GDR football league 1972/73

GDR football league 1972/73
master	SG Dynamo Dresden
European Cup of National Champions	SG Dynamo Dresden
Uefa cup	FC Carl Zeiss Jena 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
Cup winners	1. FC Magdeburg
European Cup Winners' Cup	1. FC Magdeburg
Relegated	1. FC Union Berlin Hallescher FC Chemie
Teams	14th
Games	182
Gates	557  (ø 3.06 per game)
spectator	1,994,000  (ø 10,956 per game)
Top scorer	Hans-Jürgen Kreische , (SG Dynamo Dresden)
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DDR Football League 1972/73 ↓

The GDR Oberliga 1972/73 was the 24th edition of the top division of the GDR . The SG Dynamo Dresden became champion for the third time . The season began on September 16, 1972 and ended on June 23, 1973.

Season course

The three dominating teams in GDR football in the 1970s Dynamo Dresden, Carl Zeiss Jena and 1. FC Magdeburg made the first three places among themselves this time. Dresden took on a dominant role and was consistently at the top of the table from the fourth game day. In the end, Dynamo achieved 42 plus points - an average of 1.62 points per game, which was a new league record at the time. The 61 goals scored (2.35 per game) by Dresden were also the best average since 1960 (at that time Vorwärts Berlin scored 73 goals in 26 games). Because of these achievements, Dynamo was chosen as the second league team (after Rostock 1961) to the sports team of the year .

Despite this dominance, Dresden only secured the championship on the penultimate matchday. The reason for this was the equally strong Jenenser, who from the seventh matchday on were close behind Dresden in second place. The gap to third Magdeburg, who had already won the cup during the season, was correspondingly large, so that second place in the UEFA Cup went to fourth in the table. This was won by 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig, which overtook FC Karl-Marx-Stadt on the last match day.

The fight against relegation was ultimately decided between Rot-Weiß Erfurt, Union Berlin and HFC Chemie. Halle was on a non-relegation zone for a long time and only slipped shortly before the end. On the last day of the match, the “chemists” had the worst starting position and were relegated after a 4: 5 against Magdeburg. 1. FC Union, who were twelfth ahead of Erfurt before the match day, had to be overtaken by a defeat in Jena and a simultaneous away win for Erfurt in Frankfurt.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	SG Dynamo Dresden	26th	18th	6th	2	061:300	+31	42:10
2.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena (P)	26th	15th	9	2	046:210	+25	39:13
3.	1. FC Magdeburg (M)	26th	14th	6th	6th	050:280	+22	34:18
4th	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26th	12	6th	8th	057:410	+16	30:22
5.	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26th	11	8th	7th	033:320	+1	30:22
6th	Berlin FC Dynamo	26th	9	8th	9	041:420	−1	26:26
7th	FC Forward Frankfurt	26th	10	5	11	054:460	+8	25:27
8th.	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	26th	8th	8th	10	037:430	−6	24:28
9.	BSG Chemie Leipzig (N)	26th	5	11	10	021:260	−5	21:31
10.	FC Hansa Rostock	26th	6th	8th	12	036:440	−8	20:32
11.	BSG Wismut Aue	26th	7th	6th	13	027:460	−19	20:32
12.	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt (N)	26th	8th	3	15th	037:560	−19	19:33
13.	1. FC Union Berlin	26th	7th	4th	15th	022:450	−23	18:34
14th	Hallescher FC Chemie	26th	4th	8th	14th	035:570	−22	16:36

GDR champion and participant in the 1973/74 European Cup GDR Cup winner and participant in the 1973/74 European Cup Winners' Cup Participant in the 1973/74 UEFA Cup Relegated to the GDR league in 1973/74
(M)	Last season champions
(P)	Cup winner last season
(N)	Promoted last season
Newcomers from the GDR league 1972/73 : BSG Stahl Riesa , BSG Energie Cottbus

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.

1972/73

LOK

HRO

1.

SG Dynamo Dresden

3: 2

1-0

2: 1

2: 1

1: 1

3-0

4: 2

3-0

4-0

4-0

7: 2

3: 2

1-0

2.

FC Carl Zeiss Jena

2-0

1-0

2: 1

3-0

3: 1

3: 1

3: 1

1: 1

3-0

1-0

3: 1

3-0

0-0

3.

1. FC Magdeburg

1: 2

1: 1

3-0

4: 1

2-0

1: 1

4-0

1-0

3: 2

3-0

2-0

1-0

5: 4

4th

1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig

1: 1

2-0

0: 4

2: 2

1: 1

4: 2

5: 1

1-0

3: 1

1: 2

7: 1

3-0

8-0

5.

FC Karl-Marx-Stadt

1: 1

1: 1

3: 2

3: 1

3: 1

1-0

0-0

1-0

1: 1

4-0

3-0

1-0

2: 1

6th

Berlin FC Dynamo

2: 4

1: 1

1: 1

2: 2

5: 2

2: 1

1: 1

2-0

4-0

3: 1

3: 2

1: 2

2-0

7th

FC Forward Frankfurt

2: 3

1: 1

1: 3

6: 1

1: 1

4: 1

1: 2

2: 1

2: 2

2-0

1: 2

4-0

5: 1

8th.

BSG Sachsenring Zwickau

1: 1

0: 2

1: 1

2: 4

0-0

2-0

0: 1

3-0

2: 1

2-0

2: 1

2: 2

4: 1

9.

BSG Chemie Leipzig

0-0

0-0

1: 2

2-0

0-0

0-0

3-0

4: 1

1: 1

1: 1

2: 1

1-0

1: 1

10.

