Competition: | Liga III |
Season: | 2020–21 |
Promoted: | Dacia Unirea Brăila Steaua București Corona Brașov Viitorul Șelimbăr Unirea Dej |
Relegated: | Bradu Borca Balotești Fortuna Becicherecu Mic Industria Galda Avântul Valea Mărului Mostiștea Ulmu Concordia II Chiajna Astra II Măgura Cisnădie Gaz Metan II Mediaș |
Biggest Home Win: | (27 March 2021) (3 April 2021) |
Biggest Away Win: | (10 April 2021) (19 March 2021) |
Highest Scoring: | (27 March 2021) (3 April 2021) (28 October 2020) |
Matches: | 900 |
Total Goals: | 2834 |
Longest Wins: | 9 matches Șelimbăr |
Longest Losses: | 16 matches Balotești Fortuna |
Longest Unbeaten: | 18 matches Steaua Corona Șelimbăr |
Longest Winless: | 18 matches Balotești Fortuna |
Prevseason: | 2019–20 |
Nextseason: | 2021–22 |
Updated: | 19 July 2021 |
The 2020–21 Liga III was the 65th season of Liga III, the third tier of the Romanian football league system. The season began in September 2020 and ended in May 2021.
The format was changed from five series of 16 teams to ten series of 10 teams, as the no relegation rule was applied in the previous season after its suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
Promoted from Liga IV
Relegated from Liga II
Relegated to Liga IV
Promoted to Liga II
Sportul Snagov and Daco-Getica București were dissolved and excluded by the Romanian Football Federation before the start of the new season.
Hușana Huși, CSM Bacău, Pașcani, Axiopolis Cernavodă, Dacia Unirea Brăila, FCSB II, Recolta Gheorghe Doja, Pucioasa, Astra II, Balotești, Sporting Roșiori, Cetate Deva, Filiași, ACS Poli Timișoara, Gilortul Târgu Cărbunești, Unirea Alba Iulia, Industria Galda, Odorheiu Secuiesc and SCM Zalău were spared from relegation due to the interruption of the 2019–20 season, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cetate Deva was renamed as CSM Deva.[2]
Metalurgistul Cugir was renamed as CSO Cugir.[2]
Viitorul II Constanța, Dinamo II București, Rapid II București, Concordia II Chiajna, Academica II Clinceni, Gaz Metan II Mediaș, Hermannstadt II and Kids Tâmpa Brașov were enrolled directly in the Liga III.
In this season a new format was adopted, due to COVID-19 pandemic. The 100 football clubs were placed in 10 series, the first two teams from each series qualified for the promotion play-off, but only the best 5 teams promoted to 2021–22 Liga II season.[3]
In this season a new format was adopted, due to COVID-19 pandemic. The 100 football clubs were placed in 10 series, the last two teams from each series and the worst 8th place qualified for the relegation play-outs, which was played against 21 winners of the 2020–21 Liga IV season. Only the winners of the 21 encounters will continue in the 2021–22 Liga III.[4] |-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Region 1|colspan="2" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|||w/o||w/o||2–1||5–0||2–0||2–1|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Region 2|colspan="2" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|||1–3||1–2||w/o||w/o||2–2||0–0|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Region 3|colspan="2" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|||0–3||4–1||0–3||0–2||1–1||2–2|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Region 4|colspan="2" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|||0–2||0–4||3–1||3–1||3–4||0–7|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Region 5|colspan="2" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|||1–0||0–3||1–1||0–3||2–1||3–4|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Region 6|colspan="2" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|||0–0||1–2||1–2||3–3||3–1||2–2|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Region 7|colspan="2" style="background-color:#ffcccc"|||1–1||3–6||3–0||5–4||3–1||3–1|}