GDR football league 1969/70

GDR football league 1969/70
master	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
European Cup of National Champions	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Trade fair trophy	SG Dynamo Dresden
Cup winners	FC Forward Berlin
European Cup Winners' Cup	FC Forward Berlin
Relegated	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt
Teams	14th
Games	182
Gates	452  (ø 2.48 per game)
spectator	1,934,000  (ø 10,626 per game)
Top scorer	Otto Skrowny , ( BSG Chemie Leipzig )
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The GDR Oberliga 1969/70 was the 21st edition of the top division of the GDR . FC Carl Zeiss Jena became champions for the third time . The season began on August 23, 1969 and ended on May 30, 1970.

Before the season

Due to the rise of BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt , the last GDR district was represented in the top division for at least one season with the Frankfurt district 20 years after the start of the league . All other districts had already provided upper division clubs, although the BSG Vorwärts Schwerin took part in the upper division in the first season when the Schwerin district did not yet exist. Even in the 20th year of its existence, the Oberliga was dominated by the south: nine of the 14 teams came from the southern districts, with the Karl-Marx-Stadt district still standing out with three teams.

Season course

The FC Carl Zeiss Jena was superior GDR champions.

The team from Hansa Rostock just reached relegation.

The championship was characterized by the duel between the champions of the last two years Vorwärts Berlin and Carl Zeiss Jena, with Berlin dominating the round trip and Jena the second half. Since Vorwärts was too weak in the second half of the season, the championship was practically decided after the 23rd match day, after Jena had already six points and 15 goals ahead of Berlin. The defending champion Vorwärts could not catch up with this lead and was beaten 5-0 by the new champions Jena in their own stadium on the last day of the match. Dynamo Dresden landed in third place and qualified for the Messestädte-Pokal . It was the best placement that a newcomer ever achieved in the history of the league (only 1. FC Magdeburg also reached third place in 1968). Chemistry Leipzig came in behind.

In many ways this season represented a turning point. So it meant the end of Vorwärts' dominant time in the league. After that, the army footballers never played a major role in the championship fight again (only in 1983 they became runner-up again with a large margin behind the BFC Dynamo) and even relegated after the delegation to Frankfurt (Oder) . Chemistry Leipzig was never to be as successful again, instead the “chemists” developed into an elevator team. The same applied to the Hansa Rostock team, which was still regularly playing for the championship in the 1960s.

On the other hand, the season marked the starting point for an era that lasted more than 20 years for Dynamo Dresden. a. won seven championships. Together with Jena, Magdeburg and later the BFC Dynamo, Dresden became one of the most influential teams in GDR football in the 1970s and 1980s.

The other newcomer and newcomer to the Oberliga from Eisenhüttenstadt, on the other hand, could not keep up with the other teams and occupied last place in the table from matchday 13 to the end. It was not until 1989 that Eisenhüttenstadt played in the big league again. “Hütte” was accompanied by the 1967 champions, FC Karl-Marx-Stadt. The FCK gambled away their last chance of relegation on the last day of play against their rivals from Aue when they lost 2-1 at home. The Rostockers (who lost 0: 1 in Zwickau) were saved.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26th	16	7th	3	050:160	+34	39:13
2.	FC Forward Berlin (M)	26th	12	8th	6th	043:340	+9	32:20
3.	SG Dynamo Dresden (N)	26th	13	5	8th	036:260	+10	31:21
4th	BSG Chemie Leipzig	26th	11	8th	7th	033:270	+6	30:22
5.	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	26th	9	10	7th	025:260	−1	28:24
6th	Berlin FC Dynamo	26th	10	8th	8th	029:320	−3	28:24
7th	BSG Wismut Aue	26th	10	7th	9	031:340	−3	27:25
8th.	1. FC Magdeburg (P)	26th	10	4th	12	037:370	± 0	24:28
9.	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	26th	8th	8th	10	032:400	−8	24:28
10.	Hallescher FC Chemie	26th	8th	6th	12	035:340	+1	22:30
11.	BSG Stahl Riesa	26th	9	4th	13	031:350	−4	22:30
12.	FC Hansa Rostock	26th	7th	7th	12	022:330	−11	21:31
13.	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26th	7th	5	14th	027:420	−15	19:33
14th	BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt (N)	26th	5	7th	14th	021:360	−15	17:35

