Football Journey

Cup: Ajax – Sparta 2-2 (aet)

rep Ajax – Sparta 2-1
Sparta (Rotterdam) tried hard and lost only in the replay by a single goal – considering the strenght of Ajax, it was admirable effort.

Ajax prevailed with great difficulties. Standing from left: Sondergard, Rijnders, Stuy, Suurbier, Krol, Suurendonk. Front row: Keizer, Swart, Vasovic, Cruijff, van Dijk

This is not the team playing at the Cup final, but wonderful photo of Ajax in blue.

Ajax won their 6th Cup in 1971 and second consecutive one,but it was difficult victory, trailing twice in the first match, and opening the scores with quastionable penalty in the replay. Rinus Mischels was leaving, a few regulars were leaving, but the great squad was already at hand and going to win… everything. No need even to name the players – almost all of them are well known to young and old.

III Division. Last season of Tweede Divisie. 6 teams were promoted to the professional Eerste Divisie (Second Division) and the rest were relegated to amateur football. Promoted were De Volewijckers, PEC Zwolle, FC Eindhoven, Roda JC, Fortuna Vlaardingen, and VVV Venlo.

1 Volewijckers 32 20- 7- 5 47 65- 31 11- 4- 1 26 38-12 9- 3- 4 21 27-19

2 P.E.C. 32 17-11- 4 45 70- 36 11- 4- 1 26 46-16 6- 7- 3 19 24-20

3 Eindhoven 32 17-11- 4 45 45- 19 10- 5- 1 25 30-12 7- 6- 3 20 15- 7
4 Hermes D.V.S. 32 17- 6- 9 40 51- 29 12- 2- 2 26 36-10 5- 4- 7 14 15-19

5 Roda J.C. 32 12-15- 5 39 34- 27 10- 5- 1 25 22-11 2-10- 4 14 12-16

6 Spcl.Gooiland 32 11-11-10 33 41- 43 6- 6- 4 18 19-14 5- 5- 6 15 22-29
7 Fortuna Vlrd. 32 13- 7-12 33 39- 42 9- 4- 3 22 24-14 4- 3- 9 11 15-28

8 N.O.A.D. 32 10-12-10 32 44- 43 8- 3- 5 19 24-16 2- 9- 5 13 20-27
9 A.G.O.V.V. 32 12- 8-12 32 35- 41 5- 6- 5 16 17-15 7- 2- 7 16 18-26
10 Z.F.C. 32 9-12-11 30 42- 42 6- 6- 4 18 24-18 3- 6- 7 12 18-24
11 V.V.V. 32 11- 8-13 30 42- 46 5- 6- 5 16 18-18 6- 2- 8 14 24-28
12 R.C.H. 32 8-13-11 29 42- 40 6- 6- 4 18 29-20 2- 7- 7 11 13-20
13 Limburgia 32 7-14-11 28 31- 39 7- 6- 3 20 24-16 0- 8- 8 8 7-23
14 Baronie 32 7-10-15 24 38- 56 5- 8- 3 18 21-18 2- 2-12 6 17-38
15 R.B.C. 32 5-13-14 23 32- 57 5- 7- 4 17 24-21 0- 6-10 6 8-36

16 E.D.O. 32 6- 7-19 19 28- 59 4- 5- 7 13 15-24 2- 2-12 6 13-35
17 Spcl. Drente 32 3- 9-20 15 26- 55 3- 4- 9 10 14-25 0- 5-11 5 12-30

II Division. Because of the merger between ADO and Holland Sport the top three teams were promoted to First Division. After the end of the season G.V.A.V. was succeeded by FC Groningen, which took their place in First Division and G.V.A.V. returned to amateur football. No relegation this season due to the change of structure: Tweede Divisie was disbanded at the end of the season and 6 teams from Tweede Divisie were included in the Eerste Divisie, the rest going back to amateur football. Professional and amateur football were separated and thus no longer teams were relegated from second professional level (Eerste Divisie).

