GDR football league 1971/72

GDR football league 1971/72
master	1. FC Magdeburg
European Cup of National Champions	1. FC Magdeburg
Uefa cup	Berlin FC Dynamo SG Dynamo Dresden
Cup winners	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
European Cup Winners' Cup	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Relegated	BSG Stahl Riesa ASG Forward Stralsund
Teams	14th
Games	182
Gates	482  (ø 2.65 per game)
spectator	2,071,700  (ø 11,383 per game)
Top scorer	Hans-Jürgen Kreische , (SG Dynamo Dresden)
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The GDR Oberliga 1971/72 was the 23rd edition of the top division of the GDR . 1. FC Magdeburg became champions for the first time . The season began on August 28, 1971 and ended on May 21, 1972. Subsequently, all major league clubs competed again within the Fuwo Cup .

Before the season

In April 1969, the German Gymnastics and Sports Association (DTSB) decided that ASK Vorwärts Berlin , which was stationed in Strausberg and thus in the Frankfurt (Oder) district , should gradually be relocated to the district capital Frankfurt (Oder) . During the 1970/71 season it became known that FC Vorwärts Berlin , which was separated from ASK in 1966 (and located in East Berlin ), would move to Frankfurt. The move was largely driven by the chairman of the Dynamo sports association and Minister for State Security Erich Mielke and the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Frankfurt Erich Mückenberger . Mielke wanted to create better competition conditions for local rivals BFC Dynamo (e.g. access to more training centers for youth training), while Mückenberger wanted to upgrade the rather under-represented district of Frankfurt.

The relocation was officially justified by the Ministry of National Defense by stating that it would be possible to guarantee the sporting advancement forward, which was not possible in Berlin. This was partly true, e.g. B. the expansion of the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark , requested by FC Vorwärts since 1966 , was not realized for years. The number of viewers for army footballers was also very low compared to the sporting success and the other league clubs. Another reason was partly cited that in view of the Four Power Agreement on Berlin (which was signed in September 1971), the forward footballers who were members of the National People's Army were withdrawn from Berlin because the city was supposed to be demilitarized.

After that, FC Vorwärts could never build on its successful past. The BFC Dynamo, on the other hand, began its sporting ascent, which later led to winning ten championships in a row.

With the rise of ASG Vorwärts Stralsund , there were two premieres: For the first time, the Rostock district was represented with two teams in the major league, and the army sports association Vorwärts also had more than one representative in the top division for the first time.

Season course

1. FC Magdeburg secured the first championship in its history on the penultimate matchday with a 1-0 win against record champions Vorwärts Frankfurt. The Magdeburg team got off to a weak start into the season and therefore Carl Zeiss Jena was the most promising in the championship race for a long time. In the end, however, Jena slipped to fourth place. Runner-up was BFC Dynamo, which achieved its best position in twelve years. Last year's champion and cup winner Dynamo Dresden came third.

The fight against relegation was finally decided between the three teams from Vorwärts Stralsund, Stahl Riesa and FC Karl-Marx-Stadt. On the last day of the match there was a direct clash between the bottom of the table, Karl-Marx-Stadt, and the penultimate Stralsund, which FCK won 2-0 and, thanks to Riesa's defeat at Carl Zeiss Jena, moved up to a saving twelfth place in the table. Both Riesa and Stralsund were later able to return to the league.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	1. FC Magdeburg	26th	17th	4th	5	048:230	+25	38:14
2.	Berlin FC Dynamo	26th	13	9	4th	045:200	+25	35:17
3.	SG Dynamo Dresden (M / P)	26th	12	9	5	059:300	+29	33:19
4th	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26th	12	7th	7th	042:340	+8	31:21
5.	FC Forward Frankfurt	26th	9	9	8th	033:360	−3	27:25
6th	Hallescher FC Chemie	26th	10	7th	9	040:440	−4	27:25
7th	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	26th	7th	11	8th	026:250	+1	25:27
8th.	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26th	9	7th	10	030:310	−1	25:27
9.	FC Hansa Rostock	26th	8th	8th	10	027:240	+3	24:28
10.	BSG Wismut Aue	26th	7th	9	10	034:460	−12	23:29
11.	1. FC Union Berlin	26th	5	11	10	021:320	−11	21:31
12.	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (N)	26th	7th	5	14th	034:480	−14	19:33
13.	BSG Stahl Riesa	26th	5	8th	13	023:410	−18	18:34
14th	ASG forward Stralsund (N)	26th	6th	6th	14th	020:480	−28	18:34

GDR champion and participant in the 1972/73 European Cup GDR Cup winner and participant in the 1972/73 European Cup Winners' Cup Participant in the 1972/73 UEFA Cup Relegated to the GDR League 1972/73
(M)	Last season champions
(P)	Cup winner last season
(N)	Promoted last season
Newcomers from the GDR league 1971/72 : FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt , BSG Chemie 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.

