1972–73 DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga
Season	1972–73
Champions	Dynamo Dresden
Relegated	1. FC Union Berlin Hallescher FC Chemie
European Cup	Dynamo Dresden
European Cup Winners' Cup	1. FC Magdeburg
UEFA Cup	FC Carl Zeiss Jena 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
Matches played	182
Goals scored	557 (3.06 per match)
Top goalscorer	Hans-Jürgen Kreische (26)^[1]
Total attendance	1,994,700^[2]
Average attendance	10,956^[2]
← 1971–72 1973–74 →

The 1972–73 DDR-Oberliga was the 24th 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 third of eight East German championships.^[3]^[4]

Hans-Jürgen Kreische of Dynamo Dresden was the league's top scorer with 26 goals, the third of a record four top scorer finishes for Kreische,^[5] with him also winning the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.^[6]

On the strength of the 1972–73 title Dresden qualified for the 1973–74 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Bundesliga champions FC Bayern Munich in the second round. It was the first time the East and West German champions were drawn against each other in an UEFA competition and resulted in a close contest, Bayern winning 7–6 on aggregate. Third-placed club 1. FC Magdeburg qualified for the 1973–74 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and won the competition after a 2–0 final victory over AC Milan, the greatest success of any East German club in Europe. Second-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1973–74 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the second round by Ruch Chorzów while fourth-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig lost to Tottenham Hotspur in the semi-finals, having previously overcome Fortuna Düsseldorf in the third round in another German East-West encounter.^[7]

Table

The 1972–73 season saw two newly promoted clubs BSG Chemie Leipzig and FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt.^[8]^[9]

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Dynamo Dresden (C)	26	18	6	2	61	30	+31	42
2	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26	15	9	2	46	21	+25	39
3	1. FC Magdeburg	26	14	6	6	50	28	+22	34
4	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26	12	6	8	57	41	+16	30
5	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26	11	8	7	33	32	+1	30
6	Berliner FC Dynamo	26	9	8	9	41	42	-1	26
7	FC Vorwärts Frankfurt	26	10	5	11	54	46	+8	25
8	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	26	8	8	10	37	43	-6	24
9	BSG Chemie Leipzig	26	5	11	10	21	26	-5	21
10	F.C. Hansa Rostock	26	6	8	12	36	44	-8	20
11	BSG Wismut Aue	26	7	6	13	27	46	-19	20
12	FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt	26	8	3	15	37	56	-19	19
13	1. FC Union Berlin	26	7	4	15	22	45	-23	18
14	Hallescher FC Chemie	26	4	8	14	35	57	-22	16

(C)	1972–73 DDR-Oberliga champions
	Qualified for the European Cup
	Qualified for the UEFA Cup
	Qualified for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
	Relegated to DDR-Liga

References

↑ fuwo, page: 93
1 2 fuwo, page: 23
↑ "East Germany - List of Champions". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
↑ "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
↑ "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 25 January 2016.
↑ fuwo, page: 92
↑ "European Competitions 1973-74". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
↑ "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
↑ "DDR » Oberliga 1972–73" [DDR-Oberliga 1972–73]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 26 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

DDR-Oberliga (1949–1990)	1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91

NOFV-Oberliga	1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

1972–73 in European football (UEFA)

« 1971–72 1973–74 »

Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '72 '73 England Estonia '72 '73 Faroe Islands '72 '73 Finland '72 '73 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '72 '73 Israel Italy Latvia '72 '73 Lithuania '72 '73 Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '72 '73 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '72 '73 Spain Sweden '72 '73 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia

Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '72 '73 Finland '72 '73 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '72 '73 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '72 '73 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '72 '73 Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales

League cups	England West Germany Scotland Switzerland

UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final)

Other competitions	Intertoto Cup European Super Cup

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, January 30, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.