FDGB Cup 1975/76
The competition for the FDGB soccer cup 1975/76 was the 25th edition of this event.
Attendees
For the FDGB Cup competition 1975/76 89 teams were eligible to participate. They are composed of the 15 district cup winners, 58 teams from the GDR league and the two league relegated teams from the previous season and the 14 teams from the GDR league for the 1975/76 season.
course
Up to and including the second main round, games that were still tied after extra time were decided by penalty shoot-outs . From the quarter-finals to the semi-finals, the winners were determined in the first and second legs. After six GDR league teams met in the elimination round on August 16, 1975, the 15 district cup winners and 57 GDR league players played against each other in the first main round. After an intermediate round, in which the last four district cup winners were eliminated, the teams of the major league intervened in the second main round on October 4, 1975. FC Karl-Marx-Stadt and Wismut Aue have already retired from them. With Dynamo Dresden II , Vorwärts Dessau , Dynamo Eisleben and Stahl Brandenburg , four GDR league teams reached the round of 16 , but after the home and away games only Dessau progressed, which was then eliminated in the quarter-finals against Dynamo Dresden. Cup defender Sachsenring Zwickau also had to play against FC Vorwärts Frankfurt / O in the quarter-finals . The finalist of 1975 Dynamo Dresden found his master in the semifinals at 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig . Even the reigning GDR champions 1. FC Magdeburg had to admit defeat to FC Vorwärts in the semifinals.
Elimination round
The games took place on Saturday, August 16, 1975 at 3:00 p.m.
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| BSG Chemie Zeitz | 2: 1 | BSG Wismut Aue II |
| BSG activist Brieske-Senftenberg | 3: 2 | FC Forward Frankfurt / O. II |
| BSG Stahl Hennigsdorf | 0: 4 | 1. FC Magdeburg II |
I. main round
The games took place on Sunday, August 23, 1975 at 3:00 p.m.
Replay
The game took place on Wednesday, September 10, 1975 at 4:30 pm.
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| BSG Verkehrsbetriebe Waren | 1: 2 | FC Hansa Rostock II |
Intermediate round
The games took place on Sunday, September 14, 1975 at 3:00 p.m.
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. FC Magdeburg II | 4-0 | BSG Motor Eberswalde |
| BSG Chemie Glas Ilmenau | 3: 4 a.d. | SG Dynamo Eisleben |
| BSG activist Kali Werra Tiefenort | 2: 3 | BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau |
| TSG Ruhla | 1: 4 | BSG Motor Suhl |
| 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig II | 3: 1 | BSG Motor Werdau |
| FC Hansa Rostock II | 5: 5 n.V. (1: 3 p.e.) |
BSG NPP North Greifswald |
| TSG construction Rostock | 2: 1 | BSG Shipping / Rostock Port |
| ASG forward Neubrandenburg | 1: 1 n.V. (4: 2 in good.) |
Hansa Rostock |
| SG Dynamo Schwerin | 5-0 | BSG unit Wernigerode |
| BSG activist Black Pump | 3: 2 | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau II |
| BSG Stahl Finow | 4: 5 | BSG Stahl Brandenburg |
| BSG locomotive Leipzig-East | 1: 7 | ASG forward Dessau |
| BSG Motor Germania Karl-Marx-Stadt | 0: 6 | SG Dynamo Dresden II |
| BSG locomotive Cottbus | 2: 1 | 1. FC Union Berlin |
| BSG Locomotive Stendal | 2: 1 | ASG forward Stralsund |
| Berlin FC Dynamo II | 1: 2 | BSG Post Neubrandenburg |
| BSG Motor Ludwigsfelde | 1: 4 | BSG Chemie Böhlen |
| BSG Robur Zittau | 1: 2 a.d. | BSG Motor Bautzen |
II. Main round
The games took place on Saturday, October 4, 1975 at 2:00 p.m.
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| TSG construction Rostock | 0: 9 | Berlin FC Dynamo |
| BSG NPP North Greifswald | 0: 1 | 1. FC Magdeburg |
| SG Dynamo Schwerin | 2: 3 | FC Forward Frankfurt / O. |
| BSG Post Neubrandenburg | 0: 2 | BSG Energie Cottbus |
| BSG Locomotive Stendal | 1: 3 | Hallescher FC Chemie |
| 1. FC Magdeburg II | 0: 1 | BSG Chemie Leipzig |
| SG Dynamo Eisleben | 5: 2 | FC Karl-Marx-Stadt |
| BSG activist Black Pump | 2: 3 a.d. | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig |
| BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau | 3: 4 | FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt |
| 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig II | 0: 2 | BSG Stahl Riesa |
| BSG Chemie Böhlen | 1: 2 a.d. | SG Dynamo Dresden |
| SG Dynamo Dresden II | 2-0 | BSG Wismut Aue |
| BSG Motor Bautzen | 1: 2 | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau |
| BSG Motor Suhl | 0: 3 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena |
| BSG Stahl Brandenburg | 2: 1 | ASG forward Neubrandenburg |
| ASG forward Dessau | 7: 2 | BSG locomotive Cottbus |
Round of 16
The first leg took place on Saturday, November 22nd at 1:30 p.m. and the second leg on Saturday, November 29, 1975 at 1:00 p.m.
