1984–85 DDR-Oberliga

The 1984–85 DDR-Oberliga was the 36th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

DDR-Oberliga
Season1984–85
ChampionsBFC Dynamo
Relegated
European CupBFC Dynamo
European Cup Winners' CupDynamo Dresden
UEFA Cup
Matches played182
Goals scored601 (3.3 per match)
Top goalscorerRainer Ernst (24)[1]
Total attendance1,885,000[2]
Average attendance10,357[2]

The league was contested by fourteen teams. BFC 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 BFC Dynamo was the league's top scorer for the second time in a row with 24 goals,[5] while Hans-Jürgen Dörner of Dynamo Dresden again 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]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Berliner FC Dynamo (C) 26 20 4 2 90 28 +62 44 Qualification to European Cup first round
2 Dynamo Dresden 26 15 8 3 69 34 +35 38 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
3 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 26 17 4 5 55 26 +29 38 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4 BSG Wismut Aue 26 12 8 6 38 33 +5 32
5 1. FC Magdeburg 26 11 9 6 53 35 +18 31
6 FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt 26 10 10 6 47 39 +8 30
7 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 26 9 7 10 36 27 +9 25
8 FC Vorwärts Frankfurt 26 7 8 11 41 38 +3 22
9 FC Karl-Marx-Stadt 26 7 7 12 39 48 −9 21
10 F.C. Hansa Rostock 26 6 9 11 37 51 −14 21
11 Stahl Brandenburg 26 5 10 11 25 39 −14 20
12 Stahl Riesa 26 6 8 12 29 55 −26 20
13 BSG Chemie Leipzig (R) 26 4 9 13 26 56 −30 17 Relegation to DDR-Liga
14 BSG Motor Suhl (R) 26 1 3 22 16 92 −76 5
Source:
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.

References
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  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.

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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