1979–80 DDR-Oberliga

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

DDR-Oberliga
Season1979–80
ChampionsBFC Dynamo
Relegated
European CupBFC Dynamo
European Cup Winners' CupFC Carl Zeiss Jena
UEFA Cup
Matches played182
Goals scored525 (2.88 per match)
Top goalscorerDieter Kühn (21)[1]
Total attendance2,210,700[2]
Average attendance12,207[2]

The league was contested by fourteen teams. BFC 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 a 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 Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Berliner FC Dynamo (C) 26 20 3 3 72 16 +56 43 Qualification to European Cup first round
2 Dynamo Dresden 26 20 2 4 65 22 +43 42 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 26 13 6 7 41 24 +17 32 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
4 1. FC Magdeburg 26 12 6 8 45 37 +8 30 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
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 (R) 26 6 4 16 18 44 −26 16 Relegation to DDR-Liga
14 BSG Chemie Leipzig (R) 26 4 7 15 21 58 −37 15
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 1980–81". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  8. "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  9. "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.
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