Romania has a thriving football pyramid and the top professional division is known as Liga I which includes Universitatea Craiova, CFR Cluj and Astra Giurgiu. While the 2019/20 season was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, it looks likely that the 2020/21 Liga I campaign will start in September 2020 and run through until May 2021, finishing before Euro 2021.
Liga I features fourteen different teams who all play each other home and away before the division is halved between the Championship round and the Relegation round. For each of these latter phases, the teams go through with half their original points tally and then play their rivals home and away again to determine the final standings for the season.
When Does the 2020/21 Liga I Season Begin and End?
The 2019/20 Liga I season was massively disrupted by the pandemic and it caused no games to be played for a few weeks before it was announced that the campaign could be played to a finish. However, with this season only finishing in August, we should expect the 2020/21 Liga I campaign to only get up and running in September.
With regard to an end date, the Romanian FA will try to end the Liga I season in May 2021 and ensure that there is a gap between the end of their season and the start of Euro 2021, with that meaning a more packed fixture schedule that will have been originally anticipated.
Who Are the Best Liga I Teams to Back for 2020/21 Season?
CFR Cluj have been the dominant force in Romanian Liga I for several years, although the famous Romanian team haven’t always had things their own way and Universitatea Craiova were very competitive during the 2019/20 season which suggests that we might have another title race for the 2020/21 campaign.
The latter team do have four Romanian Liga I titles to their name at the time of writing, although the latest one was the 1990-91 season, with a recent resurgence making things more exciting for the neutrals. Similarly, Astra Giurgiu look a force to be reckoned with and they recently claimed their first ever domestic title in the 2015/16 season.
Please note that it’s not always the leading Romanian football teams that are worth betting on. It’s worth spotting when a different club happen to be on a good run and there’s often the chance to compare Romanian Liga I betting odds at Odds1x2.com and see that one bookie is offering a particularly big price about a certain outcome.
Bet In-Play on Romanian Liga I and Watch Live Streaming
Many betting customers wait for the Romanian football betting markets to go In-Play before placing their bets. It’s hardly a surprise considering that it can be exciting betting on the changing markets and odds, while some bookies even have free live streams to accompany the In-Play Romanian Liga I football betting.