GDR football league 1966/67

GDR football league 1966/67
master	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt
European Cup of National Champions	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt
Trade fair trophy	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig SG Dynamo Dresden
Cup winners	BSG Motor Zwickau
European Cup Winners' Cup	BSG Motor Zwickau
Relegated	Berlin FC Dynamo BSG Wismut Gera
Teams	14th
Games	182
Gates	500  (ø 2.75 per game)
spectator	1,832,000  (ø 10,066 per game)
Top scorer	Hartmut Rentzsch , (BSG Motor Zwickau)
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The GDR Oberliga 1966/67 was the 18th edition of the top division of the GDR . FC Karl-Marx-Stadt became champions for the first time . The season began on August 6, 1966 and ended on May 13, 1967.

Season course

The championship of FC Karl-Marx-Stadt was as surprising as the title win by Chemie Leipzig three years earlier. Karl-Marx-Stadt was only promoted back to the league in 1962 and since then had achieved fourth place as the best placement in 1964. In the end, it should be the only big title for the team, three years later they even rose from the league again.

In the 1966/67 season, however, FCK dominated the league and was already the champions two game days before the end. In the end, Lokomotive Leipzig, second in the table, was seven points behind - the last time Vorwärts Berlin was champion in 1960 with a similar margin (nine points). The Karl-Marx-Städter consistently occupied the top of the table from the seventh game day. Second place was also the best place in the league for pursuers Leipzig, having finished third twice and fourth once in previous years. Behind the FCK and Lok, the teams were very close together. Motor Zwickau, third in the table, had only two points more than twelfth (!) Chemie Leipzig.

Zwickau's good placement was the last time in the history of the upper league that a company sports association was among the top three teams in GDR football, until 1991 the league was then to be dominated by football clubs (including Dynamo Dresden). However, one of the focus clubs founded in 1965/66 was one of the relegated clubs, BFC Dynamo. The Berliners accompanied last year's climber Wismut Gera in the GDR league . Here, too, the decision was made early on. The second promoted Union Berlin, on the other hand, surprised positively and finished sixth in the end - ahead of the record champions, defending champions and city rivals Vorwärts.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26th	14th	9	3	039:230	+16	37:15
2.	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26th	14th	2	10	039:320	+7	30:22
3.	BSG Motor Zwickau	26th	9	9	8th	041:260	+15	27:25
4th	SG Dynamo Dresden	26th	11	5	10	035:310	+4	27:25
5.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26th	11	5	10	031:290	+2	27:25
6th	1. FC Union Berlin (N)	26th	9	9	8th	033:350	−2	27:25
7th	BSG Locomotive Stendal	26th	11	5	10	039:440	−5	27:25
8th.	FC Forward Berlin (M)	26th	10	6th	10	043:340	+9	26:26
9.	BSG Wismut Aue	26th	11	4th	11	045:430	+2	26:26
10.	FC Hansa Rostock	26th	9	8th	9	027:270	± 0	26:26
11.	Hallescher FC Chemie	26th	11	4th	11	038:410	−3	26:26
12.	BSG Chemie Leipzig (P)	26th	9	7th	10	035:380	−3	25:27
13.	Berlin FC Dynamo	26th	6th	9	11	028:400	−12	21:31
14th	BSG Bismut Gera (N)	26th	4th	4th	18th	027:570	−30	12:40

GDR champion and participant in the European Cup of National Champions 1967/68 GDR Cup winner and participant in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1967/68 Participant in the Messestädte-Pokal 1967/68 Relegated to the GDR league in 1967/68
(M)	Last season champions
(P)	Cup winner last season
(N)	Promoted last season
Newcomers from the GDR league 1966/67 : 1. FC Magdeburg , FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt

Crosstab

Jürgen Croy (middle; here against Jürgen Großheim from FC Vorwärts) was third in the championship and cup winner with Motor Zwickau.

1966/67

LOK

1.

FC Karl-Marx-Stadt

2-0

2: 1

4: 1

2: 2

2: 2

2-0

3: 2

1-0

2-0

3: 1

1: 1

1-0

2: 1

2.

1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig

0: 2

1-0

2: 1

3: 1

0: 3

3: 1

4: 2

2: 1

1-0

2-0

3-0

3-0

4: 2

3.

BSG Motor Zwickau

1: 1

1: 1

1: 1

2-0

5-0

6: 2

2: 1

2: 1

0-0

4-0

2: 3

2-0

3: 1

4th

SG Dynamo Dresden

0: 1

0: 1

0-0

1-0

1: 1

3-0

0: 3

6: 1

0-0

2: 1

3: 2

2-0

6: 1

5.

FC Carl Zeiss Jena

0-0

2: 1

1-0

0: 1

5-0

3: 1

2: 1

0: 1

1-0

0-0

2-0

1: 3

1: 1

6th

1. FC Union Berlin

1: 2

1-0

3-0

2: 2

1: 1

3: 1

0-0

0: 3

3-0

0-0

0: 3

3-0

1-0

7th

BSG Locomotive Stendal

2-0

2: 2

1-0

2-0

1-0

2: 2

3: 2

2: 1

1-0

0: 2

4: 1

2-0

5-0

8th.

FC Forward Berlin

3: 1

2-0

0-0

0: 1

0: 1

1-0

3-0

2: 2

2: 1

5: 1

0-0

1: 1

5: 1

9.

BSG Wismut Aue

2: 2

3-0

2: 2

2: 1

0: 1

2: 1

2-0

3-0

1-0

4: 3

1-0

1: 1

0: 1

10.

