1954–55 DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga

Turbine Erfurt players and supporters celebrate winning the championship
Season 1954–55
Champions BSG Turbine Erfurt
Relegated

SC Chemie Halle-Leuna

Fortschritt Meerane

Matches played 182
Goals scored 614 (3.37 per match)
Top goalscorer Willy Tröger (22)[1]
Total attendance 2,524,500[2]
Average attendance 13,871[2]
1955

The 1954–55 DDR-Oberliga was the sixth season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany. After the 1954–55 season the league played a transition round in autumn 1955, followed by five seasons, until 1960, where it played in the calendar year format. From 1961–62 onwards the league returned to its traditional format.

The league was contested by fourteen teams, one less than in the previous season, a strength the DDR-Oberliga would operate at for the rest of its history. BSG Turbine Erfurt won the championship, its second consecutive one for the club, becoming the first club to win back-to-back titles.[3][4]

Willy Tröger of SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt was the league's top scorer with 22 goals.[1]

Two clubs were relocated during the season, in November 1954, with Dynamo Dresden moving to East Berlin to become Dynamo Berlin and Empor Lauter was moved to Rostock to become Empor Rostock. A number of clubs were also re-branded as Sportclubs from October 1954 onwards, indicated by the SC before the name, to concentrate the best players at certain locations and improve the level of the game in East Germany.[5] Wismut Aue became Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt but the club remained in Aue and didn't move to Chemnitz, then called Karl-Marx-Stadt, despite the name change.[6]

Unlike the 1954–55 champions of West Germany and the Saar Protectorate the East German champion did not take part in the first edition of the European Cup the following season. It would take until 1957–58 for the DDR-Oberliga winner to compete in Europe.

Table

The 1954–55 season saw two newly promoted clubs, ASK Vorwärts Berlin and BSG Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt.[6][7]

PosClubPWDLGFGAGDPts
1SC Turbine Erfurt2613855825+3334
2SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt2613766238+2433
3SC Rotation Leipzig26101065847+1130
4SC Einheit Dresden26133106455+929
5BSG Motor Zwickau26132115149+228
6SC Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg26115103744-727
7SC Dynamo Berlin26122125049+126
8ASK Vorwärts Berlin26106104346-326
9SC Empor Rostock26122122933-4 26
10BSG Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt268993443-925
11SC Lokomotive Leipzig2696113238-624
12BSG Rotation Babelsberg26103133636023
13SC Chemie Halle-Leuna2684142852-2420
14Fortschritt Meerane2653183158-2713

Key

League champion FDGB-Pokal winner Relegated

References

  1. 1 2 "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 fuwo, page: 23
  3. "East Germany - List of Champions". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  4. "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  5. fuwo, page: 94
  6. 1 2 "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  7. "DDR » Oberliga 1954/1955" [DDR-Oberliga 1954–55]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.

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