Tournament

4th Balkan Team Championship — Sofia 1972

1972 · Sofia
Yugoslavia won the fourth Balkan Team Championship with 18½ board points; Bulgaria scored 16½ and Romania 15.

Final standings

18½
Yugoslavia won the fourth Balkan Team Championship with 18½ board points; Bulgaria scored 16½ and Romania 15.

All 60 played games are preserved. Contemporary reports establish Sofrevski’s win against Popov and the Yugoslavia–Bulgaria 5–1 match result; these restore the official 18½ and 16½ totals.

# Team Points MP Match record
1 Yugoslavia 18½ 7 +3 =1 -0
2 Bulgaria 16½ 6 +3 =0 -1
3 Romania 15 5 +2 =1 -1
4 Greece 7 2 +1 =0 -3
5 Turkey 3 0 +0 =0 -4

Cross Table

Rank Team 12345
1 Yugoslavia 5 3 5 5½
2 Bulgaria 1 4½ 5 6
3 Romania 3 1½ 5½ 5
4 Greece 1 1 ½ 4½
5 Turkey ½ 0 1 1½

Each cell shows the row team's board (game) points in its match against the column team, out of the boards played. ● = same team. Ranking is by total board points; match points (2 for a match win, 1 for a draw) are the secondary column.