1979–80_DDR-Oberliga

1979–80 DDR-Oberliga

1979–80 DDR-Oberliga

Football league season


The 1979–80 DDR-Oberliga was the 31st 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. BFC Dynamo won the championship, the club's second of ten consecutive East German championships from 1978 to 1988.[3][4]

Dieter Kühn of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was the league's top scorer with 21 goals,[5] while Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin of FC Carl Zeiss Jena took out the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[6]

On the strength of the 1979–80 title BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1980–81 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Baník Ostrava in the second round. Third-placed club FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1980–81 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and lost to Dinamo Tbilisi in the final, becoming only the second East German team to reach a final in a European Cup competition. Second-placed Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1980–81 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the third round by Standard Liège while fourth-placed 1. FC Magdeburg lost to Torino F.C. and fifth-placed FC Vorwärts Frankfurt was eliminated by VfB Stuttgart, both in the second round.[7]

Table

The 1979–80 season saw two newly promoted clubs FC Vorwärts Frankfurt and BSG Chemie Leipzig.[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 26 January 2016.
  4. "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  5. "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  6. fuwo, page: 92
  7. "European Competitions 1980–81". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  8. "East Germany 1946-1990". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  9. "DDR-Oberliga 1979–80". Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 26 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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