Greece. If not a stagnation, then a plateau – the progress was stalled for awhile. No major scandals and penalties this season – only Second Division Almopos Arideas had 1 point deducted, but the penalty made no difference. The team was relegated, along with three others at the bottom of the final table. The top 2 teams were promoted to First Division. Perhaps 20-team strong Second Division was too big for Greece, but at least it was fairly competitive league. Not very strong, though. May be half of the clubs played top league football previously, but those were small clubs and their fate changed frequently.
AO Trikala finished 14th – safe for now.
Eolikos Mitilinis Lesbos was just above Trikala – 13th.
Athinaikos Vironas, one of the 3 clubs from Athens, playing in the Second Division, managed pretty much as their rivals – 7th with 38 points. A place above Atromitos Peristeri, but slightly below Acharnaikos Menidi, which took the 5th place with 44 points. Entirely outside the race for promotion, Athinaikos, and Acharnaikos did only a bit better – they looked like candidates for promotion, but lost steam and dropped out.
At the end, it was two recently relegated teams climbing to the top:
Panserraikos AO Serres finished 2nd with 49 points – by the end of the season they built 4-point cushion and one of promotion spots was comfortably theirs.
PAS Jiannina – or Giannina, or Ioannina – bested Panserraikos by a point and was the champion of Second Division.
Both PAS and Panserraikos managed a quick return to the top league, hoping to stay there.