GDR champion and participant in the 1970/71 European Cup GDR Cup winner and participant in the 1970/71 European Cup Winners' Cup Participant in the trade fair city cup 1970/71 Relegated to the GDR League 1970/71
(M)	Last season champions
(P)	Cup winner last season
(N)	Promoted last season
Newcomers from the GDR league 1969/70 : 1. FC Union Berlin , 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig

Crosstab

The cross table shows the results of all games this season. The home team is listed in the left column and the visiting team in the top row.

1969/70
01.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena		3: 1	2-0	3-0	1: 1	2-0	3: 1	4: 1	3: 1	2: 1	3-0	3-0	1: 1	2-0
02.	FC Forward Berlin	0: 5		1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	5: 2	2-0	1: 1	2-0	2: 1	2-0	1: 1	3: 2	3-0
03.	SG Dynamo Dresden	1: 2	1: 1		2: 1	3-0	0-0	3-0	2-0	1-0	3-0	0: 1	2-0	2: 1	6-0
04th	BSG Chemie Leipzig	1-0	0: 1	1: 1		1-0	1-0	3-0	1-0	4: 1	1: 1	0-0	2: 1	1: 1	2: 1
05.	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	1: 1	1-0	3-0	1: 1		2-0	1: 1	2: 1	0-0	3-0	2-0	1-0	2-0	1-0
06th	Berlin FC Dynamo	1: 1	1-0	3: 1	0: 3	1: 1		1-0	3-0	1-0	2: 1	2: 1	0-0	2: 2	3: 1
07th	BSG Wismut Aue	0-0	2: 2	0: 1	3: 2	3-0	0: 2		3: 1	2: 2	1-0	2-0	0-0	2: 1	0-0
08th.	1. FC Magdeburg	1: 3	3-0	1: 1	2: 1	2-0	3-0	0: 1		1: 1	3: 1	1-0	4-0	3: 1	2: 1
09.	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	0: 3	2-0	4: 1	1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	2: 2	2: 1		0: 3	3: 2	3: 1	2: 1	1-0
10.	Hallescher FC Chemie	1: 1	2: 3	0: 1	3: 1	4-0	4: 1	2-0	1: 1	1-0		1: 1	0: 1	4: 1	0-0
11.	BSG Stahl Riesa	2: 1	1: 3	0: 1	1: 2	2-0	1: 1	2: 3	3: 1	4: 2	1: 2		3-0	3-0	1-0
12.	FC Hansa Rostock	0: 1	2: 2	3-0	2-0	2-0	1: 2	1-0	1-0	1: 2	1: 1	0-0		0: 1	2: 1
13.	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1-0	0: 3	0: 2	1: 1	1: 1	1-0	1: 2	0: 4	2-0	2: 1	3-0	2-0		0: 1
14th	BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt	0-0	1: 3	2-0	0: 1	0-0	0-0	2: 3	4-0	1: 1	2-0	0: 2	2: 2	2: 1

statistics

The championship team

FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Wolfgang Blochwitz (26 games / goals -) Peter Rock (23/3), Michael Strempel (26/4), Udo Preuße (23/5), Werner Krauß (26/1), Harald Irmscher (26/5), Helmut Stein (25/9), Rainer Schlutter ( 21/2 ), Peter Ducke ( 24/8 ), Roland Ducke ( 26/2 ), Dieter Scheitler ( 26/9 ) Trainer: Georg Buschner
also: Jürgen Werner (14 / -), Gerd Brunner (11 / -), Bernd Krauß (5/2), Hans Meyer (2 / -)
without commitment: Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin (goal)

Gates

In the 182 point games, 452 goals were scored, an average of 2.48 per game. The highest-scoring game with seven goals was Vorwärts Berlin - BFC Dynamo with 5: 2 on matchday five. The biggest win was Dynamo Dresden's 6-0 win against Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt on matchday five.

Otto Skrowny from BSG Chemie Leipzig was the top scorer in the league for the first time . His twelve goals, however, were a negative record - no other player was the top scorer with so few goals. A total of 139 players stood out as goalscorers, plus five own goals.

