GDR football league 1968/69

GDR football league 1968/69
master	FC Forward Berlin
European Cup of National Champions	FC Forward Berlin
Trade fair trophy	FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Hansa Rostock
Cup winners	1. FC Magdeburg
European Cup Winners' Cup	1. FC Magdeburg
Relegated	1. FC Union Berlin 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
Teams	14th
Games	182
Gates	456  (ø 2.51 per game)
spectator	2,111,000  (ø 11,599 per game)
Top scorer	Gerd Kostmann , (FC Hansa Rostock)
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The DDR-Oberliga 1968/69 was the 20th edition of the top division of the GDR . FC Vorwärts Berlin became champions for the sixth time . The season began on August 17, 1968 and ended on May 17, 1969.

Season course

The championship decision was made on the last match day between Vorwärts (first with 32 points and +18 goals), Magdeburg (second, 31, +3) and the defending champion Jena (third, 30, +18). With a 2-1 win at city rivals Dynamo, Vorwärts secured the sixth (and last) title in the club's history. Jena finished second and Magdeburg, like last year, third. For a long time the most promising in the title race was FC Hansa Rostock, which led the table on most match days and ended up only fourth due to its poor second half of the season (second-worst team).

The decision to relegate was also made on the last day of the match between three teams. The Oberliga debutant Stahl Riesa had the advantage of being one or two points ahead of the pursuers Union Berlin and Lokomotive Leipzig, who still competed against each other. With a win at Wismut Aue, Riesa surprisingly secured the class, while Union, the cup winners of the previous year and Leipzig, one of the top teams of the last five years, were relegated.

Closing table

1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig surprisingly got down.

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	FC Forward Berlin	26th	15th	4th	7th	047:280	+19	34:18
2.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena (M)	26th	13	6th	7th	043:220	+21	32:20
3.	1. FC Magdeburg	26th	13	5	8th	043:410	+2	31:21
4th	FC Hansa Rostock	26th	10	9	7th	042:330	+9	29:23
5.	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	26th	10	7th	9	023:190	+4	27:25
6th	BSG Chemie Leipzig	26th	8th	11	7th	030:270	+3	27:25
7th	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26th	10	6th	10	035:360	−1	26:26
8th.	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	26th	10	5	11	032:270	+5	25:27
9.	BSG Wismut Aue	26th	9	7th	10	033:310	+2	25:27
10.	Berlin FC Dynamo (N)	26th	10	5	11	026:370	−11	25:27
11.	Hallescher FC Chemie	26th	6th	10	10	032:350	−3	22:30
12.	BSG Stahl Riesa (N)	26th	9	4th	13	026:430	−17	22:30
13.	1. FC Union Berlin (P)	26th	6th	8th	12	029:410	−12	20:32
14th	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26th	5	9	12	017:380	−21	19:33

GDR champion and participant in the European Cup of National Champions 1969/70 GDR Cup winner and participant in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1969/70 Participant in the Messestädte-Pokal 1969/70 Relegated to the GDR league in 1969/70
(M)	Last season champions
(P)	Cup winner last season
(N)	Promoted last season
Newcomers from the GDR league 1968/69 : BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt , SG Dynamo Dresden

Crosstab

The cross table shows the results of all games this season. The home team is listed in the left column and the visiting team in the top row.