1 FC Den Bosch 30 18-10- 2 46 50- 18 9- 6- 0 24 29- 7 9- 4- 2 22 21-11

2 G.V.A.V. 30 16-11- 3 43 38- 7 9- 5- 1 23 23- 3 7- 6- 2 20 15- 4
3 Vitesse 30 16- 6- 8 38 54- 31 12- 2- 1 26 36- 5 4- 4- 7 12 18-26
4 Spcl. Cambuur 30 13-10- 7 36 43- 34 10- 3- 2 23 25-12 3- 7- 5 13 18-22
5 Blauw Wit 30 12- 7-11 31 44- 39 9- 2- 4 20 29-15 3- 5- 7 11 15-24

6 Heracles 30 10-11- 9 31 42- 40 6- 6- 3 18 21-13 4- 5- 6 13 21-27
7 H.V.C. 30 10-10-10 30 31- 39 8- 4- 3 20 22-17 2- 6- 7 10 9-22

8 Wageningen 30 9-11-10 29 42- 49 5- 6- 4 16 27-21 4- 5- 6 13 15-28
9 Heerenveen 30 7-14- 9 28 36- 37 5- 7- 3 17 24-17 2- 7- 6 11 12-20
10 Fortuna SC 30 9- 8-13 26 25- 33 8- 4- 3 20 19-11 1- 4-10 6 6-22

11 D.F.C. 30 9- 7-14 25 31- 42 5- 6- 4 16 20-15 4- 1-10 9 11-27

12 Helmond Sport 30 5-14-11 24 23- 32 5- 8- 2 18 12-10 0- 6- 9 6 11-22

13 Veendam 30 7-10-13 24 28- 38 6- 4- 5 16 19-15 1- 6- 8 8 9-23

14 Willem II 30 8- 8-14 24 27- 49 6- 4- 5 16 18-16 2- 4- 9 8 9-33
15 S.V.V. 30 5-13-12 23 34- 46 5- 7- 3 17 21-13 0- 6- 9 6 13-33
16 De Graafschap 30 7- 8-15 22 28- 42 5- 5- 5 15 21-20 2- 3-10 7 7-22

Holland – ranked 12th by UEFA. I Division.

1 Feijenoord 34 26- 5- 3 57 82- 25 14- 3- 0 31 48-10 12- 2- 3 26 34-15
2 Ajax 34 24- 5- 5 53 90- 20 15- 1- 1 31 63-11 9- 4- 4 22 27- 9
3 A.D.O. 34 21- 8- 5 50 62- 27 13- 4- 0 30 40- 5 8- 4- 5 20 22-22
4 P.S.V. 34 21- 7- 6 49 73- 25 12- 3- 2 27 41-12 9- 4- 4 22 32-13

5 FC Twente 34 19-10- 5 48 48- 18 12- 3- 2 27 31- 8 7- 7- 3 21 17-10
6 Sparta 34 16-13- 5 45 54- 34 11- 5- 1 27 31-12 5- 8- 4 18 23-22
7 Go Ahead 34 15- 8-11 38 49- 43 10- 5- 2 25 34-14 5- 3- 9 13 15-29
8 N.E.C. 34 12-10-12 34 43- 36 11- 5- 1 27 31- 6 1- 5-11 7 12-30
9 FC Utrecht 34 13- 7-14 33 46- 64 9- 4- 4 22 27-18 4- 3-10 11 19-46
10 Volendam 34 9-10-15 28 34- 48 8- 3- 6 19 22-19 1- 7- 9 9 12-29
11 Telstar 34 9- 9-16 27 32- 46 6- 5- 6 17 21-17 3- 4-10 10 11-29

12 D.W.S. 34 5-17-12 27 26- 54 4- 9- 4 17 13-16 1- 8- 8 10 13-38
13 M.V.V. 34 8-10-16 26 28- 42 6- 6- 5 18 21-15 2- 4-11 8 7-27

14 N.A.C. 34 7-10-17 24 40- 61 7- 2- 8 16 25-28 0- 8- 9 8 15-33
15 Holland Sport 34 5-14-15 24 34- 60 3- 8- 6 14 19-28 2- 6- 9 10 15-32
16 Excelsior 34 5-10-19 20 22- 66 4- 6- 7 14 15-23 1- 4-12 6 7-43
17 A.Z. ’67 34 3- 9-22 15 24- 76 2- 7- 8 11 15-26 1- 2-14 4 9-50
18 Haarlem 34 1-12-21 14 22- 64 1- 8- 8 10 15-29 0- 4-13 4 7-35

NB: A.D.O. and Holland Sport merge into FC Den Haag for 1971/72.
Feyenoord won 10th title.

