1984–85 DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga
Season 1984–85
Champions Berliner FC Dynamo
Relegated

BSG Chemie Leipzig

BSG Motor Suhl

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

1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig

BSG Wismut Aue

Matches played 182
Goals scored 601 (3.3 per match)
Top goalscorer Rainer Ernst (24)[1]
Total attendance 1,885,000[2]
Average attendance 10,357[2]

The 1984–85 DDR-Oberliga was the 36th 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 seventh of ten consecutive East German championships from 1978 to 1988, thereby surpassing the record of six titles jointly held up to then by BFC Dynamo, Dynamo Dresden and FC Vorwärts Berlin.[3][4]

Rainer Ernst of Berliner FC Dynamo was the league's top scorer with 24 goals,[5] while Hans-Jürgen Dörner of Dynamo Dresden took out the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[6]

On the strength of the 1984–85 title BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1985–86 European Cup where the club was knocked out by FK Austria Wien in the first round. Second-placed club Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1985–86 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and lost to Bayer Uerdingen in the quarter finals, in a game dubbed the Miracle of the Grotenburg.[7][8]

Third-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1985–86 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out by AC Milan in the second round while fourth-placed BSG Wismut Aue lost to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the first round.[9]

Table

The 1984–85 season saw two newly promoted clubs, Stahl Brandenburg and BSG Motor Suhl.[10][11]

PosClubPWDLGFGAGDPts
1Berliner FC Dynamo2620429028+6244
2Dynamo Dresden2615836934+3538
31. FC Lokomotive Leipzig2617455526+2938
4BSG Wismut Aue2612863833+532
51. FC Magdeburg2611965335+1831
6FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt26101064739+830
7FC Carl Zeiss Jena2697103627+925
8FC Vorwärts Frankfurt2678114138+322
9FC Karl-Marx-Stadt2677123948-921
10F.C. Hansa Rostock2669113751-1421
11Stahl Brandenburg26510112539-1420
12Stahl Riesa2668122955-2620
13BSG Chemie Leipzig2649132656-3017
14BSG Motor Suhl2613221692-765

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

  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. "Als Uerdingen das irrste Spiel aller Zeiten gewann" [When Uerdingen won the craziest game of all times]. welt.de (in German). Die Welt. 19 March 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  8. "Bayer Uerdingen gegen Dynamo Dresden" [Bayer Uerdingen versus Dynamo Dresden]. sueddeutsche.de (in German). Sueddeutsche Zeitung. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  9. "European Competitions 1985–86". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  10. "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  11. "DDR-Oberliga 1984–85". Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2016.

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