Rainer Topf

Rainer Topf (born September 19, 1942 ) is a former German football player who was active between 1962 and 1970 for SC Chemie Halle / Hallescher FC Chemie in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of GDR football . In 1962 he won the GDR Cup with the SC Chemie.

Athletic career

The league team of SC Chemie Halle had to complete a 39-game season between March 1961 and June 1962, as the GDR soccer instinct was switched from the calendar to the summer-spring rhythm. In the last third of the season, the club lost several attacking players, so new or young players had to be used. Among them was the 20-year-old Rainer Topf. He was used between the 31st and 37th matchday twice as a left winger and once a right winger, but could not score any goals. At the end of the season, Topf stood with SC Chemie as a center forward in the final and the GDR soccer cup, which the Halle team won 3-1 over SC Dynamo Berlin . Topf was not a goal scorer. In 1962/63, Topf achieved the status of a regular player because he played 20 of the 26 league games and also scored the first three goals of his first division career. He was consistently called up on the right side of the storm. When a new striker came to Halle in 1963/64 with the national player Horst Walter , Topf fell out of the starting line-up and only made nine league appearances in which he only scored one goal. At the end of the season, SC Chemie was determined to be relegated from the league. In the immediate resurgence pot was only involved with three games without a goal in the GDR league .

In the seasons 1965/66 and 1966/67, Topf was handed over to the company sports community (BSG) Motor Ammendorf , which was playing in the third-rate Halle district league at the time . In the first season he was district champion with the Ammendorfern, but they failed in the promotion round to the GDR league.

For the 1967/68 season pot returned to Halle, where the league team now took on as Hallescher FC Chemie. In the first half of the season there was only one league game, although he made a good debut with one goal. In the second half of the season he then played nine of the 13 games. 1968/69 he ran with five league games only under also ran, but helped the 2nd team of the HFC to rise to the GDR league. In 1969/70 it seemed as if Topf could establish himself again in the big league for a longer period of time. He was mainly used as a half-left striker in eleven league games in the first half of the season and was also used once as a goal scorer. After he was called up as a substitute only twice at the beginning of the second half of the season, he only played seven times for the second team in the GDR league for the rest of the season. After 59 league games with five goals, Rainer Topf said goodbye to high-performance sport in the summer of 1970.

As a recreational soccer player, he played for the BSG Turbine Halle from 1970 to 1979. In 1971 he helped the team to move up to the district league, which could be kept until Topfs finally left active football.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1962–1979. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 493.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 320.

Web links

• Rainer Topf in the database of the German Football Association