England I Division

 

League Division 1
                              P   W  D  L   F   A   W  D  L   F   A  Pts
 1. EVERTON                  42  17  3  1  46  19  12  5  4  26  15   66
 2. Leeds United             42  15  4  2  50  19   6 11  4  34  30   57
 3. Chelsea                  42  13  7  1  36  18   8  6  7  34  32   55
 4. Derby County             42  15  3  3  45  14   7  6  8  19  23   53
 5. Liverpool                42  10  7  4  34  20  10  4  7  31  22   51
 6. Coventry City            42   9  6  6  35  28  10  5  6  23  20   49
 7. Newcastle United         42  14  2  5  42  16   3 11  7  15  19   47
 8. Manchester United        42   8  9  4  37  27   6  8  7  29  34   45
 9. Stoke City               42  10  7  4  31  23   5  8  8  25  29   45
10. Manchester City          42   8  6  7  25  22   8  5  8  30  26   43
11. Tottenham Hotspur        42  11  2  8  27  21   6  7  8  27  34   43
12. Arsenal                  42   7 10  4  29  23   5  8  8  22  26   42
13. Wolverhampton Wanderers  42   8  8  5  30  23   4  8  9  25  34   40
14. Burnley                  42   7  7  7  33  29   5  8  8  23  32   39
15. Nottingham Forest        42   8  9  4  28  28   2  9 10  22  43   38
16. West Bromwich Albion     42  10  6  5  39  25   4  3 14  19  41   37
17. West Ham United          42   8  8  5  28  21   4  4 13  23  39   36
18. Ipswich Town             42   9  5  7  23  20   1  6 14  17  43   31
19. Southampton              42   3 12  6  24  27   3  5 13  22  40   29
20. Crystal Palace           42   5  6 10  20  36   1  9 11  14  32   27
21. SUNDERLAND               42   4 11  6  17  24   2  3 16  13  44   26
22. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY      42   6  5 10  23  27   2  4 15  17  44   25

Inter-cities Fairs Cup

 

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Trivia: the second leg between Aris (Thesaloniki) and Cagliari in the first round was abandoned in the 76^th minute. Cagliari was leading 3-0 and the result stood. Ajax (Amsterdam) reached the semi-final, where was eliminated by Arsenal 0-3 and 1-0. In the previous year Ajax played at the European Champions Cup final, now reached the semi-finals – Ajax was coming!

Final 1st Leg, Parc Astrid, Brussels, 22 Apr 1970, att 37000

RSC Anderlecht           (2) 3  Arsenal                  (0) 1
25' 1-0  And: Devrindt
30' 2-0  And: Mulder
74' 3-0  And: Mulder
82' 3-1  Ars: Kennedy

RSC Anderlecht
        Trappeniers; Heylens, Velkeneers; Nordahl, Kialunda, Cornelis (Peeter 68s);
        Desanghere, Devrindt, Mulder, Van Himst, Puis
Arsenal
        Wilson; Storey, McNab; Kelly, McLintock, Simpson; Armstrong, Sammels,
        Radford, George (Kennedy 77), Graham
Referee: Scheurer (Switzerland)





Final 2nd Leg, Highbury Stadium, London, 28 Apr 1970, att 51612

Arsenal                  (1) 3  RSC Anderlecht           (0) 0
25' 1-0  Ars: Kelly
75' 2-0  Ars: Radford
76' 3-0  Ars: Sammels
Arsenal won 4-3 on aggregate

Arsenal
        Wilson; Storey, McNab; Kelly, McLintock, Simpson; Armstrong, Sammels,
        Radford, George, Graham
RSC Anderlecht
        Trappeniers; Heylens, Maartens;  Nordahl, Velkeneers, Kialunda; Desanghere,
        Devrindt, Mulder, Van Himst, Puis
Referee: Kunze (East Germany)

Standing from left: Heylens, Trappeniers, Velkeneers, Kaliunda, Desanghere, Puis.
Crouching : Nordahl, Devrindt, Mulder, Van Himst, Martens.

