Football World Cup 1974 / GDR

The team before the preliminary round against Australia (from left to right): Bernd Bransch , Jürgen Croy , Jürgen Sparwasser , Harald Irmscher , Eberhard Vogel , Gerd Kische , Jürgen Pommerenke , Siegmar Wätzlich , Wolfram Löwe , Joachim Streich and Konrad Weise .

This article deals with the national soccer team of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) at the 1974 World Cup in the Federal Republic of Germany .

qualification

The German Democratic Republic won group 4 in qualifying for the 1974 World Cup against Romania , Finland and Albania and thus qualified for the first and last time for a World Cup .

table Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Points 1.  GDR 6th 5 0 1 18: 03 10: 02 2.  Romania 6th 4th 1 1 17: 04 09: 03 3.  Finland 6th 1 1 4th 03:21 03: 09 4th  Albania 6th 1 0 5 03:13 02:10

Games Home / guest  GDR - 2-0 5-0 2-0  ROME 1-0 - 9-0 2-0  FIN 1: 5 1: 1 - 1-0  ALB 1: 4 1: 4 -

Contingent

No.	player		Club before the start of the World Cup	Date of birth	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
21st		Wolfgang Blochwitz	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	02/08/1941	0	0	0	0
1		Jürgen Croy	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	October 19, 1946	6th	0	1	0
22nd		Werner Friese	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	03/30/1946	0	0	0	0
Defender
3		Bernd Bransch	Hallescher FC Chemie	09/24/1944	6th	0	0	0
5		Joachim Fritsche	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	10/28/1951	0	0	0	0
18th		Gerd Kische	FC Hansa Rostock	October 23, 1951	6th	0	2	0
2		Lothar Kurbjuweit	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	11/06/1950	4th	0	0	0
4th		Konrad way	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	08/17/1951	6th	0	0	0
12		Siegmar Wätzlich	SG Dynamo Dresden	11/16/1947	4th	0	1	0
midfield player
17th		Erich Hamann	FC Forward Frankfurt (Oder)	11/27/1944	2	0	1	0
16		Harald Irmscher	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	02/12/1946	4th	0	0	0
10		Hans-Jürgen Kreische	SG Dynamo Dresden	07/19/1947	3	0	1	0
13		Reinhard Lauck	BFC Dynamo	09/16/1946	3	0	0	0
7th		Jürgen Pommerenke	1. FC Magdeburg	01/22/1953	3	0	0	0
6th		Rüdiger snuff	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	01/23/1954	2	0	0	0
19th		Wolfgang Seguin	1. FC Magdeburg	09/14/1945	1	0	0	0
striker
9		Peter Ducke	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	10/14/1941	3	0	0	0
20th		Martin Hoffmann	1. FC Magdeburg	March 22, 1955	6th	1	0	0
8th		Wolfram lion	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	05/14/1945	4th	0	0	0
14th		Jürgen Sparwasser	1. FC Magdeburg	06/04/1948	6th	1	2	0
11		Joachim Streich	FC Hansa Rostock	04/13/1951	4th	2	1	0
15th		Eberhard Vogel	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	April 8, 1943	3	0	1	0
Trainer
		Georg Buschner		December 26, 1925

Team games

Preliminary round

The team of the German Democratic Republic was able to surprisingly beat the hosts from the Federal Republic of Germany in the preliminary round with a goal from Jürgen Sparwasser and qualify as group winners for the second round. The game remained the only meeting of the two German national teams. Chile and Australia were the other opponents of the German teams.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	GDR	4: 1	5: 1
2	FRG	4: 1	4: 2
3	Chile	1: 2	2: 4
4th	Australia	0: 5	1: 5

GDR	-	Australia	2: 0 (0: 0)
GDR	-	Chile	1: 1 (1: 0)
FRG	-	GDR	0: 1 (0: 0)

Intermediate round

In the second round, the GDR team could not prevail in the group with the Netherlands , Brazil and Argentina and was eliminated.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Netherlands	8-0	6-0
2	Brazil	3: 3	4: 2
3	GDR	1: 4	1: 5
4th	Argentina	2: 7	1: 5

Brazil	-	GDR	1: 0 (0: 0)
Netherlands	-	GDR	2: 0 (1: 0)
GDR	-	Argentina	1: 1 (1: 1)

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