1971–72 DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga
Season	1971–72
Champions	1. FC Magdeburg
Relegated	BSG Stahl Riesa ASG Vorwärts Stralsund
European Cup	1. FC Magdeburg
European Cup Winners' Cup	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
UEFA Cup	Berliner FC Dynamo Dynamo Dresden
Matches played	182
Goals scored	482 (2.65 per match)
Top goalscorer	Hans-Jürgen Kreische (14)^[1]
Total attendance	2,071,700^[2]
Average attendance	11,383^[2]
← 1970–71 1972–73 →

The 1971–72 DDR-Oberliga was the 23rd season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

The league was contested by fourteen teams. 1. FC Magdeburg won the championship, the club's first of three East German championships.^[3]^[4]

Hans-Jürgen Kreische of Dynamo Dresden was the league's top scorer with 14 goals, the second of a record four top scorer finishes for Kreische,^[5] while Jürgen Croy of BSG Sachsenring Zwickau won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.^[6]

On the strength of the 1971–72 title Magdeburg qualified for the 1972–73 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Juventus in the second round. Fourth-placed club FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1972–73 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and was knocked out by Leeds United in the second round. Second-placed Berliner FC Dynamo qualified for the 1972–73 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the third round by Liverpool F.C. while third-placed Dynamo Dresden lost to the same club in the quarter finals.^[7]

Before the start of the season National People's Army club FC Vorwärts Berlin, based in East Berlin, was moved to Frankfurt/Oder to become FC Vorwärts Frankfurt/Oder for political reasons. Vorwärts had been quite a popular club with East Berlin football supporters but was seen as an obstacle to the ambitions of Berliner FC Dynamo, a club connected to and supported by the Ministry for State Security and its head Erich Mielke, forcing it to move.^[8]

Table

The 1971–72 season saw two newly promoted clubs FC Karl-Marx-Stadt and ASG Vorwärts Stralsund.^[9]^[10]

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	1. FC Magdeburg (C)	26	17	04	05	48	23	+25	38-14
2	Berliner FC Dynamo	26	13	09	04	45	20	+25	35-17
3	Dynamo Dresden	26	12	09	05	59	30	+29	33-19
4	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26	12	07	07	42	34	+8	31-21
5	FC Vorwärts Frankfurt	26	09	09	08	33	36	-3	27-25
6	Hallescher FC Chemie	26	10	07	09	40	44	-4	27-25
7	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	26	07	11	08	26	25	+1	25-27
8	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26	09	07	10	30	31	-1	25-27
9	Hansa Rostock	26	08	08	10	27	24	+3	24-28
10	BSG Wismut Aue	26	07	09	10	34	46	-12	23-29
11	1. FC Union Berlin	26	05	11	10	21	32	-11	21-31
12	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26	07	05	14	34	48	-14	19-33
13	BSG Stahl Riesa	26	05	08	13	23	41	-18	18-34
14	ASG Vorwärts Stralsund	26	06	06	14	20	48	-28	18-34

(C)	1971/72 DDR-Oberliga champions
	Qualified for the European Cup
	Qualified for the UEFA Cup
	Qualified for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
	Relegated to DDR-Liga

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

References

↑ fuwo, page: 93
1 2 fuwo, page: 23
↑ "East Germany - List of Champions". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
↑ "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
↑ "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 25 January 2016.
↑ fuwo, page: 92
↑ "European Competitions 1972-73". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
↑ fuwo, page: 34 & 35
↑ "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
↑ "DDR » Oberliga 1971–72" [DDR-Oberliga 1971–72]. 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. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

External links

Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv (German) Historic German league tables

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