List of East German football champions

East German Football Championship

Founded
1948
Folded
1991
Last Champions
Hansa Rostock (1st title)
Country
East Germany
Most successful club
Berliner FC Dynamo (10 titles)

The East German football champions were the annual winners of the DDR-Oberliga.

History

The 1948 and 1949 East German Champions were determined in a single elimination tournament of three rounds. A nationwide football league, the DDR-Oberliga, was established for the 1949–50 season.^[1] The Oberliga was dissolved after the 1990–91 season.

The 1954–55 season was a transitional season and neither was a championship awarded nor were clubs relegated. Due to the transition from a fall-spring to a spring-fall schedule starting with 1956, teams only met each other once from August to December 1955.^[2]

In the 1961–62 season the DDR-Oberliga returned from a spring-fall to fall-spring schedule, the teams thus met each other three times. The third meeting was held on neutral ground.^[3]

Champions

The performance of various clubs is shown in the following table:^[4]

Season	Champion	Runner-up	Third Place	Top Scorer (Goals)
1948	SG Planitz (1)	SG Freiimfelde Halle	—	—
1949	Union Halle (1)	Fortuna Erfurt	—	—
1949–50	Horch Zwickau (2)	Dresden Friedrichstadt	Waggonbau Dessau	Heinz Satrapa (23)
1950–51	Chemie Leipzig (1)	Turbine Erfurt	Motor Zwickau	Johannes Schöne (37)
1951–52	Turbine Halle (2)	Volkspolizei Dresden	Chemie Leipzig	Rudolf Krause (27)
1952–53	Dynamo Dresden (1)	Wismut Aue	Motor Zwickau	Harry Arlt (26)
1953–54	Turbine Erfurt (1)	Chemie Leipzig	Dynamo Dresden	Heinz Satrapa (21)
1954–55	Turbine Erfurt (2)	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	SC Rotation Leipzig	Willy Tröger (22)
1955	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	Empor Rostock	Dynamo Berlin	Klaus Seligow (12)
1956	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (1)	Aktivist Brieske Senftenberg	SC Lokomotive Leipzig	Ernst Lindner (18)
1957	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (2)	ASK Vorwärts Berlin	SC Rotation Leipzig	Heinz Kaulmann (15)
1958	ASK Vorwärts Berlin (1)	Motor Jena	Aktivist Brieske Senftenberg	Helmut Müller (17)
1959	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (3)	ASK Vorwärts Berlin	Dynamo Berlin	Bernd Bauchspieß (18)
1960	ASK Vorwärts Berlin (2)	Dynamo Berlin	SC Lokomotive Leipzig	Bernd Bauchspieß (25)
1961–62	ASK Vorwärts Berlin (3)	Empor Rostock	Dynamo Berlin	Arthur Bialas (23)
1962–63	Motor Jena (1)	Empor Rostock	ASK Vorwärts Berlin	Peter Ducke (19)
1963–64	Chemie Leipzig (2)	Empor Rostock	SC Leipzig	Gerd Backhaus (15)
1964–65	ASK Vorwärts Berlin (4)	Motor Jena	Chemie Leipzig	Bernd Bauchspieß (14)
1965–66	FC Vorwärts Berlin (5)	Carl Zeiss Jena	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	Henning Frenzel (22)
1966–67	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (1)	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	Motor Zwickau	Hartmund Rentzsch (17)
1967–68	Carl Zeiss Jena (2)	Hansa Rostock	FC Magdeburg	Gerhard Kostmann (15)
1968–69	FC Vorwärts Berlin (6)	Carl Zeiss Jena	FC Magdeburg	Gerhard Kostmann (18)
1969–70	Carl Zeiss Jena (3)	FC Vorwärts Berlin	Dynamo Dresden	Otto Skrowny (12)
1970–71	Dynamo Dresden (2)	Carl Zeiss Jena	Hallescher FC Chemie	Hans-Jürgen Kreische (17)
1971–72	FC Magdeburg (1)	Berliner FC Dynamo	Dynamo Dresden	Hans-Jürgen Kreische (14)
1972–73	Dynamo Dresden (3)	Carl Zeiss Jena	FC Magdeburg	Hans-Jürgen Kreische (26)
1973–74	FC Magdeburg (2)	Carl Zeiss Jena	Dynamo Dresden	Hans-Bert Matoul (20)
1974–75	FC Magdeburg (3)	Carl Zeiss Jena	Dynamo Dresden	Manfred Vogel (17)
1975–76	Dynamo Dresden (4)	Berliner FC Dynamo	FC Magdeburg	Hans-Jürgen Kreische (24)
1976–77	Dynamo Dresden (5)	FC Magdeburg	Carl Zeiss Jena	Joachim Streich (17)
1977–78	Dynamo Dresden (6)	FC Magdeburg	Berliner FC Dynamo	Klaus Havenstein (15)
1978–79	Berliner FC Dynamo (1)	Dynamo Dresden	Carl Zeiss Jena	Joachim Streich (23)
1979–80	Berliner FC Dynamo (2)	Dynamo Dresden	Carl Zeiss Jena	Dieter Kühn (21)
1980–81	Berliner FC Dynamo (3)	Carl Zeiss Jena	FC Magdeburg	Joachim Streich (20)
1981–82	Berliner FC Dynamo (4)	Dynamo Dresden	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	Rüdiger Schnuphase (19)
1982–83	Berliner FC Dynamo (5)	FC Vorwärts Frankfurt	Carl Zeiss Jena	Joachim Streich (19)
1983–84	Berliner FC Dynamo (6)	Dynamo Dresden	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	Rainer Ernst (20)
1984–85	Berliner FC Dynamo (7)	Dynamo Dresden	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	Rainer Ernst (24)
1985–86	Berliner FC Dynamo (8)	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	Carl Zeiss Jena	Ralf Sträßer (14)
1986–87	Berliner FC Dynamo (9)	Dynamo Dresden	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	Frank Pastor (17)
1987–88	Berliner FC Dynamo (10)	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	Dynamo Dresden	Andreas Thom (20)
1988–89	Dynamo Dresden (7)	Berliner FC Dynamo	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	Torsten Gütschow (17)
1989–90	Dynamo Dresden (8)	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	FC Magdeburg	Torsten Gütschow (18)
1990–91	Hansa Rostock (1)	Dynamo Dresden	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	Torsten Gütschow (20)

