DDR-Oberliga
Encyclopedia
| DDR Oberliga |
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| Founded |
| 1949 |
| Disbanded |
| 1991 |
| Nation |
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| Relegation To |
| DDR Liga Staffel A DDR-Liga The DDR-Liga was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the second level of football competition in the DDR , being roughly equivalent to the Bundesliga in West Germany.-1950-1955:The league was established with two divisions of ten teams each in 1950... |
| DDR Liga Staffel B DDR-Liga The DDR-Liga was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the second level of football competition in the DDR , being roughly equivalent to the Bundesliga in West Germany.-1950-1955:The league was established with two divisions of ten teams each in 1950... |
| Number of Seasons |
| 41 |
| Replaced by |
| Bundesliga Fußball-Bundesliga The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga... |
| Level on Pyramid |
| Level 1 East German football league system The football league system of the German Democratic Republic existed from the creation of the DDR-Oberliga in 1949 until shortly after German reunification in 1990.... |
| Last Champions 1990-91 |
| F.C. Hansa Rostock |
The DDR-Oberliga (English:East German Premier League or GDR-Premier League) was, prior to German reunification
German reunification
German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die...
in 1990, the elite level of football competition in the DDR
German Democratic Republic
The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...
(Deutsche Demokratische Republik or German Democratic Republic, commonly East Germany), being roughly equivalent to the Oberliga
Oberliga (football)
The Oberliga is currently the name of the fifth tier of the German football leagues. Before the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008, it was the fourth tier...
(1945–1963) or Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
(1963–1990) in West Germany.
Overview
Following World War IIWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, separate sports competitions emerged in the occupied eastern and western halves
Allied Occupation Zones in Germany
The Allied powers who defeated Nazi Germany in World War II divided the country west of the Oder-Neisse line into four occupation zones for administrative purposes during 1945–49. In the closing weeks of fighting in Europe, US forces had pushed beyond the previously agreed boundaries for the...
of Germany, replacing the Gauliga
Gauliga
A Gauliga was the highest level of play in German football from 1934-45. The leagues were introduced in 1933, after the Nazi takeover of power by the Sports office of the Third Reich.-Name:...
s of the Nazi era.
In East Germany, a top-flight football competition, the highest league in the East German football league system
East German football league system
The football league system of the German Democratic Republic existed from the creation of the DDR-Oberliga in 1949 until shortly after German reunification in 1990....
, was established in 1949 as the DS-Oberliga (Deutscher Sportausschuss Oberliga or German Sports Association Upper League). Beginning in 1958, it carried the name DDR-Oberliga and was part of the league structure within the DFV (Deutscher Fussball Verband der DDR or German Football Association of the GDR).
In its inaugural season in 1949-50 the DDR-Oberliga was made up of 14 teams with 2 relegation spots. Over the course of the next four seasons the number of teams in the division varied and included anywhere from 17 to 19 sides with 3 or 4 relegation spots. Beginning with the 1954-55 season up until merger of the East and West German football associations in 1991-92 the league was made up of 14 teams with 2 relegation spots.
Initially the DDR-Oberliga was operated on an autumn-spring schedule as was traditional in Germany. From 1956 to 1960 a Soviet-style spring-autumn (calendar year) schedule was in place. This required a transition round in 1955 and, although no champion was formally declared that season, Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
FC Erzgebirge Aue
FC Erzgebirge Aue is a German football club based in Aue, Saxony. The former East German side was a charter member of the 3. Liga in 2008–09, after being relegated from the 2. Bundesliga in 2007–08. The city of Aue has a population of about 18,000 making it one of the smallest cities to ever...
finished atop the division. 1961-62 saw the return of an autumn-spring season and an extended schedule (39 matches vs. 26 matches) was played with each club meeting the others a total of three times – once at home, once away, and once at a neutral venue.
After German reunification the last regular DDR-Oberliga season was played in 1990-91 under the designation NOFV-Oberliga (Nordostdeutsche Fußballverband Oberliga or Northeast German Football Federation Premier League). The following year the East German league structure was merged into the West German system under the German Football Association
German Football Association
The German Football Association is the governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB organises the German football leagues, including the national league, the Bundesliga, and the men's and women's national teams. The DFB is based in Frankfurt and is...
(Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) and the top two NOFV-Oberliga clubs – F.C. Hansa Rostock and Dynamo Dresden
Dynamo Dresden
SG Dynamo Dresden are a German association football club, based in Dresden, Saxony. They were founded in 1950, as a club affiliated with the East German police, and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football, winning eight league titles...
– joined the first division Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
.
For the duration of the league's existence, the league below it was the DDR-Liga
DDR-Liga
The DDR-Liga was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the second level of football competition in the DDR , being roughly equivalent to the Bundesliga in West Germany.-1950-1955:The league was established with two divisions of ten teams each in 1950...
.
Disbanding of the Oberliga
In 1991, the DDR-Oberliga ceased to exist, its clubs being integrated in the German football league system. The fourteen Oberliga clubs went to the following leagues, spread over three tiers:To the Fussball-Bundesliga (Tier I):
- Dynamo DresdenDynamo DresdenSG Dynamo Dresden are a German association football club, based in Dresden, Saxony. They were founded in 1950, as a club affiliated with the East German police, and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football, winning eight league titles...
- F.C. Hansa Rostock
To the 2nd Bundesliga Nord (Tier II):
- Stahl BrandenburgStahl BrandenburgFC Stahl Brandenburg is a German association football club based in Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg.-History:The club was formed in 1950 as BSG Einheit Brandenburg and played its earliest seasons in the II division of East German football. They took on the name BSG Stahl Brandenberg in 1955...
To the 2nd Bundesliga Süd (Tier II):
- 1. FC Lok LeipzigLokomotive Leipzig1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig is a German football club based in the city of Leipzig in Saxony and may be more familiar to many of the country's football fans as the historic side VfB Leipzig, the first national champions of Germany...
- Chemnitzer FCChemnitzer FCChemnitzer FC is a German association football club based in Chemnitz, Saxony.The roots of the club go back to its establishment as Chemnitzer BC 1933 in 1933 after the collapse of former Chemnitzer BC 1899....
- FC Carl Zeiss JenaFC Carl Zeiss JenaFC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German association football club based in Jena, Thuringia.-History:The club was founded in May 1903 by workers at the Carl Zeiss AG optics factory as the company-sponsored Fussball-Club der Firma Carl Zeiss. The club underwent name changes in 1911 to Fussball Club Carl Zeiss...
- FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt
- Hallescher FCHallescher FCHallescher FC is a German association football club based in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:The club's roots are in the 1946 formation of SG Glaucha in Soviet-occupied East Germany around the core of Hallescher Fußball-Club Wacker which was founded in 1900...
To the NOFV-Oberliga Nord (Tier III):
- BFC Dynamo BerlinBerliner FC DynamoBerliner FC Dynamo is a German association football club and is the successor organization to the club that played in East Berlin as Dynamo Berlin from 1953 to 1966.-Founding and Stasi patronage:...
- FC Stahl EisenhüttenstadtFC Stahl EisenhüttenstadtEisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl is a German association football club based in Eisenhüttenstadt, Brandenburg, near the Polish border.-History:The club's predecessors were founded as BSG Stahl Fürstenberg Ost in 1950. The community of Stalinstadt was built nearby for the workers of the local ironworks,...
- FC Vorwärts Frankfurt/Oder
To the NOFV-Oberliga Mitte (Tier III):
- 1. FC Magdeburg1. FC Magdeburg1. FC Magdeburg is a German association football club playing in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:Football has been played in Magdeburg since the end of the 19th century. On 15 June 1896 SV Victoria 96 Magdeburg was founded, a club that had its best days before World War II, when it participated...
- FC Energie Cottbus
To the NOFV-Oberliga Süd (Tier III):
- FC Sachsen LeipzigFC Sachsen LeipzigFC Sachsen Leipzig was a German football club from Leipzig, Saxony. The roots of the club go back to 1899 and the founding of Britannia Leipzig. Following World War I, a 1919 merger with FC Hertha 05 Leipzig created Leipziger Sportverein 1899...
The Oberliga reformed as the Regionalliga Nordost
In 1994, a new third tier division was established in the area that formerly made up East Germany. The Regionalliga NordostRegionalliga Nordost
The Regionalliga Nordost was the third tier of the German football league system in the states of former East Germany and West-Berlin from 1994 to 2000. As such, it was almost identical in territorial cover to the old DDR-Oberliga....
was made up of most of the big names of the DDR-era alongside clubs from West Berlin
West Berlin
West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...
