2020–21 Liga I
The 2020–21 Liga I (also known as Casa Liga 1 for sponsorship reasons) was the 103rd season of the Liga I, the top professional league for Romanian association football clubs. The season started on 21 August 2020 and ended on 19 May 2021. CFR Cluj were winners and three-time defending champions. It was the sixth season to take place in the play-off/play-out format, and the first since the 2005–06 season to feature 16 teams.
| Season | 2020–21 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 21 August 2020 – 27 May 2021 |
| Champions | CFR Cluj |
| Relegated | Hermannstadt Astra Giurgiu Politehnica Iași |
| Champions League | CFR Cluj |
| Europa Conference League | FCSB Universitatea Craiova Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe |
| Matches played | 256 |
| Goals scored | 570 (2.23 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Florin Tănase (24 goals) |
| Best goalkeeper | Mirko Pigliacelli (16 clean sheets) |
| Biggest home win | FCSB 5–0 Hermannstadt (26 October 2020) |
| Biggest away win | UTA Arad 0–6 Astra Giurgiu (21 December 2020) |
| Highest scoring | Politehnica Iași 5–2 FCSB (27 September 2020) Academica Clinceni 4-3 Botoșani (14 May 2021) |
| Longest winning run | 7 matches FCSB Universitatea Craiova |
| Longest unbeaten run | 11 matches Argeș Pitești |
| Longest winless run | 13 matches Dinamo București |
| Longest losing run | 5 matches Politehnica Iași Dinamo București Gaz Metan Mediaș |
| Highest attendance | 0 (behind closed doors) |
| Lowest attendance | 0 (behind closed doors) |
| Total attendance | 0 (behind closed doors) |
| Average attendance | 0 (behind closed doors) |
← 2019–20 2021–22 →
All statistics correct as of 19 May 2021. | |
The play-off/play-out rule was also altered, with the first six teams at the regular season qualified for the play-off tournament and the last ten for the play-out. The first six teams played two matches against each other as before, but in the play-out the teams only played once against each other. At the end of the play-out, the first two places (or the 7th and 8th overall) played a single match on the ground of the lower ranked team, and the subsequent winner played the last team ranked on a UEFA Europa Conference League spot in the play-off. The winner of the latter encounter qualified for the Europa Conference League.
The teams ranked 15th and 16th at the end of the play-out tournament were directly relegated, while the 13th and 14th places played a promotion/relegation play-off against 3rd and 4th places from Liga II.