1968/69															LOK
01.	FC Forward Berlin		1-0	0-0	3: 1	1-0	3: 1	5: 1	5-0	2: 1	2: 1	1: 1	6: 1	2-0	3-0
02.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	2-0		3: 1	3-0	0: 1	2: 2	2-0	1-0	1-0	4-0	3: 2	3-0	6-0	3-0
03.	1. FC Magdeburg	4: 3	0-0		1: 1	2-0	3: 1	3: 1	1: 2	3: 2	4: 1	2: 1	3: 1	2: 1	2-0
04th	FC Hansa Rostock	3: 1	4: 4	0: 1		0: 1	2: 2	1: 2	1: 1	3: 1	1-0	1: 1	1-0	1: 1	5-0
05.	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	1-0	0-0	0-0	1-0		0-0	0: 1	1-0	2-0	1: 2	0-0	4: 2	0: 1	3-0
06th	BSG Chemie Leipzig	0-0	0-0	2: 1	1: 1	2: 1		1: 1	2-0	3: 1	2-0	3: 1	1-0	1: 2	1-0
07th	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 2	1-0	3-0	3: 4	1: 1	1-0		0-0	2: 3	1: 2	0-0	3: 1	2: 2	3-0
08th.	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	4-0	2: 1	6: 1	0-0	1-0	1: 1	1-0		0: 2	2: 1	5: 2	4-0	0-0	3-0
09.	BSG Wismut Aue	0: 1	3: 2	3: 1	3: 1	0-0	1-0	1: 2	1-0		0-0	4: 1	0: 1	2-0	0-0
10.	Berlin FC Dynamo	1: 2	2: 1	0: 1	1: 3	1: 1	2: 1	1-0	1-0	0-0		1-0	3: 1	1: 1	2: 1
11.	Hallescher FC Chemie	1: 2	1: 1	4: 1	1: 1	0: 1	2: 2	2-0	2-0	2: 2	2-0		3-0	0: 2	1: 1
12.	BSG Stahl Riesa	1-0	1: 2	2-0	0: 2	2: 1	1-0	2: 1	1-0	1: 1	4-0	1: 1		1-0	1: 1
13.	1. FC Union Berlin	0: 2	1: 2	3: 3	3: 4	2: 3	1: 1	1: 2	2-0	2: 1	1: 1	0: 1	2-0		1: 1
14th	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	2-0	0-0	1: 3	1: 1	1-0	0-0	1: 2	1-0	1: 1	0: 1	1-0	1: 1	2-0

statistics

The championship team

FC Forward Berlin
Alfred Zulkowski (26 games / goals -) Erich Hamann (26/5), Manfred Müller (26 / -), Wolfgang Strübing (24/3), Frank-Rainer Withulz (23 / -) Gerhard Körner (24/3), Jürgen Nöldner (22/4) Horst Wruck (23/2), Rainer Nachtigall (23/5), Horst Begerad (25/9), Jürgen Piepenburg (26/12) Trainer: Fritz Belger
also: Otto Fräßdorf (20/3), Rolf Klippstein (7 / -), Rainer Jungbauer (3/1), Klaus-Peter Ukrow (3 / -), Hans-Dieter Krampe (2 / -), Heinz Dietzsch (2 / -), Hans-Joachim Fröck (1 / -), Wolfgang Scheller (1 / -)
remained without commitment: Hartmut Neuhaus (goal)

Gates

In the 182 point games, 456 goals were scored, an average of 2.51 per game. The highest-scoring games with seven goals each were Union Berlin - Hansa Rostock (3: 4, 1st column), Rot-Weiß Erfurt - HFC Chemie (5: 2, 2nd column), Magdeburg - Vorwärts Berlin (4: 3 , 8th column), Karl-Marx-Stadt - Hansa Rostock (3: 4, 8th column), Rot-Weiß Erfurt - Magdeburg (6: 1, 13th column) and Vorwärts Berlin - Stahl Riesa (6th column) : 1, 17th col.). The biggest win was Carl Zeiss Jena's 6-0 win over Union Berlin on matchday ten.

Gerd Kostmann from FC Hansa Rostock was able to defend his title as top scorer in the league from the previous year. A total of 126 players distinguished themselves as goal scorers, plus five own goals. 49 penalties were awarded, 32 of which were converted. Manfred Becker from BFC and Werner Krauss from Jena each scored three penalties, while goalkeeper Horst Weigang from Erfurt parried three penalty kicks.

Hans-Jürgen Albrecht (Erfurt) was the only player to manage a hat trick (against Vorwärts Berlin on matchday 18), another four players also scored three goals in one game: Sparwasser (Magdeburg) against Aue (4th column), Walter (Magdeburg ) against Lok Leipzig (9th column), Kostmann (Rostock) against Jena (13th column) as well as against Lok Leipzig (16th column) and Zink (Aue) against Jena (20th column) and against Rostock ( 24th col.).

