GDR football league 1950/51

GDR football league 1950/51
master	BSG Chemie Leipzig
Relegated	BSG turbine Weimar SG Lichtenberg 47
Teams	18th
Games	306 + 1 play-off game  (1 of which is criminally verified)
Gates	1,178  (ø 3.85 per game) (excluding criminally verified games)
spectator	2,635,800  (ø 8614 per game) (not including criminally verified games)
Top scorer	Johannes Schöne ( BSG Rotation Babelsberg ) 38 goals
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GDR soccer league 1950/51 ↓

The GDR Oberliga 1950/51 was the second edition of the top division of the GDR . The champions were BSG Chemie Leipzig , which prevailed 2-0 against BSG Turbine Erfurt in the decider for the championship, which was necessary after a tie . The season began on September 3, 1950 and ended on May 6, 1951.

Shortly before the end of the game, there was a major innovation: from April 10, 1951, the goalkeeper and one field player could be replaced. In most countries, including the DFB , substitutions in point and cup games were still ruled out until the late 1960s. In the GDR, which was not yet a member of FIFA , the experiment continued into the following season.

Before the season

The previous year's second SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt was dissolved after the 1949/50 season and connected to the BSG VVB Tabak Dresden . This should start with the former players of SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt in the league. However, after the majority of the former team migrated to Hertha BSC or the FRG , the vacant Oberliga place was awarded to the (initially) relegated ZSG Altenburg after the playoff . The SG Volkspolizei Dresden also came into the upper league.

After East Berlin was named the capital of the GDR and the contract player system was introduced in the West Berlin City League , the German Sports Committee (DS) ranked the three East Berlin teams that had qualified for the city ​​league season 1949/50 ( SG Union Oberschöneweide , VfB Pankow and SC Lichtenberg 47 ) also entered the GDR league, which was increased to 18 teams (including VP Dresden). As a result, many players left their teams to become contract players with West Berlin clubs. The first team from Union Oberschöneweide moved almost completely to West Berlin and founded SC Union 06 Berlin there .

Name changes

The so-called "conversion to production basis" started in 1949 and the associated formation of company sports associations (BSG) were essentially completed by the beginning of the 1950/51 season. Nevertheless, there were further name changes of the sports communities.

Change of name of the sports communities

Name before the season	Renamed to
	during the season	after the season
BSG KWU Erfurt	BSG Turbine Erfurt
ZSG Altenburg	BSG Stahl Altenburg
BSG Sachsenverlag Dresden	BSG Rotation Dresden
SG Eisenhüttenwerk Thale	BSG Stahl Thale
BSG Mechanics Gera	BSG Motor Gera
SG Union Oberschöneweide		BSG Motor Oberschöneweide
BSG KWU Weimar	BSG turbine Weimar
SC Lichtenberg 47	SG Lichtenberg 47
VfB Pankow		BSG unit Pankow

Season course

Scene from matchday 26: Turbine Erfurt against Motor Dessau (1: 2)

As in the previous season, the battle for the championship ended in a final: Since the two competitors Turbine Erfurt and Chemie Leipzig were tied at the end of the season, the championship had to be played in a playoff. This took place on May 20th in front of 60,000 spectators in the Ernst-Thälmann-Stadion in Chemnitz and was won 2-0 by Chemie. Before that, chemistry and turbine fought a three-way battle for the top of the table with last year's champion Motor Zwickau .

Of the three promoters of the previous season, only Turbine Weimar got down again. Stahl Thale (seventh) and BSG Rotation Dresden (twelfth) placed in the middle of the table. All three newcomers from East Berlin were also relegated to sport. Especially the bottom of the table VfB Pankow set various negative records. Two wins and three draws faced 29 defeats, some of them substantial (once 0: 9, three times 1: 8 and twice 0: 7). The sport-political leadership wanted to keep two Berlin teams in the top division. Therefore the BSG Motor Oberschöneweide and the BSG unit Pankow took over the respective starting places and players of the two teams.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Quota	Points
1.	BSG Chemie Leipzig 1	34	22nd	6th	6th	066:330	2.00	50:18
2.	BSG Turbine Erfurt 1	34	22nd	6th	6th	080:370	2.16	50:18
3.	BSG Motor Zwickau (M)	34	17th	9	8th	072:350	2.06	43:25
4th	SG Volkspolizei Dresden (N) 2	34	17th	9	8th	075:400	1.88	43:25
5.	BSG activist Brieske-Ost	34	20th	3	11	087:790	1.10	43:25
6th	BSG turbine hall	34	16	8th	10	074:500	1.48	40:28
7th	BSG Stahl Thale (N, P)	34	17th	5	12	082:650	1.26	39:29
8th.	BSG Rotation Babelsberg	34	18th	3	13	095:780	1.22	39:29
9.	BSG Motor Dessau	34	14th	6th	14th	068:620	1.10	34:34
10.	BSG Progress Meerane	34	12	8th	14th	065:710	0.92	32:36
11.	BSG Stahl Altenburg	34	12	7th	15th	046:610	0.75	31:37
12.	BSG Rotation Dresden (N)	34	12	6th	16	064:610	1.05	30:38
13.	BSG Motor Gera	34	9	12	13	059:630	0.94	30:38
14th	BSG Locomotive Stendal	34	12	5	17th	073:730	1.00	29:39
15th	SG Union Oberschöneweide (N) 3	34	9	8th	17th	049:720	0.68	26:42
16.	BSG turbine Weimar (N)	34	10	6th	18th	045:710	0.63	26:42
17th	SG Lichtenberg 47 (N) 3	34	6th	8th	20th	049:960	0.51	20:48
18th	VfB Pankow (N) 3	34	2	3	29	029: 131	0.22	07:61

