1979–80 DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga
Season	1979–80
Champions	Berliner FC Dynamo
Relegated	1. FC Union Berlin BSG Chemie Leipzig
European Cup	Berliner FC Dynamo
European Cup Winners' Cup	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
UEFA Cup	Dynamo Dresden 1. FC Magdeburg FC Vorwärts Frankfurt
Matches played	182
Goals scored	525 (2.88 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dieter Kühn (21)^[1]
Total attendance	2,210,700^[2]
Average attendance	12,207^[2]
← 1978–79 1980–81 →

The 1979–80 DDR-Oberliga was the 31st season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

The league was contested by fourteen teams. Berliner FC Dynamo won the championship, the club's second of ten consecutive East German championships from 1978 to 1988.^[3]^[4]

Dieter Kühn of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was the league's top scorer with 21 goals,^[5] while Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin of FC Carl Zeiss Jena took out the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.^[6]

On the strength of the 1979–80 title BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1980–81 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Baník Ostrava in the second round. Third-placed club FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1980–81 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and lost to Dinamo Tbilisi in the final, becoming only the second East German team to reach a final in an European Cup competition. Second-placed Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1980–81 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the third round by Standard Liège while fourth-placed 1. FC Magdeburg lost to Torino F.C. and fifth-placed FC Vorwärts Frankfurt was eliminated by VfB Stuttgart, both in the second round.^[7]

Table

The 1979–80 season saw two newly promoted clubs FC Vorwärts Frankfurt and BSG Chemie Leipzig.^[8]^[9]

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Berliner FC Dynamo	26	20	3	3	72	16	+56	43
2	Dynamo Dresden	26	20	2	4	65	22	+43	42
3	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26	13	6	7	41	24	+17	32
4	1. FC Magdeburg	26	12	6	8	45	37	+8	30
5	FC Vorwärts Frankfurt	26	11	8	7	41	40	+1	30
6	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26	11	7	8	50	34	+16	29
7	Hallescher FC Chemie	26	12	4	10	38	37	+1	28
8	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	26	9	4	13	27	42	-15	22
9	BSG Wismut Aue	26	8	4	14	26	42	-16	20
10	Stahl Riesa	26	5	10	11	22	53	-31	20
11	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26	6	7	13	26	38	-12	19
12	FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt	26	6	6	14	33	38	-5	18
13	1. FC Union Berlin	26	6	4	16	18	44	-26	16
14	BSG Chemie Leipzig	26	4	7	15	21	58	-37	15

Key

League champion & Qualified for the European Cup	FDGB-Pokal winners & Qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup	Qualified for the UEFA 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 1980–81". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
↑ "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
↑ "DDR-Oberliga 1979–80". 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

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