The Nemzeti Bajnokság, "National Championship") is the Hungarian professional league for association football clubs. The league is currently known as the OTP Bank Liga for sponsorship reasons, and it is the highest level of professional league since its inception in 1901. UEFA currently ranks the league 29th in Europe.
Twelve teams compete in the league, playing each other twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, the top team enters the qualification for the UEFA Champions League, while the runner-up and the third placed, together with the winner of the Hungarian Cup enters the UEFA Europa League qualification round. The bottom two clubs are relegated to Nemzeti Bajnokság II, the second-level league, to be replaced by the winner and the runner up of the NB2.The 2017–18 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, also known as NB I, is going to be the 119th season of top-tier football in Hungary. The league is officially named OTP Bank Liga for sponsorship reasons. Honvéd are the defending champions having won their fourteenth Hungarian championship last season. As in the previous season, 12 teams compete for the championship title, playing 33 rounds. The fixtures were published on 14 July 2017.
On 20 June 2017, the rounds were drawn by the Hungarian Football Federation. The 33 rounds will be divided into two parts. 19 rounds will be played in 2017 and the remaining 14 in 2018.
In the first 22 rounds each team plays against every other team home-and-away in a round-robin format. In the remaining 11 rounds, the first six placed teams from the previous season will play six matches at home and five matches away, and the remaining six teams will play five matches at home and six matches away.
MTK and Gyirmót finished the 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I in the last two places and thus were relegated to NB II division.
The two relegated teams were replaced with the top two teams in 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság II, champion Puskás Akadémia and runner-up Balmazújváros, each having the required licence for top-division play.
Following is the list of clubs competing in 2017–18 Nemzeti Bajnokság I
The players of Budapest Honved celebrate the winning of the last championship after the Hungarian OTP Bank
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