Algeria

Algeria. The top league was going to be reduced from 18 to 16 teams the next season, so 5 teams were relegated (Skidka, WA Ilemcen, CR Belcourt, ASO Chlef, and EP Setif) and 3 promoted from second level (MO Constantine, RS Kouba, and USM Sidi Bel Abbes).
MC Alger finished 13th with 34 points and escaped relegation only because… who knows because. They finished with absolutely identical record with unfortunate EP Setif. Unless head-to-head results were considered, it was a mystery.
The other mystery concerns Entente Setif – there was only EP Setif, but not ES Setif in the league. For lack of other indications, this team should be considered the one and the same which concurred Africa this year – and was strangely relegated from the Algerian First Division, taking 14th place.
On the top – kind of a surprise. MC Oran kind of dominated the championship.
Standing from left: Benmimoun – Belatoui – Bott – Meziane – Belabbès – Drid. First row: Mecheri – Sebbah – Belloumi – Foussi – Chérif El-Ouazzani.
Instantly conisidered a great squad, they won the title after 16 wins, 9 ties, 9 losses, 44-28, and 41 points – 4 points ahead of the nearest pursuer JE Tizi Ouzou. Belloumi was the big star in the squad, but it was only the 2nd title MC Oran won – and had to wait 17 years for this one. They won their first in distant 1970-71.