1959 DDR-Oberliga

For other uses, see 1958–59 Oberliga (disambiguation).

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]

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	26	17	5	4	44	25	+19	39
2	ASK Vorwärts Berlin	26	13	9	4	49	24	+25	35
3	SC Dynamo Berlin	26	14	5	7	46	26	+20	33
4	SC Empor Rostock	26	10	9	7	36	26	+10	29
5	SC Motor Jena	26	10	9	7	29	27	+2	29
6	Fortschritt Weißenfels	26	10	7	9	36	39	-3	27
7	SC Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg	26	8	8	10	36	30	+6	24
8	BSG Motor Zwickau	26	9	6	11	30	32	-2	24
9	SC Lokomotive Leipzig	26	8	8	10	28	36	-8	24
10	Chemie Zeitz	26	9	6	11	42	52	-10	24
11	SC Rotation Leipzig	26	6	10	10	31	40	-9	22
12	SC Einheit Dresden	26	4	11	11	23	42	-19	19
13	SC Turbine Erfurt	26	6	6	14	27	45	-18	18
14	BSG Lokomotive Stendal	26	4	9	13	19	32	-13	17

Key

League champion & Qualified for the European Cup	FDGB-Pokal winner	Qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup	Relegated to DDR-Liga

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.
↑ "European Competitions 1960-61". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
↑ "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.
↑ "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
↑ "DDR » Oberliga 1959" [DDR-Oberliga 1959]. 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

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