# 2017–18 Liga Națională (women's basketball)

The 2017–18 Liga Națională season is the 68th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. Sepsi SIC Sfântu Gheorghe is the defending champion.

## Competition format

The Romanian Basketball Federation agreed a change in the competition format for the 2017–18 season:
* 10 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.
* All teams from the group from 1st to 6th and the two first qualified teams from the bottom group will join the playoffs. In this knockout stage, quarterfinals and semifinals will be played with a best-of-three-games format and the final with a best-of-five one.

## Teams

CSM Târgoviște and Politehnica Iași withdrew from the competition and enrolled in the Liga I.
SCM Timișoara and CSU Alba Iulia were promoted from the previous season of the Liga I.
| Team | City | Arena | Capacity |
| BC Sirius | Târgu Mureș | Sala Sporturilor | 2,000 |
| CSBT | Alexandria | Dimitrie Ghica | 900 |
| CSM | Satu Mare | Ecaterina Both Arena | 400 |
| CSU | Alba Iulia | Sala Sporturilor | 400 |
| ICIM | Arad | Victoria Sports Hall | 1,500 |
| Olimpia CSU | Brașov | D.P. Colibași | 1,700 |
| Phoenix | Galați | Dunărea | 1,500 |
| SCM | Timișoara | Constantin Jude | 2,200 |
| Sepsi SIC | Sfântu Gheorghe | Arena Sepsi | 3,000 |
| Universitatea | Cluj Napoca | Polyvalent Hall / Horia Demian | 7,308 / 2,525 |

## Regular season

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Sepsi SIC | 20 | 19 | 1 | 1685 | 1229 | +456 | 39 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 2 | CSM Satu Mare | 20 | 13 | 7 | 1518 | 1470 | +48 | 33 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 3 | Olimpia Brașov | 20 | 11 | 9 | 1400 | 1423 | −23 | 31 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 4 | Universitatea Cluj | 20 | 9 | 11 | 1458 | 1458 | 0 | 29 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 5 | CSBT Alexandria | 20 | 9 | 11 | 1458 | 1476 | −18 | 29 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 6 | ICIM Arad | 19 | 11 | 8 | 1347 | 1335 | +12 | 30 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 7 | SCM Timișoara | 19 | 8 | 11 | 1362 | 1336 | +26 | 27 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 8 | CSU Alba Iulia | 19 | 7 | 12 | 1207 | 1321 | −114 | 25 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 9 | BC Sirius | 19 | 1 | 18 | 1171 | 1558 | −387 | 20 | |
| 10 | Phoenix Galați | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew |
* ↑ CSU Alba Iulia was deducted 1 point.
* ↑ Phoenix Galați withdrew from the championship.

## Play-offs

The higher seeded teams played games 1, 2 and 5 at home.
| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 2 CSM Satu Mare | 71 | 68 | 63 | 0 | | | | | |
| 7 SCM Timișoara | 82 | 50 | 53 | 0 | | | | | |
| 7 SCM Timișoara | 82 | 50 | 53 | 0 | 2 CSM Satu Mare | 101 | 72 | 0 | 0 |
| | | | | | 3 Olimpia Brașov | 60 | 68 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 Olimpia Brașov | 73 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 3 Olimpia Brașov | 60 | 68 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 ICIM Arad | 66 | 66 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 ICIM Arad | 66 | 66 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | 1 Sepsi SIC | 76 | 71 | 60 | 85 |
| | | | | | | | | | | 2 CSM Satu Mare | 46 | 51 | 68 | 76 |
| 1 Sepsi SIC | 96 | 93 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | 2 CSM Satu Mare | 46 | 51 | 68 | 76 |
| 8 CSU Alba Iulia | 44 | 57 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 8 CSU Alba Iulia | 44 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 1 Sepsi SIC | 97 | 87 | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
| | | | | | 4 Universitatea Cluj | 69 | 59 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 Universitatea Cluj | 72 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 4 Universitatea Cluj | 69 | 59 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 CSBT Alexandria | 71 | 75 | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
| Third place | Third place | Third place | Third place | Third place |
| 3 Olimpia Brașov | 86 | 76 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 Universitatea Cluj | 70 | 72 | 0 | 0 |