Eberhard Köditz

Eberhard Köditz (born August 29, 1946 in Leipzig ; † July 13, 2019 there ) was a German football player. In the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football , he was active from the 1960s to the 1980s for 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and BSG Chemie Böhlen .

Athletic career

Before Eberhard Köditz appeared in nationwide GDR football, he played for the company sports community (BSG) progress West Leipzig, most recently in the fourth-class district class Leipzig . In the 1966/67 season he played for the Army Sports Association (ASG) Vorwärts Leipzig for the first time in the second-rate GDR league . By April 1968 he played 40 out of 60 point games played there and scored eight goals in 1966/67 and four in 1967/68. After he was released from the National People's Army , Köditz joined the first division club 1. FC Lok Leipzig and was used as a striker in the last two division games. In the 1968/69 season he was a regular in the 2nd team of 1. FC Lok, which played in the third-class district league. Meanwhile, the first team was relegated to the GDR league. She managed to return to the league immediately, with Köditz being used 23 times in the 30 league games and contributing three goals. FC Lok also reached the final of the GDR soccer cup . In the 2: 3 defeat against FC Vorwärts Berlin , Köditz was used as a midfielder. In the following two league seasons Köditz belonged to the expanded player base of the Leipzig club, of the 52 played point games he played 31 games and was successful with three goals in 1971/72. In 1972/73 he scored four goals in the league, but only played nine times. Instead, he was mainly used again in the 2nd team, which was now playing in the GDR league. There he scored eight goals and became the team's top scorer. At the end of the season he was used again in the first team that had reached the cup final again. Against 1. FC Magdeburg there was another defeat with 2: 3, in which Köditz was again called up in midfield. For the 1973/74 season, Köditz was intended for the regular eleven and was also used in 17 of the 26 league games. After he had played the first four point games over the full time as a striker, he then only played twice for 90 minutes. Between the 15th and 20th matchday he had to take a break due to injury. He scored twice in the league, as well as in the UEFA Cup , where he made six substitute appearances in the ten Leipzig games that advanced to the semi-finals. In the 1974/75 season, Köditz played his most league games with 20 matches, but was only in the starting line-up nine times. In his first game of the season (2nd matchday) he scored a hat trick and had seven goals by the end of the season, with which he became the second best goalscorer of 1. FC Lok behind Henning Frenzel (10). In the 1975/76 season Köditz disappeared again from the regular line-up. He was only used in nine league games, of which he completed only one encounter from the start. He didn't score goals.

Thereupon Köditz left the 1. FC Lok Leipzig and moved to the GDR league club Chemie Böhlen. With him he made promotion to the league in 1976/77, where he played all 20 point and eight promotion games and scored a total of 17 goals. In the following two league seasons he only missed four point games and scored ten goals. 1979 Chemistry Bohlen had to relegate from the league again, but returned immediately to the league. Köditz was involved with 19 point and seven promotion games and eight goals. In his eleventh league season Köditz fell back to the substitute status. In the first half of the 1980/81 season he played ten point games, in which he was only once in the starting eleven for 40 minutes and also scored no goals. After this season, Eberhard Köditz ended his career as a professional footballer, in which he had played 142 league games with 26 goals and 120 GDR league games with 43 goals in 15 seasons. From 1982 he continued his career with the district division TSG MAB Schkeuditz , where he was initially also a player-coach.

Eberhard Köditz died in July 2019 at the age of 72 in Leipzig- Gundorf .

literature

• German sport echo : born 1966–1982. ISSN  0323-8628
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , pages 299 and 329.
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , page 261.
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 243.

Web links

• Eberhard Köditz in the database of the German Football Association
• Eberhard Köditz in the database of weltfussball.de
• Eberhard Köditz at lok-leipzig-db.com
• https://trauer-angebote.de/trauerbeispiel/eberhard-koeditz (obituary)