| total | First leg | Return leg | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SG Dynamo Eisleben | 2:12 | SG Dynamo Dresden | 1: 4 | 1: 8 |
| SG Dynamo Dresden II | 2: 3 | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau | 2: 1 | 0: 2 |
| FC Forward Frankfurt / O. | 7: 3 | Hallescher FC Chemie | 7: 1 | 0: 2 |
| BSG Stahl Riesa | 4: 6 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 1: 2 | 3: 4 |
| Energy Cottbus | 0: 6 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 0: 3 | 0: 3 |
| ASG forward Dessau | 2: 2 | BSG Chemie Leipzig | 1-0 | 1: 2 |
| Berlin FC Dynamo | 14: 0 | BSG Stahl Brandenburg | 5-0 | 9-0 |
| 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 8: 3 | FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt | 5: 1 | 3: 2 |
Quarter finals
The first leg took place on Sunday, December 7th at 1:00 p.m. and the second leg on Wednesday, December 17, 1975 at 5:00 p.m.
| total | First leg | Return leg | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SG Dynamo Dresden | 7: 1 | ASG forward Dessau | 3-0 | 4: 1 |
| FC Forward Frankfurt / O. | 4: 2 | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau | 3-0 | 1: 2 |
| FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 3: 7 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 2: 3 | 1: 4 |
| Berlin FC Dynamo | 4: 5 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 3: 1 | 0: 4 |
Semifinals
The first leg took place on Wednesday, February 11, 1976 at 5:00 p.m. and the second leg on Wednesday, February 25, 1976 at 5:00 p.m.
| total | First leg | Return leg | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 4: 2 | SG Dynamo Dresden | 1: 1 | 3: 1 |
| FC Forward Frankfurt / O. | 4: 2 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 1: 2 | 3-0 |
final
statistics
| pairing | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig - FC Vorwärts Frankfurt / O. |
| Result | 3: 0 (1: 0) |
| date | May 1, 1976 |
| Stadion | World Youth Stadium , East Berlin |
| spectator | 50,000 |
| referee | Adolf Prokop ( Erfurt ) |
| Gates | 1: 0 Frenzel (44th) 2: 0 Frenzel (48th) 3: 0 Roth (70th) |
| 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig |
Werner Friese - Roland Hammer - Gunter Sekora , Wilfried Gröbner , Joachim Fritsche - Lutz Moldt , Henning Frenzel , Andreas Roth - Rainer Lisiewicz , Dieter Kühn (78th Andreas Bornschein ), Wolfram Löwe , trainer: Horst Scherbaum |
| FC Forward Frankfurt / O. |
Eckhard Kreutzer - Wolfgang Strübing - Ralph Probst , Lothar Haus , Wolfgang Andreßen - Hans-Hermann Herbst (80th Gerd Schuth ), Horst Krautzig , Reinhard Segger - Ralph Conrad (52nd Jörg Nachtigall ), Frieder Andrich , Horst Wruck . Trainer: Karl Trautmann |
Course of the game
The 25th FDGB Cup final took place three days before the end of the 1975/76 league season. At this point in time 1. FC Lok Leipzig was third, FC Vorwärts Frankfurt / O. in 12th place in the table. While the Leipzig team had so far reached a final three times without success, the Frankfurters were able to refer to two cup wins from their Berlin history, including in 1970, when Vorwärts Berlin defeated Lok Leipzig 4-2. In 1976, due to the current table constellation, the favorite role was clearly assigned to the Leipzig team from the start. The hero of the game was the 56-time national player Henning Frenzel, who has just turned 34. In his fourth cup final, he showed an exciting game and with his two goals just before and shortly after the half-time break decided the encounter almost single-handedly.
The Leipziger started the game immediately offensively. In the first twenty minutes, Frankfurt goalkeeper Kreutzer was tested three times with Leipzig sharp shots. With determination and passion as a runner, 1. FC Lok clearly dominated the game, while FCV acted too timidly, showed technical inadequacies and also failed in the counter game.
Frenzel's goals hit the army footballers at psychologically most unfavorable moments, so that their morale was broken after the 0: 2 at the latest. Forty seconds before the half-time whistle, Frenzel used a Sekora free kick that Frankfurt's Libero had missed. Three minutes after the restart, it was another Frankfurt mistake that led to the 0: 2. This time goalkeeper Kreutzer was unable to parry a Gröbner header and Frenzel was able to shoot the ball that ricocheted off the crossbar into the goal.
FC Vorwärts, already inferior in midfield, failed to turn the game around after conceding two goals. His players remained too immobile, behaved tactically unwise and were harmless in attack except for left wing Wruck. The forward players showed themselves to be more combative in the second half, but with Roth's goal in the 70th minute to make it 3-0, their rebellion was broken early.