1997–98 Divizia A

Divizia A

Season	1997–98
Champions	Steaua
Relegated	Târgovişte Sportul Jiul Petroşani
Champions League	Steaua
Cup Winners' Cup	Rapid
UEFA Cup	Argeş Oţelul
Intertoto Cup	Progresul
Matches played	306
Goals scored	891 (2.91 per match)
Average goals/game	2.91
Top goalscorer	Oană and Barbu each (21)
Biggest home win	Oţelul 7 – 0 Jiul (30 Aug 1997) Craiova 7 – 0 Jiul (01 Apr 1998)
Biggest away win	CSM Reşiţa 1 – 6 Rapid (01 Nov 1997) Jiul 0 – 5 Argeş (15 Apr 1998) Jiul 0 – 5 Gloria (02 Aug 1997)
Highest scoring	Bacău 5 – 3 Argeş (02 May 1998) Dinamo 6 – 2 Bacău (29 Apr 1998) Dinamo 5 – 3 Farul (20 Sep 1997) Dinamo 7 – 1 Jiul (11 Apr 1998) Jiul 2 – 6 Rapid (04 Apr 1998)
Longest winning run	Argeş (8)
Longest unbeaten run	Rapid Bucureşti (13)
Longest losing run	Sportul (10)
← 1996–97 1998–99 →

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Steaua București (C)	34	25	5	4	83	36	+47	80	1998–99 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Rapid București	34	24	6	4	70	24	+46	78	1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Qualifying round
3	Argeş Piteşti	34	20	5	9	56	38	+18	65	1998–99 UEFA Cup First qualifying round
4	Oțelul Galați	34	20	4	10	54	28	+26	64
5	Naţional Bucureşti	34	18	6	10	57	40	+17	60	1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup First round
6	Dinamo București	34	17	3	14	66	50	+16	54
7	CSM Reşiţa	34	15	6	13	55	49	+6	51
8	Universitatea Craiova	34	15	4	15	65	46	+19	49		CRA 4-1 CEA CEA 3-2 CRA
9	Ceahlăul	34	14	7	13	46	49	−3	49
10	Bacău	34	12	9	13	41	42	−1	45
11	Gloria Bistrița	34	13	5	16	56	63	−7	44
12	Farul Constanţa	34	13	4	17	36	52	−16	43
13	Universitatea Cluj	34	11	7	16	42	40	+2	40		UCL 2-0 PET PET 2-1 UCL
14	Petrolul Ploiești	34	11	7	16	41	45	−4	40
15	Foresta Suceava	34	10	9	15	32	41	−9	39
16	Chindia Târgovişte (R)	34	10	8	16	40	67	−27	38	Relegation to the Divizia B
17	Sportul Studențesc (R)	34	5	4	25	32	65	−33	19
18	Jiul Petroşani (R)	34	3	1	30	19	116	−97	10

Source: [1] (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) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Divizia A 1997–98 Winners
Steaua 20th Title

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
Argeş Piteşti	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
CSM Reşiţa	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	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 Constanţa	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
Progresul Bucureşti	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	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 Târgovişte	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: [2] (Romanian)

Results

Home \ Away1

ARG

BAC

RES

CEA

UCR

DIN

FAR

FOR

GBI

JIU

OŢE

PET

PRO

RAP

SPO

STE

TGV

UCL

Argeş Piteşti

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

CSM Reşiţa

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

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 Constanţa

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

Progresul Bucureşti

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

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 Târgovişte

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: [3] (Romanian)
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

• Vasile Oană - Gloria Bistriţa - 21
• Constantin Barbu - Argeş Piteşti - 21
• Cătălin Constantin Munteanu - Steaua Bucureşti - 17

See also

• Cupa României 1997–98
• 1996–97 Divizia A
• 1997–98 Divizia B

References

• Romania - List of final tables (RSSSF)