Anderlecht had a great run to the final – they eliminated Valur Reykjavik 6-0 and 2-0, Coleraine 6-1 and 7-3, Dunfermline Athletic 1-0 and 2-3, Newcastle United 2-0 and 1-3, and Inter (Milano) 0-1 and 2-0. They lost to Arsenal only by one goal. Although international success will come in the second half of the 1970s, Anderlecht was strong and well respected club during the 1960s – too bad they were unable to win this time.

Perhaps it was just about time for Arsenal to win international trophy – this squad was at its peak.

Cup Winners Cup

 

Cup Winners Cup. AS Roma was the curiosity of the tournament – they advanced on coin toss and they were eliminated on coin toss. Benefited by the coin against PSV Eindhoven in the second round (1-0 and 0-1), but in the semi-finals the coin favoured their opponents, Gornik (Zabrze). The teams met three times: 1-1, 2-2, then playoff in Strasbourg (France), which also ended 1-1 after overtime. The coin propelled Gornik to the final.

Final, Prater Stadium, Vienna, 29 Apr 1970, att 10000

Manchester City          (2) 2  Gornik Zabrze            (0) 1
11' 1-0  MC: Young
43' 2-0  MC: Lee (pen)
70' 2-1  GZ: Oslizlo




Manchester City
        Corrigan; Book, Booth, Heslop, Pardoe; Doyle (Bowyer 23), Towers, Oakes;
        Bell, Lee, Young
Gornik Zabrze
        Kostka; Oslizlo, Florenski (Deja 85), Gorgon, Olek; Latocha, Szoltysik,
        Wilczek (Skowronek 75); Szaryniski, Banas, Lubanski
Referee: Schiller (Austria)

Happy winners.

Gornik (Zabrze) lost minimally, but to this very day remains the only Polish squad reaching European club final. The photo is not from the final; it is from the dramatic semi-final. The squad was strong, perhaps one of the all-time best teams of Gornik, full of national team players (including the reserve goalkeeper Jan Gomola) and two players will be outstanding during the 1970 – Wlodzimierz Lubanski and Jerzy Gorgon. This explains why Gornik reached the final, yet, the road was not easy and rather lucky: in the first two rounds – no problems: they eliminated Olympiakos (Piraeus) 2-2 and 5-0, then Glasgow Rangers 3-1 and 3-1. Elimination of Levski-Spartak (Sofia) was difficult: 2-3 in Sofia and 2-1 in Zabrze, away goals saved their skins in the quarter-finals. The semi-fnal was the big drama: 3 games plus overtime and no winner: 1-1, 2-2, and 1-1 after overtime in the third match in Strasbourg against AS Roma. And then the referee tossed the coin and Gornik won by sheer gambler's luck. At the final the boys did their best in the second half, but were unable to equalize and lost. Great echievement, but no Cup...

Manchester City won their first European trophy with their striped kit – a reserve kit, used perhaps supersticiously: they won the FA Cup with it as well. Since the photo has nothing to do with the Cup Winners Cup final it is used here only to point at the colours.

Manchester City won the Cup Winners Cup.

European Champions Cup

 

European Champions Cup. Bits of trivia: Bayern was eliminated in the first round by Saint Etienne (2-0 and 0-3), Real Madrid went out in the second round, beaten twice by Standard Liege (0-1 and 2-3), away goals counted, but no penalty shoot-outs after extra time – sometimes a playoff was played on neutral venue; sometimes a coin toss. A coin toss broke equality and two teams benefited by sheer gambler's luck: the coin decided in favour of Celtic (against Benfica after 3-0 and 0-3), and Galatasaray (against Spartak Trnava, 0-1 and 1-0) in the second round. It was still normal poor small clubs agreeing to play home leg away in order to save money – thus KR Reykjavik played both legs against Feyenoord in Rotterdam and Olympiakos Nicosia in Madrid against Real. 
 Final, San Siro Stadium, Milan, 6 May 1970, at 53000

Feyenoord                (1) 2  Celtic                   (1) 1  aet
 29' 0-1  C: Gemmell
 31' 1-1  F: Israel
117' 2-1  F: Kindvall

