- DDR-Oberliga
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DDR Oberliga Founded 1949 Disbanded 1991 Nation 
East Germany
Relegation To DDR Liga Staffel A DDR Liga Staffel B Number of Seasons 41 Replaced by Bundesliga Level on Pyramid Level 1 Last Champions 1990-91 F.C. Hansa Rostock The DDR-Oberliga (English:East German Premier League or GDR-Premier League) was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the elite level of football competition in the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik or German Democratic Republic, commonly East Germany), being roughly equivalent to the Oberliga (1945–1963) or Bundesliga (1963–1990) in West Germany.
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Overview
Following World War II, separate sports competitions emerged in the occupied eastern and western halves of Germany, replacing the Gauligas of the Nazi era.
In East Germany, a top-flight football competition, the highest league in the East German football league system, was established in 1949 as the DS-Oberliga (Deutscher Sportausschuss Oberliga or German Sports Association Upper League). Beginning in 1958, it carried the name DDR-Oberliga and was part of the league structure within the DFV (Deutscher Fussball Verband der DDR or German Football Association of the GDR).
In its inaugural season in 1949-50 the DDR-Oberliga was made up of 14 teams with 2 relegation spots.[1] Over the course of the next four seasons the number of teams in the division varied and included anywhere from 17 to 19 sides with 3 or 4 relegation spots.[2][3][4][5] Beginning with the 1954-55 season up until merger of the East and West German football associations in 1991-92 the league was made up of 14 teams with 2 relegation spots.[6]
Initially the DDR-Oberliga was operated on an autumn-spring schedule as was traditional in Germany. From 1956 to 1960 a Soviet-style spring-autumn (calendar year) schedule was in place.[citation needed] This required a transition round in 1955 and, although no champion was formally declared that season, Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt finished atop the division.[7] 1961-62 saw the return of an autumn-spring season and an extended schedule (39 matches vs. 26 matches) was played with each club meeting the others a total of three times – once at home, once away, and once at a neutral venue.[8]
After German reunification the last regular DDR-Oberliga season was played in 1990-91 under the designation NOFV-Oberliga (Nordostdeutsche Fußballverband Oberliga or Northeast German Football Federation Premier League). The following year the East German league structure was merged into the West German system under the German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) and the top two NOFV-Oberliga clubs – F.C. Hansa Rostock and Dynamo Dresden – joined the first division Bundesliga.
For the duration of the league's existence, the league below it was the DDR-Liga.
Disbanding of the Oberliga
In 1991, the DDR-Oberliga ceased to exist, its clubs being integrated in the German football league system. The fourteen Oberliga clubs went to the following leagues, spread over three tiers:
To the Fussball-Bundesliga (Tier I):
To the 2nd Bundesliga Nord (Tier II):
To the 2nd Bundesliga Süd (Tier II):
To the NOFV-Oberliga Nord (Tier III):
To the NOFV-Oberliga Mitte (Tier III):
To the NOFV-Oberliga Süd (Tier III):
The Oberliga reformed as the Regionalliga Nordost
In 1994, a new third tier division was established in the area that formerly made up East Germany. The Regionalliga Nordost was made up of most of the big names of the DDR-era alongside clubs from West Berlin. The only clubs from the final season of the old DDR-Oberliga not to appear here were F.C. Hansa Rostock, which was competing at the Bundesliga level, and Hallescher FC which had fallen on hard times.
The league was disbanded again in 2000 and its member clubs were spread between the two remaining Regionalligas (III) and the NOFV-Oberligas (IV), effectively ending the history of the all-East German leagues.
The Regionalliga Nordost will return in 2012/13 as one of five fourth-tier regional leagues. The new league will cover the area of the former GDR and Berlin and the champions of this new division will qualify for a play-off against the winner of another Regionalliga or against the eighteenth-placed team in the 3rd Liga to determine promotion to the 3rd Liga.
DDR-Oberliga champions
Main article: East German football championsBFC Dynamo Berlin was the league record holder with 10 DDR-Oberliga titles to its credit.
