Luxembourg

Luxembourg. Nothing to brag about, as usual. Cold facts:

CS Grevenmacher won the Second Division. They lost just 1 match in the 1984-85 season and finished 6 points ahead of the nearest pursuer.

Swift Hesperange finished 2nd. Promoted along with CS Grevenmacher.

The Second Division winners were going to replace the last in the top league – US Rumelange, last, and FC Wiltz 71, 11th. At the top of the table there was no battle at all.

Jeuness (Esch/Alzette) dominated the championship, winning it with 5-point cushion. This was their 19th title.

Jeunesse aimed for a double, but was unsuccessful – they lost the Cup final 0-1 to Red Boys.

Red Boys (Differdange) was 2nd in the championship and got the Cup – a true second-best. However, in purely Cup matters, they were number 1: this was their 15th Cup. From their perspective, everything was going on just fine – no way imagining anything else. But it was going to be very, very different – this was the last year Red Boys won anything, their last trophy ever. And not a hypothetical ‘ever’ either, but concrete ever – the club eventually seized to exist.