# 2018–19 Divizia A1 (women's volleyball)

The 2018–19 Divizia A1 season was the 69th season of the Divizia A1, the highest professional volleyball league in Romania. CSM București was the defending champion. At the end of the season, Alba Blaj won their fourth title. Agroland Timișoara and Penicilina Iași were relegated.

## 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.

## Team changes

Promoted from Divizia A2
* CSU Galați
CSU Oradea
Relegated to Divizia A2

### Excluded teams

CSU Oradea promoted to Divizia A1, but due to the lack of funds chose not to join the championship and enrolled again in the Divizia A2.
Medicina Târgu Mureș encountered financial problems and entered in a partnership with the newly founded CSM Târgu Mureș, becoming the women's volleyball section of the sports club. The team was enrolled in the Divizia A2.

## Teams

| 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 | Galați | Dunărea | 1,500 |
| 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 | Alba Blaj | 15 | 14 | 1 | 43 | 44 | 5 | 8.800 | 1199 | 853 | 1.406 | Qualification to Play-off |
| 2 | CSM București | 15 | 13 | 2 | 38 | 39 | 8 | 4.875 | 1115 | 829 | 1.345 | Qualification to Play-off |
| 3 | Târgoviște | 15 | 11 | 4 | 32 | 35 | 18 | 1.944 | 1177 | 1043 | 1.128 | Qualification to Play-off |
| 4 | Știința Bacău | 15 | 9 | 6 | 26 | 30 | 21 | 1.429 | 1155 | 1070 | 1.079 | Qualification to Play-off |
| 5 | Lugoj | 15 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 33 | 0.545 | 1042 | 1133 | 0.920 | Qualification to Play-off |
| 6 | Dinamo București | 15 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 35 | 0.486 | 984 | 1211 | 0.813 | Qualification to Play-off |
| 7 | Universitatea Cluj | 15 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 35 | 0.371 | 924 | 1109 | 0.833 | Qualification to Play-out |
| 8 | Galați | 15 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 43 | 0.140 | 842 | 1183 | 0.712 | Qualification to Play-out |
| 9 | Agroland Timișoara (E) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | Withdrew |
| 10 | Penicilina Iași (E) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | Withdrew |
* ↑ Agroland Timișoara withdrew from the championship in the first part of the season and all their results were canceled.
* ↑ Penicilina Iași was excluded from the championship in the first part of the season and all their results were canceled.

## Play-off

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
| 1 | Alba Blaj (C, Q) | 25 | 23 | 2 | 69 | 72 | 11 | 6.545 | 2014 | 1502 | 1.341 | Qualification to CEV Women's Champions League |
| 2 | CSM București (Q) | 25 | 21 | 4 | 63 | 66 | 15 | 4.400 | 1914 | 1439 | 1.330 | Qualification to Women's CEV Cup |
| 3 | Târgoviște (Q) | 25 | 16 | 9 | 47 | 53 | 37 | 1.432 | 1966 | 1828 | 1.075 | Qualification to CEV Women's Challenge Cup |
| 4 | Știința Bacău (Q) | 25 | 15 | 10 | 43 | 48 | 37 | 1.297 | 1880 | 1808 | 1.040 | Qualification to CEV Women's Challenge Cup |
| 5 | Lugoj | 25 | 6 | 19 | 18 | 22 | 61 | 0.361 | 1632 | 1909 | 0.855 | |
| 6 | Dinamo București | 25 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 25 | 62 | 0.403 | 1666 | 2053 | 0.811 | |

## Play-out

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR |
| 7 | Universitatea Cluj | 17 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 40 | 0.450 | 1137 | 1308 | 0.869 |
| 8 | Galați | 17 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 11 | 48 | 0.229 | 1041 | 11396 | 0.091 |