Who wants to promote, who cannot promote, format and program

Less than 24 hours are separated from the first matches of the new second league season. It is announced to be a spectacular season, which lifts at the beginning tradition names, bands that want to access the elite of Romanian football, but also many teams without the possibility of climbing the superlig regardless of the busy place.

The program of the first stage of Liga 2 and the related television

Saturday, August 2, 11:00 am

• FC Voluntari – Metal Buzău

• CSM Slatina – CS Gloria Bistrița (FRF TV)

• CS Afumați – FC Bacău (FRF TV)

• CS Tunari – Steaua București

• Concordia Chiajna – AFC Câmpulung Muscel

• CS Dinamo – CSC Dumbrăvița

• ACSM Reșița – CSM Olimpia Satu Mare (FRF TV)

• FC Bihor Oradea – CSC Șelimbăr (Digisport, Primasport)

• ASA Târgu Mureș – Corvin Hunedoara

Sunday, August 3, 11:00 am

Tuesday August 5, 8:00 pm

Nine of the 22 fighters will not have the right to promote. The reason? They belong to public law clubs and need to change their organization form to receive “green” to superlig.

Five of them evolved in “B” and the previous season. It is about CSA Steaua București, CS Afumați, CSM Slatina, CSC Șelimbăr and CSC Dumbrăvița.

They are added 4 of the 5 new-promoted: CS Dinamo, CS Tunari, CSM Olimpia Satu Mare and CS Gloria Bistrița. The exception is FC Bacău.

We could have even had 11 teams without the right of promotion, if FRF had not approved the two assignment projects submitted in the June League. They provided that:

• AFC ASA Târgu Mureș, Champion of League 4 Elite Mureș, to take his place in Liga 2 and the team of players to CS Unirea Ungheni 2018, an entity of public law.

The Liga 2 season will continue in the format of recent years. The regular season provision only the tour, 21 stages, following the first 6 to advance in the play-off, and the remaining 16 teams will be divided into two play-out groups, as follows:

• Group A: Places 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 18, 19, 22

• Group B: Places 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21

The last two ranked in each play-out group, but also the loser of a “dam” between the occupants of the 6th place, will fall in the third league.

The first two ranked in the play-off (who have the right of promotion) climbs into the superlig, the next two “double” baulus dispute as follows:

If teams withdraw during the regular season, the number of retrograde will decrease properly, but the division into the two groups will be done in the same way, taking into account the places of the retired teams as the last.

– Passage from the Regulation of Organization of League 2

At the entrance to the play-off and the play-out, the points are not halved, as is the case in the elite. The teams continue the competition with the number of points accumulated until then.

At equality of points, the criteria of separation are, in this order: the direct result, the general goal, the number of goals scored.

Anyway this format disadvantages certain teams. Being 21 stages, Some of them will play 11 moving matches and 10 at home, others will have an extra match on their own groundwhere, in theory, they are more likely to achieve a positive result.

Here, the program of all 21 stages of the regular season

The composition of this season of Liga 2 suffered some changes compared to what I knew at the end of the previous season.

Of financial reasoning, Gloria Buzău and FCU Craiova did not receive the license for this season. Their places were taken by sports retrograde bands in Liga 3, CSC Dumbrăvița and AFC Câmpulung Muscel 2022.

The first lost the “dam” of maintenance, in which the opponent was Chindia Târgoviște, the latter was the weakest team of the previous championship, but benefited from Sisting the activity of CSM Focșani teamthe only one relegated.

Good. Which of the combatants begin the season with claims to promotion and what arguments do they have in this regard?

We remind them for starters on FC Voluntari and ACSM Reșițathe teams that entered the play-off last season, but could not take the decisive step to the Superliga.

The Ilfovenii were even close, defeated at the breaks in the dam with Unirea Slobozia, and will try again in this season. As arguments are counting The sports form with which they ended the previous season, the consistent budget that the local authorities provide, but also the homogeneity. Matko Babic, the Croatian peak transferred this summer, scored 15 goals in 23 appearances in the previous season 2 season.

