2024–25 Liga II

The 2024–25 Liga II was the 85th season of Liga II, the second tier of the Romanian football league system. It is the ninth Liga II season played in a single series.^[1]

Liga II

Season	2024–25
Promoted	Argeș Pitești Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc Metaloglobus București
Relegated	Focșani
← 2023–24 2025–26 →

The format from the previous season was maintained, but the number of participating teams was increased from twenty to twenty-two. The regular season was contested in a single round-robin tournament. The top six teams at the end of the regular season advanced to the promotion play-offs. The first two teams in the play-offs were promoted to Liga I, while the third- and fourth-placed teams played promotion/relegation play-offs against the 13th- and 14th-placed teams from Liga I.

The remaining fourteen teams competed in the relegation play-outs, divided into two groups. The last two teams from each group were relegated to Liga III. Additionally, the sixth-placed teams from each play-out group faced each other in a play-off to determine the final team relegated to Liga III.

Team changes

The following teams have changed leagues since the 2023–24 season:

To Liga II Relegated from the Liga I FC Voluntari FCU 1948 Craiova Promoted from Liga III Metalul Buzău CS Afumați AFC Câmpulung Muscel FC Bihor Unirea Ungheni CSM Focșani

From Liga II Promoted to the Liga I Unirea Slobozia Gloria Buzău Relegated to Liga III CS Tunari Unirea Dej CSM Alexandria Progresul Spartac București

League map

Bucharest

Afumați

Câmpulung Muscel

Focșani

FCU Craiova

Ceahlăul

Csíkszereda

FC Bihor

Reșița

Corvinul

FC Argeș

Chindia

Dumbrăvița

Metalul

Mioveni

Slatina

Șelimbăr

Târgu Jiu

Ungheni

Bucharest / Ilfov teams:
Afumați
Chiajna
Metaloglobus
Steaua

Locations of the 2024–25 Liga II teams

Chiajna

Steaua

Metaloglobus

Voluntari

Location of Bucharest and Ilfov teams.

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AFC Câmpulung Muscel	Alecsandru Popovici	Ștefan Ghiță	Nike	Superbet
CS Afumați	Vasile Neagu	Ionuț Zaina	Nike	—
CS Mioveni	—	—	—	—
CSC 1599 Șelimbăr	Ioan Luca	Ciprian Natea	Nike	Shopping City Sibiu
CSC Dumbrăvița	Cosmin Stan	Costel Zurbagiu	Macron	Artoil
FC Argeș	Bogdan Andone	Costinel Tofan	Macron	Getica 95
Bihor Oradea	Erik Lincar	Ioan Hora	Macron	Viva Chips
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	Marco Veronese	Patrick Petre	Nike	SSAB Impex
Chindia Târgoviște	Costel Pană	Cornel Dinu	Macron	—
Concordia Chiajna	Liță Dumitru	Adrian Bălan	Joma	—
Corvinul Hunedoara	Florin Maxim	Alexandru Neacșa	Joma	Prodesign, ArcelorMittal
Csíkszereda	Róbert Ilyés	Peter Gál-Andrezly	2Rule	Csíkszereda, MOL
FCU 1948 Craiova	Valentin David	Andrea Padula	Adidas	Ediție Specială
CSM Reșița	Flavius Stoican	Alin Dudea	Puma	Invest in Reșița
CSM Slatina	Claudiu Niculescu	Cătălin Doman	Macron	Primăria Slatina
Metaloglobus București	Ianis Zicu	Georgian Honciu	Jako	—
Metalul Buzău	Valentin Stan	Marius Tudorică	Macron	Consiliul Județean Buzău
Steaua București	Daniel Oprița	Bogdan Chipirliu	Adidas	Stanleybet International
Unirea Ungheni	Eusebiu Tudor	Victoraș Astafei	Nike	Terra Luxury
Viitorul Târgu Jiu	—	—	—	—
Voluntari	Florian Pârvu	Igor Armaș	Nike	Metropola TV

Managerial changes

Pre-season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of arrival
CSC 1959 Șelimbăr	Claudiu Niculescu	Mutual consent	8 May 2024	Constantin Schumacher[2]	28 June 2024
Chindia Târgoviște	Diego Longo[3]	End of contract	30 May 2024	Marian Vătavu[4]	27 June 2024
FC Voluntari	Florian Pârvu	End of contract	6 June 2024	Claudiu Niculescu[5]	6 June 2024

