1967–68 DDR-Oberliga

The 1967–68 DDR-Oberliga was the 19th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

DDR-Oberliga

Season	1967–68
Champions	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Relegated	Dynamo Dresden BSG Lokomotive Stendal
European Cup	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
European Cup Winners' Cup	1. FC Union Berlin
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig F.C. Hansa Rostock
Matches played	182
Goals scored	474 (2.6 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gerd Kostmann (15)^[1]
Total attendance	2,213,000^[2]
Average attendance	12,159^[2]
← 1966–67 1968–69 →

The league was contested by fourteen teams. FC Carl Zeiss Jena won the championship, the club's second of three East German championships, having previously won the 1962–63 edition under the name of SC Motor Jena.^[3][4]

Gerd Kostmann of F.C. Hansa Rostock was the league's top scorer with 15 goals,^[5] while Bernd Bransch of Hallescher FC Chemie won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.^[6]

On the strength of the 1967–68 title Jena qualified for the 1968–69 European Cup where the club was drawn against Red Star Belgrade in the first round but withdrew after a redraw following the events of the Prague Spring. UEFA had drawn all Eastern European teams against each other to avoid a possible boycott by Western European clubs which, in turn, resulted in a boycott by the clubs from the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria. Eighth-placed club 1. FC Union Berlin qualified for the 1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winner but withdrew for the same reasons. Fifth-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, a non-UEFA competition, where it was knocked out in the second round by Hibernian F.C. while second-placed F.C. Hansa Rostock was knocked out by Fiorentina, also in the second round.^[7]

Towards the end of the season BSG Motor Zwickau was renamed to BSG Sachsenring Zwickau, Sachsenring being both a race track and a car manufacturer in East Germany.^[8]

Table

The 1967–68 season saw two newly promoted clubs 1. FC Magdeburg and FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt.^[8][9]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	FC Carl Zeiss Jena (C)	26	17	5	4	51	19	+32	39	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	F.C. Hansa Rostock	26	15	4	7	37	27	+10	34	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	1. FC Magdeburg	26	13	7	6	43	38	+5	33
4	FC Vorwärts Berlin	26	9	10	7	34	29	+5	28
5	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26	9	7	10	39	35	+4	25	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
6	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26	8	9	9	33	30	+3	25
7	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	26	11	3	12	36	34	+2	25
8	1. FC Union Berlin	26	9	7	10	26	35	−9	25	Qualification to Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round
9	FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt	26	8	7	11	34	39	−5	23
10	Hallescher FC Chemie	26	8	7	11	32	41	−9	23
11	BSG Wismut Aue	26	9	4	13	32	40	−8	22
12	BSG Chemie Leipzig	26	7	7	12	26	32	−6	21
13	SG Dynamo Dresden (R)	26	5	11	10	25	33	−8	21	Relegation to DDR-Liga
14	BSG Lokomotive Stendal (R)	26	7	6	13	26	42	−16	20

Source:^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	CZJ	CHM	DRE	HFC	HRO	KMS	LLE	LST	MAG	RWE	SZW	UNI	VBE	AUE
Carl Zeiss Jena		2–0	2–0	2–0	4–1	2–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	3–0	3–1
Chemie Leipzig	0–2		0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	0–1	1–2	2–0	3–0	5–2	1–0	1–1
Dynamo Dresden	2–2	1–1		0–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	4–1	1–1	1–2	2–0	3–1	0–0	1–4
Hallescher FC Chemie	2–2	2–2	0–0		0–2	1–0	4–2	1–0	1–3	3–2	2–1	1–0	0–2	4–0
Hansa Rostock	2–1	2–1	1–1	3–1		1–0	2–0	2–0	3–2	1–0	3–0	1–0	0–1	2–1
Karl-Marx-Stadt	0–4	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–0		0–1	2–0	1–0	2–2	5–2	3–2	1–1	5–0
Lokomotive Leipzig	0–0	3–1	2–1	5–1	2–2	2–2		4–1	4–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–2
Lokomotive Stendal	1–4	2–0	0–0	2–0	2–3	1–1	1–1		0–0	4–2	2–0	0–2	2–0	2–1
1. FC Magdeburg	3–2	1–0	2–0	3–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–2		3–3	1–2	1–1	3–1	1–0
Rot-Weiß Erfurt	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–3	3–0	1–1		1–2	3–0	2–0	5–1
Sachsenring Zwickau	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	2–0	4–0	5–0	5–0		1–2	2–1	0–1
Union Berlin	0–0	0–0	2–1	3–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	2–3	1–0	1–1		1–0	1–5
Vorwärts Berlin	3–2	2–1	4–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	3–3	0–0	2–1	1–1		3–0
Wismut Aue	0–0	4–0	2–0	1–4	1–2	1–0	1–0	3–1	1–2	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–2

Source:^{[citation needed]}
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.com. 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 1968-69". rsssf.com. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
8. "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
9. "DDR » Oberliga 1967–68" [DDR-Oberliga 1967–68]. 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.

External links

• Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv (in German) Historic German league tables