2005–06 Divizia B

The 2005–06 Divizia B was the 66th season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system.

Divizia B
Season2005–06
PromotedCeahlăul Piatra Neamț
FC U Craiova
Liberty Salonta
Unirea Urziceni
RelegatedGloria II Bistrița
Altay Medgidia
Astra Ploiești
Callatis Mangalia
Minerul Motru
Olimpia Satu Mare
Inter Gaz București
Petrolul Moinești
Rapid II București
Laminorul Roman
Juventus București
UTA Arad
Portul Constanța
Dinamo II București
Unirea Sânnicolau Mare
Midia Năvodari
FC Sibiu
Armătura Zalău
Top goalscorerTiberiu Șerban (18 goals)

The format has been maintained to three series, each of them consisting of 16 teams. At the end of the season, the winners of the series promoted to Divizia A and the last six places from all the series relegated to Divizia C. A promotion play-off was played between the runners-up of the Divizia B series to decide the fourth promoted team. A special ranking was made between the 10th place teams of every series and the team with the worst ranking in this standing was relegated, as well. These changes in promotion and relegation rules were made because starting with the next season, Romanian football league system was reformed.[1][2]

Team changes

Note (**)

Tricotaje Ineu sold its Divizia B place to FCM Reșița.

Internațional Pitești sold its Divizia B place to Astra Ploiești, club which split from Petrolul Ploiești, after only one season since their merge.

CS Deva sold its Divizia B place to Corvinul 2005 Hunedoara, an unofficial successor of Corvinul Hunedoara, club which was dissolved at the end of the previous season.

Renamed teams

Altay Constanța was moved from Constanța to Medgidia and renamed as Altay Medgidia.

FC Oradea was renamed as Bihor Oradea.

CSM Reșița split from the merge with FC U Craiova, which second team was in the last season of the third tier and was renamed as FCM Reșița.

League tables

Seria I

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț (C, P) 30 20 6 4 59 20 +39 66 Promotion to Liga I
2 Forex Brașov 30 18 5 7 55 31 +24 59 Qualification to Promotion play-off
3 FC Brașov 30 17 8 5 57 22 +35 58[lower-alpha 1]
4 Botoșani 30 15 4 11 32 29 +3 49
5 Cetatea Suceava 30 14 4 12 43 34 +9 46
6 Precizia Săcele 30 12 9 9 26 24 +2 45
7 Dacia Unirea Brăila 30 12 9 9 31 28 +3 45
8 Dunărea Galați 30 12 7 11 29 26 +3 43
9 Gloria Buzău 30 12 7 11 37 29 +8 43
10 Altay Medgidia[lower-alpha 2] (R) 30 12 6 12 33 37 4 42 Possible relegation to Liga III
11 Callatis Mangalia (R) 30 11 6 13 34 39 5 39 Relegation to Liga III
12 FCM Târgoviște[lower-alpha 3] 30 10 8 12 29 30 1 38 Spared from relegation
13 Petrolul Moinești (R) 30 8 8 14 33 44 11 32 Relegation to Liga III
14 Laminorul Roman (R) 30 7 7 16 30 47 17 28
15 Portul Constanța (R) 30 7 6 17 35 60 25 27
16 Midia Năvodari[lower-alpha 4] (R) 30 1 4 25 6 69 63 7
Updated to match(es) played on 30 June 2006. Source: romaniansoccer.ro (in Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored.
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. FC Brașov was deducted 1 point due to not achieving the 22 points limit in the Divizia A, last season.
  2. Altay Medgidia withdrew at the end of the season.
  3. FCM Târgoviște was spared from relegation after Altay Medgidia withdrew.
  4. Midia Năvodari withdrew during the winther break and lost all the matches from the second part of the season by forfeit.

