Turkey II Division

 

Turkey II Division. 2 groups of 16 teams each. 

Group Red

Standing from left: Erdinç Ersarıoğlu, Ekrem Güçsav, Erol Baş, Cengiz Kocatoros, Atilla Biçer, Saim Çınar.

Crouching: Burhan Gürel, Bedri Damla, Ceyhan Elyaban, Günay Üçer, Uğur Kayacan.

1. Karşıyaka SK 30 18 6 6 29:19 10 42

2 Adanaspor 30 14 11 5 37:20 17 39

3. Denizlispor 30 14 9 7 28:16 8 37

4. Trabzonspor 30 15 6 9 46:27 19 36

5. İzmirspor (A) 30 11 9 10 25:25 ±0 31

6. Antalyaspor 30 12 7 11 30:35 −5 31

7. Kayserispor 30 11 8 11 31:25 6 30

8. Orduspor 30 11 7 12 29:32 −3 29

9. Sakaryaspor 30 10 7 13 27:24 3 27

10. Manisaspor 30 9 9 12 30:35 −5 27

11. Nazillispor (N) 30 9 9 12 28:38 10 27

12. Beykozspor 30 8 9 13 17:21 −4 25

13. Ankara Güneşspor 30 9 7 14 23:35 −12 25

14. Afyonspor 30 8 9 13 20:32 −12 25

15. Bandırmaspor 30 7 11 12 13:24 −11 25

16. Düzcespor 30 9 6 15 31:36 −5 24

Group White

1. Boluspor 30 18 10 2 44:11 33 46

2. Balıkesirspor 30 19 8 3 46:15 31 46

3. Kütahyaspor 30 18 4 8 52:22 30 40

4. Giresunspor 30 16 4 10 36:22 14 36

5. Sivasspor 30 14 6 10 30:20 10 34

6. Zonguldakspor 30 14 5 11 37:31 6 33

7. Aydınspor 30 12 8 10 32:29 3 32

8. Şekerspor (A) 30 9 12 9 33:23 10 30

9. Adana Demirspor 30 11 8 11 24:30 −6 30

10. Kocaelispor 30 9 8 13 26:35 −9 26

11. Tarsus İdman Yurdu (N) 30 11 4 15 25:37 −12 26

12. Toprak Ofisi SK 30 10 5 15 30:43 −13 25

13. Feriköy SK 30 7 8 15 19:34 −15 22

14. Hacettepe GK 30 6 8 16 18:41 −23 20

15. Galata SK 30 5 9 16 28:51 −23 19

16. Ülküspor 30 5 5 20 14:50 −36 15

Promoted from the 2.Lig:                                                        
        Boluspor                                                
        Karşıyaka İzmir 

Turkey I Division

 

Turkey. I Division
 1 Fenerbahçe Istanbul         30  17  10   3  31   6  44 ECC
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 2 Eskişehirspor               30  14   9   7  46  26  37 Fairs Cup *
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 3 Altay İzmir                 30  13  10   7  27  17  36
 4 Mersin İdmanyurdu           30  12  12   6  32  27  36
 5 Göztepe İzmir (C)           30  12  11   7  33  29  35 ECW
 6 Samsunspor (N)              30  11   9  10  24  28  31
 7 Bursaspor                   30  10  10  10  26  20  30
 8 Galatasaray Istanbul (L)    30  10  10  10  27  21  30
 9 Beşiktaş Istanbul           30  10  10  10  26  26  30
10 Istanbulspor                30  10   9  11  30  27  29
11 Ankaragücü (N)              30   7  13  10  19  23  27
12 Ankara Demirspor            30   6  14  10  25  31  26
13 Vefa Istanbul               30   7  11  12  19  28  25
14 PTT Ankara                  30   7  11  12  21  34  25
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15 Ankara Gençlerbirliği       30   7   8  15  17  33  22 Relegated
16 Altınordu İzmir             30   5   7  18  16  43  17 Relegated

*Note: UEFA changed the eligibility rule for the Fairs Cup. Cities with
a national fair also qualified for the Fairs Cup.
Fenerbahce won its 6th League title. If counting the former national championships - 15th title. Thanks to the Romanian invasion: coach Traian Ionescu, midfielder Ion Nunweiller and goalkeeper Illie Datcu (who will take Turkish citizenship and remain with the club after retirement as a coach under his new Turkish name   İlyas Datça). 

Bulgaria the Cup

 

Cup:Because of the 1970 World Cup both the championship and the final phase of the Cup tourbnament were played late in the summer – the Cup final almost at the end of August. Practically, at the time when the clubs had their new squads for 1970-71 season.

 Levski-Spartak Sofia - CSKA 'Septemvriisko zname' Sofia                 2-1

CSKA lost the Cup. The squad here is from the semi-fnal against Cherno More (Varna), which they won. At the final almost CSKA used almost the same players. 
Levski-Spartak ended the 1969-70 season with a double. Sitting from left: I. Zdravkov, St. Pavlov, B. Mikhailov, P. Kirilov, St. Peshev, Al. Kostov, G. Asparoukhov, I. Stoyanov. Middle row: R. Vytlacil – coach, M. Gaydarski, Y. Kirilov, G. Todorov, St. Aladzhov, G. Tzvetkov, Kr. Bogdanov, Tzv. Vesselinov, V. Mitkov, G. Kamenski, Y. Arssov – assistant coach. Top row: D. Zhechev, N. Kotkov, P. Panov, K. Ivkov, Sl. Stoilov.  
This was the second spell for the coach who made Czechoslovakia silver medallist at 1962 World Cup Rudolf Vytlacil and it was again a success: the Czech made Levski champion in 1965 and now again. But he was leaving... unfortunately. 

Bulgaria III Division

 

Third Division. Divided into 6 Zones, each of 16 teams. Yet, this season was plagued by expulsions during the season: at the end of half-season all groups featured 16 teams. In the spring of 1970 three Zones – Zagore, Yantra, and Miziya lost 4 teams for unknown reasons. The most curious disappearance happened in Zona Zagore – the strong and aiming at promotion Neftokhimik – or Neftokhim? - from Bourgas was out. If Second Division left few picures of the participants, Third level left almost nothing:
Rozova dolina (Kazanlak)in dark shirts against ZSK Slavia (Sofia) was practically everything. Anyhow, the season finished and there were winners promoted to Second Division: the winners going to the Northern Group of Second Division: 
Zona Cherno More – 
Vatev (Beloslav)
Zona Yantra – Chernolometz (Popovo)
Zona Miziya - 
Minyor (Chiprovtrzi)
To the Southern Group of Second Division: 
Zona Vitosha – Slivnishki geroy (Slivnitza)
Zona Zagore – Energetik (Galabovo)
Zona Trakia - 
Botev (Svilengrad). 

Bulgaria II Division

 

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.