GDR football league 1973/74

GDR football league 1973/74
master	1. FC Magdeburg
European Cup of National Champions	1. FC Magdeburg
Uefa cup	SG Dynamo Dresden FC Forward Frankfurt
Cup winners	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
European Cup Winners' Cup	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Relegated	BSG Chemie Leipzig BSG Energie Cottbus
Teams	14th
Games	182
Gates	534  (ø 2.93 per game)
spectator	2,161,500  (ø 11,876 per game)
Top scorer	Hans-Bert Matoul , ( 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig )
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GDR Football League 1973/74 ↓

The GDR Oberliga 1973/74 was the 25th edition of the top division of the GDR . 1. FC Magdeburg became champions for the second time . The season began on August 18, 1973 and ended on April 6, 1974. Subsequently, all upper division clubs competed again within the DFV-Toto special round .

Before the season

With the rise of BSG Energie Cottbus , the district of Cottbus was represented in the league again for the first time since the relegation of SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg in 1963. In a way, Cottbus' rise meant a return of activists, as the sports club had been integrated into SC Cottbus at the beginning of the 1963/64 season , from which BSG Energie Cottbus was spun off in 1966.

Decision in the relegation battle: Chemie Leipzig loses at home to Rot-Weiß Erfurt on matchday 25.

Season course

The same teams landed on the medal ranks as in the previous year, but Dresden and Magdeburg swapped places, with which 1. FC Magdeburg won its second championship. Jena was again only the runner-up. The championship was characterized by the three-way battle between these teams, who were separated by only one point until matchday 24. A preliminary decision was the direct duels between Magdeburg and Jena (24th matchday) and Dresden (25th matchday), both of which were won away from the Magdeburg team. For Jena, the 1: 2 against Magdeburg was the first home defeat since the 1968/1969 season. With a final 3-2 at home against fourth-placed forward Frankfurt, Magdeburg secured the championship title. For FC Vorwärts, fourth place was the best position since moving to Frankfurt (Oder).

The strength of the newcomer Energie Cottbus turned out to be insufficient and with only one win of the season, the team was relegated immediately. In the end, Cottbusern lacked nine points for the next non-relegation place. Chemistry Leipzig, who had been promoted from the previous year, also failed to stay up. After a 0: 1 home defeat against direct rivals Rot-Weiß Erfurt on the penultimate match day, the second relegation in the history of Leutzscher was certain.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	1. FC Magdeburg (P)	26th	16	7th	3	050:270	+23	39:13
2.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26th	16	4th	6th	055:260	+29	36:16
3.	SG Dynamo Dresden (M)	26th	15th	5	6th	055:400	+15	35:17
4th	FC Forward Frankfurt	26th	13	8th	5	048:270	+21	34:18
5.	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26th	11	8th	7th	049:350	+14	30:22
6th	Berlin FC Dynamo	26th	12	3	11	042:410	+1	27:25
7th	FC Hansa Rostock	26th	10	5	11	037:350	+2	25:27
8th.	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	26th	10	5	11	037:410	−4	25:27
9.	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26th	7th	10	9	042:460	−4	24:28
10.	BSG Wismut Aue	26th	7th	8th	11	029:380	−9	22:30
11.	BSG Stahl Riesa (N) *	26th	7th	9	10	025:420	−17	21:31
12.	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	26th	5	9	12	027:390	−12	19:33
13.	BSG Chemie Leipzig	26th	3	9	14th	022:390	−17	15:37
14th	BSG Energie Cottbus (N)	26th	1	8th	17th	016:580	−42	10:42

^* Stahl Riesa was deducted two points because of an unauthorized training camp

GDR champion and participant in the 1974/75 European Cup GDR Cup winner and participant in the 1974/75 European Cup Winners' Cup Participant in the 1974/75 UEFA Cup Relegated to the GDR League 1974/75
(M)	Last season champions
(P)	Cup winner last season
(N)	Promoted last season
Newcomers from the GDR league 1973/74 : Hallescher FC Chemie , ASG Vorwärts Stralsund

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.

1973/74

LOK

HRO

1.

1. FC Magdeburg

3-0

0: 3

3: 2

0-0

3-0

3: 1

4: 1

0: 1

2: 1

0-0

2: 2

1-0

1-0

2.

FC Carl Zeiss Jena

1: 2

3-0

1-0

2: 2

4-0

2: 1

5: 1

6: 1

3: 2

3-0

2: 1

5: 1

3-0

3.

SG Dynamo Dresden

0: 1

1: 3

1: 1

1-0

3: 1

2: 1

1-0

2: 1

2: 2

5: 2

1-0

2: 2

7-0

4th

FC Forward Frankfurt

4: 3

0-0

2: 3

1: 1

1-0

1: 2

1: 1

1-0

3: 1

0-0

5-0

4: 1

1-0

5.

1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig

1: 2

2-0

2: 3

3-0

4: 3

3: 2

2-0

3: 2

3: 2

2: 2

1: 1

2-0

1-0

6th

Berlin FC Dynamo

3: 3

0: 2

3-0

2: 4

2: 1

0: 2

4: 1

2: 1

1-0

4: 1

3-0

3-0

5-0

7th

FC Hansa Rostock

2: 2

3: 1

2-0

0: 2

1: 5

5-0

3: 2

1: 1

1-0

0-0

3-0

0: 1

3-0

8th.

BSG Sachsenring Zwickau

1: 3

2: 1

3-0

0: 3

2: 2

2-0

2-0

1: 1

1: 2

0: 2

0-0

2: 1

3: 1

9.

FC Karl-Marx-Stadt

0: 2

2: 2

4: 4

1: 3

3-0

2: 1

4: 2

1: 1

4: 1

3: 3

2: 1

3: 1

0-0

10.

