1954–55 DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga
Turbine Erfurt players and supporters celebrate winning the championship
Season	1954–55
Champions	BSG Turbine Erfurt
Relegated	SC Chemie Halle-Leuna Fortschritt Meerane
Matches played	182
Goals scored	614 (3.37 per match)
Top goalscorer	Willy Tröger (22)^[1]
Total attendance	2,524,500^[2]
Average attendance	13,871^[2]
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The 1954–55 DDR-Oberliga was the sixth season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany. After the 1954–55 season the league played a transition round in autumn 1955, followed by five seasons, until 1960, where it played in the calendar year format. From 1961–62 onwards the league returned to its traditional format.

The league was contested by fourteen teams, one less than in the previous season, a strength the DDR-Oberliga would operate at for the rest of its history. BSG Turbine Erfurt won the championship, its second consecutive one for the club, becoming the first club to win back-to-back titles.^[3]^[4]

Willy Tröger of SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt was the league's top scorer with 22 goals.^[1]

Two clubs were relocated during the season, in November 1954, with Dynamo Dresden moving to East Berlin to become Dynamo Berlin and Empor Lauter was moved to Rostock to become Empor Rostock. A number of clubs were also re-branded as Sportclubs from October 1954 onwards, indicated by the SC before the name, to concentrate the best players at certain locations and improve the level of the game in East Germany.^[5] Wismut Aue became Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt but the club remained in Aue and didn't move to Chemnitz, then called Karl-Marx-Stadt, despite the name change.^[6]

Unlike the 1954–55 champions of West Germany and the Saar Protectorate the East German champion did not take part in the first edition of the European Cup the following season. It would take until 1957–58 for the DDR-Oberliga winner to compete in Europe.

Table

The 1954–55 season saw two newly promoted clubs, ASK Vorwärts Berlin and BSG Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt.^[6]^[7]

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	SC Turbine Erfurt	26	13	8	5	58	25	+33	34
2	SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	26	13	7	6	62	38	+24	33
3	SC Rotation Leipzig	26	10	10	6	58	47	+11	30
4	SC Einheit Dresden	26	13	3	10	64	55	+9	29
5	BSG Motor Zwickau	26	13	2	11	51	49	+2	28
6	SC Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg	26	11	5	10	37	44	-7	27
7	SC Dynamo Berlin	26	12	2	12	50	49	+1	26
8	ASK Vorwärts Berlin	26	10	6	10	43	46	-3	26
9	SC Empor Rostock	26	12	2	12	29	33	-4	26
10	BSG Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt	26	8	9	9	34	43	-9	25
11	SC Lokomotive Leipzig	26	9	6	11	32	38	-6	24
12	BSG Rotation Babelsberg	26	10	3	13	36	36	0	23
13	SC Chemie Halle-Leuna	26	8	4	14	28	52	-24	20
14	Fortschritt Meerane	26	5	3	18	31	58	-27	13

Key

League champion	FDGB-Pokal winner	Relegated

References

1 2 "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.
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.
↑ fuwo, page: 94
1 2 "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
↑ "DDR » Oberliga 1954/1955" [DDR-Oberliga 1954–55]. 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 (in German) Historic German league tables

DDR-Oberliga

Seasons

Ostzonenmeisterschaft	1948 Final 1949 Final
DDR-Oberliga	1949–50 1950–51 Play-off 1951–52 1952–53 Play-off 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
NOFV-Oberliga	1990–91

History

1954–55 in European football (UEFA)
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Domestic leagues	Albania '54 '55 Austria Belgium Bulgaria '54 '55 Cyprus Czechoslovakia '54 '55 Denmark England Faroe Islands '54 '55 Finland '54 '55 France East Germany West Germany (Finals) Greece Hungary '54 '55 Iceland '54 '55 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland '54 '55 Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania '54 '55 Scotland Soviet Union '54 '55 Spain Sweden Switzerland Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania '54 Belgium Bulgaria Denmark England Faroe Islands '55 Finland '55 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '54 '55 Israel Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Northern Ireland Norway '54 '55 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania '54 '55 Scotland Soviet Union '54 '55 Spain Switzerland Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	Scotland

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