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner	Date of vacancy	Position in table		Replaced by	Date of appointment
				Round	Position
AFC Câmpulung Muscel	Costin Lazăr[6]	Sacked	10 September 2024	5th	19th	Marius Bratu[7]	17 September 2024
AFC Câmpulung Muscel	Marius Bratu	Sacked	3 November 2024	12th	20th	Sorin Colceag[8]	22 November 2024
CSC 1599 Șelimbăr	Constantin Schumacher[9]	Sacked	13 November 2024	13th	17th	Ioan Luca	13 November 2024
FC Voluntari	Claudiu Niculescu	Sacked	22 November 2024	14th	9th	Ovidiu Burcă[10]	27 November 2024
FC Voluntari	Ovidiu Burcă	Sacked	30 December 2024	17th	5th	Mihai Iosif[11]	10 January 2025
Chindia Târgoviște	Marian Vătavu	Sacked	28 January 2025	17th	14th	Costel Pană[12]	4 February 2025
AFC Câmpulung Muscel	Sorin Colceag	Sacked	16 March 2025	21th	20th	Alecsandru Popovici[13]	18 March 2025
FC Voluntari	Mihai Iosif	Sacked	25 April 2025	5th PO	6th	Florian Pârvu[14]	25 April 2025

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	FK Csíkszereda	19	14	2	3	37	17	+20	44	Advances to Promotion play-off
2	Steaua București	19	11	8	0	24	8	+16	41
3	Metaloglobus București	19	12	2	5	30	19	+11	38
4	FC Argeș	19	9	7	3	19	10	+9	34
5	CSM Reșița	19	10	4	5	31	22	+9	34
6	FC Voluntari	19	9	6	4	27	16	+11	33
7	Corvinul Hunedoara	19	8	5	6	18	16	+2	29	Advances to Relegation play-out Group A
8	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	19	7	6	6	22	22	0	27	Advances to Relegation play-out Group B
9	FCU 1948 Craiova	19	7	6	6	21	21	0	27
10	CS Afumați	19	8	3	8	21	25	−4	27	Advances to Relegation play-out Group A
11	CSM Slatina	19	7	5	7	26	19	+7	26
12	Unirea Ungheni	19	7	5	7	19	20	−1	26	Advances to Relegation play-out Group B
13	Metalul Buzău	19	6	5	8	18	20	−2	23
14	Concordia Chiajna	19	6	5	8	25	29	−4	23	Advances to Relegation play-out Group A
15	FC Bihor	19	5	4	10	18	26	−8	19
16	Chindia Târgoviște	19	4	6	9	20	23	−3	18	Advances to Relegation play-out Group B
17	1599 Șelimbăr	19	4	6	9	20	24	−4	18
18	CSC Dumbrăvița	19	4	3	12	15	25	−10	15	Advances to Relegation play-out Group A
19	CSM Focșani	19	3	5	11	10	22	−12	14
20	AFC Câmpulung Muscel	19	2	1	16	7	44	−37	7	Advances to Relegation play-out Group B
21	CS Mioveni[a] (D)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Excluded
22	Viitorul Târgu Jiu[b] (D)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: FRF (in Romanian)
Rules for classification: During Season: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals scored. End of Season: 1) Points, 2) Head-to-head points, 3) Head-to-head goal difference, 4) Goal difference, 5) Goals scored
(D) Disqualified or excluded
Notes:

1. Mioveni was excluded by the FRF due to financial problems.
2. Viitorul Târgu Jiu was excluded by the FRF due to bankruptcy after failing to attend two matches.^[15]

Results

Home \ Away	CSI	STE	MET	ARG	RES	VOL	COR	CEA	FCU	AFU	SLA	UNG	BUZ	CON	BIH	CHI	SEL	DUM	FOC	CMU
FK Csíkszereda								3–1	2–0		5–1		4–2							4–1
Steaua București	0–0			0–0	2–2	2–1	3–0		0–0			2–1		2–1		1–1			1–0
Metaloglobus București		0–0			1–0	2–1						3–0				3–2
FC Argeș	0–1					1–0						2–0				2–1			2–0
CSM Reșița							1–0		2–0			3–2				1–1		1–1	1–0
FC Voluntari	2–1						2–0	2–1				1–3	1–1	1–1		4–1		1–0	0–0	3–0
Corvinul Hunedoara								1–1		2–0								0–0	3–2
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț				0–0						3–0	0–3
FCU 1948 Craiova						0–0		2–4		0–3		2–0				1–0	1–1
CS Afumați			2–1	1–1
CSM Slatina		1–1		0–0	4–0	1–1	1–0		1–2			0–1		1–2	0–0	0–0
Unirea Ungheni	1–0						1–2	1–1		0–0			0–0	3–1		0–1		1–0	1–1	2–1
Metalul Buzău		0–1	2–2							1–0					1–2		2–0
Concordia Chiajna	2–1							0–2		2–4									1–0	1–0
FC Bihor				1–0	2–3		1–2		1–1					0–4
Chindia Târgoviște			0–0							0–1							2–1	3–1
1599 Șelimbăr			3–1	0–0	0–3							0–0
CSC Dumbrăvița		0–1	0–2					1–2	1–2	0–1	2–4		3–1		1–0		2–3			1–0
CSM Focșani			0–1					0–1	1–1	0–0	1–0		0–3		0–3		2–1	0–1		2–0
AFC Câmpulung Muscel		0–1	0–3	1–3	0–3			0–0		1–2	0–5				2–1		0–4

