After almost Romanian football almost disappeared from sight in the 1970s, it was coming back into focus. Clubs in the European tournaments at first, notably Dinamo (Bucharest). The comeback was not yet fully pronounced, so even some big stars of the decade were already playing, they were unknown yet to the world – too young. Apart from that, it was business as usual and in the lower levels may be nothing really interesting was boiling. Of course, small clubs attract little interest and the three leagues of the Second Division were full of such.
Progresul (Corabia)
Sportul Muncitoresc (Caracal)
Gloria (Focsani) – the typical second division dwellers, which hardly could hope to move up. In general, former First Division members occupied top positions and aimed at promotion. So, the winners of the three leagues, correspondingly promoted to the First Division were familiar names – at least two of three. Dunarea CSU (Galati) looked like newcomer, although they played first division football occasionally.
Rapid (Bucharest) was the most famous of the second division winners – hopefully, the comeback was expected to be permanent, hopefully, restoration of former strength possible. At least the first step was done – return to top flight.
The third winner was a bit confusing: usually it is written FC Baia Mare, not a famous club, but long-time first division member, which, like Rapid, recently experienced some hardship. Now they were coming back, but the name of the promoted team was FC Maramures. Same club, same city, yet it was confusing, for often it was written with the old more familiar name The alternation of the names was a problem – one reads Maramures and can’t fing such club in the league, or the other way around. That aside, good look to the winners in the next season.