FC Hansa Rostock

1: 2

2: 2

2: 2

0: 1

3-0

5: 1

2: 2

3: 2

1-0

0-0

3-0

4: 1

1: 2

11.

BSG Wismut Aue

2: 4

1: 2

2: 1

2: 2

0: 1

1-0

1: 2

1: 1

1: 1

2-0

2-0

2: 1

3: 2

12.

FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt

4: 2

2: 2

3-0

1: 3

3-0

1: 2

5: 3

0: 3

1-0

2-0

1: 1

1: 1

2: 1

13.

1. FC Union Berlin

0: 1

0: 2

0: 2

1: 1

1-0

0: 2

0: 3

1-0

1: 1

2: 1

3-0

2: 1

2-0

14th

Hallescher FC Chemie

2: 2

1: 2

1: 1

0: 2

0: 1

2: 2

3: 6

2: 2

1: 1

0-0

4: 2

1-0

5-0

statistics

The championship team

SG Dynamo Dresden
Claus Boden (25 games / goals) Hans-Jürgen Dörner (15/1) Frank Ganzera (24/1), Klaus Sammer (23/2), Siegmar Wätzlich Reinhard Häfner (20/5), Horst Rau (26/4 ), Hans-Jürgen Kreische (25/26) Dieter Riedel (22/4), Frank Richter (19/6), Gert Heidler (22/4) Trainer: Walter Fritzsch
also: Manfred Kallenbach (Tor, 1 / -); Rainer Sachse (14/4), Eduard Geyer (13/1), Wolfgang Haustein (11 / -), Christian Helm (9 / -), Claus Lichtenberger (9 / -), Udo Schmuck (6 / -), Klaus Müller (4/1), Hartmut Schade (1 / -)

Gates

The outstanding player this season was Hans-Jürgen Kreische, who won the championship with Dynamo Dresden and was himself Toschtüzenkönig and footballer of the year.

In the 182 point games, 557 goals were scored, an average of 3.06 per game, more than in eleven years. The highest-scoring games with nine goals each were Dynamo Dresden - Rot-Weiß Erfurt with 7: 2 (tenth matchday), HFC Chemie - Vorwärts Frankfurt with 3: 6 (21st matchday) and Magdeburg - HFC Chemie with 5: 4 (26th matchday). Gameday). The biggest win was Lokomotive Leipzig's 8: 0 against HFC Chemie on matchday ten.

Hans-Jürgen Kreische from SG Dynamo Dresden was top scorer in the league for the third time in a row , an achievement that apart from Kreische only Torsten Gütschow achieved. His 26 goals also meant the second best goal average (one goal per game) of all time behind Johannes Schöne , who won the top scorer's crown in the 1950/51 season. In the league seasons with 14 teams, the 26 goals remained unmatched.

List of goalscorers

	player	team	Gates
1.	Hans-Jürgen Kreische	SG Dynamo Dresden	26th
2.	Eberhard Vogel	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	17th
3.	Hans-Bert Matoul	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	14th
4th	Joachim Streich	FC Hansa Rostock	13
5.	Wolfram lion	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	12

spectator

A total of 1,994,000 spectators saw the 182 league games, which is an average of 10,956 spectators per game. The highest average attendance was again recorded in Dresden (24,231). Behind were Chemie Leipzig (15,769) and Karl-Marx-Stadt (14,923). The army footballers from Vorwärts Frankfurt were again at the bottom of the audience table (6,000) behind Zwickau and Aue with an average of 6,769 each. With 40,000 visitors, the local derby Chemie Leipzig - Lok Leipzig on matchday five met with the greatest interest.

team	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$ spectator
BSG Wismut Aue	6,769
Berlin FC Dynamo	7,692
1. FC Union Berlin	9,154
SG Dynamo Dresden	24,231
FC Rot Weiß Erfurt	8,846
FC Forward Frankfurt	6,000
Hallescher FC Chemie	12,385
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	7,423
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	14,923
BSG Chemie Leipzig	15,769
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	12,038
1. FC Magdeburg	12,231
FC Hansa Rostock	8,423
BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	6,769

soccer player of the year

After the season, top scorer Hans-Jürgen Kreische was also named Footballer of the Year 1973 by SG Dynamo Dresden . It was the first (and only) honor with this title for Screeches. Peter Ducke from FC Carl Zeiss Jena and Joachim Streich from 1. FC Magdeburg landed on the seats .

FDGB Cup

The FDGB-Pokal was won this season by 1. FC Magdeburg. For Magdeburg it was the fourth cup triumph. In the final, which took place between the 18th and 19th matchdays, Lokomotive Leipzig was defeated. The cup defender Jena was eliminated in the second round. The future champions Dresden lost to Leipzig in the quarter-finals.

International competitions

For most of the GDR participants, it was only enough to win the European Cup this season. In the second round of the European Champions Cup, Magdeburg was only barely defeated by the later finalists Juventus Turin (each 0: 1 in the two legs). Jena also failed in the European Cup Winners' Cup in the second round because of the later finalists. After a 0-0 home win against Leeds United , the English rivals prevailed 2-0 in the second leg. In the UEFA Cup , the BFC Dynamo and Dynamo Dresden were represented a little longer, but were both subject to the eventual cup winners Liverpool FC in the third round (Berlin) and in the quarter-finals (Dresden). As in previous years, the GDR did not take part in the Intertoto Cup this time , which was played before the season.

See also

• GDR soccer league 1972/73

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 .