FDGB Cup 1977/78
The 27th competition for the FDGB soccer cup was held in the 1977/78 season.
After a round of elimination with four GDR league players, the first main round faced 55 teams from the second-rate GDR league and the two league relegated teams from the 1976/77 season and the 18 district cup winners from 1977. Up to and including the second main round, all games were played in the knockout system, the pairings of the eighth, quarter and semi-finals took place with a return game. Tied encounters were extended and possibly decided by penalty shoot-outs.
After all district cup winners had been eliminated in an intermediate round with the exception of Motor Warnowwerft , the GDR Oberliga intervened in the cup events in the second main round . With Halleschen FC , Union Berlin , Chemie Böhlen , Sachsenring Zwickau and Wismut Aue , five league clubs have already been eliminated. Motor Warnowwerft also had to say goodbye to the competition.
Last year's finalist 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was eliminated in the round of 16. Of the seven GDR league players who had reached the last sixteen, only Buna Schkopau , Motor Werdau and Vorwärts Stralsund were among the last eight, but they were all eliminated in the quarter-finals. Last year's cup winner Dynamo Dresden came back to the final, where he met the four-time cup winner 1. FC Magdeburg .
Elimination round
The games took place on August 6, 1977.
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| BSG EAB Lichtenberg 47 Berlin | 3-0 | BSG Nord Max-Mattern Torgelow |
| BSG Motor Veilsdorf | 2: 4 | BSG Motor Altenburg |
1st main round
The games took place on August 13, 1977.
Intermediate round
The games took place on September 18, 1977.
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| BSG Wismut Pirna-Copitz * | 2: 3 | ASG forward Plauen |
| BSG steel WW Hettstedt * | 1: 2 | TSG Gröditz |
| ASG Forward Plauen II * | 1: 3 | BSG Motor Weimar |
| BSG Motor Warnowwerft Warnemünde * | 3: 1 | TSG Wismar |
| ZSG Leinefelde * | 0: 1 | SG Dynamo Eisleben |
| BSG Empor Beeskow * | 1: 2 | SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde |
| BSG Umformtechnik Erfurt | 1: 2 | BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau |
| TSG construction Rostock | 2: 3 | BSG Stahl Hennigsdorf |
| BSG Zentronik Sömmerda | 2: 4 | BSG Stahl Thale |
| BSG Energie Cottbus | 4: 2 | ASG forward Dessau |
| ASG forward Stralsund | 3: 1 | BSG Shipping / Rostock Port |
| BSG Stahl Riesa | 2-0 | BSG activist Black Pump |
| BSG Motor Werdau | 2: 1 | BSG Motor Suhl |
| FSV locomotive Dresden | 4: 2 a.d. | BSG Motor Hermsdorf |
| ASG forward Neubrandenburg | 4-0 | SG Dynamo Schwerin |
| BSG nuclear power plant Greifswald | 1: 1 n.V. (4: 2 in good.) |
BSG Post Neubrandenburg |
| BSG Chemie Veritas Wittenberge | 2: 3 | BSG steel Blankenburg |
| BSG Stahl Finow | 1: 2 | BSG Motor Eberswalde |
2nd main round
The games took place on October 22, 1977.
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
| SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde | 2: 3 | SG Dynamo Dresden |
| BSG Motor Weimar | 0: 2 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena |
| BSG Greifswald NPP | 0: 2 | Berlin FC Dynamo |
| BSG Stahl Hennigsdorf | 1: 6 | 1. FC Magdeburg |
| BSG Stahl Riesa | 4: 1 | Hallescher FC Chemie |
| BSG Motor Werdau | 0: 0 n.v. (3: 1 in good condition) |
1. FC Union Berlin |
| SG Dynamo Eisleben | 1-0 | BSG Chemie Böhlen |
| ASG forward Plauen | 0: 3 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig |
| BSG steel Blankenburg | 0: 3 | FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt |
| ASV forward Neubrandenburg | 0: 2 | FC Forward Frankfurt / Oder |
| BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau | 2-0 | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau |
| FSV locomotive Dresden | 1: 0 a.d. | BSG Wismut Aue |
| TSG Gröditz | 0: 2 | FC Karl-Marx-Stadt |
| BSG Stahl Thale | 1: 2 a.d. | BSG Wismut Gera |
| ASG forward Stralsund | 7: 1 | BSG Motor Warnowwerft Warnemünde * |
| BSG Motor Eberswalde | 1: 3 | BSG Energie Cottbus |
Round of 16
The first leg took place on November 26th and the second leg on November 30, 1977.
