Second Division. Divided into 2 groups – Northern and Southern, both of 18 teams. The group winners promoted to First Division, the last 3 relegated to Third Division. At least that was true at the ened of first half of the season – sometime in the second half the Northern group lost 2 teams: Volov (Shumen) and Ludogoretz (Razgrad. If Beroe (Stara Zagora) was punished for crowd trouble, what infringements led to expulsions in Second Division (and also in the Third Division) were lost in time. Thus, the Northern group started with 18 teams and finished with 16 and since no team geographically positioned in the North was relegated from First Division, effectively nobody was relegated when the season was over. On the other hand, in South more teams were relegated for 2 teams were coming down from the top league: 4 teams were relegated to Third level. Second Division left little pictorial material of itself:
Southern Group:
Pirin (Blagoevgrad)in their first season under this name – they were renamed from Botev to Pirin by Communist Party decision – finished 10th.
Asenovetz (Asenovgrad) – in white here against CSKA – ended 7th.
N. Laskov (Yambol) won the championship and was promoted for the first time to the top league. During the season the winners were often criticized for lacking confidence away from home, but most teams were having the same problem.
Northern Group. More dramatic season than in the South – not only 2 teams were expelled during the season, but there was a battle for top position, resolved at the end by single point.
Lokomotiv (Mezdra) was lucky: they finished 16th and at least as the last in the table should have been relegated. But no Northern team was relegated from First Division and they stayed at least for one more season in the second level.
Karpachev (Lovech) ended 15th.
Dorostol (Silistra) was 7th.
Lokomotiv (Rousse) – 6th. Standing from left: Nikola Nedelchev, Metodi Metodiev, Kolyu Makarov, Christo Stanchev, Valentin Nikolaev, Dimitar Vassilev, Tzenko Georgiev, ?, Georgi Mitev, Metin. Crouching:?, Remzi Nuriev, Stancho Dimitrov, Evtim Nikolov, Deko Lalchev, Georgi Dimov, Dzhevdet Khyuseinov, Blagoy Kovachev.
ZSK Spartak (Varna, in white against local rivals Cherno More at Cup's 1/16 finals) really aimed to get promotion – they lost only 3 games this season, scored most goals and received the least, only 14, but were beaten by one point and finished 2nd.
Chardafon-Orlovetz (Gabrovo) was the happy winner. It is fair to say they benefited by the forced mergers in the middle of the previous season and consequent availability of classy players – the club secured a few well known names from former Slavia (Sofia)and that helped a lot. Like the winners in the South, Chardafon-Orlovetz was promoted for the first time to the top league. Like the Southern winner, they had relatively weak team and needed stronger new recruits if wanting to last among the best.
Pirin (Blagoevgrad)in their first season under this name – they were renamed from Botev to Pirin by Communist Party decision – finished 10th.
Asenovetz (Asenovgrad) – in white here against CSKA – ended 7th.
N. Laskov (Yambol) won the championship and was promoted for the first time to the top league. During the season the winners were often criticized for lacking confidence away from home, but most teams were having the same problem.
Northern Group. More dramatic season than in the South – not only 2 teams were expelled during the season, but there was a battle for top position, resolved at the end by single point.
Lokomotiv (Mezdra) was lucky: they finished 16th and at least as the last in the table should have been relegated. But no Northern team was relegated from First Division and they stayed at least for one more season in the second level.
Karpachev (Lovech) ended 15th.
Dorostol (Silistra) was 7th.
Lokomotiv (Rousse) – 6th. Standing from left: Nikola Nedelchev, Metodi Metodiev, Kolyu Makarov, Christo Stanchev, Valentin Nikolaev, Dimitar Vassilev, Tzenko Georgiev, ?, Georgi Mitev, Metin. Crouching:?, Remzi Nuriev, Stancho Dimitrov, Evtim Nikolov, Deko Lalchev, Georgi Dimov, Dzhevdet Khyuseinov, Blagoy Kovachev.
Chardafon-Orlovetz (Gabrovo) was the happy winner. It is fair to say they benefited by the forced mergers in the middle of the previous season and consequent availability of classy players – the club secured a few well known names from former Slavia (Sofia)and that helped a lot. Like the winners in the South, Chardafon-Orlovetz was promoted for the first time to the top league. Like the Southern winner, they had relatively weak team and needed stronger new recruits if wanting to last among the best. 