1971/72
01.	1. FC Magdeburg		1-0	2: 1	5-0	1-0	3-0	2: 1	2: 1	1-0	5-0	1-0	4: 2	1-0	2: 1
02.	Berlin FC Dynamo	1-0		2: 1	1-0	2: 2	1: 1	0: 1	3-0	1-0	5: 1	1: 1	2-0	4-0	4-0
03.	SG Dynamo Dresden	3: 1	2: 2		5: 1	0-0	6: 1	5: 2	2-0	2-0	5: 3	4: 1	2: 1	4: 2	6-0
04th	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	1: 1	3: 2	1: 1		4-0	3: 2	3: 1	0-0	2-0	1-0	6: 2	4: 1	3: 1	1-0
05.	FC Forward Frankfurt	2: 2	0: 1	1: 1	1: 1		0-0	2: 1	2: 1	1-0	3: 1	1-0	4: 3	3: 1	3-0
06th	Hallescher FC Chemie	3: 1	3: 8	2: 2	2-0	2: 1		2-0	3: 1	2-0	3: 2	5: 1	1-0	3-0	0-0
07th	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	1: 1	0: 1	3-0	1: 2	1: 1	2-0		2: 1	2-0	1: 1	0-0	3: 1	2-0	0-0
08th.	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	1-0	0-0	1-0	0: 1	2-0	1: 1	0-0		0-0	3: 2	3: 2	2: 1	3-0	7: 1
09.	FC Hansa Rostock	0: 3	0-0	0-0	1-0	3: 1	3: 1	0-0	0-0		4-0	0: 1	2-0	0-0	5: 1
10.	BSG Wismut Aue	2: 4	1-0	1: 1	2: 2	0-0	1: 1	0-0	2-0	4: 3		2-0	2-0	2: 2	1-0
11.	1. FC Union Berlin	0: 2	0-0	0-0	1: 1	0: 1	0-0	0-0	4: 1	1: 1	0-0		1: 2	1-0	3-0
12.	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 1	0: 1	1: 5	2: 1	1: 1	4: 1	1: 1	1: 2	0: 2	1: 1	1: 1		2: 1	2-0
13.	BSG Stahl Riesa	1: 1	0-0	2: 1	1: 1	5: 1	2: 1	0-0	0-0	1: 3	1-0	0: 1	2: 2		1-0
14th	ASG forward Stralsund	0: 1	3: 3	0-0	1-0	3: 2	2-0	2: 1	2-0	0-0	1: 3	0-0	1: 3	2-0

statistics

The championship team

1. FC Magdeburg
Ulrich Schulze (21 games / goals -) Manfred Zapf (25/3) Detlef Enge (24 / -), Klaus Decker (19 / -), Jürgen Achtel (18 / -) Wolfgang Seguin (26/4), Jürgen Pommerenke ( 25/3), Wolfgang Abraham (25/13) Hans-Jürgen Hermann (25/6), Jürgen Sparwasser (25/7), Axel Tyll (23/6) Trainer: Heinz Krügel
also: Hans-Werner Heine (gate 5 / -); Siegmund Mewes (21/5), Helmut Gaube (8 / -), Jörg Ohm (7 / -), Heinz Oelze (4/1), Rolf Retschlag (3 / -), Bodo Sommer (2 / -), Wolfgang Steinbach (1/-)
without use: Hans-Georg Moldenhauer (gate); Günter Fronzeck , Dietmar Hempel , Horst-Werner Höfecker , Martin Hoffmann , Peter Kohde , Bernd Strickrodt

Gates

In the 182 point games, 482 goals were scored, an average of 2.64 per game. The highest-scoring game with eleven goals was Chemie Halle - BFC Dynamo with 3: 8 on matchday 19. The biggest win was Dynamo Dresden's 6-0 win against Vorwärts Stralsund on matchday ten and Lokomotive Leipzig's 7-1 win against Vorwärts Stralsund on matchday 22.

Hans-Jürgen Kreische from SG Dynamo Dresden was top scorer in the league for the second time . He defended his title from the previous year. A total of 144 players distinguished themselves as goal scorers, plus five own goals.

Dörner (Dresden) was the only player to score a hat trick against Riesa on matchday 22 . Moreover scored Abraham (Magdeburg) against Karl-Marx-Stadt (4 Sp.), Kreische (Dresden) to Stralsund (10 Sp.) And Hall (18 Sp.), Paul (Riesa) to Frankfurt (15 Sp .), Johannsen (BFC) against Halle (19th column), Streich (Rostock) against Frankfurt (21st column), Lisiewicz (Lok Leipzig) against Stralsund (22nd column), and Vogel (Jena) against Riesa (26th Sp.) Also three goals in one encounter. 61 penalties were awarded, 47 of which were converted. Abraham from Magdeburg scored seven times, Geisler from Lok Leipzig scored five times, Rentzsch from Zwickau, Dörner from Dresden, Wolf from Karl-Marx-Stadt and Uentz von Union each scored four times. Goalkeeper Jürgen Croy from Zwickau parried 2 pieces. The players Schlutter (Jena) against Dresden (7th column) and Hoffmann (Zwickau) against FCV (23rd column) achieved a very special feat, both of whom turned a corner directly.

