The 1968–69 DDR-Oberliga was the 20th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.
Season | 1968–69 |
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Champions | FC Vorwärts Berlin |
Relegated | |
European Cup | FC Vorwärts Berlin |
European Cup Winners' Cup | 1. FC Magdeburg |
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | |
Matches played | 182 |
Goals scored | 456 (2.51 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Gerd Kostmann (18)[1] |
Total attendance | 2,111,000[2] |
Average attendance | 11,599[2] |
← 1967–68 1969–70 → |
The league was contested by fourteen teams. National People's Army club FC Vorwärts Berlin won the championship, the club's last of six East German championships.[3][4] It marked, together with a cup win in the following season, the last highlight in the club's history as, two seasons later, Vorwärts was moved from East Berlin to Frankfurt/Oder for political reasons and never again won another national title after the move.[5]
Gerd Kostmann of F.C. Hansa Rostock was the league's top scorer with 18 goals,[6] while Eberhard Vogel of FC Karl-Marx-Stadt won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[7]
On the strength of the 1968–69 title Vorwärts qualified for the 1969–70 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Feyenoord in the quarter-finals. Third-placed club 1. FC Magdeburg qualified for the 1969–70 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winner and was knocked out by Académica de Coimbra in the second round. Second-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup where it was knocked out in the quarter-finals by Ajax while fourth-placed F.C. Hansa Rostock was knocked out by Inter Milan in the second round.[8]
Table
editThe 1968–69 season saw two newly promoted clubs Berliner FC Dynamo and BSG Stahl Riesa.[9][10]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | FC Vorwärts Berlin (C) | 26 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 47 | 28 | +19 | 34 | Qualification to European Cup first round |
2 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 43 | 22 | +21 | 32 | Qualification to Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round |
3 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 26 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 43 | 41 | +2 | 31 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round |
4 | F.C. Hansa Rostock | 26 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 42 | 33 | +9 | 29 | Qualification to Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round |
5 | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau | 26 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 23 | 19 | +4 | 27 | |
6 | BSG Chemie Leipzig | 26 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 30 | 27 | +3 | 27 | |
7 | FC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 35 | 36 | −1 | 26 | |
8 | FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt | 26 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 32 | 27 | +5 | 25 | |
9 | BSG Wismut Aue | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 33 | 31 | +2 | 25 | |
10 | Berliner FC Dynamo | 26 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 25 | 36 | −11 | 25 | |
11 | Hallescher FC Chemie | 26 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 32 | 35 | −3 | 22 | |
12 | BSG Stahl Riesa | 26 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 26 | 43 | −17 | 22 | |
13 | 1. FC Union Berlin (R) | 26 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 29 | 41 | −12 | 20 | Relegation to DDR-Liga |
14 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig (R) | 26 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 38 | −21 | 19 |
Results
editReferences
edit- ^ fuwo, page: 93
- ^ a b fuwo, page: 23
- ^ "East Germany - List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ fuwo, page: 34 & 35
- ^ "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ fuwo, page: 92
- ^ "European Competitions 1969-70". RSSSF. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "East Germany 1946-1990". RSSSF. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "DDR » Oberliga 1968–69" [DDR-Oberliga 1968–69]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 25 January 2016.
Sources
edit- "Das war unser Fußball im Osten" [This was our football in the East]. Fußball-Woche (fuwo) (in German). Berlin: Axel-Springer-Verlag. 1991.
External links
edit- Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv (in German) Historic German league tables