FDGB Cup 1968/69
The 18th competition for the FDGB soccer cup took place in the 1968/69 season.
In the first round of the cup 46 teams were to: 15 district Pokalsieger, 29 DDR-division and the two league relegated - in each case according to the state of the football season 1967/68. The GDR league team from Chemie Premnitz had a bye. The knockout system was intended for all pairings of the entire competition, tied games were extended and repeated if necessary.
After a round of elimination, for which three district cup winners and nine teams from the GDR league were drawn, the 14 league teams intervened in the second main round. With Hansa Rostock , Rot-Weiß Erfurt and Stahl Riesa, three league clubs have already been eliminated. The new runner-up FC Carl Zeiss Jena needed a replay against the district cup winner Motor Grimma , which he then won 10: 1. The second district cup winner, BFC Dynamo II , who was still in the competition , was eliminated after a 1: 2 against GDR league team Dynamo Dresden .
In the round of 16, the previous year's final 1. FC Union Berlin - FC Carl Zeiss Jena was repeated . With a 1-0 win in Berlin, the Jena successfully took revenge. Two GDR league players, Wismut Gera and Dynamo Dresden were able to qualify for the quarter-finals, but had to play away there and were clearly subject to each. Last year's finalist Jena also had to give up after a heavy 1: 4 defeat at the new champions Vorwärts Berlin , but the champions also missed the final after a 1: 2 at FC Karl-Marx-Stadt . In contrast, 1. FC Magdeburg reached the final for the third time with a 2-1 away win at BFC Dynamo .
I. main round
The games took place on August 11, 1968.
Replay games
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| BSG Motor Steinach | 2-0 | BSG Motor Weimar |
| ASG forward Neubrandenburg | 4: 3 | BSG unit Greifswald * |
Elimination round
The games took place on October 7, 1968.
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| BSG Chemie Veritas Wittenberge * | 0: 4 | Berlin FC Dynamo II * |
| SG Blue-White Reichenbach * | 1: 1 a.d. | BSG Motor Eisenach |
| BSG Motor Babelsberg | 0: 1 | BSG Wismut Gera |
| ASG forward Meiningen | 1-0 | FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt II |
| BSG activist Black Pump | 2-0 | ASG forward Leipzig |
| ASG forward Stralsund | 0: 0 a.d. | BSG Chemie Premnitz |
Replay games
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| BSG Motor Eisenach | 2-0 | SG Blau-Weiß Reichenbach |
| BSG Chemie Premnitz | 1: 2 a.d. | ASG forward Stralsund |
II. Main round
The games took place on November 16, 1968.
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| BSG Motor Grimma * | 1: 1 a.d. | FC Carl Zeiss Jena |
| Berlin FC Dynamo II * | 1: 2 | SG Dynamo Dresden |
| ASG forward Neubrandenburg | 0: 6 | 1. FC Magdeburg |
| FC Carl Zeiss Jena II | 1: 5 | HFC chemistry hall |
| SG Dynamo Eisleben | 2: 3 a.d. | BSG Wismut Aue |
| ASG forward Meiningen | 2: 3 a.d. | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau |
| SG Dynamo Schwerin | 0: 3 | FC Forward Berlin |
| ASG forward Stralsund | 1: 1 a.d. | Berlin FC Dynamo |
| BSG Motor Eisenach | 0: 0 a.d. | BSG Chemie Leipzig |
| FC Hansa Rostock II | 1: 1 a.d. | 1. FC Union Berlin |
| BSG Motor Steinach | 1: 3 | FC Karl-Marx-Stadt |
| BSG Motor Hennigsdorf | 2-0 | FC Hansa Rostock |
| BSG Wismut Gera | 2: 1 | FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt |
| BSG Motor Wema Plauen | 2: 1 | BSG Stahl Riesa |
| BSG activist Black Pump | 0: 2 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig |
| BSG Motor Köpenick | 1: 2 | BSG Locomotive Stendal |
Replay games
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 10: 1 | BSG Motor Grimma |
| Berlin FC Dynamo | 5-0 | ASG forward Stralsund |
| BSG Chemie Leipzig | 4-0 | BSG Motor Eisenach |
| 1. FC Union Berlin | 3: 1 a.d. | FC Hansa Rostock II |
Round of 16
The games took place on December 1, 1968.
