2021 SuperLiga season

2021 CEC Bank SuperLiga
Countries	Romania
Date	24 April 2021 – 16 October 2021
Champions	CSM Știința Baia Mare (8th title)
Runners-up	CSA Steaua București
Matches played	37
Tries scored	285 (average 7.7 per match)
Top point scorer	Jondre Williams (99 points)
Top try scorer	De-An Ackermann (11 tries)
Official website
rugbyromania.ro
← 2019–20 2022 Liga Nationala season →

The 2021 SuperLiga (also known as the CEC Bank SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons) is the 107th season of premier club rugby in Romania, and the 10th season of the competition under the name of the CEC Bank SuperLiga.^[1] Starting with this edition, Gloria Buzău will no longer participate in the SuperLiga due to the dissolvation of the club last year.^[2]

Teams

Tomitanii Constanța

București

Știința Baia Mare

Universitatea Cluj-Napoca

Rugby Timișoara

București teams
Dinamo București
Steaua București

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Locations of 2021 CEC Bank SuperLiga teams Romania.

Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality

Team	Manager	Captain	Stadium	Capacity
Dinamo București	Sosene Anesi	Alexandru Mitu	Stadionul Florea Dumitrache	1,500
Steaua București	Dănuț Dumbravă	Eseria Vueti	Stadionul Ghencea II	2,000
Știința Baia Mare	Eugen Apjok	Marius Dănilă	Arena Zimbrilor	2,300
Timișoara Rugby	Valentin Calafeteanu	Eugen Căpățână	Stadionul Gheorghe Rășcanu	1,000
Tomitanii Constanța	Tuhakaraina Massey	Cooper Vuna	Stadionul Mihai Naca	1,000
Universitatea Cluj-Napoca	Cristian Săuan	Damian Dragoș	Stadionul Iuliu Hațieganu	1,000

Table

This is the regular season league table:

Key to colours
	Advances to semifinals
	Advances to play-off semifinals

	Club	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points for	Points against	Points difference	Bonus points	Points
Regular Table
1	Steaua București	10	8	1	1	427	160	+267	7	41
2	Știința Baia Mare	10	8	0	2	379	196	+183	7	39
3	Dinamo București	10	6	0	4	392	251	+141	7	31
4	SCM Rugby Timișoara	10	5	1	4	289	196	+93	6	28
5	Universitatea Cluj	10	2	0	8	199	446	-247	1	9
6	Tomitanii Constanța	10	0	0	10	154	591	-437	1	1

Fixtures & Results

Round 1

24 April 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Steaua București	38–36	Dinamo București (LBP)

Stadionul Ghencea II
Referee: Alexandru Ionescu

24 April 2021
14:00 EET (UTC+2)

Știința Baia Mare (TBP)	36–18	Universitatea Cluj-Napoca

Arena Zimbrilor
Referee: Vlad Iordăchescu

Round 2

30 April 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Universitatea Cluj-Napoca	30–52	Dinamo București (TBP)

Stadionul Iuliu Hațieganu
Referee: Robert Diaconescu

30 April 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Tomitanii Constanța	6–46	Steaua București (TBP)

Stadionul Mihai Naca
Referee: Mihai Văcaru

1 May 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Știința Baia Mare	29–24	Rugby Timișoara (LBP)

Arena Zimbrilor
Referee: Cristian Șerban

Round 3

8 May 2021
12:00 EET (UTC+2)

Rugby Timișoara (TBP)	59–19	Universitatea Cluj-Napoca

Stadionul Gheorghe Rășcanu
Referee: Mihai Văcaru

8 May 2021
12:00 EET (UTC+2)

Steaua București	18–17	Știința Baia Mare (LBP)

Stadionul Ghencea II
Referee: Robert Diaconescu

8 May 2021
14:00 EET (UTC+2)

Dinamo București (TBP)	78–19	Tomitanii Constanța

Stadionul Florea Dumitrache
Referee: Virgil Ghenea

Round 4

15 May 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Știința Baia Mare (TBP)	46–27	Dinamo București

Arena Zimbrilor
Referee: Radu Petrescu

15 May 2021
12:00 EET (UTC+2)

Rugby Timișoara	13–13	Steaua București

Stadionul Gheorghe Rășcanu
Referee: Alexandru Ionescu

16 May 2021
11:30 EET (UTC+2)

Universitatea Cluj-Napoca (TBP)	45–27	Tomitanii Constanța

Stadionul Florea Dumitrache
Referee: Vlad Iordăchescu

Round 5

22 May 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Tomitanii Constanța	17–80	Știința Baia Mare (TBP)

Stadionul Mihai Naca
Referee: Robert Diaconescu

22 May 2021
12:00 EET (UTC+2)

Dinamo București	31–28	Rugby Timișoara (LBP)

Stadionul Florea Dumitrache
Referee: Cristian Şerban

23 May 2021
11:30 EET (UTC+2)

Steaua București (TBP)	55–5	Universitatea Cluj-Napoca

Stadionul Ghencea II
Referee: Radu Petrescu

Round 6

29 May 2021
12:00 EET (UTC+2)

Dinamo București	14–27	Steaua București (TBP)

Stadionul Florea Dumitrache
Referee: Vlad Iordăchescu

29 May 2021
14:00 EET (UTC+2)

Universitatea Cluj-Napoca	14–46	Știința Baia Mare (TBP)

Stadionul Iuliu Hațieganu
Referee: Mihai Văcaru

30 May 2021
16:00 EET (UTC+2)

Tomitanii Constanța	12–82	Rugby Timișoara (TBP)

