GDR football league 1967/68

GDR football league 1967/68
master	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
European Cup of National Champions	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Trade fair trophy	FC Hansa Rostock 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
Cup winners	1. FC Union Berlin
European Cup Winners' Cup	1. FC Union Berlin
Relegated	SG Dynamo Dresden BSG Locomotive Stendal
Teams	14th
Games	182
Gates	474  (ø 2.6 per game)
spectator	2,213,000  (ø 12,159 per game)
Top scorer	Gerd Kostmann , (FC Hansa Rostock)
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The GDR Oberliga 1967/68 was the 19th edition of the top division of the GDR . FC Carl Zeiss Jena became champions for the second time . The season began on August 12, 1967 and ended on June 1, 1968.

Name change

The BSG Motor Zwickau merged on May 1, 1968 with the BSG Aktivist Zwickau to form the BSG Sachsenring Zwickau . Motor continued to play in the Oberliga as the first Sachsenring team, while the activist competed in the GDR league as Sachsenring Zwickau II.

Season course

Congratulations to master Carl Zeiss Jena

Although Jena was five points ahead of the champions in the end, the pursuer from Rostock was able to stand up for a long time. On the 22nd matchday came the clash between the two teams, which Rostock won 2-1 and thus created a tie. Of the remaining four games of the season, Hansa only won one and lost three, while Carl Zeiss achieved three wins and one draw in the final sprint. For FC Carl Zeiss Jena, the championship was the prelude to an era in which they always placed in the top five for 16 seasons in a row. The following defeat of Jena in the final of the FDGB Cup against 1. FC Union Berlin was all the more surprising .

For Rostock it was already the fifth runner-up (including the transition round in 1955 ). In addition, there were four second placings in the FDGB Cup , with which Hansa consolidated its reputation as "Eternal Second". They were followed by the newcomers 1. FC Magdeburg, which was also at the beginning of its successful period in the 1970s, the record champions Vorwärts Berlin, Lokomotive Leipzig - for the fifth time in a row among the top five - and last year's surprise champions FC Karl-Marx-Stadt .

The decision about relegation was open for a long time. Before the penultimate matchday, there were only three points difference between the bottom of the table and the eighth of the table. On the last day of the match there was the constellation that the last three teams each had 20 points and two of them, Chemie Leipzig and Dynamo Dresden, met directly. In Dresden, the teams parted in front of 30,000 spectators with a 1-1 draw, which meant that Leipzig remained in the top division due to the better goal difference. The third team, Lokomotive Stendal, could have overtaken both competitors with a win, but lost 4-1 at home against Jena and thus accompanied Dresden into second class. While it was the last season in the league for Stendal, Dresden came back after a year and then dominated GDR football for a decade together with Jena and Magdeburg.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26th	17th	5	4th	051:190	+32	39:13
2.	FC Hansa Rostock	26th	15th	4th	7th	037:270	+10	34:18
3.	1. FC Magdeburg (N)	26th	13	7th	6th	043:380	+5	33:19
4th	FC Forward Berlin *	26th	9	10	7th	034:290	+5	26:26
5.	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26th	9	7th	10	039:350	+4	25:27
6th	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (M)	26th	8th	9	9	033:300	+3	25:27
7th	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau (P)	26th	11	3	12	036:340	+2	25:27
8th.	1. FC Union Berlin	26th	9	7th	10	026:350	−9	25:27
9.	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt (N)	26th	8th	7th	11	034:390	−5	23:29
10.	Hallescher FC Chemie	26th	8th	7th	11	032:410	−9	23:29
11.	BSG Wismut Aue	26th	9	4th	13	032:400	−8	22:30
12.	BSG Chemie Leipzig	26th	7th	7th	12	026:320	−6	21:31
13.	SG Dynamo Dresden	26th	5	11	10	025:330	−8	21:31
14th	BSG Locomotive Stendal	26th	7th	6th	13	026:420	−16	20:32

^*Vorwärts Berlin were deducted two points due to the unauthorized use of the player Ulrich Ebert in a friendly match against the fourth division team Motor Lößnitz . Ebert had been banned from his previous team, Wismut Aue, for disciplinary reasons. Since the ban, according to DFV regulations, remained in place even when the community changed, the army sports club was punished with a deduction of two points for using a banned player.

GDR champion and participant in the European Cup of National Champions 1968/69 GDR Cup winner and participant in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1968/69 Participant in the Messestädte-Pokal 1968/69 Relegated to the GDR league in 1968/69
(M)	Last season champions
(P)	Cup winner last season
(N)	Promoted last season
Newcomers from the GDR league in 1967/68 : Berliner FC Dynamo , BSG Stahl Riesa

