GDR football league 1965/66

GDR football league 1965/66
master	ASK Forward Berlin
European Cup of National Champions	ASK Forward Berlin
Trade fair trophy	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
Cup winners	BSG Chemie Leipzig
European Cup Winners' Cup	BSG Chemie Leipzig
Relegated	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt 1. FC Magdeburg
Teams	14th
Games	182
Gates	485  (ø 2.66 per game)
spectator	1,885,700  (ø 10,361 per game)
Top scorer	Henning Frenzel , (1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig)
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GDR soccer league 1965/66 ↓

The GDR Oberliga 1965/66 was the 17th edition of the top division in the GDR . It began on August 14, 1965 and ended on May 14, 1966. The team from Vorwärts Berlin became champions for the fifth time . This season was shaped by the establishment of football clubs based on the sports club sections.

Formation of football clubs

A few weeks before the renaming: SC Leipzig against SC Empor Rostock.

In order to promote the development of football in a more targeted manner, the DTSB decided in 1965 to form independent football clubs , for which purpose the football departments were separated from the sports clubs. With the exception of TSC Berlin , all sports club sections whose first teams did not belong to the upper league at the time were excluded from this measure. The affected SC teams from Potsdam , Cottbus , Neubrandenburg and Dresden thus lost their previous sponsorship status as future BSG teams. While the former districts no longer had a football performance center, the Dresden district was now represented by SG Dynamo Dresden, which was never a sports club in terms of its name, but had always received the same funding as the football focus center of the Dynamo sports association .

Due to these changes, there were various renaming in the leagues during the season. In the league, the team names changed as follows.

previous SC membership	newly formed soccer club
ASK Forward Berlin	FC Forward Berlin
SC Motor Jena	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
SC Leipzig	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
SC Empor Rostock	FC Hansa Rostock
SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt
SC Dynamo Berlin	Berlin FC Dynamo
SC Chemistry Hall	Hallescher FC Chemie
SC Turbine Erfurt	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt
SC construction Magdeburg	1. FC Magdeburg

Season course

Jürgen Nöldner scored the 1-0 against Jena on the last day of the match.

The decision for the championship title resulted in a proverbial championship final, when on the last day of the table the first in the table Carl Zeiss Jena traveled to the second in the table, Vorwärts Berlin. In front of 30,000 spectators in the local Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark , the forward team won 2-0 and thus defended the title from the previous year. The team from Jena, on the other hand, which was in first place in the table for almost the entire second half of the season, had to be content with second place behind Vorwärts, as in the previous season.

Behind Berlin and Jena, Lokomotive Leipzig and Hansa Rostock placed themselves in the top five for the third (Lok) and fifth time (Hansa) in a row. The 1964 champion Chemie Leipzig did not have a good season and was even close to the relegation ranks in the first half of the season. In the end they came in eighth, but the “chemists” were able to win the FDGB cup .

The relegation was decided on the penultimate matchday. Surprisingly, the cup winners of 1964 and 1965 Magdeburg and last year's climber Erfurt, who was almost continuously on a relegation zone, had to return to the league. The other newcomer Halle ended up in eleventh place. As the best BSG, Wismut Aue finished sixth after Wismut was in last place for a long time in the preliminary round.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	FC Forward Berlin (M)	26th	15th	4th	7th	044:270	+17	34:18
2.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26th	14th	4th	8th	045:240	+21	32:20
3.	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26th	13	2	11	050:410	+9	28:24
4th	FC Hansa Rostock	26th	11	6th	9	041:340	+7	28:24
5.	SG Dynamo Dresden	26th	11	6th	9	034:310	+3	28:24
6th	BSG Wismut Aue	26th	11	6th	9	033:330	± 0	28:24
7th	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26th	12	4th	10	029:330	−4	28:24
8th.	BSG Chemie Leipzig	26th	9	8th	9	032:320	± 0	26:26
9.	Berlin FC Dynamo	26th	11	3	12	042:320	+10	25:27
10.	BSG Motor Zwickau	26th	9	6th	11	028:350	−7	24:28
11.	Hallescher FC Chemie (N)	26th	7th	9	10	026:330	−7	23:29
12.	BSG Locomotive Stendal	26th	10	2	14th	036:490	−13	22:30
13.	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt (N)	26th	8th	3	15th	026:420	−16	19:33
14th	1. FC Magdeburg (P)	26th	7th	5	14th	019:390	−20	19:33