| total | First leg | Return leg | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin FC Dynamo | 6: 2 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 5-0 | 1: 2 |
| FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt | 3: 2 | BSG Wismut Gera | 1: 2 | 2-0 |
| 1. FC Magdeburg | 7: 1 | BSG Stahl Riesa | 2: 1 | 5-0 |
| FSV locomotive Dresden | 1:11 | SG Dynamo Dresden | 1: 7 | 0: 4 |
| BSG Energie Cottbus | 2: 5 | FC Forward Frankfurt / Oder | 2: 1 | 0: 4 |
| SG Dynamo Eisleben | 3: 3 (a) | BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau | 2: 2 | 1: 1 |
| FC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 2: 4 | BSG Motor Werdau | 0: 1 | 2: 3 |
| FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 2: 2 (a) | ASG forward Stralsund | 1: 2 | 1-0 |
Quarter finals
The first leg took place on December 14th and the second leg on December 21st, 1977.
| total | First leg | Return leg | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SG Dynamo Dresden | 8: 1 | BSG Motor Werdau | 5: 1 | 3-0 |
| ASG forward Stralsund | 0: 7 | Berlin FC Dynamo | 0: 4 | 0: 3 |
| 1. FC Magdeburg | 5: 1 | FC Forward Frankfurt / Oder | 2-0 | 3: 1 |
| FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt | 5-0 | BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau | 4-0 | 1-0 |
Semifinals
The first leg took place on March 11th and the second leg on March 25th, 1978.
| total | First leg | Return leg | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. FC Magdeburg | 5: 1 | Berlin FC Dynamo | 4-0 | 1: 1 |
| FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt | 1: 2 | SG Dynamo Dresden | 1: 2 | 0-0 |
final
statistics
| pairing | 1. FC Magdeburg - SG Dynamo Dresden |
| Result | 1: 0 (1: 0) |
| date | April 29, 1978 |
| Stadion | World Youth Stadium , East Berlin |
| spectator | 50,000 |
| referee | Adolf Prokop ( Erfurt ) |
| Gates | 1: 0 tap (8.) |
| 1. FC Magdeburg | Dirk Heyne - Manfred Zapf - Detlef Raugust , Wolfgang Seguin , Klaus Decker - Jürgen Pommerenke , Axel Tyll , Siegmund Mewes - Joachim Streich , Jürgen Sparwasser , Martin Hoffmann |
| SG Dynamo Dresden | Bernd Jakubowski - Hans-Jürgen Dörner - Christian Helm , Gerd Weber , Klaus Müller - Reinhard Häfner , Hartmut Schade , Dieter Riedel - Gert Heidler , Rainer Sachse (75th Peter Kotte ), Frank Richter |
Course of the game
The 1978 cup final was a summit of GDR football in several ways. The SG Dynamo Dresden faced each other: five times GDR champions, three times cup winners and current leaders of the GDR Oberliga - and 1. FC Magdeburg: three times GDR champions, four times cup winners and then second in the Oberliga. There were 19 national players (Dresden 10, Magdeburg 9) on the pitch. In general, Dynamo Dresden, reigning champions and championship leaders, was the favorite. After a long series of injuries, the Magdeburg team only had the best cast together again in the final. Then the surprise: Not the highly traded Dresdeners determined the game, Magdeburg dictated the course of the game for over 90 minutes. Not only did they take the lead early after a header from their libero Manfred Zapf in the 8th minute, they also sparked a real assault in the direction of the Dresdner Tor, appearing dangerous 23 times in or in the opponent's penalty area during the game. In contrast, Dresden only had its first real scoring chance in the 74th minute through Sachse. While the Dresden playmakers Dörner and Häfner couldn't get their team's game under control and their teammates lost most of the duels, the FCM was straightforward, imaginative and fast. Ex-national player Otto Fräßdorf judged as a neutral observer even before the second half that Magdeburg would leave the field as the clear winner. After the break, Dynamo intensified its efforts to turn the game around, but the weakness of the storm faced a compact Magdeburg defense, from which Raugust, Seguin and Decker repeatedly initiated dangerous counter-attacks. Since the only shortcoming on the part of the Magdeburg team was a blatant exploitation of opportunities, it was ultimately a narrow victory. In conclusion, game director Prokop commented: “A good final. Not a vicious revenge foul. This meeting was also a worthy endgame from a playful level. There were many exciting goal area scenes. An attractive advertisement for good football. "(Volksstimme Magdeburg, May 2nd 1978)
1. FC Magdeburg won the FDGB Cup for the fifth time with their victory. With that, the trophy finally passed into his possession.