1966–67 DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga
Season	1966–67
Champions	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt
Relegated	Berliner FC Dynamo BSG Wismut Gera
European Cup	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt
European Cup Winners' Cup	BSG Motor Zwickau
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig Dynamo Dresden
Matches played	182
Goals scored	500 (2.75 per match)
Top goalscorer	Hartmut Rentzsch (17)^[1]
Total attendance	1,832,000^[2]
Average attendance	10,066^[2]
← 1965–66 1967–68 →

The 1966–67 DDR-Oberliga was the 18th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

The league was contested by fourteen teams. FC Karl-Marx-Stadt won the championship, the club's sole national East German championship, being a separate club from SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt, a club that won three championships in the 1950s.^[3]^[4]

Hartmut Rentzsch of BSG Motor Zwickau was the league's top scorer with 17 goals,^[5] while Dieter Erler of FC Karl-Marx-Stadt won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.^[6]

On the strength of the 1966–67 title Karl-Marx-Stadt qualified for the 1967–68 European Cup where the club was knocked out by R.S.C. Anderlecht in the first round. Third-placed club BSG Motor Zwickau qualified for the 1967–68 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winner and was knocked out by FC Torpedo Moscow in the first round. Second-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1967–68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup where it was knocked out in the second round by FK Vojvodina while fourth-placed Dynamo Dresden was knocked out by Rangers F.C. in the first round.^[7]

Table

The 1966–67 season saw two newly promoted clubs, 1. FC Union Berlin and BSG Wismut Gera.^[8]^[9]

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26	14	9	3	39	23	+16	37
2	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26	14	2	10	39	32	+7	30
3	BSG Motor Zwickau	26	9	9	8	41	26	+15	27
4	Dynamo Dresden	26	11	5	10	35	31	+4	27
5	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26	11	5	10	31	29	+2	27
6	1. FC Union Berlin	26	9	9	8	33	35	-2	27
7	BSG Lokomotive Stendal	26	11	5	10	39	44	-5	27
8	FC Vorwärts Berlin	26	10	6	10	43	34	+9	26
9	BSG Wismut Aue	26	11	4	11	45	43	+2	26
10	F.C. Hansa Rostock	26	9	8	9	27	27	0	26
11	Hallescher FC Chemie	26	11	4	11	38	41	-3	26
12	BSG Chemie Leipzig	26	9	7	10	35	38	-3	25
13	Berliner FC Dynamo	26	6	9	11	28	40	-12	21
14	BSG Wismut Gera	26	4	4	18	27	57	-30	10

Key

League champion & Qualified for the European Cup	FDGB-Pokal winner & Qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup	Qualified for the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	Relegated to DDR-Liga

References

↑ fuwo, page: 93
1 2 fuwo, page: 23
↑ "East Germany - List of Champions". rsssf.com. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
↑ "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
↑ "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 24 January 2016.
↑ fuwo, page: 92
↑ "European Competitions 1967-68". rsssf.com. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
↑ "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
↑ "DDR » Oberliga 1966–67" [DDR-Oberliga 1966–67]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 24 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

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