Dragoș Vodă Cernăuți and Muncitorul Cernăuți (Northern Bukovina), Maccabi Chișinău, Nistru Chișinău and Traian Tighina (Bessarabia) were not allowed to play anymore in the Romanian football league system due to the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina during June 28 – July 4, 1940, which had as result the Soviet annexation of the region.