. The only clubs from the final season of the old DDR-Oberliga not to appear here were F.C. Hansa Rostock, which was competing at the Bundesliga level, and Hallescher FC
Hallescher FC
Hallescher FC is a German association football club based in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:The club's roots are in the 1946 formation of SG Glaucha in Soviet-occupied East Germany around the core of Hallescher Fußball-Club Wacker which was founded in 1900...
which had fallen on hard times.
The league was disbanded again in 2000 and its member clubs were spread between the two remaining Regionalligas (III) and the NOFV-Oberligas (IV), effectively ending the history of the all-East German leagues.
The Regionalliga Nordost
Regionalliga Nordost
The Regionalliga Nordost was the third tier of the German football league system in the states of former East Germany and West-Berlin from 1994 to 2000. As such, it was almost identical in territorial cover to the old DDR-Oberliga....
will return in 2012/13 as one of five fourth-tier regional leagues. The new league will cover the area of the former GDR and Berlin and the champions of this new division will qualify for a play-off against the winner of another Regionalliga or against the eighteenth-placed team in the 3rd Liga
3rd Liga
The 3rd Liga is the third division of football in Germany. The league started with the beginning of the 2008–09 season, when it replaced the Regionalliga as the third tier football league in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2...
to determine promotion to the 3rd Liga.
DDR-Oberliga champions
BFC Dynamo BerlinBerliner FC Dynamo
Berliner FC Dynamo is a German association football club and is the successor organization to the club that played in East Berlin as Dynamo Berlin from 1953 to 1966.-Founding and Stasi patronage:...
was the league record holder with 10 DDR-Oberliga titles to its credit.
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Placings in the DDR-Oberliga 1975-1991
| Club | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 |
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| F.C. Hansa Rostock | 13 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 1 | ||||
| Dynamo Dresden Dynamo Dresden SG Dynamo Dresden are a German association football club, based in Dresden, Saxony. They were founded in 1950, as a club affiliated with the East German police, and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football, winning eight league titles... |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Berliner FC Dynamo Berliner FC Dynamo Berliner FC Dynamo is a German association football club and is the successor organization to the club that played in East Berlin as Dynamo Berlin from 1953 to 1966.-Founding and Stasi patronage:... |
4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 1. FC Magdeburg 1. FC Magdeburg 1. FC Magdeburg is a German association football club playing in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:Football has been played in Magdeburg since the end of the 19th century. On 15 June 1896 SV Victoria 96 Magdeburg was founded, a club that had its best days before World War II, when it participated... |
1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 10 |
| FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German association football club based in Jena, Thuringia.-History:The club was founded in May 1903 by workers at the Carl Zeiss AG optics factory as the company-sponsored Fussball-Club der Firma Carl Zeiss. The club underwent name changes in 1911 to Fussball Club Carl Zeiss... |
2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 6 |
| 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig Lokomotive Leipzig 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig is a German football club based in the city of Leipzig in Saxony and may be more familiar to many of the country's football fans as the historic side VfB Leipzig, the first national champions of Germany... |
8 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 7 |
| FC Karl-Marx-Stadt Chemnitzer FC Chemnitzer FC is a German association football club based in Chemnitz, Saxony.The roots of the club go back to its establishment as Chemnitzer BC 1933 in 1933 after the collapse of former Chemnitzer BC 1899.... |
10 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt | 9 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 3 |
| FC Vorwärts Frankfurt/Oder FC Viktoria Frankfurt Frankfurter FC Viktoria is a German association football club based in Frankfurt , Brandenburg. The club was originally founded in East Germany as the army club SV Vorwärts der HVA Leipzig in 1951 in the city of Leipzig.- History :One of the characteristics of East German football after World War... |
5 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 14 | |||
| Wismut Aue FC Erzgebirge Aue FC Erzgebirge Aue is a German football club based in Aue, Saxony. The former East German side was a charter member of the 3. Liga in 2008–09, after being relegated from the 2. Bundesliga in 2007–08. The city of Aue has a population of about 18,000 making it one of the smallest cities to ever... |
