1959 DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga

Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt players and supporters celebrate the 1959 championship
Season 1959
Champions SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
Relegated

SC Turbine Erfurt

BSG Lokomotive Stendal

European Cup SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
European Cup Winners' Cup ASK Vorwärts Berlin
Matches played 182
Goals scored 476 (2.62 per match)
Top goalscorer Bernd Bauchspieß (18)[1]
Total attendance 1,785,000[2]
Average attendance 9,808[2]
1958
1960

The 1959 DDR-Oberliga was the eleventh season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany. Rather than in the traditional autumn-spring format the Oberliga played for six seasons from 1955 to 1960 in the calendar year format, modelled on the system used in the Soviet Union. From 1961–62 onwards the league returned to its traditional format.

The league was contested by fourteen teams. SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt, incidently based at Aue and not Karl-Marx-Stadt, won the championship, the club's last of three national East German championships.[3][4] On the strength of the 1959 title Wismut qualified for the 1960–61 European Cup where the club was knocked out by SK Rapid Wien in the first round. League runners-up ASK Vorwärts Berlin qualified for the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup instead of FDGB-Pokal winner SC Dynamo Berlin and was knocked out by Rudá Hvězda Brno in the preliminary round.[5]

Bernd Bauchspieß of Chemie Zeitz was the league's top scorer with 18 goals.[6]

Table

The 1959 season saw two newly promoted clubs, BSG Lokomotive Stendal and Chemie Zeitz.[7][8]

PosClubPWDLGFGAGDPts
1SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt2617544425+1939
2ASK Vorwärts Berlin2613944924+2535
3SC Dynamo Berlin2614574626+2033
4SC Empor Rostock2610973626+1029
5SC Motor Jena2610972927+229
6Fortschritt Weißenfels2610793639-327
7SC Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg2688103630+624
8BSG Motor Zwickau2696113032-224
9SC Lokomotive Leipzig2688102836-824
10Chemie Zeitz2696114252-1024
11SC Rotation Leipzig26610103140-922
12SC Einheit Dresden26411112342-1919
13SC Turbine Erfurt2666142745-1818
14BSG Lokomotive Stendal2649131932-1317

Key

League champion &
Qualified for the European Cup
FDGB-Pokal winner Qualified for the European Cup Winners' 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 19 January 2016.
  4. "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  5. "European Competitions 1960-61". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  6. "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  7. "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  8. "DDR » Oberliga 1959" [DDR-Oberliga 1959]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.

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