II. GDR League 1960

The II. GDR League 1960 was the sixth season of the II. GDR League, founded in 1955 . It was the third highest division in the German Football Association of the GDR (DFV) after the GDR Oberliga and the first GDR League .

Game operation

The second GDR league in 1960 was carried out analogously to the five championships from 1955 to 1959 as the last season based on the Russian model, in which football matches were aligned with the calendar year. It was held in five seasons with a subsequent promotion round, from whose championships Vorwärts Neubrandenburg , Motor Dessau and Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt rose to the GDR league .

season 1

Season 1 (district Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, Berlin) was played on 26 match days with a return game. Relay winner and promoted to the GDR league was Vorwärts Neubrandenburg . Progress Neustadt-Glewe , Unit Teterow and Unit Ludwigslust were relegated to the district league area. In the following season Lok Waren , Lok Wittenberge , Motor Eberswalde , Motor Köpenick and Motor Stralsund moved up into the 2nd GDR League.

season 1	Sp.	Gates	Points
1. Forward Neubrandenburg	26th	60:20	41:11
2. Forward Rostock	26th	70:25	39:13
3. Neubrandenburg turbine	26th	47:34	35:17
4th SG Dynamo Schwerin	26th	62:36	31:21
5. Motor Warnemünde	26th	54:30	31:21
6. Motor Rathenow	26th	37:40	27:25
7. Schwerin tractor	26th	52:31	26:26
8. Veritas Wittenberge	26th	43:50	26:26
9. Wismar engine	26th	34:43	26:26
10. Civil engineering Berlin	26th	48:60	25:27
11. Motor Neptun Rostock	26th	32:40	21:31
12. Progress Neustadt-Glewe	26th	24:42	15:37
13. Teterow unit	26th	33:97	12:40
14. Unity Ludwigslust	26th	23:71	9:43

season 2

Season 2 (Bez. Berlin, Potsdam, Frankfurt, Cottbus) was played on 26 match days with a return leg. Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt was the relay winner and promoted to the GDR league . Lok Cottbus , activist Schwarze Pump and Empor Fürstenwalde relegated to the district league area. Rotation Babelsberg , whose 1st team played in the GDR league this season, had to delegate its team to the newly founded SC Potsdam at the beginning of the 1961/62 season , which then took the league place of the BSG rotation. Then Rotation Babelsberg took the previous place of their 2nd team in the following season. The climbers from the district leagues in season 2 were Aufbau Großräschen , TSG Velten and BSG Turbine Magdeburg .

season 2	Sp.	Gates	Points
1. Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt	26th	58:29	36:16
2. Motor South Brandenburg	26th	60:27	35:17
3. Motor Hennigsdorf	26th	68:47	34:18
4. Activist Laubusch	26th	51:46	31:21
5. EAB Lichtenberg 47	26th	49:45	30:22
6. Rotation Babelsberg II	26th	62:54	28:24
7. TSC Oberschöneweide	26th	51:35	27:25
8. SG Grünau	26th	49:54	26:26
9. Dynamo Frankfurt	26th	38:51	25:27
10. Kirchmöser locomotive	26th	44:40	24:28
11. Chemistry Schmöckwitz	26th	38:53	22:30
12. Cottbus locomotive	26th	41:45	21:31
13. Activist Black Pump	26th	33:57	16:36
14. Up Fürstenwalde	26th	36:95	9:43

season 3

Season 3 (district Halle, Magdeburg, Leipzig) was played on 26 match days with a return leg. Motor Dessau was the season winner and promoted to the GDR league . Unit Burg , Chemie Leuna and Chemie Schönebeck were relegated to the district league area. In the following season Motor Ammendorf and Motor Schkeuditz moved up into the second GDR league.

season 3	Sp.	Gates	Points
1. Motor Dessau	26th	43:37	34:18
2. Motor North Leipzig	26th	46:30	33:19
3. Science hall	26th	40:37	31:21
4. Motor Aschersleben	26th	52:49	30:22
5. Stahl Eisleben	26th	31:32	29:23
6. Halberstadt locomotive	26th	55:39	28:24
7. Up Wurzen	26th	45:35	28:24
8. Motor Schönebeck	26th	37:31	28:24
9. Stahl Thale	26th	47:44	27:25
10. Activist Geiseltal	26th	48:49	25:27
11. Chemistry Bitterfeld	26th	55:58	23:29
12. Unity castle	26th	37:42	21:31
13. Chemistry Leuna	26th	26:49	17:35
14. Chemistry Schönebeck	26th	26:56	10:42

Season 4

Season 4 (district Dresden, Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Stadt) was played on 26 match days with a return game. The season winner was Vorwärts Leipzig . Development Meißen , Chemie Schwarzheide and Motor Altenburg were relegated to the district league area. In the following season, Chemie Riesa , Motor West Karl-Marx-Stadt and the league relegated Progress Meerane and Motor Bautzen moved into the 2nd GDR League.

