2017–18 Divizia A1 (women's volleyball)

Divizia A1
Teams	10
Regular season
Relegated	none
Finals
Champions	CSM București (1st title)
Runners-up	Alba Blaj
Third place	Știința Bacău
Fourth place	Târgoviște
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

The 2017–18 Divizia A1 season was the 68th season of the Divizia A1, the highest professional volleyball league in Romania. CSM Volei Alba Blaj was the defending champion. At the end of the season, CSM București won their first title.

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.

Teams

SCM U Craiova and CSU Galați were relegated to Divizia A2. Unic Piatra Neamț and SCM Ptești withdrew from Divizia A1.

Agroland Timișoara and Universitatea Cluj promoted from Divizia A2.

Agroland

Alba Blaj

CSM

Lugoj

Târgoviște

Tg.Mureș

Dinamo

Penicilina

Știința

U Cluj

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Location of teams in 2017–18 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 Medicina	Târgu Mureș	Sala Sporturilor	2,000
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	CSM București (Q)	18	17	1	51	53	8	6.625	1482	1077	1.376	Qualification to Play-off
2	Alba Blaj (Q)	18	15	3	45	47	11	4.273	1409	1068	1.319
3	Știința Bacău (Q)	18	13	5	41	43	13	3.308	1407	1161	1.212
4	Târgoviște (Q)	18	13	5	36	43	25	1.720	1550	1387	1.118
5	Agroland Timișoara (Q)	18	12	6	35	38	25	1.520	1419	1340	1.059
6	Lugoj (Q)	18	6	12	19	25	39	0.641	1314	1441	0.912
7	Dinamo București (Q)	18	4	14	14	20	45	0.444	1289	1452	0.888	Qualification to Play-out
8	Universitatea Cluj (Q)	18	4	14	11	16	45	0.356	1181	1428	0.827
9	Penicilina Iași (Q)	18	4	14	11	17	48	0.354	1191	1510	0.789
10	Târgu Mureș (Q)	18	2	16	7	12	50	0.240	1101	1479	0.744

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

Play-off

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	CSM București (C, Q)	28	25	3	76	81	37	2.189	2422	1849	1.310	Qualification to CEV Women's Champions League
2	Alba Blaj (Q)	28	24	4	70	74	22	3.364	2293	1840	1.246	Qualification to Women's CEV Cup
3	Știința Bacău (Q)	28	17	11	54	62	39	1.590	2282	2085	1.094	Qualification to CEV Women's Challenge Cup
4	Târgoviște (Q)	28	19	9	52	64	27	2.370	2439	2272	1.074
5	Agroland Timișoara	28	15	13	45	53	47	1.128	2183	2180	1.001
6	Lugoj	28	6	22	20	30	69	0.435	1970	2293	0.859

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

Play-out

In the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Romanian Volleyball Federation from 26 February 2018 it was decided to cancel the play-out round, places 7–10. The final ranking for these places remains the same as that at the end of the regular season.

External links

• Official site of the Romanian Volleyball Federation
• Voleiromania.ro (Romanian)