First Division. Five teams above the rest, one outsider. If the championship was played by tradition rules, goal-difference would have been the decisive criterion and the champions would have been the team which finished 4th under current rules.
Dunaujvarosi Kohasz was the outsider of the season – last with 26 points and relegated. Zalaegershegi TE ended 15th with 34 points and was relegated as well.
Vasas SC was 14th with 35 points, beaten on goal-difference by Haladas VSE, 13th, but it was unimportant – both teams went to the promotion/relegation play-offs, won them and preserved their top league positions. Up the table:
Pecsi MSC – 11th with 40 points.
Weak Ujpesti Dosza – 9th with 41 points.
Bekescsabai Elore Spartacus – 7th with 46 points.
Tatabanyai Banyasz – 6th with 48 points. Standing from left: Kiss, Váczi, Dombai, dr. Bíró Péter orvos, Kiprich, Szentmihályi Antal vezetőedző, Tarlósi, Plotár, Mázi.
Middle row: Nagy Győző, Domonics, Lakatos, Járfás, Mészáros, Szabó Gy., Udvardi, Csapó, Dobesch, Vincze J., Hoffmann József.
Front row: Páli, P. Nagy, Sándor gyúró, Pőcze gyúró, Hegedűs, Schmiedt.
The top 5 teams were entangled in a battle for the title, which under traditional rules would have been won by Videoton. But the new rules elevated different team on the top. Gyori ETO SC took 5th place with 56 points. Videoton SC – 4th with 57 points, MTK-VM – 3rd with 58 points.
Ferencvaros – 2nd with 59 points.
Honved clinched the title with 61 points: 16 regular wins, 6 penalty shoot-out wins, 1 shoot-out loss, 7 regular losses, 44-28 goal-difference. Hardly an exceptional season and benefiting a bit of the new rules – under standard rules, Honved would have ended with 37 points – and Videoton with 39 points! Videoton still most wins this season – 17, scored most goals – 57, and had the best goal-difference +25, but they were not good at scoring penalties and won just one shoot-out – Honved won 6 times (second best record after MTK-VM with 8 shoot-out wins). So, the title went to Honved – their 11th.