Four players score three goals in one game: Piepenburg (Vorwärts Berlin) against Riesa (4th column), Heidler and Gumz (both Dresden) against Eisenhüttenstadt (5th column) and Lehmann (Riesa) against Erfurt (13th column) .

List of goalscorers

	player	team	Gates
1.	Otto Skrowny	BSG Chemie Leipzig	12
2.	Horst Begerad	FC Forward Berlin	11
3.	Roland Nowotny	Hallescher FC Chemie	10
4th	Klaus Lehmann	BSG Stahl Riesa	09
	Dieter Scheitler	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	09
	Jürgen Sparwasser	1. FC Magdeburg	09
	Helmut Stein	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	09

spectator

A total of 1,934,000 spectators saw the 182 league games, which is an average of 10,629 spectators per game. The highest average attendance was again recorded in Dresden (18,500), Chemie Leipzig (17,538) and Halle (15,577), while the two Berlin clubs Dynamo (4,692) and Vorwärts (5,692) were at the bottom of the audience table, as in previous years. The largest audience meant 25,000 each for the games Dynamo Dresden - Hansa Rostock (1st column), Dynamo Dresden - Vorwärts Berlin (10th column) and HFC Chemie - Vorwärts Berlin (25th column). The fewest spectators (2,000 each) were at the games between Vorwärts Berlin and Wismut Aue (3rd matchday) and the BFC Dynamo and Rot-Weiß Erfurt (14th matchday).

team	total	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$	home	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$	Away	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	299,000	11,500	120,000	09.231	179,000	13,769
FC Forward Berlin	247,000	09,500	074,000	05,692	173,000	13,308
SG Dynamo Dresden	374,500	14,404	240,500	18,500	134,000	10.308
BSG Chemie Leipzig	388,000	14,923	228,000	17,538	160,000	12.308
BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	246,000	09,462	116,500	08,962	129,500	09,962
Berlin FC Dynamo	179,000	06,885	061,000	04,692	118,000	09,077
BSG Wismut Aue	249,000	09,577	123,000	09,462	126,000	09,692
1. FC Magdeburg	286,000	11,000	146,500	11,269	139,500	10,731
FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	229,500	08,827	123,500	09,500	106,000	08,154
Hallescher FC Chemie	331,000	12,731	202,500	15,577	128,500	09,885
BSG Stahl Riesa	267,500	10,288	129,500	09,962	138,000	10,615
FC Hansa Rostock	290,000	11,154	146,500	11,269	143,500	11,038
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	282,500	10,865	137,500	10,577	145,000	11,154
BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt	220,000	08,462	095,500	07,346	124,500	09,577

various

• 281 players were used, 36 of them were in all point games.
• There were 101 home wins, 47 draws and 34 away wins.
• The referees issued 14 reprints from the field and 235 warnings.

soccer player of the year

After the season, Roland Ducke was named Footballer of the Year 1970 for the first time by FC Carl Zeiss Jena . Eberhard Vogel , who had received this award last year, received the second most votes in the vote.

	player	team	Points
1.	Roland Ducke	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	362
2.	Eberhard Vogel	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	182
3.	Jürgen Croy	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	147

FDGB Cup

The FDGB-Pokal was won this season by the runner-up Vorwärts Berlin. The Berliners won in the final against the newly crowned league climber Lokomotive Leipzig, who had previously defeated the league clubs Rostock, Dresden and Riesa.

International competitions

For the first time in eleven years, a GDR representative, FC Vorwärts Berlin, reached the quarter-finals in the European Cup . There the Berliners lost to the eventual cup winner Feijenoord Rotterdam . In the European Cup Winners' Cup , Magdeburg failed in the second round to Académica de Coimbra . In the Messestädte-Pokal, Hansa Rostock also lost to Inter Milan in the second round , while Carl Zeiss Jena reached the quarter-finals and was eliminated from Ajax Amsterdam . At the 1969 Intertoto Cup this time participated in any East German representatives.

See also

• GDR soccer league 1969/70

Web links

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

swell

• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• The new football week (fuwo): born 1969-1970 . Sportverlag Berlin, ISSN  0323-8407