Turkey. New Cup winner, old champion.
Second Division. The usual 3-group league, groups B and C of 18 teamseach, and Group A of 17 teams. Last 4 teams relegated, the group winners promoted to top flight. A brief glimpse at the Turkish second level:
Group A.
Kahramanmarasspor – 8th with 32 points. Grass was scarce at this level.
Adana Demirspor – 2nd with 46 points. Bests strikers and defenders in the group, but lost the battle for promotion by a single point. Recent top league members had foreign players in the their squads – the Yugoslavian goalkeeper Arnautovic on this occasion.
Diyarbakirspor clinched 1st place and earned promotion: 19 wins, 9 ties, 4 losses, 47-21 goal-difference and 47 points.
Group B. Head-to-head results decided the group winner.
Izmirspor – 12th with 30 points.
Yeni Afyonspor had wonderful season – 3rd with 35 points.
Tarsus Idman Yurdu Erkutspor and just relegated from First Division Boluspor fought for the top position – they finished with equal points and head-to-head result benefited Boluspor. TIY Erkutspor won more games during the season and had superior goal-difference, but no luck.
Boluspor was lucky, no doubt, but quickly returned to top flight. 21 wins, 10 ties, 3 losses, 42-15 goal-difference and 51 points. They rather tiny stadium for top division club, but it was not all that important before 1990.
Group C. The only group without drama, won by comfortably dominating team.
Duzcespor – 11th with 32 points.
Edirnespor – 4th with 37 points.
Antalyaspor – just relegated, but too strong and ambitious to stay in the second level. They dominated the championship and won it with 52 points from 22 wins, 8 ties, 4 losses. 60-20 goal-difference. Adanaspor outscored them by 13 goals, but trailed 5 points behind, not a threat. Antalyaspor went back to the top league.
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