Romania's football league is facing a paralysis after the bank accounts of eleven clubs have been sealed, Reuters wrote Tuesday.
The move followed an order for companies owning huge debts to the state to pay up or have their assets frozen, the world agency said.
They cited Viorel Duru, the head of the licence commission for the Romanian Football Federation (FRF), as saying that next season there could be only five or six teams able to play in first division.
Finance Minister Ionut Popescu has disclosed that Steaua Bucharest owed EUR 3.3 M in unpaid taxes. Top teams Dinamo and National, both of Bucharest, Politehnica Timisoara, Apulum Alba Iulia and Gloria Bistrita were also on the list, he has told Reuters.