Seria II

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 FC U Craiova (C, P) 30 20 4 6 41 14 +27 62[lower-alpha 1] Promotion to Liga I
2 Unirea Urziceni (O, P) 30 18 5 7 55 24 +31 59 Qualification to Promotion play-off
3 Petrolul Ploiești 30 17 5 8 47 29 +18 56
4 Otopeni 30 15 9 6 37 18 +19 54
5 Dunărea Giurgiu 30 16 3 11 35 33 +2 51
6 Râmnicu Vâlcea 30 11 12 7 37 27 +10 45
7 Poiana Câmpina 30 12 9 9 34 28 +6 45
8 Dacia Mioveni 30 12 8 10 36 30 +6 44
9 FC Caracal 30 13 4 13 35 38 3 43
10 Astra Ploiești (R) 30 12 4 14 45 48 3 40 Possible relegation to Liga III
11 Minerul Motru (R) 30 9 10 11 32 34 2 37 Relegation to Liga III
12 Inter Gaz București (R) 30 9 9 12 30 40 10 36
13 Rapid II București (R) 30 10 2 18 27 56 29 32
14 Juventus București (R) 30 7 4 19 29 49 20 25
15 Dinamo II București (R) 30 4 8 18 25 43 18 20
16 FC Sibiu (R) 30 3 8 19 12 46 34 17
Updated to match(es) played on 30 June 2006. Source: romaniansoccer.ro (in Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored.
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. FC U Craiova were deducted 2 points due to not achieving the 22 points limit in the Divizia A, last season.

Seria III

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Liberty Salonta (C, P) 28 17 7 4 37 16 +21 58 Promotion to Liga I
2 Bihor Oradea 28 17 4 7 53 27 +26 55 Qualification to Promotion play-off
3 Universitatea Cluj 28 15 9 4 44 16 +28 54
4 Gaz Metan Mediaș 28 15 6 7 38 21 +17 51
5 FCM Reșița 28 11 7 10 26 29 3 40
6 Corvinul 2005 Hunedoara 28 10 8 10 33 35 2 38
7 CFR Timișoara 28 10 6 12 33 40 7 36
8 Gloria II Bistrița[lower-alpha 1] (R) 28 10 6 12 25 34 9 36 Relegation to Liga III
9 IS Câmpia Turzii 28 8 10 10 30 29 +1 34
10 Minerul Lupeni 28 9 7 12 26 31 5 34 Possible relegation to Liga III
11 Olimpia Satu Mare (R) 28 9 5 14 24 36 12 32 Relegation to Liga III
12 Unirea Dej[lower-alpha 2] 28 9 5 14 29 37 8 32 Spared from relegation
13 Apulum Alba Iulia[lower-alpha 3] 28 6 10 12 21 31 10 28
14 UTA Arad (R) 28 6 9 13 25 35 10 27 Relegation to Liga III
15 Unirea Sânnicolau Mare (R) 28 6 5 17 21 48 27 23
16 Armătura Zalău[lower-alpha 4] (R) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Updated to match(es) played on 30 June 2006. Source: romaniansoccer.ro (in Romanian)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored.
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. Gloria II Bistrița withdrew at the end of the season.
  2. Unirea Dej was spared from relegation after Gloria II Bistrița withdrew.
  3. Apulum Alba Iulia was spared from relegation after newly promoted Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea refused the promotion.
  4. Armătura Zalău was excluded in the first part of the season and all its results were cancelled.

Promotion play-off

In the following season, the Liga I was expanded from 16 teams to 18 teams, therefore the Romanian Football Federation decided that a promotion playoff group would be played at the end of the season, between the second placed teams from each series of the Liga II, in order to establish the fourth promoted team (in exchange to the two teams relegated from the Liga I). The winner of this group, Unirea Urziceni, promoted to the Liga I, along with the three winners of the series.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion
1 Unirea Urziceni (O, P) 2 2 0 0 5 2 +3 6 Promotion to Liga I
2 Forex Brașov 2 1 0 1 2 1 +1 3
3 Bihor Oradea 2 0 0 2 2 6 4 0
Source:
(O) Play-off winner; (P) Promoted.
10 June 2006 Forex Brașov 2–0Bihor OradeaLia Manoliu
18:00 Manea  44'
Coman  76'
Report Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Alexandru Tudor (Bucharest)
14 June 2006 Unirea Urziceni 4–2Bihor OradeaLia Manoliu
18:00 Constantin  10'
Gheorghe  23' (pen.)
Zaharia  34'
Predescu  45'
Report Neaga  19'
Foro  72'
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Sorin Corpodean (Alba Iulia)

Possible relegation

At the end of the season, a special table was made between 10th places from the 3 series. The last team in this table was also relegated in the Liga III. In this table, 10th place teams are included without the points obtained against teams that relegated in their series.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Relegation
1 Altay Medgidia 18 8 1 9 17 28 11 25
2 Minerul Lupeni 18 7 3 8 19 22 3 24
3 Astra Ploiești (R) 18 6 2 10 23 35 12 20 Relegation to Liga III
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored.[3]
(R) Relegated.

Top scorers

18 goals
14 goals
8 goals
7 goals
5 goals
4 goals

See also

References

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