And the residents feel owes, after ranking the last place in the preceding season. The band coached by Flavius Stoican has similar arguments: homogeneity, consistent budget from local authorities and a promising mix between veterans and young players.

Răzvan Grădinaru, tape player with matches at Dinamo and FCSB, signed with ACSM Reșița

From the list of “registered” teams to the promotion, the ones failed from the superligation, Sepsi OSK and Poli Iasi.

The Covasnens installed Ovidiu Burcă, the coach who brought Dinamo in Superliga, benefit from a budget far above the championship average and have made some sound transfers, bringing both experienced footballers in the first league (Joonas Tamm, Alin Dobrosavlevici, Fabio Vianna), as well as the second-league, as well as in the second league Daniel Vîrtej de la Steaua.

Moldovans reinstalled a coach under the command of which they achieved some notable results, in Tony da Silva, and still benefit from important funds from the local authorities, recently approved a Financial injection of 1.85 million euros.

We add them to the list of large aspirations for aspirations on Corvin Hunedoarasolid formation in recent years, winner of the Romanian Cup in 2024, Ceahlaulwhich continues with Marco Veronese on the bench and has achieved an interesting transfer campaign, Concordia Chiajnawho brought a few footballers with names (Mihai Bălașa, Nicolae Carnat, Denis Dumitrașcu, Danylo Kucher, Claudiu Bălan, Cătălin Carp, Costin Ghiocel) and Chindia Târgoviștewhich activates newer in partnership with Barça Academy, an entity under the umbrella of the Great FC Barcelona.

Retrograde formations, Sepsi OSK and Poli Iasihave had reshuffles of the lots and need time to form homogeneous collective.

to Ceahlaul There are uncertainties about the financial situation, after Anton Măzărianu, the main financier, announced that he takes a step behind.

to Concordia Chiajna There are question marks on how much the head coach, Nicolae Dică, whose last mandates were catastrophic, some resulted in relegation (FC Voluntari, FCU Craiova, CS Mioveni).

Finally, at Chindia There are great financial arrears and a lot of uncertainty on this front, despite the involvement of the new associate, Marius Pavel, the founder Barça Academy Romania. Addition doubts about the people about which the club is giving to come from the great Catalan club.

An important word could have some teams without the right to promote. Steaua București, for example, is an already ordinary presence in the play-off and although playing without immediate sporty stake, it can confuse among the formations that hunt the jump in the superlig.

9.24 million eurosis the value of Sepsi OSK lot, the most powerful in Liga 2 according to Transfermarkt

• FC Voluntari: “Anghel Iordănescu” (Voluntari)

• CSM Slatina: May 1 (Slatina)

• CS Afumați: Communal (Afumat)

• CS Tunari: Central Arsenal Tunari (Tunari)

• Concordia Chiajna: Concordia (Chiajna)

• CS Dinamo: CNF Buftea (Buftea)

• ACSM Reșița: “Mircea Chivu” (Reșița)

• FC Bihor Oradea: “Iuliu Bodola” (Oradea)

• ASA Târgu Mureș: Trans-Sil (Târgu Mureș)

• Chindia Târgoviște: “Eugen Popescu” (Târgoviște)

• Poli Iași: “Emil Alexandrescu” (Iași)

• Metal Buzău: Metal (Buzau)

• Corvin Hunedoara: Corvinul Sports Complex (Hunedoara)

• CSC Șelimbăr: Măgura (Cisnădie)

• CSM Olimpia Satu Mare: Olimpia (Satu Mare)

• CSC Dumbrăvița: “Stefan Dobay” (Dumbrăvița)

• AFC Câmpulung Muscel: Muscel (Câmpulung Muscel)

• Steaua: Steaua (Ghencea, Bucharest)

• Ceahlăul: Ceahlăul (Piatra Neamț)

• FC Bacău: FC Bacău sports base (Russian-Ciutea, Bacău)

• CS Gloria Bistrița: “Jean Pădureanu” (Bistrița)

• Sepsi OSK: Sepsi Duna Arena (Sf. Gheorghe)