Eastern Second Division. Slightly different than the Western league – here too most of the clubs were fairly equal, making them concerned with relegation and not at all with promotion, but 2 teams competed for the 1st place. And, luckily, only 3 teams were relegated, because only Western clubs came down from First Division.
GIK Ramiz Sadiku (Pristina) was last with 24 points.
Timok (Zajecar) – 17th with 26 points.
Teteks (Tetovo) – 16th with 26 points. Those were the relegated teams.
Napredak (Krusevac) – 15th with 30 points. Lucky boys… Like Borac (Banja Luka), instead of favourites trying to return to first division, they were fighting for mere survival in the second division – and failing. Under normal circumstances, they would be relegated – sheer luck left them in the league for another year.
Radnicki (Pirot) – 14th with 30 points.
Rad (Belgrade) – 13th with 31 points.
Bor – playing top league football was distant memory by now. 12th with 31 points. Standing from left: trener Perišić, Sakić, M.Z.Nikolić, M.V.Nikolić, Brkić, Anđelković, Preljević, Mijucić, Vladić, Mujkanović, Kotlajić, Branković, Milošević, Dr Ranković, trener Radulović.
Crouching: Banduka, G.Golubović, Đokić, Mitić, Popović, Bjelić, Ivanov, Lončarević, B.Golubović, maser Janković.
Ivangrad – 11th with 32 points.
Trepca – 10th with 32 points. Standing from left: Mrkić, Bajrami, Seferi ,Mašić, Smailagić, Turku.
First row: Stolić, Prekazi, Golubica, Rahmani, Šubarić.
Kolubara – 9th with 32 points. Standing from left: Boban Stojanović, Baniša Grčić, Dragan Grčić, Dragan Jevtić, Zoran Ristović, Vlada Grujičić, Milovan Mihić, Miško Veselinović, Vlada Simić, Mika Obradović.
First row: Zoran Stašević, Radmilo Đurđević, Miloje Arsenijević, Saša Đurđević, Dragan Vasiljević, Ljubodrag Marić, Dražen Aleksić, Nebojša Brajević, Mirko Mijović.
Laying down in front: Mile Mitrović Đango.
Vlaznimi (Dakovica) – 8th with 33 points.
Borac (Cacak) – 7th with 34 points.
Belasica (Strumica) – 6th with 34 points.
Galenika (Zemun) – 5th with 34 points.
Sloboda (Titovo Uzice) – 4th with 37 points.
Pelister (Bitolja) – 3rd with 42 points. Much stronger than the bulk of the league, but far weaker than the leaders.
OFK Beograd – expected to run for promotion and doing so, but at the end they lost the battle by 2 points. 2nd with 51 points.
Sutjeska (Niksic) won the race for 1st place and promotion: 23 wins, 7 ties, 4 losses, 62-22 goal-difference, 53 points. Well done.