1949–50 DDR-Oberliga

For other uses, see 1949–50 Oberliga (disambiguation).

DDR-Oberliga
Season	1949–50
Champions	ZSG Horch Zwickau
Relegated	ZSG Anker Wismar BSG Vorwärts Schwerin
Matches played	182
Goals scored	668 (3.67 per match)
Top goalscorer	Heinz Satrapa (23)^[1]
Total attendance	1,837,500^[2]
Average attendance	10,096^[2]
← 1949 (Soviet occupation zone championship) 1950–51 →

The 1949–50 DDR-Oberliga, playing as the DS-Liga in its first season as the DDR, the German Democratic Republic was only formed after the start of the season, was the inaugural season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

The league was contested by 14 teams and ZSG Horch Zwickau won the championship. It was the second and last East German championship for Zwickau, having previously won the 1948 edition under the name of SG Planitz.^[3]^[4]

Heinz Satrapa of ZSG Horch Zwickau was the league's top scorer with 23 goals.^[5]

Table

The 1949–50 season was the inaugural season of the league.^[6]^[7]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	ZSG Horch Zwickau (C)	26	20	1	5	69	27	+42	41	Champions
2	SG Friedrichstadt^{[lower-alpha 1]}	26	18	3	5	87	29	+58	39	Club dissolved
3	BSG Waggonbau Dessau	26	17	3	6	67	36	+31	37
4	BSG KWU Erfurt	26	15	5	6	58	30	+28	35
5	ZSG Union Halle	26	13	5	8	56	38	+18	31
6	BSG Franz Mehring Marga	26	13	5	8	49	48	+1	31
7	BSG Märkische Volksstimme Babelsberg	26	10	4	12	42	66	−24	24
8	ZSG Industrie Leipzig	26	8	6	12	38	45	−7	22
9	Einheit Meerane	26	9	3	14	38	56	−18	21
10	BSG Hans Wendler Stendal	26	7	5	14	31	45	−14	19
11	SG Gera Süd	26	6	7	13	34	54	−20	19
12	ZSG Altenburg^{[lower-alpha 2]}	26	6	5	15	34	50	−16	17
13	ZSG Anker Wismar (R)	26	6	5	15	35	60	−25	17	Relegation to the DDR-Liga
14	BSG Vorwärts Schwerin (R)	26	4	3	19	30	84	−54	11	Relegation to the DDR-Liga

Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:

↑ SG Friedrichstadt was disbanded at the end of season and scheduled to be replaced by BSG VVB Tabak Dresden but the latter was unable to compete in the league in 1950–51 because it lost a large amount of players to clubs from West Germany. The team was than replaced by SG Volkspolizei Dresden
↑ ZSG Altenburg defeated ZSG Anker Wismar 3–2 in the relegation play-off

Name changes

East German clubs were subject to frequent name changes in this era. The following 1949–50 DDR-Oberliga clubs changed their name during the off-season and in the season.^[6]

1948–49 name	1949–50 name	1950–51 name
SG Planitz	ZSG Horch Zwickau	BSG Motor Zwickau
Waggonbau Dessau		Motor Dessau
Eintracht Erfurt	KWU Erfurt	Turbine Erfurt
Union Halle		Turbine Halle
Franz Mehring Marga		Aktivist Brieske-Ost
SG Babelsberg	Märkische Volksstimme Babelsberg	Rotation Babelsberg
Industrie Leipzig		Chemie Leipzig
SG Meerane	Einheit Meerane	Fortschrit Meerane
Hans Wendler Stendal		Lokomotive Stendal
SG Gera		Motor Gera
SG Altenburg-Nord	ZSG Altenburg	Stahl Altenburg
Wismar-Süd	Anker Wismar
SG Schwerin	Vorwärts Schwerin

References

↑ fuwo, page: 93
1 2 fuwo, page: 23
↑ "East Germany - List of Champions". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
↑ "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
↑ "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.
1 2 "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
↑ "DDR » Oberliga 1949/1950" [DDR-Oberliga 1949–50]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 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. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

External links

Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv (German) Historic German league tables

DDR-Oberliga and NOFV-Oberliga seasons

Ostzonenmeisterschaft (1947–1949)	1948 1949

DDR-Oberliga (1949–1990)	1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91

NOFV-Oberliga	1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

1949–50 in European football

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Domestic cups	Albania '49 '50 Bulgaria Cyprus England France East Germany Greece Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '49 '50 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union '49 '50 Spain Sweden '49 '50 Switzerland Wales Yugoslavia

League cups	Scotland

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