Season 4	Sp.	Gates	Points
1. Forward Leipzig	26th	58:36	32:20
2. Bismuth Plauen	26th	50:31	32:20
3. Brand-Langenau engine	26th	51:48	31:21
4. Riesa steel	26th	66:47	30:22
5. Activist Böhlen	26th	38:37	29:23
6. Elsterberg unit	26th	50:61	27:25
7. Motor Goerlitz	26th	48:43	26:26
8. Chemistry Glauchau	26th	52:46	25:27
9. Activist Zwickau	26th	46:44	25:27
10. Motor Werdau	26th	38:38	25:27
11. Stahl Gröditz	26th	45:54	24:28
12. Construction of Meissen	26th	35:49	21:31
13. Chemie Schwarzheide	26th	45:60	21:31
14. Motor Altenburg	26th	26:54	16:36

Season 5

Season 5 (Bez. Erfurt, Gera, Suhl) was played on 26 match days with a return game. The season winner was Motor Steinach . Motor Breitungen , Motor Rudisleben and Motor Sömmerda were relegated to the regional league division . In the following season, Chemie Schwarza , Lok Meiningen , Dynamo Erfurt and the relegated Lok Weimar moved into the II.

Season 5	Sp.	Gates	Points
1. Steinach engine	26th	84:32	41:11
2. Chemistry Lauscha	26th	50:34	34:18
3. Motor Nordhausen West	26th	74:45	31:21
4. Motor North Erfurt	26th	48:51	30:22
5. Glückauf Bleicherode	26th	44:37	29:23
6. Activist Tiefenort	26th	47:49	26:26
7. Eisenach engine	26th	42:39	24:28
8. Steel Silbitz	26th	44:55	24:28
9. Motor Suhl	26th	52:67	24:28
10. Neuhaus-Schierschnitz engine	26th	43:49	23:29
11. Motor Sonneberg	26th	39:48	23:29
12. Motor widths	26th	59:68	23:29
13. Motor Rudisleben	26th	40:61	19:33
14. Motor Sömmerda	26th	33:64	13:39

Promotion lap

The five season winners determined the three promoted players in the first GDR league in a simple game round. Of the four games to be played, each team had home rights twice.

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Motor Dessau	4th	2	2	0	008: 300	+5	06: 20
2.	Forward Neubrandenburg	4th	2	1	1	004: 400	± 0	05: 30
3.	Steel Stalin City	4th	2	0	2	004: 600	−2	04: 40
4th	Forward Leipzig	4th	1	1	2	003: 400	−1	03: 50
5.	Engine Steinach	4th	0	2	2	004: 600	−2	02: 60

date		Result
11/20/60	Motor Dessau	3-0	Steel Stalin City
11/20/60	Forward Neubrandenburg	1-0	Engine Steinach
3.11.60	Steel Stalin City	0: 1	Forward Neubrandenburg
3.11.60	Engine Steinach	0-0	Forward Leipzig
11/7/60	Engine Steinach	2: 2	Motor Dessau
11/7/60	Forward Leipzig	3: 1	Forward Neubrandenburg
12/4/60	Motor Dessau	2-0	Forward Leipzig
12/4/60	Steel Stalin City	3: 2	Engine Steinach
12/11/60	Forward Neubrandenburg	1: 1	Motor Dessau
12/11/60	Forward Leipzig	0: 1	Steel Stalin City

literature

Klaus Querengässer: Football in the GDR 1945–1989. Part 1: The League (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 12). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-928562-45-2 , pp. 173-175.

Individual evidence

↑ Hardy Greens : Rotation Babelsberg II. In: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 , p. 32.
^ Hanns Leske : Rotation / Motor Babelsberg. In: Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , pp. 159–160.

swell

Alexander Mastrogiannopoulos: East Germany 1960. GDR League II 1960 [Third Level]. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, October 16, 2005, accessed January 17, 2012 .
2. DDR-Liga 1960. The German Football Archive, accessed on January 17, 2012 (German).

[1] Hardy Greens : Rotation Babelsberg II. In: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 , p. 32.

[2] Hanns Leske : Rotation / Motor Babelsberg. In: Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , pp. 159–160.