Divizia C Series VIII 1983/84

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The Divizia C Series VIII 1983-84 was one of twelve seasons of the 28th season of the third Romanian football -Liga Divizia C . She gained notoriety because of the final result, which is considered the most balanced in football history .

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. Mureșul Deva  30th  16  6th  8th 053:330 +20 38
 2. AROUND Timișoara  30th  14th  3  13 057:370 +20 31
 3. Mecanica Orăştie  30th  15th  1  14th 049:530  −4 31
 4th Minerul Paroșeni  30th  13  5  12 041:460  −5 31
 5. Minerul Moldova-Nouă  30th  14th  2  14th 041:390  +2 30th
 6th Minerul Știința Vulcan  30th  13  4th  13 038:470  −9 30th
 7th Metalul Bocșa  30th  13  3  14th 040:320  +8 29
 8th. Dacia Orăştie  30th  11  7th  12 058:500  +8 29
 9. Minerul Certej  30th  13  3  14th 048:470  +1 29
10. Metalul Oțelu-Roșu  30th  14th  1  15th 038:400  −2 29
11. Minerul Anina  30th  13  3  14th 046:480  −2 29
12. Victoria Călan  30th  13  3  14th 035:370  −2 29
13. Constructorul Timișoara  30th  13  3  14th 057:620  −5 29
14th Minerul Oravița  30th  13  3  14th 039:450  −6 29
15th Minerul Ghelar  30th  12  5  13 035:520 −17 29
16. Minerul Aninoasa  30th  11  6th  13 032:390  −7 28

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal difference - 3rd wins - 4th direct comparison (points, goal difference, goals scored)

  • Promoted to Divizia B 1984/85
  • Relegated to Divizia D 1984/85

    • Special feature and background

    There were only two points between the runner-up UM Timișoara and the penultimate Minerul Ghelar, who was relegated with it. According to the rules of the time, this corresponded to a win or two draws. A total of nine teams had the same score of 29.

    In 2019, the German football magazine 11 Freunde published an article on the background to this narrow outcome. According to former UEFA referee Ioan Danciu, who directed matches in the league, many games are said to have been canceled. This was to keep the audience and management (the players were employees of mining companies and other companies) satisfied and prevent the players from being sent to work in the mining industry. In particular, the teams made sure that home games were won. The other teams would have helped the eventual promoted Mureșul Deva because he had a better stadium and better conditions than other clubs and thus better chances in the second division . The goalkeeper of Metalul Bocşa, Emil Vadasz reported that part of the special prizes awarded for victories had been offered to the opponent's players as a bribe and that “some games were decided at the kitchen table”.

    reception

    The organization RSSSF , which is involved in collecting football data , maintains the closing table as the most balanced closing table known to them. In his book Almost Everything About Football, Christoph Biermann describes it as the “table of horror” and calls the season “probably the most eerily exciting season of all time”. Rob Smyth describes the fact that a team in the top half of the table not only relegated on goal difference, as the most ridiculous thing ever in the sports column The Joy of Six of the Guardian described. In addition to the tight result, Andy Mitten also noted the special feature that 8 of the 16 club names contain “Minerul” (Romanian for “miner”). Danny Baker and Danny Kelly assume that the introduction of the 3-point rule has made it much less likely that such a tight table situation will arise.

    The economist Dorian Owen used the season as a case study in a publication about evaluating the balance of a sports league using the relative standard deviation .

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ Divizia C - Season 1983-84 - Edition 28. In: romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
    2. ↑ Emanuel Rosu: The League of Merry Miners . 11 Friends , Edition 214, September 2019, pp. 86–89
    3. ↑ Karel Stokkermans: Most Competitive League. In: rsssf.com. January 31, 2013, accessed July 27, 2018 .
    4. ↑ Christoph Biermann: Almost everything about football. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-462-03639-4 , p. 59.
    5. ^ Rob Smyth: The Joy of Six: last-day relegation battles. In: The Guardian. May 11, 2012, accessed July 27, 2018 .
    6. ^ Andy Mitten: The rough guide to cult football. Rough Guides, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-84836-542-1 , pp. 356-357 (English).
    7. ^ Danny Baker, Danny Kelly: Classic Football Debates Settled Once and For All, Vol. 1. Ebury, London 2009, ISBN 9780091928520 , pp. 71-72 ( online at Google Books, English).
    8. ^ Dorian Owen: Limitations of the relative standard deviation of win percentages for measuring competitive balance in sports leagues. University of Otago Economics Discussion Papers No. 0908, May 2010, p. 7 ( pdf , English).