1981–82 DDR-Oberliga

The 1981–82 DDR-Oberliga was the 33rd season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

DDR-Oberliga

Season	1981–82
Champions	BFC Dynamo
Relegated	BSG Energie Cottbus BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau
European Cup	BFC Dynamo
European Cup Winners' Cup	Dynamo Dresden
UEFA Cup	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig FC Vorwärts Frankfurt FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Matches played	182
Goals scored	600 (3.3 per match)
Top goalscorer	Rüdiger Schnuphase (19)^[1]
Total attendance	2,084,000^[2]
Average attendance	11,450^[2]
← 1980–81 1982–83 →

The league was contested by fourteen teams. BFC Dynamo won the championship, the club's fourth of ten consecutive East German championships from 1978 to 1988.^[3][4]

Rüdiger Schnuphase of FC Carl Zeiss Jena was the league's top scorer with 19 goals,^[5] with Schnuphase also taking out the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.^[6]

On the strength of the 1981–82 title BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1982–83 European Cup where the club was knocked out in an East-West German encounter by Hamburger SV in the first round. Second-placed club Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1982–83 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and lost to Boldklubben af 1893 in the first round. Third-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1982–83 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out by Viking F.K. while fourth-placed FC Vorwärts Frankfurt lost to SV Werder Bremen and fifth-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena was eliminated by Girondins de Bordeaux, all in the first round.^[7]

Table

The 1981–82 season saw two newly promoted clubs, BSG Energie Cottbus and BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau.^[8][9]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Berliner FC Dynamo (C)	26	18	5	3	74	27	+47	41	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	SG Dynamo Dresden	26	15	4	7	50	24	+26	34	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26	13	7	6	53	29	+24	33	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	FC Vorwärts Frankfurt	26	14	5	7	56	39	+17	33
5	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26	14	4	8	49	27	+22	32
6	1. FC Magdeburg	26	13	6	7	49	42	+7	32
7	FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt	26	10	8	8	55	44	+11	28
8	F.C. Hansa Rostock	26	9	7	10	37	40	−3	25
9	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26	9	6	11	50	38	+12	24
10	BSG Wismut Aue	26	8	7	11	33	48	−15	23
11	Hallescher FC Chemie	26	8	7	11	28	46	−18	23
12	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	26	4	6	16	24	57	−33	14
13	BSG Energie Cottbus (R)	26	3	5	18	21	62	−41	11	Relegation to DDR-Liga
14	BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau (R)	26	3	5	18	21	77	−56	11

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

Results

Home \ Away	BFC	CZJ	CBS	DRE	ECO	HFC	HRO	KMS	LOK	MAG	RWE	VFO	SZW	AUE
BFC Dynamo		3–1	7–0	2–1	7–2	5–1	1–0	4–2	1–1	4–0	4–2	6–0	3–0	5–0
Carl Zeiss Jena	1–2		1–0	2–1	3–0	1–2	5–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	2–2	2–0	6–0	4–0
Chemie Buna Schkopau	0–1	0–3		0–1	3–1	0–3	1–0	1–1	1–4	0–3	1–4	1–2	0–3	1–2
Dynamo Dresden	2–1	0–1	10–1		4–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	2–1	5–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	1–2
Energie Cottbus	1–2	0–0	0–0	0–0		2–0	0–1	0–2	1–4	1–1	0–5	4–3	0–1	3–2
Hallescher FC Chemie	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1		4–2	1–2	1–1	2–2	2–0	0–2	1–0	3–0
Hansa Rostock	1–1	2–0	5–1	0–0	2–1	2–0		3–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	4–2	2–2
Karl-Marx-Stadt	1–3	2–2	6–0	1–1	3–0	4–0	2–4		1–2	5–0	3–1	1–1	3–0	0–0
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	0–0	2–2	3–0	1–2	4–0	8–0	0–1	2–0		3–2	3–1	2–1	3–0	2–2
1. FC Magdeburg	2–1	1–0	2–2	4–0	3–0	3–0	3–2	2–1	1–2		4–1	2–1	2–1	3–1
Rot-Weiß Erfurt	3–1	1–0	1–1	4–0	2–2	0–0	4–0	2–2	4–3	4–2		1–4	5–2	4–1
Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder)	3–3	5–3	6–0	2–1	5–2	2–0	3–2	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–0		2–0	3–0
Sachsenring Zwickau	1–4	1–2	3–4	0–3	2–0	0–0	0–0	0–3	0–0	0–2	3–3	2–2		2–0
Wismut Aue	0–1	0–1	4–2	1–3	1–0	4–1	1–1	3–2	2–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	1–1

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. 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 1982–83". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
8. "East Germany 1946-1990". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
9. "DDR-Oberliga 1981–82". 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.

External links

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