List of goalscorers

	player	team	Gates
1.	Hans-Jürgen Kreische	SG Dynamo Dresden	14th
2.	Wolfgang Abraham	1. FC Magdeburg	13
3.	Joachim Streich	FC Hansa Rostock	12
4th	Rainer Sachse	SG Dynamo Dresden	11
5.	Norbert Johannsen	Berlin FC Dynamo	10
	Hartmut Rentzsch	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	10

spectator

A total of 2,071,700 viewers saw the 182 league games, which is an average of 11,383 viewers per game. The highest average attendance was again recorded in Dresden (23,038). This time Magdeburg (22,231) and Karl-Marx-Stadt (14,000) were behind. The move to Frankfurt had not brought Vorwärts forward in the audience favor, because again the army footballers were at the bottom of the audience table (6,885) behind Carl Zeiss Jena (6,962). The biggest crowd was 45,000 for the two home games of 1. FC Magdeburg against Carl Zeiss Jena on matchday 18 and Sachsenring Zwickau on matchday 24. The fewest spectators (1,000) were at the game between BFC Dynamo and Hansa Rostock (26th matchday).

team	total	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$	home	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$	Away	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$
1. FC Magdeburg	433,000	16,654	289,000	22,231	144,000	11,077
Berlin FC Dynamo	239,000	9,192	101,000	7,769	138,000	10,615
SG Dynamo Dresden	465,500	17,904	299,500	23,038	166,000	12,769
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	304,000	11,692	90,500	6,962	213,500	16,423
FC Forward Frankfurt	237,700	9,142	89,500	6,885	148,200	11,400
Hallescher FC Chemie	304,500	11,712	177,000	13,615	127,500	9,808
BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	256.200	9,854	103,700	7,977	152,500	11,731
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	267,500	10,288	152,000	11,692	115,500	8,885
FC Hansa Rostock	261,500	10,058	132,500	10.192	129,000	9,923
BSG Wismut Aue	256,500	9,865	118,500	9.115	138,000	10,615
1. FC Union Berlin	260,000	10,000	116,000	8,923	144,000	11,077
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	329,500	12,673	182,000	14,000	147,500	11,346
BSG Stahl Riesa	262,500	10.096	117,000	9,000	145,500	11,192
ASG forward Stralsund	261,500	10,058	103,500	7,962	158,000	12,154

various

• 286 players were used, 28 of them were in all point games.
• There were 106 home wins, 55 draws and 21 away wins.
• The referees issued 5 reprints and 226 warnings, with 28 players having to pause after the third yellow card.

soccer player of the year

After the season, Jürgen Croy was awarded Footballer of the Year 1972 for the first time by BSG Sachsenring Zwickau .

	player	team	Points
1.	Jürgen Croy	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	465
2.	Harald Irmscher	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	187
3.	Manfred Zapf	1. FC Magdeburg	125

FDGB Cup

The FDGB-Pokal was won by FC Carl Zeiss Jena this season . Carl Zeiss beat the cup defender and last year's champion Dynamo Dresden in the final, which took place shortly before the last Bundesliga matchday. Jena was only fourth in the league and thus secured qualification for international competitions.

International competitions

The European Cup season was very different for the GDR participants. Dynamo Dresden lost to the eventual winner Ajax Amsterdam in the first round of the European Cup . The HFC Chemie was also eliminated in the first round of the UEFA Cup , but under tragic circumstances: Before the second leg at PSV Eindhoven , there was a fire in the hotel with fatal outcome for Wolfgang Hoffmann from Halle. Halle then withdrew from the cup. The other participant, Carl Zeiss Jena, made it to the third round and was eliminated from the eventual finalist Wolverhampton Wanderers . The debutant at European level BFC Dynamo caused a surprise. In the European Cup Winners' Cup , the Berliners made it to the semi-finals and only lost there on penalties against Dynamo Moscow . In the Intertoto Cup held before the season , the GDR did not take part again.

See also

• GDR soccer league 1971/72
• FuWo best list 1971/72

literature

• 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 .
• FUWO: Born 1971–1972, Sportverlag Berlin, ISSN  0323-8407

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Jasper: History of FC Forward. (No longer available online.) In: www.fcvfrankfurt.de . Archived from the original on January 26, 2016 ; Retrieved August 31, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.