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. FC Magdeburg | 4: 1 | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau |
| BSG Wismut Gera | 1-0 | HFC chemistry hall |
| BSG Motor Wema Plauen | 0: 2 | BSG Chemie Leipzig |
| SG Dynamo Dresden | 2: 1 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig |
| FC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 3: 1 | BSG Wismut Aue |
| 1. FC Union Berlin | 0: 1 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena |
| BSG Motor Hennigsdorf | 0: 2 | FC Forward Berlin |
| Berlin FC Dynamo | 1: 0 a.d. | BSG Locomotive Stendal |
Quarter finals
The games took place on April 23, 1969.
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| FC Forward Berlin | 4: 1 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena |
| Berlin FC Dynamo | 3-0 | SG Dynamo Dresden |
| FC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 5: 3 | BSG Wismut Gera |
| BSG Chemie Leipzig | 1: 2 | 1. FC Magdeburg |
Semifinals
The games took place on May 8, 1969.
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| FC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 2: 1 | FC Forward Berlin |
| Berlin FC Dynamo | 1: 2 | 1. FC Magdeburg |
final
statistics
| pairing | 1. FC Magdeburg - FC Karl-Marx-Stadt |
| Result | 4: 0 (1: 0) |
| date | June 1, 1969 |
| Stadion | Rudolf Harbig Stadium , Dresden |
| spectator | 20,000 |
| referee | Hans-Joachim Schulz ( Görlitz ) |
| Gates | 1: 0 Ohm (28th) 2: 0 Walter (51st) 3: 0 Ohm (60th) 4: 0 Sparwasser (68th) |
| 1. FC Magdeburg |
Hans-Georg Moldenhauer - Manfred Zapf - Günter Fronzeck , Peter Sykora , Jörg Ohm , Rolf Retschlag - Hermann Stöcker , Wolfgang Seguin , Wolfgang Abraham - Jürgen Sparwasser , Joachim Walter Trainer: Heinz Krügel |
| FC Karl-Marx-Stadt |
Joachim Gröper (63rd Manfred Kaschel ) - Albrecht Müller , Eberhard Schuster , Fritz Feister , Peter Müller - Friedrich-Wilhelm Gätze , Rolf Steinmann , Dieter Erler - Gotthard Zölfl (46th Karl-Heinz Zeidler ), Manfred Lienemann , Eberhard Vogel Trainers: Bringfried Müller |
Course of the game
In the duel of the championship third against the seventh of the Oberliga final table 1968/69 in Dresden, Saxony, only the supporters of 1. FC Magdeburg were defeated. Only 200 people from Magdeburg were faced with a backdrop of 7,000 Karl Marx townspeople. The conditions on the lawn of the Dynamo Stadium were completely different. A clearly superior 1. FC Magdeburg scored 4-0, the highest final win since 1950, when EHW Thale won the cup with the same result.
The encounter began hectically, after a quarter of an hour Göck (FCK) and Zapf (FCM) were injured on the ground. However, both were able to continue playing, and initially the Karl-Marx-Städter developed good chances of scoring with verve. In the 12th minute, Gätze narrowly missed the goal, in the 27th minute, Zapf had to clear the goal line. The Magdeburger went on wait, trusted in their safe cover and waited for counter opportunities. This came about a minute after Zapf's rescue act. Stöcker started a run on the left side of the field, overflowed Gocks and outplayed Peter Müller. His half-high flank reached Ohm, who headed the ball into the goal. From that moment on, the Magdeburg team was in control of the game, and the strikers were repeatedly sent forward from their own defense, with Ohm, Seguin and Abraham dominating in midfield. The game of the FCK disintegrated into unsuccessful individual actions, its strikers were shielded to the point of ineffectiveness.
The 1. FCM consistently used its superiority in the second half of the game. Six minutes after the restart, Stöcker was again the starting point for the next goal. Walter dived into his corner kick and scored the 2-0. In their endeavor to turn the game around, the Karl Marx townspeople then threw everything forward, but thereby offered the opponent even more free space. These were gratefully accepted, in the 60th minute Ohm was able to start a solo run from the center line and lift the ball over goalkeeper Gröper to make it 3-0. After eight minutes it was Sparwasser who scored the fourth goal for Magdeburg by playing off two opponents. This team played itself into a real frenzy and had more great chances. The last in the 85th minute when Sparwasser forced the substitute goalkeeper Kaschel to make a brilliant save.
1. FC Magdeburg won the trophy for the third time with an excellent performance. Dresden's football idol Richard Hofmann congratulated with appreciation:
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“Thank you guys for enjoying this football. That was a real advertisement for our beautiful sport. You won clearly and deservedly. Your cover was spot on, it was clever. Your attack peaks became more and more effective as the game increased. You won the trophy with confidence. It was a nice game, it was a pleasure to see you play. "
( Volksstimme Magdeburg , June 2nd, 1969)
source
- GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , years 1968, 1969