BSG Wismut Aue

1: 1

0-0

2: 2

1: 4

2-0

1: 1

2-0

0: 2

1: 1

2-0

0-0

2-0

2: 1

11.

BSG Stahl Riesa

1: 1

2: 1

0: 4

1: 1

1: 1

0: 1

0: 2

2: 1

2-0

2-0

1-0

0-0

1: 2

12.

FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt

1: 2

0: 3

4: 5

0-0

3: 1

0: 1

0-0

0: 3

3: 1

3-0

4-0

1: 1

1: 1

13.

BSG Chemie Leipzig

1: 2

0: 1

0: 1

1: 1

0-0

0: 1

2-0

1: 2

2: 2

0-0

4-0

0: 1

3: 3

14th

BSG Energie Cottbus

0: 4

0: 1

1: 2

1: 3

0: 7

1: 1

0-0

1: 3

1: 1

1: 2

1: 2

1: 1

0-0

statistics

Champions team

1. FC Magdeburg
Ulrich Schulze (26 games / goals -) Manfred Zapf (23/1) Detlef Enge (14 / -), Wolfgang Abraham (18/2), Klaus Decker (26 / -) Jürgen Pommerenke (26/8), Wolfgang Seguin ( 26/3), Axel Tyll (26/3) Siegmund Mewes (16/4), Jürgen Sparwasser (24/12), Martin Hoffmann Trainer: Heinz Krügel
also: Hans-Jürgen Hermann (21/5), Jürgen Achtel (8 / -), Helmut Gaube (8 / -), Detlef Raugust (7/2), Wolfgang Steinbach (6 / -), Bodo Sommer (5 / - ), Norbert Pysall (4 / -), Jörg Ohm (3 / -), Peter Kohde (1 / -)

Gates

In the 182 point games, 534 goals were scored, an average of 2.93 per game. The highest-scoring game with nine goals was Rot-Weiß Erfurt - Dynamo Dresden with 4: 5 on matchday 20. The biggest victories were a 7-0 win against Energie Cottbus by Lokomotive Leipzig (eighth matchday in Cottbus) and Dynamo Dresden (23rd matchday in Dresden).

Hans-Bert Matoul from Lokomotive Leipzig was the top scorer in the league for the first time . He was at the height of his career at this point, but then ended his career in higher-class football for family reasons. The top scorer in the last three years, Hans-Jürgen Kreische , was thrown back from injuries this season.

Top scorer in 1973/74:
Hans-Bert Matoul

List of goalscorers

	player	team	Gates
1.	Hans-Bert Matoul	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	20th
2.	Joachim Streich	FC Hansa Rostock	14th
3.	Jürgen Sparwasser	1. FC Magdeburg	12
4th	Peter Kotte	SG Dynamo Dresden	12
5.	Heinz Dietzsch	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	11

spectator

A total of 2,161,500 spectators saw the 182 league games, which is an average of 11,876 spectators per game. For the fifth time in a row, Dresden had the highest average attendance (27,231). Behind was the master from Magdeburg with 16,154. The fourth in the table, Vorwärts Frankfurt, attracted an average of 5,538 spectators and, as in previous years, was behind Stahl Riesa (7,000) and BFC Dynamo (7,538) at the end of the table.

team	${\displaystyle \varnothing }$ spectator
BSG Wismut Aue	8,231
Berlin FC Dynamo	7,538
BSG Energie Cottbus	8,692
SG Dynamo Dresden	27,231
FC Rot Weiß Erfurt	11,231
FC Forward Frankfurt	5,538
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	9,615
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	13,846
BSG Chemie Leipzig	12,462
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	11,885
1. FC Magdeburg	16,154
BSG Stahl Riesa	7,000
FC Hansa Rostock	13,692
BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	9,462

Footballer of the year 1974:
Bernd Bransch

soccer player of the year

After the season, Bernd Bransch was named Footballer of the Year 1974 by FC Carl Zeiss Jena for the second time since 1968 . Bransch won the runner-up title and cup victory with Jena this season. He was also used as the captain of the GDR national soccer team at the 1974 World Cup in all games.

	player	team
1.	Bernd Bransch	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
2.	Jürgen Sparwasser	1. FC Magdeburg
3.	Jürgen Croy	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau

FDGB Cup

The FDGB Cup was won by Carl Zeiss Jena this season . Jena won its third cup title in the final against last year's champions Dresden. The defending champion from Magdeburg was eliminated in the quarter-finals.

International competitions

The 1973/74 European Cup season brought GDR football the greatest success of all time in international club football. 1. FC Magdeburg made it to the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup , where they faced defending champions AC Milan . Magdeburg won the cup with a 2-0 win. But the GDR participants were also able to impress in the other competitions. Dynamo Dresden defeated Juventus Turin in the first round of the European Champions Cup (2: 0 in the first leg and 2: 3 in the second leg) and was only marginally eliminated against the eventual cup winners FC Bayern Munich (3: 4 and 3 : 3). In the UEFA Cup there was also a duel between the GDR and Italy. And here, too, the East German representative remained the winner, because Lokomotive Leipzig prevailed against AC Turin in the first round . In the further course of the competition Leipzig defeated other well-known opponents (one after the other Wolverhampton Wanderers , Fortuna Düsseldorf and Ipswich Town ) before they were eliminated in the semifinals against Tottenham Hotspur . The second GDR participant Carl Zeiss Jena had less success and was eliminated in the second round against Ruch Chorzów . The GDR again decided not to take part in the 1973 Intertoto Cup .

See also

• GDR soccer league 1973/74

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 8, 2019 .