1953–54 DDR-Oberliga

For other uses, see 1953–54 Oberliga (disambiguation).

DDR-Oberliga
Season	1953–54
Champions	BSG Turbine Erfurt
Relegated	BSG Lokomotive Stendal Motor Dessau BSG Stahl Thale
Matches played	210
Goals scored	676 (3.22 per match)
Top goalscorer	Heinz Satrapa (21)^[1]
Total attendance	2,941,000^[2]
Average attendance	14,005^[2]
← 1952–53 1954–55 →

The 1953–54 DDR-Oberliga was the fifth season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

The league was contested by fifteen teams, two less than in the previous season, and BSG Turbine Erfurt won the championship. It was the first of two championships for the club, winning it the following season as well.^[3]^[4]

Heinz Satrapa of BSG Wismut Aue was the league's top scorer with 21 goals.^[1]

The 1953–54 season saw the best-ever average support for the Oberliga with 14,005 spectators per game.^[2]

Table

The 1953–54 season saw two newly promoted clubs, Fortschritt Meerane and Einheit Ost Leipzig. The FDGB-Pokal was won by second division DDR-Liga club Vorwärts Berlin.^[5]^[6]

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAvg	Pts
1	BSG Turbine Erfurt	28	17	5	6	58	36	1,61	39
2	BSG Chemie Leipzig	28	15	5	8	51	37	1,38	35
3	Dynamo Dresden	28	15	4	9	54	44	1,23	34
4	BSG Wismut Aue	28	15	3	10	59	42	1,41	33
5	BSG Rotation Babelsberg	28	12	8	8	58	43	1,35	32
6	BSG Aktivist Brieske-Ost	28	11	8	9	48	43	1,12	30
7	BSG Rotation Dresden	28	9	10	9	46	39	1,18	28
8	BSG Turbine Halle	28	11	6	11	30	30	1,00	28
9	Empor Lauter	28	8	11	9	40	38	1,05	27
10	Fortschritt Meerane	28	8	9	11	46	46	1,00	25
11	BSG Motor Zwickau	28	10	5	13	39	56	0,70	25
12	Einheit Ost Leipzig	28	9	5	14	43	57	0,754	23
13	BSG Lokomotive Stendal	28	6	11	11	38	51	0,745	23
14	Motor Dessau	28	7	9	12	38	55	0,69	23
15	BSG Stahl Thale	28	4	7	17	28	59	0,48	15

Key

League champion	FDGB-Pokal winner	Relegated

References

1 2 "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.
1 2 3 fuwo, page: 23
↑ "East Germany - List of Champions". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
↑ "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
↑ "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
↑ "DDR » Oberliga 1953/1954" [DDR-Oberliga 1953–54]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.

Sources

"Das war unser Fußball im Osten" [This was our football in the East]. Fußball-Woche (fuwo) (in German) (Berlin: Axel-Springer-Verlag). 1991. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

External links

Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv (German) Historic German league tables

DDR-Oberliga and NOFV-Oberliga seasons

Ostzonenmeisterschaft (1947–1949)	1948 1949

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