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

Promotion play-off

A promotion play-off tournament between the best 6 teams (after 19 rounds) will be played to decide the two teams that will be promoted to Liga I, meanwhile the third-placed and fourth-placed teams would play another play-off match against the 13th-placed and 14th-placed teams from Liga I. The teams will start the promotion play-offs with all the points accumulated in the regular season.^[16]

Play-off table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	FC Argeș (P, C)	10	7	2	1	19	5	+14	57	Promotion to Liga I
2	Steaua București	10	4	2	4	14	14	0	55	Ineligible for promotion [a]
3	FK Csíkszereda (P)	10	2	4	4	7	14	−7	54	Promotion to Liga I
4	FC Voluntari	10	3	5	2	10	7	+3	47	Qualification to play-offs
5	Metaloglobus București (O, P)	10	2	2	6	7	17	−10	46
6	CSM Reșița	10	2	5	3	11	11	0	45

Source: FRF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points in the regular season; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Goal difference (regular season + play off); 8) Goals scored (regular season + play off); 9) Play-off.^[18]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted
Notes:

1. Steaua București is ineligible for promotion due to the club being owned by a governmental department/entity, while Liga I clubs are required to be privately owned.^[17]

Play-off results

Home \ Away	ARG	CSI	MET	RES	STE	VOL
FC Argeș		3–0	1–0	3–0	4–2	0–0
FK Csíkszereda	0–4		2–3	1–1	0–0	2–0
Metaloglobus București	2–1	0–1		0–4	0–3	0–0
CSM Reșița	0–1	1–1	1–1		0–2	1–1
Steaua București	1–2	0–0	3–1	0–2		3–2
FC Voluntari	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–0

Source: FRF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion/relegation play-offs

The 13th and 14th-placed teams of the Liga I faces the 3rd and 4th-placed team of the Liga II.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Politehnica Iași	1–2	Metaloglobus București	1–1	0–1
Voluntari	2–2 (3–4 p)	Unirea Slobozia	2–1	0–1

Relegation play-out

A relegation play-out tournament between the last 14 ranked teams at the end of the regular season decide the five teams that will be relegated to Liga III. Two play-out groups were made: the first group consisted of teams ranked 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 18 and 19, and the second group consisted of teams ranked 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17 and 20, at the end of the regular season. The teams started the relegation play-out with all the points accumulated in the regular season. Two teams from each group were relegated to Liga III.^[16]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Corvinul Hunedoara	6	5	0	1	16	5	+11	44
2	Metalul Buzău	6	3	1	2	9	10	−1	33
3	FCU 1948 Craiova	6	2	0	4	6	11	−5	33
4	FC Bihor	6	4	1	1	14	8	+6	32
5	Unirea Ungheni	6	1	1	4	4	13	−9	30
6	CSC Dumbrăvița	6	2	1	3	5	5	0	22	Relegation to 2025–26 Liga III
7	CSM Focșani (R)	6	1	2	3	6	8	−2	19

Source: FRF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points in the regular season; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Goal difference (regular season + play out); 8) Goals scored (regular season + play out); 9) Play-off.^[18]
(R) Relegated

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	CSM Slatina	6	3	3	0	10	3	+7	38
2	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	6	2	2	2	10	9	+1	35
3	1599 Șelimbăr	6	4	1	1	13	6	+7	31
4	CS Afumați	6	1	1	4	5	12	−7	31
5	Concordia Chiajna	6	2	1	3	9	11	−2	30
6	Chindia Târgoviște (O)	6	2	3	1	10	8	+2	27	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
7	AFC Câmpulung Muscel	6	1	1	4	8	16	−8	11	Relegation to 2025–26 Liga III

Source: FRF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points in the regular season; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Goal difference (regular season + play out); 8) Goals scored (regular season + play out); 9) Play-off.^[18]
(O) Play-off winners

Liga II play-out

The 6th-placed teams of the Liga II relegation play-out groups face each other in order to determine the last relegated team to Liga III.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CSC Dumbrăvița	2–4	Chindia Târgoviște	0–1	2–3