)	25	15	10	43	48	37	1.297	1880	1808	1.040
5	Lugoj	25	6	19	18	22	61	0.361	1632	1909	0.855
6	Dinamo București	25	5	20	17	25	62	0.403	1666	2053	0.811

Source: Romanian Volleyball Federation
(C) Champion; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Play-out

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
7	Universitatea Cluj	17	5	12	14	18	40	0.450	1137	1308	0.869
8	Galați	17	2	15	7	11	48	0.229	1041	11396	0.091

Source: Romanian Volleyball Federation