DDR-Oberliga_1974-75
1974–75 DDR-Oberliga
Football league season
The 1974–75 DDR-Oberliga was the 26th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.
The league was contested by fourteen teams. 1. FC Magdeburg won the championship, the club's third and last East German championships.[3][4]
Manfred Vogel of BSG Sachsenring Zwickau was the league's top scorer with 17 goals,[5] while Jürgen Pommerenke of 1. FC Magdeburg won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[6]
On the strength of the 1974–75 title Magdeburg qualified for the 1975–76 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Malmö FF in the first round. Seventh-placed club BSG Sachsenring Zwickau qualified for the 1975–76 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and was knocked out by R.S.C. Anderlecht in the semi-finals. Second-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1975–76 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the second round by Stal Mielec while third-placed Dynamo Dresden lost to Liverpool F.C. in the quarter-finals.[7]