GDR champion and participant in the European Cup of National Champions 1966/67 GDR Cup winner and participant in the 1966/67 European Cup Winners' Cup Participant in the Messestädte-Pokal 1966/67 Relegated to the GDR league in 1966/67
(M)	Last season champions
(P)	Cup winner last season
(N)	Promoted last season
Newcomers from the GDR League 1965/66 : 1. FC Union Berlin , BSG Wismut Gera

Crosstab

1965/66				LOK
1.	FC Forward Berlin		2-0	4-0	0: 3	4: 1	2-0	3-0	2-0	0: 3	3: 3	1: 1	1-0	1: 2	2-0
2.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	2-0		2: 4	5-0	0-0	2: 1	3-0	1-0	2-0	3-0	2: 1	3-0	2-0	3-0
3.	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	0: 1	1-0		0: 4	0-0	6: 2	0: 1	0: 4	4-0	5-0	2-0	5-0	3: 2	3: 1
4th	FC Hansa Rostock	1: 1	0: 1	2-0		4-0	3: 2	2: 2	2: 2	3: 1	1: 2	1: 1	2-0	2-0	0: 1
5.	SG Dynamo Dresden	1: 2	1-0	1: 2	0: 3		2-0	5-0	1: 1	2: 1	0-0	3: 1	3: 1	4-0	2: 1
6th	BSG Wismut Aue	2: 1	3: 3	2: 1	3-0	1-0		0: 1	2: 1	1: 1	1-0	0: 2	3: 1	4: 1	1-0
7th	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	0: 1	2: 1	3-0	2: 1	1: 2	1-0		2-0	0-0	1-0	2: 1	2-0	4: 2	2-0
8th.	BSG Chemie Leipzig	2: 1	1: 1	0: 3	2: 2	3-0	1: 1	1-0		2: 1	0-0	1-0	2: 2	4: 2	1-0
9.	Berlin FC Dynamo	0: 1	2: 2	5: 3	2-0	1: 2	0: 1	1-0	2-0		2-0	3-0	3: 1	3-0	5-0
10.	BSG Motor Zwickau	1: 1	2: 1	3: 2	3-0	0: 2	0: 1	3-0	0: 1	3: 2		1: 1	4: 2	1-0	1: 2
11.	Hallescher FC Chemie	1-0	1: 3	2: 4	2-0	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	2-0	2: 1	0-0		2: 3	1: 1	0-0
12.	BSG Locomotive Stendal	3: 5	2-0	1-0	1: 2	2-0	3: 1	1: 1	3: 2	2: 1	2-0	0: 1		2-0	2-0
13.	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	1: 2	1-0	0: 1	1: 3	0-0	0-0	4: 1	1-0	1-0	2-0	0: 1	3: 1		2: 1
14th	1. FC Magdeburg	0: 3	0: 3	1: 1	0-0	2: 1	0-0	2: 1	1: 1	0: 2	0: 1	3: 1	3: 1	1-0

statistics

The championship team

ASK / FC Forward Berlin
Gerhard Weiß (14 games / goals -) Werner Unger (22 / -), Hans-Dieter Krampe (26/4), Otto Fräßdorf (23/2) Manfred Müller (14 / -), Gerhard Körner (21/1) Jürgen Nöldner (20/6), Horst Begerad (26/13), Jürgen Großheim (20/5), Gerhard Vogt (19/3), Jürgen Piepenburg (22/6) Trainer : Günter Lammich
also : Alfred Zulkowski (Tor, 12 / -), Hans-Georg Kiupel (14/1), Rainer Nachtigall (12 / -), Manfred Schütze (8/1), Peter Kalinke (8 / -), Hans Sturm (3 / -), Horst Wruck (2 / -)

Gates

The top scorer Frenzel.