¹ Decision game after tied points: BSG Chemie Leipzig - BSG Turbine Erfurt 2-0

²co-opted without athletic advancement

³came from the city ​​league Berlin or was / would have been promoted there as state league champion (applies to Lichtenberg)

GDR master Relegated to the GDR league in 1951/52
(M)	GDR champion 1949/50
(P)	FDGB cup winner 1949/50
(N)	Newcomers from national classes

Crosstab

1950/51

TER

BRI

THA

SAL

WGE

TWE

L47

1.

BSG Chemie Leipzig

0: 1

2: 2

1: 2

5: 1

2: 1

2: 1

1-0

2: 1

4: 1

0: 1

4-0

3: 2

3: 4

0-0

2-0

4-0

4-0

2.

BSG Turbine Erfurt

1: 2

2-0

2: 1

6-0

4: 1

2: 1

2: 1

1: 2

1-0

5: 1

1: 1

4: 2

4: 1

4-0

0-0

4-0

3: 1

3.

BSG Motor Zwickau

0: 2

3: 1

3: 1

8: 1

2-0

2-0

4: 1

4: 2

5-0

4-0

0: 1

1-0

4: 1

2-0

3-0

3-0

6-0

4th

SG Volkspolizei Dresden

1: 2

1-0

0-0

1: 2

3-0

5: 1

6-0

4: 1

3: 1

2: 1

2: 1

1: 1

2: 1

5-0

1-0

1: 1

8: 1

5.

BSG activist Brieske-Ost

1: 2

1: 3

2-0

5: 2

3-0

4: 2

1: 5

3: 2

6: 2

2-0

2-0

1-0

2: 3

3: 1

2-0

3: 3

4: 1

6th

BSG turbine hall

0: 1

1: 1

0-0

2: 1

1-0

2: 3

5: 1

3-0

4-0

3: 1

1: 1

1: 1

2: 1

1: 1

7: 1

6: 1

8: 1

7th

BSG Stahl Thale

3: 2

4: 2

2: 2

2-0

3: 5

3: 4

4: 2

5: 5

5: 1

2: 4

3: 2

5-0

4: 3

3-0

3: 2

4: 5

9-0

8th.

BSG Rotation Babelsberg

1: 1

1: 2

1-0

3: 5

5: 3

7: 2

1: 2

4: 1

5: 2

6: 1

1-0

6-0

4-0

3: 2

1: 1

5: 3

1-0

9.

BSG Motor Dessau

3: 1

2: 3

3-0

2: 1

1: 3

2: 1

6-0

1-0

1: 1

4-0

3: 1

4: 1

1: 1

1-0

3-0

3-0

4: 1

10.

BSG Progress Meerane

2: 3

1: 2

1: 1

3: 3

2: 2

2: 2

1: 2

0-0

3: 1

1: 1

4: 1

2: 1

1: 1

3: 1

1-0

5: 1

7-0

11.

BSG Stahl Altenburg

1: 1

0-0

1: 2

0-0

1: 1

0: 3

4: 5

1: 1

+: - 4

1-0

1: 2

2: 1

2: 1

1-0

2-0

2-0

5: 1

12.

BSG Rotation Dresden

0: 2

3: 3

1: 1

0: 3

3: 1

2: 3

1: 1

2: 3

7: 3

7: 2

1-0

1: 1

1: 2

4-0

3: 2

3-0

3-0

13.

BSG Motor Gera

0-0

1: 1

3: 3

2: 2

0: 4

1: 1

1-0

1: 2

1: 1

0: 3

2: 2

5: 3

4: 1

1: 1

8-0

4-0

4: 1

14th

BSG Locomotive Stendal

0: 1

3: 1

0-0

0: 2

7: 1

0: 6

1: 2

5: 1

1: 1

3: 4

1: 3

1: 4

3: 4

3-0

6: 1

1-0

8: 1

15th

SG Union Oberschöneweide

1: 1

0: 2

3: 2

0-0

3: 5

4: 1

2: 1

2: 4

3: 3

2: 1

3: 1

1-0

0: 3

3: 1

1: 1

2: 2

7-0

16.

