Cups – still two, the National Cup and the Soviet Army Cup. For the most important in reality National Cup CFCA Sredetz and Vitosha met at the final and the Army club prevailed 2-1.
CFCA Stredetz – CSKA – triumphed with a double and this picture finally presents reality. Crouching from left: Ivaylo Kirov, Lyuboslav Penev, Aleksandar Aleksandrov, Kostadin Yanchev, Georgi Velinov, Sasho Borissov, Stefan Srefanov, Krassimir Bezinski, Roumen Stoyanov. Standing: Petar Zhekov – assistant coach, Lachezar Tanev, Dimitar Penev – coach, Emil Kostadinov, Bozhin Bozhinov – administrator, Aleksandar Chavdarov, Nedyalko Mladenov, Krassimir Dossev, Angel Chervenkov, Christo Stoichkov, Nikola Chervenyakov – doctor, Stoil Trankov – assistant coach. Winning a double surely means a team in good health, so why Penev still complains? Short squad, that is… 10 national team players instead of 20. Anyhow, it was very successful season and the arch-enemy was beaten in both championship and cup final.
CFCA Sredetz was unable to reach the Soviet Army Cup final, but Vitosha did. At the final they met Spartak (Pleven) and barely prevailed 3-2.
The victory placed them on the pages of the sports weekly ‘Start”, but the Soviet Army Cup entirely lost significance by now and even Levski’s fans hardly acknowledged the win: it was important only artificially, the clubs no longer paid attention to the tournament. For Vitosha – Levski – the victory was small consolation: at least some trophy, although the mood was bitter, for everything important was lost. Crouching from left: Nikolay Iliev, Stefan Vassilev, Roussi Gotchev – captain, Dimitar Markov, Georgi Yordanov, Vladko Shalamanov, Sasho Nachev, Krassimir Koev. Standing: Nasko Sirakov, Emil Velev, Christo Ayandelev – vice-chairman of the club, Pavel Panov – coach, Borislav Mikhailov, Vlado Delchev, Andrey Asparoukhov, Petar Petrov, Antoni Zdravkov, Rossen Krumov, Assen Milushev – assistant coach, Stoil Georgiev.
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