In the 182 point games, 485 goals were scored, an average of 2.66 per game. Nine own goals were scored. Henning Frenzel from 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was the top scorer in the league for the first time . With 22 goals, he clearly relegated the competition to the places. Four times there was the clearest win of the season with 5-0: Dynamo Berlin - Magdeburg (2nd matchday), Dresden - Karl-Marx-Stadt (6th), SC Leipzig - Stendal (17th), Jena - Rostock (21st) and locomotive Leipzig - Zwickau (23rd). With eight goals each, the matches between SC Leipzig - Aue (6: 2, 5th matchday), Dynamo Berlin - SC Leipzig (5: 3, 6th) and Stendal - Vorwärts Berlin (3: 5, 14th) were the most goal-rich.

List of goalscorers

	player	team	Gates
1.	Henning Frenzel	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	22nd
2.	Horst Begerad	FC Forward Berlin	13
3.	Bernd belly spit	BSG Chemie Leipzig	12
4th	Gerd Backhaus	BSG Locomotive Stendal	10

spectator

A total of 1,885,700 spectators saw the 182 league games, which is an average of 10,361 spectators per game. Dynamo Dresden again recorded the highest average attendance with 25,615, ahead of Karl-Marx-Stadt (14,846) and Chemie Leipzig (13,308). The smallest number of spectators came to the Lokomotive Stendal games (4,846). The home games of the defending champion Vorwärts were also badly attended, as in previous years. The average of 6,385 actually meant a deterioration compared to the previous year. The Leipzig local derby BSG Chemie - SC Leipzig on matchday two reached the season record with 31,000 visitors.

team	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$ spectator
BSG Wismut Aue	7,846
Berlin FC Dynamo	5,923
FC Forward Berlin	6,385
SG Dynamo Dresden	25,615
FC Rot Weiß Erfurt	9,462
Hallescher FC Chemie	12,000
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	9,308
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	14,846
BSG Chemie Leipzig	13,308
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	8,385
1. FC Magdeburg	7,769
FC Hansa Rostock	8,615
BSG Locomotive Stendal	4,846
BSG Motor Zwickau	9,846

soccer player of the year

After the season, Jürgen Nöldner was named Footballer of the Year 1966 for the first time by FC Vorwärts Berlin . Nöldner was one of the defining players in the league champions forward. Dieter Erler , who was to receive this award the following year, landed in second place .

	player	team
1.	Jürgen Nöldner	FC Forward Berlin
2.	Dieter Erler	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt
3.	Herbert Pankau	FC Hansa Rostock

FDGB Cup

The FDGB Cup was won by Chemie Leipzig this season . In the final, which took place during the current league season, the Leipziger defeated the league competitor Lokomotive Stendal 1-0. The cup defender Magdeburg failed in the quarterfinals.

International competitions

For the teams of the GDR, English club teams meant the end of the European Cup this season . Forward Berlin was defeated in the European Cup by the national champions Manchester United , Magdeburg in the European Cup Winners' Cup only in the quarter-finals (then already as 1. FC ) West Ham United and the SC Leipzig in the Messestädte-Pokal Leeds United . In the International Football Cup, on the other hand, the East German teams played again successfully. The four GDR representatives SC Leipzig, Motor Jena, Empor Rostock and Chemie Leipzig all reached the quarter-finals, the two Leipzig clubs then faced each other in the semi-finals. In the semi-final first leg, the city rivals drew 1: 1. The second leg was won by SC Leipzig, now renamed 1. FC Lokomotive, 1-0. Both games took place in the central stadium in front of 10,000 and 30,000 spectators respectively. In the final, Lok won the first international title for the GDR against IFK Norrköping (albeit a subordinate one compared to the other three competitions).

See also

• GDR soccer league 1965/66

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ The SC construction Magdeburg was renamed SC Magdeburg shortly before the football club was formed.
2. ↑ table and results. In: eu-football.info. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .