Hungary. Top league dominated by one team, three competed for the two promotional spots in the Second Division.
Szegedi EOL Delep SE lost the battle and finished 3rd with 51 points.
Eger SE – 2nd and promoted with 53 points.
Dunaujvarosi Kohasz SE clinched 1sr place with 54 points and also returned to top flight.
First Division. Honved reigned supreme and the rest,,, well, nothing special. But still it was improtant season in some respects: shirt advertisement was going on, still selectively and carefully, and also the first foreign import played this season: an African player named Umoh played for Csepel (Budapest). Thus, Yugoslavia and Hungary were the pioneers of import in Eastern Europe, in the same year, but Hungary was the technically the first country at the other side of the Iron Curtain to do so. Once again, it was done the same careful way as introducing export – nothing much in the press, one player at a time, and in small clubs at first. But it started.
Volan (Budapest) finished last and relegated with 22 points.
Csepel (Budapest) with its African import was still very weak – 15th with 22 points and relegated.
Siofok – managed to avoid relegation. 14th with 24 points.
Debreceni MVSC – 13th with 25 points.
Bekescsaba – 12th with 25 points.
Ujpesti Dosza – arguably, their weakest season. Shamefully weak – barely escaped relegation, judging from the final table. 11th with 25 points.
Haladas – 10th with 27 points.
Vasas – 9th with 29 points.
Tatabanya – 8th with 29 points.
MTK-VM – 7th with 29 points.
Videoton – 6th with 32 points. Curiously, for a leading team, they were terribly low scorers this season: 25 goals in 30 games. Only one team scored less.
Ferencvaros – 5th with 34 points. Top row from left: Mihaly Havasi – technical director, Erdélyi, Pölöskei, Szabadi, Jozsef Bodnár – masseur, Pintér, Haaz, Zsiborás.
Middle row: Laszlo Pusztai – szakosztályvezető, Szántó, Zsinka, Hámori, Jenő Dalnoki – coach, Peter Vépi – assistant coach, Fischer, Zsivótzky, Rab, Karoly Monostori – doctor.
Front: Strausz, Deák, Ebedli, Takács, Kvaszta, Bánki, Keller, Jancsika, Kincses
Zalaegerszegi TE – 4th with 36 points. Surprisingly strong season – or, the others were too weak…
Raba ETO – maintaining consistency: 3rd with 37 points.
Pecsi MSC – 2nd with 39 points. Surprisingly high position, perhaps one of their best season, but that was also to maximum of their aim – title contender they were not. Even lost rather badly to the champions: 2-4.
Honved – overwhelmingly stronger than the rest of the league. 17 wins, 11 ties, only 2 lost games, 63-29 goal-difference. They won over the next teams in the table, they topped all Budapest clubs – thrashing Ujpesti Dosza 6-0 was perhaps the sweetest victory. They also had the record victory of the season – 7-0 vs Debrecen, and the most unusual result – 5-5 tie with MTK. They had it all… including the greatest Hungarian player of the 1980s Lajos Detari. And one more title to their collection.