Crosstab

1967/68						LOK
1.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena		4: 1	1-0	3-0	3: 1	2-0	2-0	3-0	1-0	2-0	3: 1	2-0	2-0	1-0
2.	FC Hansa Rostock	2: 1		3: 2	0: 1	2-0	1-0	3-0	1-0	1-0	3: 1	2: 1	2: 1	1: 1	2-0
3.	1. FC Magdeburg	3: 2	1-0		3: 1	2-0	1: 1	1: 2	1: 1	3: 3	3: 2	1-0	1-0	2-0	3: 2
4th	FC Forward Berlin	3: 2	1: 1	3: 3		2: 2	0-0	2: 1	1: 1	0-0	3-0	3-0	2: 1	4-0	1: 1
5.	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	0-0	2: 2	4: 1	1: 1		2: 2	1-0	0: 1	3-0	5: 1	0: 2	3: 1	2: 1	4: 1
6th	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	0: 4	3-0	1-0	1: 1	0: 1		5: 2	3: 2	2: 2	1: 1	5-0	1-0	1: 1	2-0
7th	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	1: 2	1-0	5-0	2: 1	2-0	2: 2		1: 2	5-0	0-0	0: 1	1-0	2: 1	4-0
8th.	1. FC Union Berlin	0-0	2: 1	2: 3	1-0	1-0	0: 1	1: 1		1-0	3: 1	1: 5	0-0	2: 1	0-0
9.	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	2: 1	1-0	1: 1	2-0	0: 3	2: 1	1: 2	3-0		1: 1	5: 1	1: 1	1: 2	3-0
10.	Hallescher FC Chemie	2: 2	0: 2	1: 3	0: 2	4: 2	1-0	2: 1	1-0	3: 2		4-0	2: 2	0-0	1-0
11.	BSG Wismut Aue	0-0	1: 2	1: 2	1: 2	1-0	1-0	0: 1	0-0	0-0	1: 4		4-0	2-0	3: 1
12.	BSG Chemie Leipzig	0: 2	1: 1	1: 2	1-0	3: 1	1-0	3-0	5: 2	2-0	1-0	1: 1		0-0	0: 1
13.	SG Dynamo Dresden	2: 2	0: 1	1: 1	0-0	1: 1	2-0	2-0	3: 1	1: 2	0-0	1: 4	1: 1		4: 1
14th	BSG Locomotive Stendal	1: 4	2: 3	0-0	2-0	1: 1	1: 1	2-0	0: 2	4: 2	2-0	2: 1	2-0	0-0

statistics

The championship team

FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Wolfgang Blochwitz (23 games / goals -) Peter Rock (22/6), Michael Strempel (25/3), Heinz Marx (26/1), Jürgen Werner (24/3) Gerd Brunner (22/2), Rainer Schlutter (26/11) Helmut Stein (24/3), Peter Ducke (22/7), Dieter Scheitler (21/7), Roland Ducke (25/5) Trainer: Georg Buschner
also: Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin (Tor, 3 / -), Udo Preuße (17/1), Werner Krauß (12/2), Winfried Patzer (1 / -), Hans Meyer (1 / -)

Gates

In the 182 point games, 474 goals were scored, an average of 2.60 per game. Most of the goals in a game were scored 5-2 in the games Karl-Marx-Stadt against Zwickau on the first and Chemie Leipzig against Union Berlin on the 14th matchday. The highest victories were celebrated with 5-0 goals by Karl-Marx-Stadt against Aue on the sixth and twice in Zwickau against Magdeburg (eighth matchday) and Erfurt (16th matchday). Gerd Kostmann from FC Hansa Rostock was the top scorer in the league for the first time .

List of goalscorers

	player	team	Gates
1.	Gerd Kostmann	FC Hansa Rostock	15th
2.	Wolfram lion	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	13
3.	Eberhard Vogel	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	12
4th	Dieter Scheitler	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	11
	Gerd Stieler	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	11
	Meinhard Uentz	1. FC Union Berlin	11

spectator

A total of 2,213,000 spectators saw the 182 league games, which is an average of 12,159 spectators per game. The relegated Dynamo Dresden recorded the highest average attendance with 19,615. The fewest spectators came to the games of the other relegated Lokomotive Stendal (6,038). With 40,000 spectators, the match between 1. FC Magdeburg and FC Carl Zeiss Jena on matchday 19 was the most popular.

team	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$ spectator
BSG Wismut Aue	9,077
1. FC Union Berlin	9,308
FC Forward Berlin	7,238
SG Dynamo Dresden	19,615
FC Rot Weiß Erfurt	14,646
Hallescher FC Chemie	15,269
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	9,923
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	15,692
BSG Chemie Leipzig	12,885
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	10,769
1. FC Magdeburg	13,962
FC Hansa Rostock	15,808
BSG Locomotive Stendal	6,038
BSG Motor Zwickau	9.231

soccer player of the year

After the season, Bernd Bransch was named Footballer of the Year 1968 for the first time by Halleschen FC Chemie . Herbert Pankau (Hansa Rostock) and Roland Ducke (FC Carl Zeiss Jena) followed in second and third place .

FDGB Cup

The FDGB Cup was won this season by the league eighth 1. FC Union Berlin. The Berliners surprisingly defeated the master Carl Zeiss Jena in the final, who missed the chance for the first GDR soccer double . Union had previously beaten the cup defender from Zwickau and the record champions forward.

International competitions

The European Cup season was again unsuccessful for the GDR. Only Lokomotive Leipzig survived the first round in the Messestädte-Pokal . For Karl-Marx-Stadt (in the European Cup against RSC Anderlecht ), Motor Zwickau (in the European Cup against Torpedo Moscow ) and Dynamo Dresden (in the Messestädte-Pokal against the Glasgow Rangers ) it was over after the first opponent. Lok lost to FK Vojvodina Novi Sad in the second round . The Intertoto Cup was also held for the first time in preparation for the season. Lokomotive Leipzig, Carl Zeiss Jena, Dynamo Dresden and Union Berlin took part here, but could not win their group.

See also

• GDR soccer league 1967/68

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 .