GDR football league 1961/62

GDR football league 1961/62
master	ASK Forward Berlin
European Cup of National Champions	ASK Forward Berlin
Cup winners	SC Chemistry Hall
European Cup Winners' Cup	SC Chemistry Hall
Relegated	SC unit Dresden BSG locomotive Stendal
Teams	14th
Games	273
Gates	851  (ø 3.12 per game)
spectator	2,207,900  (ø 8088 per game)
Top scorer	Arthur Bialas , ( SC Empor Rostock )
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GDR soccer league 1961/62 ↓

The GDR Oberliga 1961/62 was the 13th edition of the top division of the GDR . The ASK Vorwärts Berlin became champion for the third time , thus defending its title from the previous season. The season began on March 5, 1961 and ended on June 3, 1962.

Before the season

After the game year in football between 1955 and 1960 had been identical to the calendar year, the officials of the DFV decided in 1961 to switch the game rhythm back to the old system (autumn-spring). The spring-autumn rhythm was originally taken over from the Soviet Union, where this rhythm was necessary due to the weather due to the severe winter (and was also practiced in the Russian Premier League until 2011/12 ). However, as the climatic conditions in the GDR were not the same and the rhythm did not match the autumn-spring rhythm of the international European Cup competitions, the decision was finally revised again.

Due to the longer playing time, the league was temporarily played in a triple round: All teams played against each other three times - in their own stadium, in the opponent's stadium and on a neutral pitch. As neutral venues distributed throughout the season (contrary to what one might assume), mainly venues in smaller cities not represented in the first division were chosen.

34th matchday: The future champions forward against the reigning cup winner Jena: Here Nöldner (right) against Stricksner.

Season course

Although Vorwärts Berlin secured the championship two game days before the end, the team didn't look as if they could defend their championship title from the previous season. It was only on the 33rd match day that Vorwärts was in first place in the table, but then did not give up this position. Before that, Empor Rostock was at the top of the table for a long time and had successively Dynamo Berlin and Motor Jena as their biggest competition. The Rostockers were also voted Team of the Year due to their good season performance (the team was one of the top four places for the entire season) .

As the best company sports association (BSG), Motor Zwickau again finished fifth in the table. In contrast, things went badly for the second Oberliga BSG Lokomotive Stendal . Lok always occupied a relegation place from the second match day and consequently relegated. Whereby Stendal was able to start a remarkable race to catch up: After being seven points behind relegation in the meantime, they fought their way up to two points against Brieske-Senftenberg . In the second division Lok was accompanied by Einheit Dresden . The long-time member of the league (since 1950) never returned to first-class football.

The SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt was punished with a two-point deduction because a player from the lower-class Chemie Glauchau team was illegally poached.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	ASK Forward Berlin (M)	39	21st	8th	10	069:490	+20	50:28
2.	SC Empor Rostock	39	20th	7th	12	070:430	+27	47:31
3.	SC Dynamo Berlin	39	18th	9	12	072:640	+8	45:33
4th	SC Motor Jena (P)	39	15th	13	11	077:600	+17	43:35
5.	BSG Motor Zwickau	39	16	9	14th	059:660	−7	41:37
6th	SC Lokomotive Leipzig	39	15th	10	14th	067:570	+10	40:38
7th	SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt *	39	13	14th	12	060:480	+12	38:40
8th.	SC Rotation Leipzig	39	11	16	12	057:570	± 0	38:40
9.	SC construction Magdeburg	39	16	5	18th	059:630	−4	37:41
10.	SC Turbine Erfurt (N)	39	13	9	17th	066:690	−3	35:43
11.	SC Chemistry Hall	39	11	12	16	053:660	−13	34:44
12.	SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg	39	10	13	16	045:530	−8	33:45
13.	SC unit Dresden	39	9	14th	16	048:730	−25	32:46
14th	BSG Locomotive Stendal (N)	39	12	7th	20th	049:830	−34	31:47

^* Karl-Marx-Stadt was deducted two points at the end of the season

GDR champion and participant in the 1962/63 European Cup GDR Cup winner and participant in the 1962/63 European Cup Winners' Cup Relegated to the GDR league in 1962/63
(M)	Last season champions
(P)	Cup winner last season
(N)	Promoted last season
Newcomers from the GDR league 1961/62 : SG Dynamo Dresden , SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt

Crosstab

1961/62

1.