12 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 13 | |
| Hallescher FC Chemie Hallescher FC Hallescher FC is a German association football club based in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:The club's roots are in the 1946 formation of SG Glaucha in Soviet-occupied East Germany around the core of Hallescher Fußball-Club Wacker which was founded in 1900... |
11 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 4 | |||
| Sachsenring Zwickau FSV Zwickau FSV Zwickau is a German association football club located in Zwickau, Saxony. Today's club claims as part of its complex heritage sides that were East Germany's first champions: 1948 Ostzone winners SG Planitz and 1950 DDR-Oberliga champions ZSG Horch Zwickau.-History:In addition to the earliest... |
7 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 13 | ||||||
| 1. FC Union Berlin 1. FC Union Berlin 1. FC Union Berlin is a German association football club based in Berlin. It is one of two sides in the city bearing the name Union that emerged during the Cold War and played in East Germany, while the other played in the west. The club currently plays in the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga.-Foundation to... |
11 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 14 | |||||||
| Stahl Riesa Stahl Riesa TSV Stahl Riesa is a German association football club from Riesa in Saxony.-History:The club was founded as SC Riesa in 1903 in the cellar of the local pub "Bodega" and was re-named Riesaer SV two years later... |
6 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 14 | ||||||
| Stahl Brandenburg Stahl Brandenburg FC Stahl Brandenburg is a German association football club based in Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg.-History:The club was formed in 1950 as BSG Einheit Brandenburg and played its earliest seasons in the II division of East German football. They took on the name BSG Stahl Brandenberg in 1955... |
11 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 8 | ||||||||||
| FC Energie Cottbus | 14 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 13 | |||||||||||
| Chemie Leipzig FC Sachsen Leipzig FC Sachsen Leipzig was a German football club from Leipzig, Saxony. The roots of the club go back to 1899 and the founding of Britannia Leipzig. Following World War I, a 1919 merger with FC Hertha 05 Leipzig created Leipziger Sportverein 1899... |
13 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Chemie Böhlen | 12 | 13 | 14 | 13 | |||||||||||||
| Fortschritt Bischofswerda | 14 | 14 | |||||||||||||||
| FC Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt FC Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl is a German association football club based in Eisenhüttenstadt, Brandenburg, near the Polish border.-History:The club's predecessors were founded as BSG Stahl Fürstenberg Ost in 1950. The community of Stalinstadt was built nearby for the workers of the local ironworks,... |
12 | 9 | |||||||||||||||
| Motor Suhl | 14 | ||||||||||||||||
| Chemie Buna-Schopkau | 14 | ||||||||||||||||
| Wismut Gera | 14 | ||||||||||||||||
| ASG Vorwärts Stralsund FC Pommern Stralsund FC Pommern Stralsund is a German association football club from the city of Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Formed on 29 March 1994, the club is the successor to the East German army sports club Vorwärts Stralsund, which was a longtime second division side in the DDR-Liga with a pair of first... |
14 | ||||||||||||||||
Source:
- Names shown are the ones the clubs carried over most of this seasons, which are not necessarily the ones they carried in the last two seasons or their current ones.
- The Chemie Leipzig and Chemie Böhlen merged in 1990, to form FC Sachsen Leipzig.
See also
- Regionalliga NordostRegionalliga NordostThe Regionalliga Nordost was the third tier of the German football league system in the states of former East Germany and West-Berlin from 1994 to 2000. As such, it was almost identical in territorial cover to the old DDR-Oberliga....
- NOFV-Oberliga
- NOFV-Oberliga SüdNOFV-Oberliga SüdThe NOFV-Oberliga Süd is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the southern states of former East Germany. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008, it was the fourth tier of the league system. It covers the German states of Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony...
- NOFV-Oberliga MitteNOFV-Oberliga MitteThe NOFV-Oberliga Mitte was the third tier of the German football league system in the central states of former East Germany and West-Berlin. The league existed from 1991 to 1994...
- NOFV-Oberliga NordNOFV-Oberliga NordThe NOFV-Oberliga Nord is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the northern states of former East Germany and West-Berlin. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008, it was the fourth tier of the league system. It covers the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg and...
External links
- The DDR-Oberliga at Fussballdaten.de
- Overall table of the DDR-Oberliga
- DDR-Oberliga results & tables
- DDR-Oberliga at Weltfussball.de