1966–67_DDR-Oberliga

1966–67 DDR-Oberliga

1966–67 DDR-Oberliga

Football league season


The 1966–67 DDR-Oberliga was the 18th 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. FC Karl-Marx-Stadt won the championship, the club's sole national East German championship, being a separate club from SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt, a club that won three championships in the 1950s.[3][4]

Hartmut Rentzsch of BSG Motor Zwickau was the league's top scorer with 17 goals,[5] while Dieter Erler of FC Karl-Marx-Stadt won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[6]

On the strength of the 1966–67 title Karl-Marx-Stadt qualified for the 1967–68 European Cup where the club was knocked out by R.S.C. Anderlecht in the first round. Third-placed club BSG Motor Zwickau qualified for the 1967–68 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winner and was knocked out by FC Torpedo Moscow in the first round. Second-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1967–68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup where it was knocked out in the second round by FK Vojvodina while fourth-placed Dynamo Dresden was knocked out by Rangers F.C. in the first round.[7]

Table

The 1966–67 season saw two newly promoted clubs, 1. FC Union Berlin and BSG Wismut Gera.[8][9]

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(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

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Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

  1. fuwo, page: 93
  2. fuwo, page: 23
  3. "East Germany - List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  4. "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  5. "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  6. fuwo, page: 92
  7. "European Competitions 1967-68". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  8. "East Germany 1946-1990". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  9. "DDR » Oberliga 1966–67" [DDR-Oberliga 1966–67]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 24 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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