1984–85 DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga
Season	1984–85
Champions	Berliner FC Dynamo
Relegated	BSG Chemie Leipzig BSG Motor Suhl
European Cup	Berliner FC Dynamo
European Cup Winners' Cup	Dynamo Dresden
UEFA Cup	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig BSG Wismut Aue
Matches played	182
Goals scored	601 (3.3 per match)
Top goalscorer	Rainer Ernst (24)^[1]
Total attendance	1,885,000^[2]
Average attendance	10,357^[2]
← 1983–84 1985–86 →

The 1984–85 DDR-Oberliga was the 36th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

The league was contested by fourteen teams. Berliner FC Dynamo won the championship, the club's seventh of ten consecutive East German championships from 1978 to 1988, thereby surpassing the record of six titles jointly held up to then by BFC Dynamo, Dynamo Dresden and FC Vorwärts Berlin.^[3]^[4]

Rainer Ernst of Berliner FC Dynamo was the league's top scorer with 24 goals,^[5] while Hans-Jürgen Dörner of Dynamo Dresden took out the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.^[6]

On the strength of the 1984–85 title BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1985–86 European Cup where the club was knocked out by FK Austria Wien in the first round. Second-placed club Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1985–86 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and lost to Bayer Uerdingen in the quarter finals, in a game dubbed the Miracle of the Grotenburg.^[7]^[8]

Third-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1985–86 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out by AC Milan in the second round while fourth-placed BSG Wismut Aue lost to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the first round.^[9]

Table

The 1984–85 season saw two newly promoted clubs, Stahl Brandenburg and BSG Motor Suhl.^[10]^[11]

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Berliner FC Dynamo	26	20	4	2	90	28	+62	44
2	Dynamo Dresden	26	15	8	3	69	34	+35	38
3	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26	17	4	5	55	26	+29	38
4	BSG Wismut Aue	26	12	8	6	38	33	+5	32
5	1. FC Magdeburg	26	11	9	6	53	35	+18	31
6	FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt	26	10	10	6	47	39	+8	30
7	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26	9	7	10	36	27	+9	25
8	FC Vorwärts Frankfurt	26	7	8	11	41	38	+3	22
9	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26	7	7	12	39	48	-9	21
10	F.C. Hansa Rostock	26	6	9	11	37	51	-14	21
11	Stahl Brandenburg	26	5	10	11	25	39	-14	20
12	Stahl Riesa	26	6	8	12	29	55	-26	20
13	BSG Chemie Leipzig	26	4	9	13	26	56	-30	17
14	BSG Motor Suhl	26	1	3	22	16	92	-76	5

Key

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

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
↑ "Als Uerdingen das irrste Spiel aller Zeiten gewann" [When Uerdingen won the craziest game of all times]. welt.de (in German). Die Welt. 19 March 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
↑ "Bayer Uerdingen gegen Dynamo Dresden" [Bayer Uerdingen versus Dynamo Dresden]. sueddeutsche.de (in German). Sueddeutsche Zeitung. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
↑ "European Competitions 1985–86". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
↑ "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
↑ "DDR-Oberliga 1984–85". 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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