Performances

Performance by club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Third Place
Berliner FC Dynamo	10	3	1
Dynamo Dresden	8	8	6
Vorwärts Berlin ¹	6	4	1
Carl Zeiss Jena ²	3	9	5
FC Magdeburg	3	2	6
Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt ³	3	2	—
FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt ⁴	2	2	1
Chemie Leipzig ⁵	2	1	4
FSV Zwickau ⁶	2	—	3
Turbine Halle ⁷	2	—	—
Hansa Rostock ⁸	1	4	—
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1	1	1
FC Lokomotive Leipzig ⁹	—	3	8
Dynamo Berlin	—	1	2
Hallescher FC ¹⁰	—	1	1
Aktivist Brieske Senftenberg	—	1	1
Dresden Friedrichstadt	—	1	—
Waggonbau Dessau	—	—	1

Notes:

¹ In 1953, the club was picked up from Leipzig and moved to East Berlin to play as ZSK Vorwärts Berlin, later ASK Vorwärts Berlin and after FC Vorwärts Berlin. In 1971, the club was picked up and moved again, this time from the capital to Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg. The team was known as FC Vorwärts Frankfurt.
² Also known as Motor Jena.
³ Also known as SG Aue, BSG Pneumatik Aue, Zentra Wismut Aue. In 1954 the team moved from Aue to Chemnitz (known from 1953 to 1990 as Karl-Marx-Stadt). After German reunification in 1990, the club was renamed FC Wismut Aue before taking on its current name, FC Erzgebirge Aue in 1993.
⁴ Also known as BSG KWU Erfurt, Fortuna Erfurt, Turbine Erfurt. In 1966, SC Turbine Erfurt and BSG Optima Erfurt were merged under the name FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt.
⁵ Also known as FC Sachsen Leipzig and SC Lokomotive Leipzig. (not to be confused with 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig)
⁶ Also known as SG Planitz, Horch Zwickau, Motor Zwickau and Sachsenring Zwickau.
⁷ Also known as Union Halle.
⁸ Also known as Empor Rostock.
⁹ Also known as SC Rotation Leipzig and SC Leipzig. (not to be confused with SC Lokomotive Leipzig)
¹⁰ Also known as SG Freiimfelde Halle and Hallescher FC Chemie.

Performance by city

City	Winners	Club(s)
Berlin	16	Berliner FC Dynamo (10), Vorwärts Berlin (6)
Dresden	8	Dynamo Dresden (8)
Chemnitz	4	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (3), FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (1)
Jena	3	Carl Zeiss Jena (3)
Magdeburg	3	FC Magdeburg (3)
Erfurt	2	Rot-Weiß Erfurt (2)
Leipzig	2	Chemie Leipzig (2)
Zwickau	2	FSV Zwickau (2)
Halle	2	Turbine Halle (2)
Rostock	1	Hansa Rostock (1)

References

↑ "DDR-Fußball-Spezial" (in German). ddr-fußball.info. 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
↑ "East Germany 1955". rsssf.com. October 16, 2005. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
↑ "East Germany 1961/62". rsssf.com. 2005-10-16. Retrieved 2008-12-01.
↑ "East Germany - List of Champions". rsssf.com. October 16, 2005. Retrieved 2008-11-06.

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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

Football in East Germany

Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR

National teams

Men	National team Olympic U-21 U-19 U-17

Women	National team

League system

Men	DDR-Oberliga NOFV-Oberliga DDR-Liga Bezirksliga

Women	League

Domestic cups

Men	FDGB-Pokal DFV-Supercup

Women	Cup

Awards

Footballer of the Year
Topscorers

Lists

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Men's players
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Expatriate players
Managers
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Venues
Records
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