List of goalscorers

	player	team	Gates
1.	Gerd Kostmann	FC Hansa Rostock	18th
2.	Klaus Zink	BSG Wismut Aue	15th
3.	Jürgen Piepenburg	FC Forward Berlin	12
4th	Peter Ducke	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	11
	Jürgen Sparwasser	1. FC Magdeburg	11
	Meinhard Uentz	1. FC Union Berlin	11
	Eberhard Vogel	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	11

spectator

A total of 2,111,000 viewers saw the 182 league games, which is an average of 11,599 viewers per game. Chemie Leipzig and HFC Chemie had the highest average attendance at 17,000. At the end of the audience table, all three Berlin clubs were with averages of 5,154 (BFC), 7,269 (forward) and 9,231 (Union). The two games between Chemie and Lokomotive Leipzig on matchdays eight and 21 with 40,000 each saw the greatest crowd; the fewest spectators (1,500 each) were at the games between BFC Dynamo and Chemie Leipzig (14th matchday) and Vorwärts Berlin and Stahl Riesa (17th matchday).

team	total	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$	home	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$	Away	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$
FC Forward Berlin	255,500	09,827	094,500	07,269	161,000	12,384
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	294,500	11,327	134,000	10.308	160,500	12,346
1. FC Magdeburg	331,500	12,750	185,000	14,231	146,500	11,269
FC Hansa Rostock	340,500	13.096	172,500	13,269	168,000	12,923
BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	267,000	10,269	123,500	09,500	143,500	11,038
BSG Chemie Leipzig	397,000	15,269	221,000	17,000	176,000	13,538
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	359,500	13,827	208,000	16,000	151,500	11,654
FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	263,500	10.135	134,000	10.308	129,500	09,962
BSG Wismut Aue	305,000	11,731	162,000	12,462	143,000	11,000
Berlin FC Dynamo	212,500	08,173	067,000	05,154	145,500	11,192
Hallescher FC Chemie	358,000	13,769	221,000	17,000	137,000	10,538
BSG Stahl Riesa	259,000	09,962	120,500	09,269	138,500	10,654
1. FC Union Berlin	272,000	10,462	120,000	09.231	152,000	11,692
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	304,500	11,712	147,000	11.308	157,500	12,115

various

• 284 players were used, of which 42 were in all the point games.
• There were 101 home wins, 48 ​​draws and 33 away wins.
• The referees issued 10 reprimands and 198 warnings.

soccer player of the year

After the season, Eberhard Vogel was named Footballer of the Year for the first time by FC Karl-Marx-Stadt .

	player	team	Points
1.	Eberhard Vogel	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	378
2.	Otto Fräßdorf	FC Forward Berlin	284
3.	Klaus Urbanczyk	Hallescher FC Chemie	143

FDGB Cup

The FDGB Cup was won this season by third division 1. FC Magdeburg. For Magdeburg, who defeated FC Karl-Marx-Stadt in the final, it was the third cup triumph. The defending champion Union Berlin lost to Carl Zeiss Jena in the last sixteen in a new edition of the previous year's final.

International competitions

The European Cup competition was overshadowed this season by political events surrounding the Prague Spring . Due to the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armed forces in Czechoslovakia to prevent reform efforts there, UEFA initiated a new draw for the first-round matches in the two competitions it organized (the European Cup and Cup Winners' Cup ). The Western European associations had previously protested against the invasion and refused to play against their Eastern European competitors. The new draws provided for a division into West and East, but this approach was rejected by the Warsaw Pact associations and five associations (including the DFV ) withdrew their teams completely. On the East German side, the victims were Carl Zeiss Jena and Union Berlin. 1. FC Union had to wait (apart from the Intertoto Cup) until 2001 to finally make up for its European Cup premiere.

The political effects were not felt in the Messestädte-Pokal , which is why Hansa Rostock (against OGC Nice ) and Lokomotive Leipzig (against Kjøbenhavns Boldklub ) could easily compete against teams from non-socialist countries abroad . Both reached the second round and were subject to AC Florence (Rostock) and Hibernian Edinburgh (Leipzig). The Intertoto Cup was also held in preparation for the season . Karl-Marx-Stadt, Hansa Rostock, Carl Zeiss Jena and Magdeburg took part, with Karl-Marx-Stadt and Rostock winning their respective groups.

See also

• DDR Football League 1968/69

Web links

• Data on the Oberliga on www.rsssf.com
• Data on the league at www.fussballdaten.de

swell

• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• FUWO: Years 1968–1969, Sportverlag Berlin, ISSN  0323-8407