1962–63_DDR-Oberliga

1962–63 DDR-Oberliga

1962–63 DDR-Oberliga

Football league season


The 1962–63 DDR-Oberliga was the 14th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

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The league was contested by fourteen teams. SC Motor Jena won the championship, the club's first-ever national East German championship. The club would go on to win two more, then under the name of FC Carl Zeiss Jena.[3][4]

Peter Ducke of SC Motor Jena was the league's top scorer with 19 goals.[1] For the first time the title East German Footballer of the year was awarded, going to Manfred Kaiser of SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt.[5]

On the strength of the 1962–63 title Motor Jena qualified for the 1963–64 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Dinamo Bucharest in the preliminary round. Seventh-placed club BSG Motor Zwickau qualified for the 1963–64 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winner and was knocked out by MTK Budapest in the second round after having received a bye in the first round.[6]

Table

The 1962–63 season saw two newly promoted clubs, SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and Dynamo Dresden.[7][8]

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(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

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Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. The matches Aufbau Magdeburg–Motor Jena (originally 2–1) and Chemie Halle–Aufbau Magdeburg (originally 1:1) were each given a 0-0 goal and a win for Jena and Halle respectively, because Magdeburg did not provide evidence from a sports doctor.

References

  1. "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  2. fuwo, page: 23
  3. "East Germany - List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  4. "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  5. fuwo, page: 92
  6. "European Competitions 1963-64". RSSSF. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  7. "East Germany 1946-1990". RSSSF. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  8. "DDR » Oberliga 1962–63" [DDR-Oberliga 1962–63]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 21 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.

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