Feyenoord (trainer Happel)
        Pieters Graafland; Romeijn (Haak 106), Laseroms, Israël, Van Duivenbode;
        Hasil, Jansen; Van Hanegem, Wery, Kindvall, Moulijn
Celtic (manager Stein)
        Williams; Hay, Brogan, McNeill, Gemmell; Murdoch, Auld (Connelly 77);
        Johnstone, Lennox, Wallace, Hughes
Referee: Lo Bello (Italy)

Celtic was unable to win a second European cup – to a point, this final was the end of the greatest vintage of the club.

The real international arrival of the Dutch was due not to Ajax and Cruijff, but to their rivals. Ajax failed to win the European Champions Cup final in 1970 and thus was seen to a point just an anomaly. Feyenoord proved that Dutch football was pushing its way to the top.

Proud winners, still called Feijenoord. Hardly anonimous players, but not yet the well-known names around the world. The Dutch were coming to rule the 1970s.

El Salvador

 

El Salvador.

 1.Atlético Marte                          36  18 10  8  67-37  46  Champions
 2.CD FAS                  36  15 14  7  63-45  44
 3.CD Águila               36  17  8 11  67-53  42
 4.Alianza FC              36  16 10 10  52-46  42
 5.Juventud Olímpica       36  17  7 12  48-37  41
 6.Universidad             36  13 14  9  63-49  40
 7.Sonsonate               36  10 10 16  38-54  30
 8.Adler                   36   9 10 17  43-60  28
 9.Atlante                 36   7 10 19  35-61  24  Relegated
10.Once Municipal          36   7  9 20  33-67  23  Relegated

Promoted: Excélsior, UCA.

USA

USA. 1970 ASL II: Philadelphia Ukrainians won. American Soccer League It was the other US professional football league. Since the US various league were not united and some were not even members of FIFA, the country practically had no national championship. NASL was emerging as the most prestigious championship, but in it's 3rd season it was not only very small, but hardly the lucrative of the 1970s. It was hardly noticed in North Amdrica and practically unknown outside. Rules were strange, players were predominantly foreign-born and it was almost impossible to distinguish genuine imports from naturalized players: since there were no famous names, naturalized players were addvertised as foreigners hoping to present to the general public a picture of league made from 'the world's best'. Since soccer was something strange and unknown to the general population, anonimous players and more famous imports meant exactly nothing to the potential customers. Overview Six teams competed with the Rochester Lancers winning the championship. Santos FC of Brazil beat the NASL All-Stars 4–3 at Soldier Field in Chicago to finish the season. In 1970, NASL teams rounded out their schedules by playing an assortment of foreign clubs including Hapoel Petah Tikva, Varzim, Hertha Berlin and Coventry City. These games weren't just for attendance but also counted in the standings. The Washington Darts went 2-2-0 versus the international teams earning the "International Cup". Changes from the previous season New teams Rochester Lancers* Washington Darts* *joined from American Soccer League

 Teams folding Baltimore Bays

 Regular season Points for a win, 3 points for a tie, 0 points for a loss, 1 point for each goal scored up to three per game.  -Premiers (most points).  -Other playoff team. Southern Division W L T GF GA PT Washington Darts 14 6 4 52 29 137 Atlanta Chiefs 11 8 5 53 33 123 8 12 4 39 39 92

Dallas Tornado
 Northern Division W L T GF GA PT Rochester Lancers 9 9 6 41 45 111 Kansas City Spurs 8 10 6 42 44 100 St. Louis Stars 5 17 2 26 71 60 

 Rochester Lancers 3–0 Washington Darts Costa  26' (Kankam) Costa  61' (Ofori) Marotte  72' (pen.) Report Second leg Washington Darts 3–1 Rochester Lancers DeLeon  44' (pen.) Gyau  49' (Grell) Browne  65' (Archibald) Report Costa  40' (Metidieri) 

Washington Darts – 1970 losing finalists. 

 1970 NASL Champions: Rochester Lancers