GDR football league 1964/65

GDR football league 1964/65
master	ASK Forward Berlin
European Cup of National Champions	ASK Forward Berlin
Trade fair trophy	SC Leipzig
Cup winners	SC construction Magdeburg
European Cup Winners' Cup	SC construction Magdeburg
Relegated	SC Neubrandenburg BSG Motor Steinach
Teams	14th
Games	182
Gates	529  (ø 2.91 per game)
spectator	1,767,500  (ø 9712 per game)
Top scorer	Bernd Bauchspieß , ( BSG Chemie Leipzig )
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GDR soccer league 1964/65 ↓

The GDR Oberliga 1964/65 was the 16th edition of the top division of the GDR . The ASK Vorwärts Berlin became champion for the fourth time , making it the sole record champion of the GDR. The season began on August 9, 1964 and ended on June 6, 1965.

Before the season

On the last day of the match, Karl-Marx-Stadt secured relegation with a 1-0 win against the new champions Vorwärts Berlin.

In purely geographical terms, the league was more balanced at the start of the season than it had been in years. After all, six of the 14 upper division clubs came from the northern and central districts . “Only” eight came from the southern districts. The district of Neubrandenburg was represented for the first (and ultimately also for the last) time in the top football class. In contrast, the Halle district did not have a senior league representative for the first time.

Season course

After Vorwärts Berlin could not intervene decisively in the championship race for two years, the army footballers secured their fourth championship title this time with two game days before the end. Thus Vorwärts passed Wismut Aue and was now the sole GDR record champion. In second and third place followed the masters of the previous years Motor Jena (master 1963) and Chemie Leipzig (master 1964), whereby only Jena offered the Berliners permanent serious competition. With its fourth place, SC Leipzig crossed the finish line again behind city rivals Chemie Leipzig.

The relegation battle, however, was only finally decided on the last day of the game. After last year's surprise team, Motor Steinach, was prematurely relegated, the decision about the remaining relegation place culminated in a direct duel between SC Neubrandenburg and Dynamo Dresden on the last day of the match. At home, the Dresden team prevailed 5: 3 against their competitors from the north. Both Neubrandenburg and Steinach never rose again to the top division.

The season was interrupted for almost two months between September and November 1964 due to the posting of players for the GDR Olympic team that took part in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo . The free time was bridged with the Olympic Cup , in which all 14 league clubs took part with their remaining players.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	ASK Forward Berlin	26th	17th	3	6th	051:240	+27	37:15
2.	SC Motor Jena	26th	14th	4th	8th	041:270	+14	32:20
3.	BSG Chemie Leipzig (M)	26th	11	9	6th	047:290	+18	31:21
4th	SC Leipzig	26th	12	6th	8th	053:340	+19	30:22
5.	SC Empor Rostock	26th	13	2	11	037:330	+4	28:24
6th	BSG Locomotive Stendal	26th	9	8th	9	047:420	+5	26:26
7th	SC construction Magdeburg (P)	26th	9	7th	10	035:350	± 0	25:27
8th.	BSG Motor Zwickau	26th	9	6th	11	036:460	−10	24:28
9.	BSG Wismut Aue	26th	6th	12	8th	023:360	−13	24:28
10.	SG Dynamo Dresden (N)	26th	9	5	12	034:380	−4	23:29
11.	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26th	8th	7th	11	036:410	−5	23:29
12.	SC Dynamo Berlin	26th	8th	6th	12	027:370	−10	22:30
13.	SC Neubrandenburg (N)	26th	7th	6th	13	034:580	−24	20:32
14th	BSG Motor Steinach	26th	8th	3	15th	028:490	−21	19:33

GDR champion and participant in the European Cup of National Champions 1965/66 GDR Cup winner and participant in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1965/66 Participant in the Messestädte-Pokal 1965/66 Relegated to the GDR league in 1965/66
(M)	Last season champions
(P)	Cup winner last season
(N)	Promoted last season
Newcomers from the GDR league 1964/65 : SC Chemie Halle , SC Turbine Erfurt

Crosstab

1964/65

1.

ASK Forward Berlin

1: 1

2: 1

2: 1

0: 1

2-0

1-0

1: 1

2-0

3-0

2: 1

3-0

4-0

2: 1

2.

SC Motor Jena

1-0

2: 1

1: 1

3: 1

1: 1

3: 1

1-0

3: 1

2-0

3-0

0-0

3-0

3-0

3.

BSG Chemie Leipzig

3: 1

3-0

0: 3

2-0

2: 1

0-0

1-0

1: 1

1-0

3: 1

1-0

6-0

6-0

4th

SC Leipzig

1: 2

1-0

1: 3

2-0

1: 1

6: 2

5: 1

2: 2

2: 1

3: 1

3-0

2: 1

4: 1

5.

SC Empor Rostock

0: 1

1: 2

3: 1

2: 1

1: 1

4-0

3-0

1: 2

1-0

3: 1

2: 3

2: 1

0: 2

6th

BSG Locomotive Stendal

2: 6

2: 3

1: 1

2-0

1: 2

2: 1

1: 1

3-0

5: 2

3: 1

1-0

4: 4

4-0

7th

SC construction Magdeburg

4: 2

3: 2

2: 2

2-0

1: 2

2: 1

0: 1

4-0

3-0

0-0

1: 1

2-0

1-0

8th.