ASK Forward Berlin

2-0 2-2

3: 0 1: 2

1: 0 3: 1

1: 0 3: 1

2: 2 -

2: 1 -

1: 1 1: 1

2: 0 -

3: 2 -

5: 1 -

1: 0 1: 1

1: 1 2: 1

3: 0 1: 1

2.

SC Empor Rostock

1: 3 -

2: 1 -

0-0 2-2

3: 0 -

3: 1 0: 0

3-0 0-0

2: 1 3: 1

4: 2 0: 1

0: 3 -

2: 0 -

2: 0 1: 2

3-0 6-0

3-0 4-1

3.

SC Dynamo Berlin

1: 3 -

1: 4 1: 1

2: 1 -

1: 1 -

1: 1 3: 2

0: 1 1: 1

2-0 2-1

5: 3 1: 0

5: 1 -

0: 2 2: 2

1: 0 1: 1

2: 2 5: 1

3: 2 -

4th

SC Motor Jena

1: 0 -

3: 1 -

5: 1 1: 2

1-0

3: 2

2: 2 2: 0

0: 1 3: 3

5: 0 -

0-0 3: 5

1: 1 0: 0

2: 2 2: 2

6: 1 1: 3

6: 1 -

5.

BSG Motor Zwickau

3: 0 -

2: 1 2: 1

1: 3 3: 1

4: 2 -

1: 1 -

3: 1 0: 1

3: 0 -

2: 1 1: 0

3: 2 1: 1

2: 2 0: 4

2: 0 1: 1

0: 1 -

4: 3 4: 0

6th

SC Lokomotive Leipzig

3: 0 2: 4

3: 2 -

0: 3 -

2: 0 -

0: 1 1: 2

3: 1 2: 1

4: 1 1: 2

1: 3 2: 2

5: 3 3: 0

3: 0 2: 3

2: 1 -

2-0 3-2

4: 0 0: 1

7th

SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt

2: 3 2: 2

3: 0 -

1: 1 -

3: 0 -

3: 0 -

0: 0 -

4: 1 -

5: 0 -

4-0 0-0

2: 4 1: 2

3: 1 0: 0

1: 1 -

4-0 0-2

8th.

SC Rotation Leipzig

3: 1 -

0: 0 -

4: 3 -

1: 1 -

2: 2 1: 1

1: 1 -

0: 0 1: 2

1: 2 0: 4

2: 0 -

2: 2 3: 1

6: 1 -

1: 1 -

5: 1 -

9.

SC construction Magdeburg

2: 1 0: 2

0: 3 -

0: 1 -

1: 1 1: 3

5: 0 -

2: 0 -

3: 1 0: 0

0: 1 -

3: 4 3: 2

1: 0 -

0: 2 2: 0

1: 0 -

3: 2 -

10.

SC Turbine Erfurt

1: 2 2: 1

0: 3 2: 1

1: 2 2: 2

1: 1 -

4: 2 -

1: 0 -

3: 3 -

1: 1 1: 1

0: 1 -

4: 1 0: 1

1: 3 2: 0

1: 1 -

5: 0 1: 2

11.

SC Chemistry Hall

2: 1 3: 1

0: 2 0: 1

2: 5 -

3: 1 -

0: 1 -

0: 1 -

2: 2 -

0: 0 -

2: 1 2: 1

0: 3 -

1: 1 -

2: 4 1: 1

1: 2 -

12.

SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg

2: 3 -

2: 0 -

2: 1 -

1: 3 -

4: 1 -

0: 0 1: 1

0: 0 -

0: 2 1: 1

2: 0 -

1: 2 -

1: 1 2: 1

5: 1 0: 1

2: 0 0: 1

13.