Source:"DDR Oberliga". Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv. http://www.f-archiv.de/. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
Placings in the DDR-Oberliga 1975-1991
Club 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 F.C. Hansa Rostock 13 14 14 10 8 8 9 10 13 9 4 6 1 Dynamo Dresden 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 2 7 2 2 6 2 3 1 1 2 Berliner FC Dynamo 4 2 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 11 1. FC Magdeburg 1 3 2 2 4 4 3 6 6 5 5 4 5 7 6 3 10 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 2 5 3 5 3 3 2 5 3 10 7 3 6 6 8 5 6 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 8 4 5 4 5 6 6 3 4 3 3 2 3 2 5 8 7 FC Karl-Marx-Stadt 10 11 9 7 8 9 9 9 9 6 9 8 8 8 3 2 5 FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt 9 7 6 9 7 12 7 7 5 7 6 10 7 12 12 11 3 FC Vorwärts Frankfurt/Oder 5 12 12 13 5 5 4 2 4 8 9 10 13 14 Wismut Aue 12 6 10 11 11 10 12 10 10 8 4 11 4 10 7 13 Hallescher FC Chemie 11 8 7 6 6 7 8 11 11 14 5 9 9 4 Sachsenring Zwickau 7 9 8 10 12 8 11 12 14 14 13 1. FC Union Berlin 11 8 10 13 12 13 7 11 11 14 Stahl Riesa 6 10 13 9 11 13 11 12 12 12 14 Stahl Brandenburg 11 5 9 4 11 10 8 FC Energie Cottbus 14 13 13 10 7 13 Chemie Leipzig 13 14 12 13 12 Chemie Böhlen 12 13 14 13 Fortschritt Bischofswerda 14 14 FC Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt 12 9 Motor Suhl 14 Chemie Buna-Schopkau 14 Wismut Gera 14 ASG Vorwärts Stralsund 14 Source:"DDR-Oberliga". Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv. http://www.f-archiv.de/. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- Names shown are the ones the clubs carried over most of this seasons, which are not necessarily the ones they carried in the last two seasons or their current ones.
- The Chemie Leipzig and Chemie Böhlen merged in 1990, to form FC Sachsen Leipzig.
See also
External links
- The DDR-Oberliga at Fussballdaten.de
- Overall table of the DDR-Oberliga
- DDR-Oberliga results & tables
- DDR-Oberliga at Weltfussball.de
Sources
References
- ^ Alexander Mastrogiannopoulos (2005-10-16). "East Germany 1949/50". rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesd/ddr50.html. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- ^ Jan Schoenmakers (2005-10-16). "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesd/ddrhist.html#51. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- ^ Jan Schoenmakers (2005-10-16). "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesd/ddrhist.html#52. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- ^ Jan Schoenmakers (2005-10-16). "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesd/ddrhist.html#53. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- ^ Jan Schoenmakers (2005-10-16). "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesd/ddrhist.html#54. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- ^ Jan Schoenmakers (2005-10-16). "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesd/ddrhist.html#55. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- ^ Alexander Mastrogiannopoulos (2005-10-16). "East Germany 1955". rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesd/ddr55a.html. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- ^ Alexander Mastrogiannopoulos (2005-10-16). "East Germany 1955". rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesd/ddr62.html. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
DDR-Oberliga seasons Ostzonenmeisterschaft
(1947–1949)DDR-Oberliga
(1949–1990)1949–50 · 1950–51 · 1951–52 · 1952–53 · 1953–54 · 1954–55 · 1955 · 1956 · 1957 · 1958 · 1959 · 1960 · 1961–62 · 1962–63 · 1963–64 · 1964–65 · 1965–66 · 1966–67 · 1967–68 · 1968–69 · 1969–70 · 1970–71 · 1971–72 · 1972–73 · 1973–74 · 1974–75 · 1975–76 · 1976–77 · 1977–78 · 1978–79 · 1979–80 · 1980–81 · 1981–82 · 1982–83 · 1983–84 · 1984–85 · 1985–86 · 1986–87 · 1987–88 · 1988–89 · 1989–90NOFV-Oberliga Football in East Germany National teams MenWomenNational teamLeague system MenWomenLeagueDomestic cups MenWomenCupAwards Footballer of the Year · TopscorersLists Men's clubs · Women's clubs · Men's players · Women's players · Expatriate players · Managers · Referees · Venues · Records · SeasonsTop level football leagues of Europe (UEFA) Albania · Andorra · Armenia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Belarus · Belgium · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Croatia · Cyprus · Czech Republic · Denmark · England · Estonia · Faroe Islands · Finland · France · Georgia · Germany · Greece · Hungary · Iceland · Israel · Italy · Kazakhstan · Latvia · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Macedonia · Malta · Moldova · Montenegro · Netherlands · Northern Ireland · Norway · Poland · Portugal · Republic of Ireland · Romania · Russia · San Marino · Scotland · Serbia · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden · Switzerland · Turkey · Ukraine · WalesCategories:- DDR-Oberliga
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