First Division. Not a very intriguing season – Gornik (Zabrze) was the strongest team at the moment and quite easily won another title.
Zagłębie (Sosnowiec) was the weakest – last and relegated with 20 points.
Bałtyk (Gdynia) was the other unfortunate – 15th with 23 points. Down they went.
Lechia (Gdańsk) was lucky – 14th with 24 points.
Motor (Lublin) – 13th with 25 points. They were the team with most ties this season – 13.
Zaglebie (Lubin) – 12th with 25 points. The lowest scoring team in the championship: only 22 goals.
Stal (Mielec) – their glorious years were long gone. 11th with 25 points. Standing from left: Duchnowski, Lizończyk, Pazdan, W.Łukasik, Gruszecki, Wnuk
Front row: Śliwowski, Urbanek, Porębny, Bedryj, Barnak.
Pogoń (Szczecin) – 9th with 27 points. Standing from left: Hawrylewicz, K.Sokołowski, Urbanowicz, J.Sokołowski, Szczech, Makowski
Crouching: Benesz, Kuras, Ostrowski, Kensy, Leśniak.
Ruch (Chorzow) – 9th with 28 points.
LKS (Lodz) – 8th with 28 points. Standing from left: Bako, Wenclewski, Kruszankin, J.Robakiewicz, K.Baran, Gajda
Front: Różycki, Gierek, Chojnacki, Sibilski, Ziober.
Slask (Wroclaw) – 7th with 29 points.
Górnik (Wałbrzych) – 6th with 30 points.
GKS Katowice – 5th with 31 points. Standing from left: Krzysztof Zając, Franciszek Sput, Piotr Piekarczyk, Marek Matys, Jerzy Kapias, Zbigniew Krzyżoś
Crouching: Józef Łuczak, Jan Furtok, Mirosław Kubisztal, Marek Biegun, Wiktor Morcinek.
Lech (Poznan) – 4th with 36 points. Standing from left: Ryszard Jankowski, Czesław Jakołcewicz, Mariusz Niewiadomski, Piotr Skrobowski, Dariusz Szwagiel, Krzysztof Pawlak
Front row: Hieronim Barczak, Rafał Stroiński, Jerzy Kruszczyński, Mirosław Okoński, Bogusław Pachelski.
Widzew (Lodz) – 3rd with 41 points.
Legia (Warszawa) – 2nd with 42 points.
Gornik (Zabrze) – comfortable champions with 46 points from 21 wins, 4 ties, and 5 losses. They scored the most goals this season – 70 – and allowed the least: 17. Perhaps not as great a team as the one of the late 1960s, but stronger than any other presently. Hubert Kostka did wonderful job coaching the squad to a second consecutive title. It was also their 12th title.
Proud new-old champions.