1970–71 DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga
Season 1970–71
Champions Dynamo Dresden
Relegated

FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt

BSG Chemie Leipzig

European Cup Dynamo Dresden
European Cup Winners' Cup Berliner FC Dynamo
UEFA Cup

Hallescher FC Chemie

FC Carl Zeiss Jena

Matches played 182
Goals scored 508 (2.79 per match)
Top goalscorer Hans-Jürgen Kreische (17)[1]
Total attendance 2,140,500[2]
Average attendance 11,761[2]

The 1970–71 DDR-Oberliga was the 22nd season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

The league was contested by fourteen teams. Dynamo Dresden won the championship, the club's second of eight East German championships, having previously won the 1952–53 edition.[3][4]

Hans-Jürgen Kreische of Dynamo Dresden was the league's top scorer with 17 goals, the first of a record four top scorer finishes for Kreische,[5] while Peter Ducke of FC Carl Zeiss Jena won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[6]

On the strength of the 1970–71 title Dresden qualified for the 1971–72 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Ajax in the first round. Ninth-placed club Berliner FC Dynamo qualified for the 1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal runners-up, Dresden having won the double, and was knocked out by Dynamo Moscow in the semi-finals. Second-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1971–72 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the third round by Wolverhampton Wanderers while third-placed Hallescher FC Chemie withdrew after losing a player in the Hotel 't Silveren Seepaerd fire before the second leg of their first round tie with PSV Eindhoven.[7]

At the end of the season National People's Army club FC Vorwärts Berlin, based in East Berlin, was moved to Frankfurt/Oder to become FC Vorwärts Frankfurt/Oder for political reasons. Vorwärts had been quite a popular club with East Berlin football supporters but was seen as an obstacle to the ambitions of Berliner FC Dynamo, a club connected to and supported by the Ministry for State Security and its head Erich Mielke, forcing it to move.[8]

Table

The 1970–71 season saw two newly promoted clubs 1. FC Union Berlin and 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig.[9][10]

Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts
1Dynamo Dresden (C)2618355629+2739
2FC Carl Zeiss Jena2614575829+2933
3Hallescher FC Chemie26101063529+630
41. FC Magdeburg2610793738-127
51. FC Union Berlin2681172733-627
6BSG Sachsenring Zwickau26114114042-226
7FC Vorwärts Berlin26106103844-626
8F.C. Hansa Rostock26105113125+625
9Berliner FC Dynamo26105113129+225
101. FC Lokomotive Leipzig2696114246-424
11BSG Wismut Aue2685133036-621
12Stahl Riesa2669112841-1321
13FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt2669112844-1621
14BSG Chemie Leipzig2659122743-1619
(C) 1970–71 DDR-Oberliga champions
Qualified for the European Cup
Qualified for the UEFA Cup
Qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup
Relegated to DDR-Liga

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

References

  1. fuwo, page: 93
  2. 1 2 fuwo, page: 23
  3. "East Germany - List of Champions". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  4. "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  5. "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  6. fuwo, page: 92
  7. "European Competitions 1971-72". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  8. fuwo, page: 34 & 35
  9. "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  10. "DDR » Oberliga 1970–71" [DDR-Oberliga 1970–71]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2016.

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