FC Hansa Rostock

0: 1

1-0

1: 1

1-0

2-0

1: 1

1: 1

2: 1

2: 1

4: 2

1: 1

0-0

2-0

11.

Hallescher FC Chemie

0-0

3-0

0: 4

1: 2

2: 1

2: 1

2: 2

2-0

5: 2

2: 1

3: 1

1: 2

2-0

12.

BSG Chemie Leipzig

2: 1

0: 2

1-0

2-0

2: 3

1: 1

3-0

0: 2

3: 2

3: 3

1-0

1: 1

3: 1

13.

Berlin FC Dynamo

1: 1

0: 3

0: 2

0: 1

3: 1

1: 2

2: 2

1: 1

4: 3

0: 1

0: 1

2: 1

2: 1

14th

BSG Wismut Gera

0-0

2: 1

1-0

3-0

1: 2

0: 1

1: 2

3: 4

2: 4

2: 3

0: 2

0-0

2: 2

statistics

The championship team

FC Karl-Marx-Stadt
Manfred Hambeck (26 games / goals -) Fritz Feister (26 / -) Claus Rüdrich (18 / -), Albrecht Müller (26/1), Peter Müller (24 / -) Joachim Posselt (26/4), Rolf Steinmann ( 23/10), Dieter Erler (21/5) Eberhard Schuster (26/7), Manfred Lienemann (21/7), Eberhard Vogel (25/5) Trainer: Horst Scherbaum
also : Claus Kreul (9 / -), Friedrich Hüttner (7 / -), Manfred Matyschik (6 / -), Hans-Heinrich Wolf (2 / -), Volker Benes (1 / -)

Gates

In the 182 point games, 500 goals were scored, an average of 2.75 per game. The highest victories, each with a five-goal difference, came twice in Dresden with 6: 1 (against Aue on the 14th and Gera on the 25th matchday) as well as Jena (against Union on the 4th matchday), Stendal (against Gera on the 23rd matchday) and Zwickau (against Union on the 25th matchday) 5-0. The match with the highest number of goals was the game between Zwickau and Stendal on matchday 6, which ended with 6-2 goals. Hartmut Rentzsch from BSG Motor Zwickau was the top scorer in the league for the first time . The top scorer of previous years (Frenzel, Bauchspieß and Backhaus) were among the top five shooters.

List of goalscorers

	player	team	Gates
1.	Hartmut Rentzsch	BSG Motor Zwickau	17th
2.	Bernd belly spit	BSG Chemie Leipzig	14th
	Ernst Einsiedel	BSG Wismut Aue	14th
4th	Gerd Backhaus	BSG Locomotive Stendal	13
	Henning Frenzel	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	13

spectator

A total of 1,832,000 spectators saw the 182 league games, which is an average of 10,066 spectators per game. The master from Karl-Marx-Stadt recorded the highest average attendance with 22,538, ahead of Dynamo Dresden (20,538). The fewest spectators came to the games from relegated BFC Dynamo (4,538). In contrast, the second relegated Wismut Gera had a higher audience rating (7,577) than the much better placed team from Jena, Stendal and Vorwärts. The game between FCK and Dynamo Dresden on matchday six was the best attended with 45,000 visitors in the Ernst-Thälmann-Stadion .

team	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$ spectator
BSG Wismut Aue	8,308
Berlin FC Dynamo	4,538
1. FC Union Berlin	8,038
FC Forward Berlin	7,356
SG Dynamo Dresden	20,538
BSG Wismut Gera	7,577
Hallescher FC Chemie	11,462
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	6,385
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	22,538
BSG Chemie Leipzig	11,538
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	9,000
FC Hansa Rostock	9,538
BSG Locomotive Stendal	5,631
BSG Motor Zwickau	9,308

soccer player of the year

After the season, Dieter Erler was named Footballer of the Year 1967 for the first time by FC Karl-Marx-Stadt . As team captain, Erler was instrumental in the surprising win of the championship and had already finished second in the election in the two previous years. Henning Frenzel from 1. FC Lok Leipzig landed in second place, while Otto Fräßdorf from FC Vorwärts Berlin came in third.

FDGB Cup

The FDGB Cup was won this season by BSG Motor Zwickau. The losing finalist was FC Hansa Rostock, who had previously defeated the later champions Karl-Marx-Stadt and the reigning champions Vorwärts Berlin. Again the final took place during the current league season. The cup defender Chemie Leipzig had already failed in the second round at the second division forward Meiningen .

International competitions

In the European Cup, all GDR representatives surpassed their first opponents. Forward Berlin and Chemie Leipzig were already defeated in the next round (Berlin in the European Cup of National Champions Górnik Zabrze , Leipzig in the European Cup Winners' Cup Standard Liège ). Only Lokomotive Leipzig stayed longer in the competition and was only defeated by FC Kilmarnock in the quarter-finals of the Messestädte Cup . Lok had previously defeated the top European team from Benfica Lisbon in the round of 16. Five East German teams were represented in the last International Football Cup , Vorwärts Berlin, Carl Zeiss Jena, Lokomotive Leipzig, Hansa Rostock and Dynamo Dresden. There were also duels with West German teams in the preliminary groups (Rostock against Karlsruher SC , Jena against Eintracht Braunschweig and Berlin against Borussia Neunkirchen ). None of the GDR teams made it to the next round.

See also

• GDR soccer league 1966/67

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 7, 2019 .