Cup:

Sporting CP 4-1 SL Benfica
Benfica was unable to win a double and was actually destroyed at the Cup final. It was aging team on a downhill.

Sporting won the final against the archenemy and with inferior, compared to star-studded Benfica, squad.

Well done and 7th Cup.

Portugal: ranked 11th by UEFA. I Division. Next season the top league was increasing to 16 teams, so the last one was relegated and 3 teams were promoted from Second Division.

Total Home Away
Pd W D L G Pt W D L G W D L G
1 SL Benfica 26 18 5 3 62- 17 41 12 1 0 43- 5 6 4 3 19-12
2 Sporting CP 26 16 6 4 45- 14 38 11 1 1 33- 5 5 5 3 12- 9
3 FC Porto 26 16 5 5 44- 21 37 10 3 0 28- 7 6 2 5 16-14
Second row from left: Pedroto(treinador),Rebelo,Vaz,Cardoso,Pedro,Carriço,Correia,José Mendes,Joaquim Torres
Front: José Maria,Arcanjo,Arnaldo,Octávio,Vitor Baptista,Wagner,Guerreiro,Jacinto João.
4 VFC Setúbal 26 15 4 7 51- 16 34 11 2 0 38- 5 4 2 7 13-11

5 Académica 26 13 7 6 38- 24 33 10 3 0 27- 7 3 4 6 11-17

6 Boavista FC 26 9 4 13 18- 38 22 6 3 4 11-10 3 1 9 7-28

7 CF Belenenses 26 7 8 11 20- 27 22 6 4 3 15- 9 1 4 8 5-18
8 GD CUF 26 8 5 13 28- 37 21 7 2 4 18-11 1 3 9 10-26

9 FC Tirsense 26 6 8 12 24- 45 20 6 5 2 20-14 0 3 10 4-31

10 FC Barreirense 26 5 10 11 21- 31 20 4 5 4 12-14 1 5 7 9-17
11 SC Farense 26 7 6 13 15- 33 20 6 6 1 12- 6 1 0 12 3-27
12 VSC Guimarães 26 4 11 11 15- 27 19 3 6 4 9- 9 1 5 7 6-18
13 Leixões SC 26 7 5 14 22- 44 19 7 2 4 16- 8 0 3 10 6-36

14 Varzim SC 26 7 4 15 23- 52 18 7 1 5 18-16 0 3 10 5-36
II Division – winners promoted to First Division

Divisao Norte:

Beira Mar

Divisao Sul:

Atletico (Lisbon)

Uniao Tomar – 2ndin the championship and winning promotion play-off.

Benfica – champion of Portugal once again.

Cup: Final [Aug 7]

Spartak Moskva 2-2 SKA Rostov-na-Donu
[Galimzyan Husainov 6, Gennadiy Logofet 90 – Ricardas Kucinskas 3,
Anatoliy Zinchenko 68. Att: 100,000]

 

Final Replay [Aug 8]
SPARTAK Moskva 1-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu
[Nikolai Kiselyov 55. Att: 50,000]

Spartak’s captain Galimzyan Husainov lifted the Cup.

After nerve-breaking final Spartak (Moskva) won their 9th Cup.

III Division: 124 played in 6 zones. Here are few of them.

Sudostroitel (Nikolaev) – 2^nd in Zone I

Lokomotiv (Vinnitza) – 7^th in Zone I

Iskra (Smolensk) – winner of Zone II

Spartak (Brest) – 9^th in Zone II

Dinamo (Bryansk) – 13^th in Zone II

Promotional tournament between the winners of the 5 third tier groups (zones) for 3 places in the Second Division. Krivbass (Krivoy Rog), the winner of Zone I (The Ukrainian Zone) for some reason did not play in the promotional tournament, but had a play-off against the 3rd- plced team in it after the tournament ended – possible reason for that strange arrangement could have been that the Ukrainian Zone was the toughest with 26 participants and Krivbass already played 50 championship games during the regular season.

Second League Final [Oct 31 – Nov 12, Sochi]

1.Zvezda Perm                    4   3  1  0  6-2   7  Promoted            [RUS]  
2.Avtomobilist Nalchik           4   1  3  0  2-1   5  Promoted            [RUS]  
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3.Iskra Smolensk                 4   1  2  1  2-3   4  Promotion Play-Off  [RUS]  
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4.Metallurg Lipetsk              4   1  1  2  3-4   3                      [RUS]  
5.Spartak Semipalatinsk          4   0  1  3  2-5   1                      [KAZ]  

Cross-Table:
                    1   2   3   4   5        
1.Zvezda Perm      xxx 0-0 3-1 1-0 2-1  
2.Avt Nalchik      0-0 xxx 0-0 1-1 1-0  
3.Iskra            1-3 0-0 xxx 1-0 0-0  
4.M Lipetsk        0-1 1-1 0-1 xxx 2-1  
5.Sp Semipalatinsk 1-2 0-1 0-0 1-2 xxx  

Promotion Play-Off [Nov 20, 24] 
KRIVBASS Krivoi Rog  3-1 2-0  Iskra Smolensk 
Promoted to Second Division:

Krivbass (Krivoy Rog)

Zvezda (Perm)

Avtomobilist (Nalchik)

II Division

First League (Second Level). Top 2 teams – promoted. Last 5 relegated, for the league was reduced to 20 teams for 1972. 
 
 1.Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk          42  27  9  6  83-30  63  Promoted [UKR]    
 2.Lokomotiv Moskva              42  25 12  5  81-33  62  Promoted [RUS] 
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 3.Chernomorets Odessa           42  21 11 10  56-33  53  [-]      [UKR] 
 4.Metallurg Zaporozhye          42  16 14 12  51-39  46  [+]      [UKR]     
 5.Spartak Orjonikidze           42  19  7 16  52-57  45  [-]      [RUS] 
 6.Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev      42  17  9 16  54-41  43           [RUS] 
 7.Textilshchik Ivanovo          42  14 15 13  45-43  43           [RUS]     
 8.Metallist Kharkov             42  18  7 17  50-49  43           [UKR]           
 9.Shakhtyor Karaganda           42  14 13 15  46-47  41           [KAZ]             
10.Dinamo Leningrad              42  14 12 16  35-40  40           [RUS]               
11.Torpedo Kutaisi               42  12 15 15  47-53  39  [-]      [GEO] 
12.UralMash Sverdlovsk           42  13 13 16  34-40  39           [RUS] 
13.Stroitel Ashkhabad            42  16  7 19  53-62  39           [TKM]             

1-й ближний ряд: Б.Рыбин, В.Коротков, В.Санин, ? , В.Волков, В.Панков

2-й ряд сидят: В.Клещев, И.Вьюгин, Л.Борисов, А.Стенищев, В.Наумов, В.Рейнгольд, Н.Растегаев, Н.Глазков

3-й ряд: В.С.Марьенко(гл.тренер), И.И.Замятин(администратор), И.Домантиевский, А.Лысов, В.Фролов, А.Чернявский, Е.Кулемин, В.Чуркин, ?, Н.Вихарев, С.П.Воротилин(нач-к команды), В.Г.Гавриков(массажист)

14.Shinnik Yaroslavl             42  16  7 19  42-52  39  [+]      [RUS]         
15.Pamir Dushanbe                42  16  7 19  42-54  39           [TJK]
16.Alga Frunze                   42  13 12 17  45-52  38           [KGZ]             
17.Moldova Kishinev              42  12 14 16  35-42  38           [MDA]   
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18.Kuzbass Kemerovo              42  14 10 18  49-57  38  Relegated [+] [RUS]            
19.Daugava Riga                  42  10 16 16  23-34  36  Relegated     [LVA] 
20.Žalgiris Vilnius              42   9 17 16  30-45  35  Relegated     [LTU] 
21.Volgar Astrakhan              42   8 18 16  34-58  34  Relegated     [RUS]  
22.Rubin Kazan                   42   9 13 20  31-57  31  Relegated     [RUS]   

Historic season for Dnepr (Dnepropetrovsk) – coached by young Valery Lobanovsky, they won promotion to the top league for the first time.

