The championship was played in a regular season with a round trip. Each team competed twice against each other team. The two bottom of the table were relegated to the then still second-rate category e dytë . The champions made it into the European Cup , the runner-up made it into the UEFA Cup .
A total of 355 goals were scored, which corresponds to an average of 2.0 goals per game. The top scorer with 12 goals was Dashnor Bajaziti from KS Besa Kavaja .
In the previous season with no chance in the fight for the championship, Partizani Tirana returned to the top of the table and won the 13th championship title. This made the club the country's sole record champions again. In a tight decision, the lead over defending champion Dinamo Tirana was just one point. 17 Nëntori Tirana finished third, two points behind . Without a chance for the title, but also without relegation worries, Vllaznia Shkodra finished fourth. The other teams were all involved in the close relegation battle. Luftëtari Gjirokastra and Naftëtari Qyteti Stalin saved themselves the most sovereign with three points behind. This was followed by Besa Kavaja , Flamurtari Vlora and Labinoti Elbasan . Next to last, next to the knocked-down newcomer Traktori Lushnja, last year's sixth Skënderbeu Korçë had to accept the fall into the second class, while Besëlidhja Lezha , Lokomotiva Durrës and Tomori Berat were able to avoid this thanks to a narrow lead.
Giovanni Armillotta: Almanaku i kategorisë së dytë (1930 / 2008-09) dhe i futbollit shqiptar . Aracne Editrice Srl, Rome 2009, ISBN 978-88-548-2585-7 .
Individual evidence
↑ Giovanni Armillotta: Albanian Football Season 1980-81. In: RSSSF - The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 2009, accessed April 12, 2011 .
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