Handball-Oberliga (GDR)

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The handball league of the GDR was the highest division in indoor handball of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It has been held in regular league operations since 1956, previously in tournament form. The last season of the GDR Oberliga was played in 1990/91 and thus after the end of the GDR as an independent state. The organizer was the German Handball Association .

Men

The GDR Oberliga was established for the 1964/65 season as the highest division above the GDR league, which had been the highest division up until then. It was a relatively small league in terms of numbers, with ten teams each playing regularly, only twelve in the last three seasons. Since the mid-1960s, the five (initially six) centrally funded sports clubs determined the level of performance of the GDR Oberliga and made the championship among themselves.

These are (in the order of the "eternal table"):

Since the introduction of the single-track league in 1964, only one company sports association (BSG) that did not belong to any of these performance centers was able to win a medal ( BSG Wismut Aue in third place in the 1976/77 season).

The performance gap to the second division was also very large. From the beginning of the 1980s, only four promoted players managed to stay in the league - two of them through the expansion of the league for the 1988/89 season.

Since the men's national handball team of the GDR was one of the strongest handball teams in the world for many years (e.g. as Olympic champion in 1980 ), on the other hand, top players were denied access to foreign clubs, the GDR Oberliga was one of the strongest leagues in the world, which was also achieved numerous successes in the European Cup is proven.

Tournament format

  • 1950: complex format with twelve teams
  • 1951–1954: Championship with six teams (the state and district champions were qualified), two groups of three, final game
  • 1955–1963 / 64: GDR league in two seasons with the season winners' final game. Relay size growing from five teams to a maximum of ten per season. Relay games mostly double round, in earlier years also as a single round
  • 1964 / 65–1972 / 73: Oberliga with 10 teams, double-rounded
  • 1973/74 season: Oberliga with 10 teams, triple round (first round at neutral venues)
  • 1974 / 75–1976 / 77: Oberliga with 10 teams, double-round with additional final rounds after halving the field
  • 1977 / 78–1987 / 88: Oberliga with 10 teams, double-round
  • 1988 / 89–1990 / 91: Oberliga with 12 teams, double round

GDR champions (men)

  • 1991 SC Magdeburg
  • 1990 1. SC Berlin (played most of the season as SC Dynamo Berlin )
  • 1989 ASK forward Frankfurt / Oder
  • 1988 SC Magdeburg
  • 1987 SC Empor Rostock
  • 1986 SC Empor Rostock
  • 1985 SC Magdeburg
  • 1984 SC Magdeburg
  • 1983 SC Magdeburg
  • 1982 SC Magdeburg
  • 1981 SC Magdeburg
  • 1980 SC Magdeburg
  • 1979 SC Leipzig
  • 1978 SC Empor Rostock
  • 1977 SC Magdeburg
  • 1976 SC Leipzig
  • 1975 ASK forward Frankfurt / Oder
  • 1974 ASK forward Frankfurt / Oder
  • 1973 SC Empor Rostock
  • 1972 SC Leipzig
  • 1971 SC Dynamo Berlin
  • 1970 SC Magdeburg
  • 1969 SC Dynamo Berlin
  • 1968 SC Empor Rostock
  • 1967 SC Dynamo Berlin
  • 1966 SC DHfK Leipzig
  • 1965 SC DHfK Leipzig
  • 1964 ASK Forward Berlin
  • 1963 BSG locomotive southeast Magdeburg
  • 1962 SC DHfK Leipzig
  • 1961 SC DHfK Leipzig
  • 1960 SC DHfK Leipzig
  • 1959 SC DHfK Leipzig
  • 1958 SC Lokomotive Leipzig (cup winner) . Because of the indoor handball world championship in the GDR , only one cup tournament was played without national players.
  • 1957 SC Empor Rostock
  • 1956 SC Empor Rostock (SC Empor had taken over the first men's team from BSG Motor)
  • 1955 BSG Motor Rostock
  • 1954 BSG Motor Rostock
  • 1953 BSG Motor Rostock
  • 1952 SV German People's Police in Halle
  • 1951 SV German People's Police in Halle
  • 1950 SC Weißensee

Women

GDR champions (women)

  • 1991 SC Leipzig
  • 1990 ASK forward Frankfurt / Oder
  • 1989 SC Empor Rostock
  • 1988 SC Leipzig
  • 1987 ASK forward Frankfurt / Oder
  • 1986 ASK forward Frankfurt / Oder
  • 1985 ASK forward Frankfurt / Oder
  • 1984 SC Leipzig
  • 1983 ASK forward Frankfurt / Oder
  • 1982 ASK forward Frankfurt / Oder
  • 1981 SC Magdeburg
  • 1980 Berlin TSC
  • 1979 Berlin TSC
  • 1978 SC Leipzig
  • 1977 Berlin TSC
  • 1976 SC Leipzig
  • 1975 SC Leipzig
  • 1974 Berlin TSC
  • 1973 SC Leipzig
  • 1972 SC Leipzig
  • 1971 SC Leipzig
  • 1970 SC Leipzig
  • 1969 SC Leipzig
  • 1968 SC Leipzig
  • 1967 SC Empor Rostock
  • 1966 SC Empor Rostock
  • 1965 SC Leipzig
  • 1964 BSG progress Weissenfels
  • 1963 BSG progress Weissenfels
  • 1962 BSG progress Weissenfels
  • 1961 BSG locomotive Rangsdorf
  • 1960 BSG Chemie Zeitz
  • 1959 BSG progress Weissenfels
  • 1958 BSG progress Weissenfels
  • 1957 SC Lokomotive Leipzig
  • 1956 BSG locomotive Rangsdorf
  • 1955 BSG progress Weissenfels
  • 1954 BSG unit Weimar
  • 1953 BSG Rotation Leipzig-Mitte
  • 1952 SC Berlin-Weißensee
  • 1951 BSG KWU Weimar

The individual seasons (men)

In the 1948 and 1949 seasons, an Eastern Zone Championship was held. In the 1957/58 season there was no state championship because of the World Cup in the GDR.

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  • All tables from "Tore-Triumphe-Titel Handballhochburg Magdeburg", ESV-Verlag 2001