Czechoslovakia. Business as usual, generally. A rare look at Third Division teams:
Agro (Hurbanovo) and
Tesla (Stropkov) won in Slovakia and were promoted to the Second Division.
Second Division, Slovak people’s league. A big number of the teams playing there became better known after the post-Communist split of Czechoslovakia, when the moved up to complete the Slovakian top division. Presently, only 2 teams had played in the First Division, but one of them was in very bad shape. The other one – Plastika (Nitra) – was somewhat curiously not up to task of winning the championship. The newcomers from third level played as exact opposites:
LB Spisska Nova Ves was the outsider – last with 16 points – was relegated right after having been promoted.
The other newcomer, ZVL Povazska Bystrica, had very strong year – they ended 3rd with 38 points. Not a candidate for promotion, but with just a little luck, they could have been 2nd.
The last three teams in the championship were relegated – this, because both relegated from First Division teams happened to be from Slovakia. Along with LB Spisska Nova Ves, down went TTS Trencin, 15th, and Vagonka Poprad, 14th. Nothing much to say about most of the league and even not sting competition for the top lace: Plastika (Nitra) only managed to clinch 2nd place, beating ZVL (Povazska Bystrica) by a point, but trailed the winners by 5 points. They scored most goals in the season, but who would care about that.
This was the biggest season of unheard of club, which to the mid-1970s was mostly familiar with the third level of the Czechoslovak football. DAC (Dunajska Streda) won the championship and was going up to First Division for the first time in their history.
It was fantastic achievement of the modest club, hailing from Hungarian-speaking corner of Slovakia. At the moment, it did not matter at all how they will play in the top league – this moment was just the moment of pure joy. And it was well deserved – DAC dominated the championship, finishing 5 points ahead of Plastika. 19 wins, 6 ties, 5 losses, 60-21 goal-difference, and 44 points.