BSG turbine Weimar

0: 2

0: 2

2: 1

1: 1

2: 3

0: 1

3: 1

2: 2

2-0

0: 3

3: 1

3-0

2: 1

0: 4

4: 2

6-0

4: 2

17th

SG Lichtenberg 47

2: 3

2: 5

2: 4

1: 1

4: 6

0-0

0: 3

3: 2

2-0

1: 2

1: 4

1-0

2: 2

2: 3

4: 1

1: 1

4: 2

18th

VfB Pankow

0: 1

0: 5

0-0

0: 4

1: 4

0: 1

2: 6

0: 2

3: 1

1: 3

3: 1

1: 5

0: 1

2: 2

2: 3

1: 2

1: 1

^4th The game Altenburg - Dessau (originally 1: 3) was rated with 0: 0 goals and a victory for Altenburg because Dessau used an unauthorized player.

statistics

The championship team

BSG Chemie Leipzig
Günter Busch (35 games / goals -) Walter Rose (34/4), Werner Brembach (29 / -) Horst Scherbaum (35/4), Werner Eilitz (33 / -), Gerhard Polland (32 / -) Rolf Sommer ( 24/7), Rudolf Krause (30/14), Georg Zenker (17/5), Heinz Fröhlich (35/9), Gerhard Helbig (30/7) Trainer: Fritz Krauss (until November 1950), from November to February vacant, Hans Höfer (March to May) Rolf Kukowitsch (from May 1951)
also: Rolf Grupe (16/7), Fritz Gödicke (13/1), Werner Steuer (8/2), Werner Klaus (6/1), Rudolf Hecker (4/1), Heinz Pönert (3 / -), Gerhard Auerbach (2 / -)

Second best scorer in the league: Günter Schröter (left) from SG VP Dresden

Gates

1,178 goals were scored, or 3.85 per game. The highest scoring games were Rotation Babelsberg - Motor Dessau (5: 5) on December 17, 1950, Rotation Dresden - Motor Dessau (7: 3) on January 14, 1951 and Lichtenberg 47 - activist Brieske Ost 4: 6 on February 4, 1951 Rotation Babelsberg achieved the highest victory 9-0 in the home game on September 9, 1950 against VfB Pankow. The top scorer of the season was Johannes Schöne from the BSG Rotation Babelsberg with 38 goals . This hit record was not broken until the end of the GDR Oberliga.

List of goalscorers

	player	team	Gates
1.	Johannes Schöne	BSG Rotation Babelsberg	38
2.	Günter Schröter	SG Volkspolizei Dresden	32
3.	Werner Oberländer	BSG Stahl Thale	31
4th	Heinz Nicklich	BSG Rotation Dresden	24

spectator

A total of 2,635,800 viewers saw the 306 league games, an average of 8,614 viewers per game. Most of the visitors came to the playoff for the championship between Chemie Leipzig and Turbine Erfurt on May 20, 1951 in Chemnitz: 60,000.

team	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$ spectator
BSG Turbine Erfurt	9,810
BSG turbine hall	9,788
BSG Chemie Leipzig	9.234
BSG Motor Zwickau	5,317
SG Volkspolizei Dresden	4,957
BSG Rotation Dresden	4,506
BSG Stahl Altenburg	4,044
BSG Motor Dessau	4,002
BSG Motor Gera	3,961
BSG Stahl Thale	3,469
BSG Locomotive Stendal	3,201
BSG turbine Weimar	2,987
BSG Rotation Babelsberg	2,960
BSG activist Brieske-Ost	2,856
BSG Progress Meerane	2,658
SG Union Oberschöneweide	2,509
SG Lichtenberg 47	1,865
VfB Pankow	924

FDGB Cup

The FDGB Cup was this season due to the preparations for the 1951 in East Berlin held World Festival of Youth and Students not played.

See also

• GDR soccer league 1950/51

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What does the new competition rules bring? In: Die neue Fußball-Woche No. 15 of April 9, 1951, page 2. The new rule was applied in the championship playoff when the player Hammer (Turbine Erfurt) injured himself after 12 minutes and was replaced by Martin .
2. ↑ Klaus Querengässer: Football in the GDR 1945–1989 , Part 1: The League. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1994, p. 36 f.
3. ^ Klaus Querengässer: Football in the GDR 1945–1989 , Part 3: The championship. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1995, p. 15
4. ↑ table and results. In: eu-football.info. Retrieved April 1, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Information based on fuwo special edition 1989
6. ↑ Information from fuwo of July 9, 1951