SC unit Dresden

1: 0 -

1: 2 -

3: 1 -

1: 1 -

1: 1 2: 2

2: 2 -

1: 2 1: 3

3: 1 0: 3

1: 3 1: 1

3: 2 0: 2

1: 1 -

2: 0 -

1: 1 1: 2

14th

BSG Locomotive Stendal

0: 1 -

1: 2 -

0: 2 3: 1

1: 3 2: 3

4: 0 -

2: 3 -

2: 0 -

0-0 2-1

2: 2 1: 5

2: 1 -

3: 3 1: 0

1: 1 -

0: 0 -

statistics

The championship team

ASK Forward Berlin
Karl-Heinz Spickenagel (39 games / goals -) Peter Kalinke (29/1), Werner Unger (22 / -), Hans-Dieter Krampe (34 / -) Hans-Georg Kiupel (36/1), Gerhard Körner (39 / 6) Rainer Nachtigall (26/5), Jürgen Nöldner (31/18), Gerhard Vogt (37/7), Horst Kohlen (26/8), Günther Wirth (37/5) Trainer : Harald Seeger
also: Günter Hoge (24/1), Günter Riese (20 / -), Lothar Meyer (19/6), Gerhard Reichelt (9 / -), Horst Begerad (6 / -), Ulrich Prüfke (6 / -), Otto Fräßdorf (3/1), Dieter Karow (6/3)
without use: Alfred Zulkowski (goal)

List of goalscorers

	player	team	Gates
1.	Arthur Bialas	SC Empor Rostock	23
2.	Erwin Seifert	SC Turbine Erfurt	22nd
3.	Henning Frenzel	SC Lokomotive Leipzig	20th
	Rainer Knobloch	SC Turbine Erfurt	20th
5.	Peter Ducke	SC Motor Jena	19th

Others

A total of 2,207,900 spectators saw the 273 league games, which is an average of 8,088 spectators per game. Until then, this was the lowest average number of spectators in the league and was only beaten in 1991. One reason for this may have been the decision to host the third games between two teams on neutral (mostly smaller) places in non-major league cities. The games Rotation Leipzig - Lok Leipzig (October 29, 1961), Empor Rostock - Vorwärts Berlin (15 April 1962), Unity Dresden - Vorwärts Berlin (May 30, 1962) and construction Magdeburg - Lok Stendal (May 30, 1962) had with 35,000 spectators each, the greatest popularity.

851 goals were scored, or 3.12 per game. The highest-scoring encounters were Dynamo Berlin - construction Magdeburg 5: 3 on March 12, 1961 and Lok Leipzig - Turbine Erfurt 5: 3 on August 26, 1961.

FDGB Cup

The FDGB-Pokal was won this season by the Oberliga-Eleventh Chemie Halle. In the final, the championship third was defeated by Dynamo Berlin. Halle had already defeated cup defender Jena in the semifinals.

International competitions

This season brought a first international success for GDR in the European Cup. Cup winners Motor Jena made it to the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup , where they were eliminated against eventual title winners Atlético Madrid . In the European Cup , Vorwärts Berlin reached a 3-0 first leg against Linfield FC to advance, as Linfield then withdrew. In the first round forward then eliminated against the Glasgow Rangers . The Leipzig city selection made it into the second round of the trade fair city cup , where it was subject to the MTK Budapest . Vorwärts Berlin, Motor Jena, Dynamo Berlin and Lokomotive Leipzig also took part in the first ever International Football Cup .

See also

• GDR soccer league 1961/62
• II. GDR League 1961/62

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rolf Beyer: A small analysis of GDR football in the 1950s, shown primarily using the example of the SC DHfK. In: www.uni-leipzig.de . University of Leipzig , Working Group on Contemporary Witnesses in Senior Studies, accessed on June 4, 2010 . 
2. ↑ table and results. In: eu-football.info. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .