Junior league
The junior league was a league in football in the GDR . It was held from 1968 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1989. In this division of the German Football Association played the junior representatives of those football clubs and company sports associations that were represented in the men's league , the top division of GDR football , in the relevant season . As part of this competition, the GDR junior championship title was awarded.
history
The junior division according to age group was to be compared with the German A-youth or today's U-19 classification, and generally corresponded to the best 17 and 18-year-old footballers in the country. These could also be offered to the younger (U-17) and older (U-18) junior selection of the DFV via the performances shown in the division . The promotion and relegation in and out of the junior league was not regulated by the table placement in the championship, but by the results of the first men's team in the elite class of GDR football. This also did not wash into the field of participants as junior representatives from company sports associations that were prepared for the requirements of the nationwide competition . In 1984/85 the U-18s of BSG Motor Suhl finished 14th and last with just one win and almost 100 goals conceded - just as beaten as the 1st team in the men's league (5:47 points).
In 1975/76 the junior league was abolished and the junior league (NWOL) introduced, in which players who had outgrown the junior age, mostly commuting between the first team and the NWOL team, could be used. With the reintroduction in 1983, the East German association officials hoped to strengthen the junior national team , which had been eliminated in the qualifying games for the UEFA youth tournament ( until 1980) and the U-18 European Championship (since 1981) since 1975, by increasing the frequency of competition. Up to the 1982/83 season, the juniors had only played 20 instead of the 26 point games in a season in a so-called junior league (AK 17/18), as this division consisted of the ten football clubs and their equivalent SG Dynamo Dresden .
In the first year of their existence, the East German juniors made it to the U-18 European Championship in 1984 in the Soviet Union. In 1986 (gold) and 1988 (bronze) the DFV won medals for the first time at the official UEFA European Junior Championship.
In 1989 it was replaced by the reintroduced junior league, in which junior players and connecting squads of the men's upper league teams, who, as in 1976 , had to withdraw their second teams from the league and district league , stood together on the field.
Title holder
The 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and SG Dynamo Dresden secured in the years of the junior league three times the title. The last championship in 1989 went to 1. FC Magdeburg.
| season | master |
|---|---|
| 1968/69 | HFC chemistry |
| 1969/70 | 1. FC Magdeburg |
| 1970/71 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig |
| 1971/72 | SG Dynamo Dresden |
| 1972/73 | FC Hansa Rostock |
| 1973/74 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig |
| 1974/75 | FC Forward Frankfurt / Oder |
| 1975/76 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig |
| 1983/84 | FC Forward Frankfurt / Oder |
| 1984/85 | SG Dynamo Dresden |
| 1985/86 | FC Karl-Marx Stadt |
| 1986/87 | BFC Dynamo |
| 1987/88 | SG Dynamo Dresden |
| 1988/89 | 1. FC Magdeburg |
literature
- German sport echo : born 1968–1989. ISSN 0323-8628
- fuwo - The new football week : born 1968–1989. ISSN 0323-8407
- Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 , page 173.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Nachtigall : Premiere for the juniors with expectations. In: Special edition Deutsches Sportecho / fuwo - The new football week for the 1983/84 season. August 1983, page 25.