1970–71 DDR-Oberliga

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

DDR-Oberliga
Season1970–71
ChampionsDynamo Dresden
Relegated
European CupDynamo Dresden
European Cup Winners' CupBerliner FC Dynamo
UEFA Cup
Matches played182
Goals scored508 (2.79 per match)
Top goalscorerHans-Jürgen Kreische (17)[1]
Total attendance2,140,500[2]
Average attendance11,761[2]

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, allegedly 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 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dynamo Dresden (C) 26 18 3 5 56 29 +27 39 Qualification to European Cup first round
2 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 26 14 5 7 58 29 +29 33 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3 Hallescher FC Chemie 26 10 10 6 35 29 +6 30
4 1. FC Magdeburg 26 10 7 9 37 38 −1 27
5 1. FC Union Berlin 26 8 11 7 27 33 −6 27
6 BSG Sachsenring Zwickau 26 11 4 11 40 42 −2 26
7 FC Vorwärts Berlin 26 10 6 10 38 44 −6 26
8 F.C. Hansa Rostock 26 10 5 11 31 25 +6 25
9 BFC Dynamo 26 10 5 11 31 29 +2 25 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
10 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 26 9 6 11 42 46 −4 24
11 BSG Wismut Aue 26 8 5 13 30 36 −6 21
12 Stahl Riesa 26 6 9 11 28 41 −13 21
13 FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt (R) 26 6 9 11 28 44 −16 21 Relegation to DDR-Liga
14 BSG Chemie Leipzig (R) 26 5 9 12 27 43 −16 19
Source:
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.

References
  1. fuwo, page: 93
  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.

Sources
  • "Das war unser Fußball im Osten" [This was our football in the East]. Fußball-Woche (fuwo) (in German). Berlin: Axel-Springer-Verlag. 1991.
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