BSG Motor Zwickau

1: 4

3: 2

3: 3

3: 3

0: 1

2: 1

0-0

3: 1

1: 1

1: 3

1-0

5: 3

3: 2

9.

BSG Wismut Aue

2: 1

1-0

1-0

1: 3

0-0

1: 4

1: 1

1: 2

0-0

1: 1

1: 1

2: 1

0-0

10.

SG Dynamo Dresden

1: 4

0: 1

0-0

2: 1

2: 1

4-0

1-0

1-0

1: 1

4: 1

5-0

5: 3

3: 2

11.

SC Karl-Marx-Stadt

1-0

1-0

4: 4

1-0

1: 2

1: 1

2: 1

3-0

0-0

1: 1

0: 2

5: 1

4: 1

12.

SC Dynamo Berlin

0-0

1: 2

1-0

2: 2

0: 2

2: 4

0: 1

1: 2

0-0

1-0

3: 1

4-0

1: 3

13.

SC Neubrandenburg

1: 3

2: 1

1: 1

1: 1

4: 2

1: 1

3: 2

1-0

1: 1

2-0

0-0

1: 2

1-0

14th

BSG Motor Steinach

0: 2

2: 1

1: 1

0: 4

2-0

1-0

1: 1

3: 2

1: 2

2-0

2: 1

1: 2

0: 1

statistics

The championship team

ASK Forward Berlin
Alfred Zulkowski (17 games / goals -) Werner Unger (25 / -), Hans-Dieter Krampe (26/1), Peter Kalinke (13 / -) Hans-Georg Kiupel (15/1), Gerhard Körner (26/4 ) Horst Begerad (15/6), Jürgen Nöldner (23/5), Otto Fräßdorf (24/4), Gerhard Vogt (24/10), Jürgen Piepenburg (20/9) Trainer: Günter Lammich
also : Gerhard Weiß (Tor, 9 / -); Jürgen Großheim (16/3), Manfred Müller (11 / -), Manfred Schütze (6/3), Günther Wirth (6 / -), Rainer Nachtigall (4 / -), Peter Pera (3 / -), Werner Michalzik (2 / -), Rainer Müller (1/2)

Gates

Henning Frenzel (here against the Jenar goalkeeper Heinzel) was the second best goalscorer.

In the 182 league games, 529 goals were scored, an average of 2.91 per game. Chemie Leipzig celebrated the highest victories against SC Neubrandenburg and Motor Steinach with 6-0 each.

Bernd Bauchspieß from Chemie Leipzig was the top scorer in the league for the third time after winning the title in 1959 and 1960 as a player for BSG Chemie Zeitz . Before that, no player had managed to become top scorer three times.

List of goalscorers

	player	team	Gates
1.	Bernd belly spit	BSG Chemie Leipzig	14th
2.	Henning Frenzel	SC Leipzig	13
3.	Gerd Backhaus	BSG Locomotive Stendal	12
	Rainer Trölitzsch	SC Leipzig	12
	Rolf Steinmann	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	12

spectator

A total of 1,767,500 viewers saw the 182 league games, which is an average of 9,712 viewers per game. With 45,000 visitors, the game between SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and Dynamo Dresden on August 16, 1964 in the Ernst-Thälmann-Stadion attracted the greatest interest. Dynamo Dresden recorded the highest average attendance with 20,846, ahead of Chemie Leipzig (14,538) and Karl-Marx-Stadt (14,308). The fewest spectators came to the games of Dynamo Berlin (4,038). But also the games of the master forward were relatively poorly attended with 6,923 spectators (fourth worst average).

The former Karl-Marx-Städter Ernst-Thälmann-Stadion with a capacity of 45,000 spectators

team	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$ spectator
BSG Wismut Aue	6,538
SC Dynamo Berlin	4.038
ASK Forward Berlin	6,923
SG Dynamo Dresden	20,846
SC Motor Jena	8,038
SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	14.308
BSG Chemie Leipzig	14,538
SC Leipzig	9,692
SC construction Magdeburg	9.231
SC Neubrandenburg	8,808
SC Empor Rostock	10,846
BSG Locomotive Stendal	6,577
BSG Motor Steinach	7,615
BSG Motor Zwickau	7,885

soccer player of the year

Horst Weigang from SC Leipzig was voted Footballer of the Year 1965 after the season . The goalkeeper relegated Dieter Erler (who received this honor two years later) and Manfred Walter from city rivals Chemie to their places.

	player	team
1.	Horst Weigang	SC Leipzig
2.	Dieter Erler	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt
3.	Manfred Walter	BSG Chemie Leipzig

FDGB Cup

The FDGB-Pokal was won this season by Aufbau Magdeburg. The Magdeburg thus defended their title from the previous season. In the final, they defeated the runner-up from Jena 2-1.

International competitions

Once again, the East German participants in the respective European Cup competitions did not get beyond their first opponents. Chemie Leipzig failed in the European Champions Cup to Győri Vasas ETO , construction Magdeburg in the European Cup Winners' Cup to Galatasaray Istanbul and SC Leipzig in the Messestädte Cup at the Wiener Sport-Club . The GDR representatives were only successful in the International Football Cup . Of the four participants, SC Leipzig, Empor Rostock, Vorwärts Berlin and SC Karl-Marx-Stadt, Leipzig, Rostock and Karl-Marx-Stadt won their preliminary round groups. The SC Leipzig made it to the finals and lost to Polonia Bytom there .

See also

• GDR soccer league 1964/65

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ table and results. In: eu-football.info. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .