It was contested by 16 teams, and Budapest Honvéd FC won the championship, successfully defending their title under coach Imre Komora.
Honvéd won their first back-to-back championship in 30 years.
The south Pest side won the league with a comfortable 10-point lead, with none of the other 15 teams posing too much of a threat to the ted and blacks' title defense.
Runners-up Győr defeated Honvéd 1-0 in gameday 4, and were only 2 points off Honvéd by the time of the winter break.
Throughout the spring, losses to Vasas, Honvéd, Pécs and Ferencváros rendered Győri-ETO to become hopeless in the title-race, while Honvéd went on an 11-game winning streak between December and April.