1984–85_DDR-Oberliga

1984–85 DDR-Oberliga

1984–85 DDR-Oberliga

Football league season

The 1984–85 DDR-Oberliga was the 36th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

Quick Facts Season, Champions ...

The league was contested by fourteen teams. BFC Dynamo won the championship, the club's seventh of ten consecutive East German championships from 1978 to 1988, thereby surpassing the record of six titles jointly held up to then by BFC Dynamo, Dynamo Dresden and FC Vorwärts Berlin.[3][4]

Rainer Ernst of BFC Dynamo was the league's top scorer for the second time in a row with 24 goals,[5] while Hans-Jürgen Dörner of Dynamo Dresden again took out the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[6]

On the strength of the 1984–85 title BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1985–86 European Cup where the club was knocked out by FK Austria Wien in the first round. Second-placed club Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1985–86 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and lost to Bayer Uerdingen in the quarter-finals, in a game dubbed the Miracle of the Grotenburg.[7][8]

Third-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1985–86 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out by AC Milan in the second round while fourth-placed BSG Wismut Aue lost to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the first round.[9]

Table

The 1984–85 season saw two newly promoted clubs, Stahl Brandenburg and BSG Motor Suhl.[10][11]

More information Pos, Team ...
Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

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

References

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  3. [3]
    "East Germany - List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  4. [4]
    "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  5. [5]
    "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  6. [6]
    fuwo, page: 92
  7. [7]
    "Als Uerdingen das irrste Spiel aller Zeiten gewann" [When Uerdingen won the craziest game of all times]. welt.de (in German). Die Welt. 19 March 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
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    "Bayer Uerdingen gegen Dynamo Dresden" [Bayer Uerdingen versus Dynamo Dresden]. sueddeutsche.de (in German). Sueddeutsche Zeitung. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  9. [9]
    "European Competitions 1985–86". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  10. [10]
    "East Germany 1946-1990". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  11. [11]
    "DDR-Oberliga 1984–85". 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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