Peru had more comprehensible championship than most South American countries, yet, still two-phased affair. At the first stage, it was standard league format – 16 clubs playing 30 rounds. After that the top 8 entered the second stage as championship group, playing 14 rounds and the bottom 8 formed relegation group, also playing 14 rounds. One team was relegated. Such structures never satisfy no matter the rules: if teams carry their points from the first stage, then a whole bunch of clubs have nothing to play for in the second and only go through the motions. If everything begins anew, then the first stage is meaningless for the top clubs. No matter which way is chosen, such championships are open for various schemes and corruption – and often the best schemer benefits at the end. Peru chose a variety of the starting anew – no points were carried over from the first stage, except for bonus points awarded to top three – depending on their place, 3,2, and 1 point. At the bottom, penalty points wee taken away from the last three teams, also depending on position – the last had 3 points deducted in the second phase and the 14th – 1. So, the first league really played largely to form the two final groups and only the leaders had some minimal advantage. The losers in the first phase entered with slight disadvantage the relegation group, yet,what mattered most was still how the teams played in the final stage.

Peru had no second division – instead, the winners of the regional championships played promotional tournament, also called Copa Peru. Like most South American countries, Peru had no parallel national cup tournament and Copa Peru had little significance in itself – the importance of winning it was the promotion to first league. Copa Peru went through many stages with teams from the 24 country’s departments, until the final 6 moved to the final round-robin, played in Lima. This year only one participant had familiar name – Defensor (Lima). At least on paper, it looked like they would win promotion. In reality it was different. The final table will provide the home cities and departments. 1. Asociación Deportiva (Tarma, Junin) 8 – 5 – 3 – 2 – 0 – 5 – 1

2. Aguas Verdes (Zarumilla, Tumbes) 7 – 5 – 3 – 1 – 1 – 9 – 2

3. Defensor Lima (Lima, Lima) 5 – 5 – 2 – 1 – 2 – 8 – 6

4. Garcilaso (Cuzco, Cuzco) 5 – 5 – 2 – 1 – 2 – 8 – 6

5. Universidad Técnica (Cajamarca, Cajamarca) 5 – 5 – 2 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 3

6. Centenario (Ayacucho, Ayacucho) 0 – 5 – 0 – 0 – 5 – 1 – 16

Centenario was out of their depth, obviously – they lost every match they played. Defensor Lima failed to impress.

Deportivo Centenario (Ayacucho) – perhaps just happy to be at the finals and nothing else.

Garcilaso (Cuzco) – neither good, nor bad, right in the middle. Standing from left: Rolando Echegaray, Fernando Valencia, José Elguera, “Arbolito” Gonzáles, Robinson Astete, Wilfredo Valencia.

 

First row: Marco Echegaray, Percy Huamán, Miguel Arapa, Javier Ugaz,el “Cóndor” Sergio Hinojosa.

The battle for promotion was really between unknowns:

Aguas Verdes, hailing from a city often flooded by the very river waters giving the club’s name, missed promotion by a point. They scored most goals in the tournament and ended with the best goal-difference. Small consolation.

The winners did not lose even a match and that was the secret of success, for they were not great scorers. One point more than Aguas Verdes and ADT won the tournament, Copa Peru and the single promotion.

Going to first league: standing, from left: Nicolás Miranda, Alberto Marticorena, Rowland Chumpitaz, Alejandro Mujica, Gonzalo Ginocchio, José Chacaltana.

 

First row: Luis Camacho, Juan Zapata, Carlos Gutiérrez, Angel Fuentes, Carlos Gavidia.

 

Asociacion Deportiva – more often just abbreviated to ADT (Asociacion Deportiva de Tarma) – were founded in 1929, but little known. They never played first division before. As for the squad – no familiar names here, as expected. This was their biggest success at the time – winners of Copa Peru for the first time and promoted to the top league.

That was then – Copa Peru still exists, but now it equals third division championship. So far ADT never won it again.