Stadionul Mihai Naca
Referee: Viorel-Nicolae Bujoreanu

Round 7

5 June 2021
12:00 EET (UTC+2)

Rugby Timișoara	28–25	Știința Baia Mare (LBP)

Stadionul Gheorghe Rășcanu
Referee: Alexandru Ionescu

5 June 2021
14:00 EET (UTC+2)

Steaua București (TBP)	101–26	Tomitanii Constanța

Stadionul Ghencea II
Referee: Virgil Ioniță

6 June 2021
11:30 EET (UTC+2)

Dinamo București (TBP)	35–20	Universitatea Cluj-Napoca

Stadionul Florea Dumitrache
Referee: Radu Petrescu

Round 8

12 June 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Tomitanii Constanța	14–71	Dinamo București (TBP)

Stadionul Mihai Naca
Referee: Robert Diaconescu

12 June 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Știința Baia Mare	23–18	Steaua București (LBP)

Arena Zimbrilor
Referee: Vlad Iordăchescu

Round 1 (rescheduled match)

10 July 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Rugby Timișoara	Cancelled 5–0	Tomitanii Constanța

Stadionul Gheorghe Rășcanu

Round 8 (rescheduled match)

18 August 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Universitatea Cluj-Napoca	10–33	Rugby Timișoara (TBP)

Stadionul Iuliu Hațieganu
Referee: Alexandru Ionescu

Round 9

4 September 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Tomitanii Constanța (LBP)	21–28	Universitatea Cluj-Napoca

Stadionul Mihai Naca
Referee: Cristian Șerban

4 September 2021
12:00 EET (UTC+2)

Steaua București (TBP)	29–10	Rugby Timișoara

Stadionul Ghencea II
Referee: Alexandru Ionescu

5 September 2021
11:30 EET (UTC+2)

Dinamo București	20–22	Știința Baia Mare

Stadionul Florea Dumitrache
Referee: Vlad Iordăchescu

Round 10

24 September 2021
12:00 EET (UTC+2)

Universitatea Cluj-Napoca	10–82	Steaua București (TBP)

Stadionul Steaua
Referee: Vlad Iordăchescu

25 September 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Știința Baia Mare (TBP)	55–12	Tomitanii Constanța

Arena Zimbrilor
Referee: Mihai Văcaru

25 September 2021
12:00 EET (UTC+2)

Rugby Timișoara	7–28	Dinamo București (TBP)

Stadionul Gheorghe Rășcanu
Referee: Alexandru Ionescu

Play-off semifinals

2 October 2021
12:00 EET (UTC+2)

Dinamo București	63–17	Tomitanii Constanța

Stadionul Florea Dumitrache
Referee: Radu Petrescu

3 October 2021
14:00 EET (UTC+2)

Rugby Timișoara	66–0	Universitatea Cluj-Napoca

Stadionul Gheorghe Rășcanu
Referee: Robert Diaconescu

Semifinals

8 October 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Știința Baia Mare	32–15	Dinamo București

Stadionul Lascăr Ghineţ
Referee: Radu Petrescu

8 October 2021
12:00 EET (UTC+2)

Steaua București	22–18	Rugby Timișoara

Stadionul Ghencea II
Referee: Alexandru Ionescu

5th Place final

16 October 2021
11:00 EET (UTC+2)

Universitatea Cluj-Napoca	36–24	Tomitanii Constanța
	Report

Stadionul Iuliu Hațieganu
Attendance: 0
Referee: Mădălin Girbău

3rd Place final

16 October 2021
12:00 EET (UTC+2)

Dinamo București	16–11	Rugby Timișoara
	Report

Stadionul Arcul de Triumf
Attendance: 0^[3]
Referee: Robert Diaconescu

1st Place final

16 October 2021
17:30 EET (UTC+2)

Steaua București	3–11	Baia Mare
	Report

Stadionul Arcul de Triumf
Attendance: 0^[3]
Referee: Cristian Șerban

Leading scorers

Note: Flags to the left of player names indicate national team as has been defined under World Rugby eligibility rules, or primary nationality for players who have not yet earned international senior caps. Players may hold one or more non-WR nationalities.

Most points

As of 17 October 2021^[4]

Rank	Player	Club	Points
1	Jondre Williams	Dinamo București	99
2	Daniel Plai	Steaua București	84
3	Taniela Rawaqa	Steaua București	63
4	Ionel Melinte	Rugby Timișoara	58
5	De-An Ackermann	Dinamo București	55
5	Marian Ispir	Dinamo București	55
7	Ngoni Chibuwe	Steaua București	50
	Ionuț Dumitru	Steaua București
	Damian Bonaparte	Dinamo București
	TC Kisting	Știința Baia Mare

Most tries

As of 17 October 2021^[4]

Rank	Player	Club	Tries
1	De-An Ackermann	Dinamo București	11
2	Ngoni Chibuwe	Steaua București	10
	Ionuț Dumitru	Steaua București
	Damian Bonaparte	Dinamo București
5	Taliaʻuli Sikuea	Știința Baia Mare	8
5	Etonia Saukuru	Rugby Timișoara	8
7	Dylan Schwartz	Dinamo București	7
	Lesunaitait Tiqeiliesa	Rugby Timișoara
	Marius Murgoci	Universitatea Cluj-Napoca
10	Stephen Shennan	Rugby Timișoara	6

External links

rugbyromania.ro – Official Website (in Romanian)

References

^ "It has been 10 years since the formation of the CEC Bank SuperLiga". 23 April 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
^ "Press release connected to SCM Gloria Buzău`s rugby section". 29 April 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Spectators". Romania Rugby. 13 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Players". Romania Rugby. 17 October 2021.