# 2016–17 Liga Națională (women's basketball)

The 2016–17 Liga Națională season is the 67th 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 2016–17 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

BC Sirius and Politehnica Iași 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 |
| CSM | Târgoviște | Polyvalent Hall | 2,000 |
| ICIM | Arad | Victoria Sports Hall | 1,500 |
| Olimpia CSU | Brașov | D.P. Colibași | 1,700 |
| Phoenix | Galați | Dunărea | 1,500 |
| Politehnica | Iași | Polyvalent Hall | 1,500 |
| Sepsi SIC | Sfântu Gheorghe | Szabó Kati | 1,000 |
| 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 | 28 | 26 | 2 | 2154 | 1638 | +516 | 54 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 2 | Universitatea Cluj | 28 | 20 | 8 | 2086 | 1887 | +199 | 48 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 3 | CSM Târgoviște | 28 | 18 | 10 | 1793 | 1710 | +83 | 46 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 4 | Olimpia Brașov | 28 | 15 | 13 | 1978 | 1967 | +11 | 43 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 5 | Phoenix Galați | 28 | 13 | 15 | 1993 | 2089 | −96 | 41 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 6 | CSM Satu Mare | 28 | 10 | 18 | 1900 | 2019 | −119 | 38 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 7 | ICIM Arad | 24 | 13 | 11 | 1728 | 1608 | +120 | 37 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 8 | CSBT Alexandria | 24 | 11 | 13 | 1784 | 1788 | −4 | 35 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 9 | BC Sirius | 24 | 4 | 20 | 1632 | 1958 | −326 | 28 | |
| 10 | Politehnica Iași | 24 | 2 | 22 | 1517 | 1901 | −384 | 26 | |

## 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 Universitatea Cluj | 68 | 73 | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
| 7 ICIM Arad | 56 | 59 | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
| 7 ICIM Arad | 56 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 2 Universitatea Cluj | 69 | 90 | 0 | 0 |
| | | | | | 3 CSM Târgoviște | 65 | 62 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 CSM Târgoviște | 51 | 57 | 57 | 0 | 3 CSM Târgoviște | 65 | 62 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 CSM Satu Mare | 64 | 53 | 43 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 CSM Satu Mare | 64 | 53 | 43 | 0 | | | | | | 1 Sepsi SIC | 64 | 72 | 72 | 85 |
| | | | | | | | | | | 2 Universitatea Cluj | 66 | 66 | 68 | 76 |
| 4 Olimpia Brașov | 74 | 96 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | 2 Universitatea Cluj | 66 | 66 | 68 | 76 |
| 5 Phoenix Galați | 72 | 75 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 5 Phoenix Galați | 72 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 1 Sepsi SIC | 89 | 80 | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
| | | | | | 4 Olimpia Brașov | 44 | 77 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 Sepsi SIC | 81 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 4 Olimpia Brașov | 44 | 77 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 CSBT Alexandria | 64 | 75 | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
| Third place | Third place | Third place | Third place | Third place |
| 3 CSM Târgoviște | 55 | 59 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 Olimpia Brașov | 59 | 82 | | |