1967–68 DDR-Oberliga

The 1967–68 DDR-Oberliga was the 19th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

DDR-Oberliga
Season1967–68
ChampionsFC Carl Zeiss Jena
Relegated
European CupFC Carl Zeiss Jena
European Cup Winners' Cup1. FC Union Berlin
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
Matches played182
Goals scored474 (2.6 per match)
Top goalscorerGerd Kostmann (15)[1]
Total attendance2,213,000[2]
Average attendance12,159[2]

The league was contested by fourteen teams. FC Carl Zeiss Jena won the championship, the club's second of three East German championships, having previously won the 1962–63 edition under the name of SC Motor Jena.[3][4]

Gerd Kostmann of F.C. Hansa Rostock was the league's top scorer with 15 goals,[5] while Bernd Bransch of Hallescher FC Chemie won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[6]

On the strength of the 1967–68 title Jena qualified for the 1968–69 European Cup where the club was drawn against Red Star Belgrade in the first round but withdrew after a redraw following the events of the Prague Spring. UEFA had drawn all Eastern European teams against each other to avoid a possible boycott by Western European clubs which, in turn, resulted in a boycott by the clubs from the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria. Eighth-placed club 1. FC Union Berlin qualified for the 1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winner but withdrew for the same reasons. Fifth-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, a non-UEFA competition, where it was knocked out in the second round by Hibernian F.C. while second-placed F.C. Hansa Rostock was knocked out by Fiorentina, also in the second round.[7]

Towards the end of the season BSG Motor Zwickau was renamed to BSG Sachsenring Zwickau, Sachsenring being both a race track and a car manufacturer in East Germany.[8]

Table

The 1967–68 season saw two newly promoted clubs 1. FC Magdeburg and FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt.[8][9]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 FC Carl Zeiss Jena (C) 26 17 5 4 51 19 +32 39 Qualification to European Cup first round
2 F.C. Hansa Rostock 26 15 4 7 37 27 +10 34 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
3 1. FC Magdeburg 26 13 7 6 43 38 +5 33
4 FC Vorwärts Berlin 26 9 10 7 34 29 +5 28
5 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 26 9 7 10 39 35 +4 25 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
6 FC Karl-Marx-Stadt 26 8 9 9 33 30 +3 25
7 BSG Sachsenring Zwickau 26 11 3 12 36 34 +2 25
8 1. FC Union Berlin 26 9 7 10 26 35 −9 25 Qualification to Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round
9 FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt 26 8 7 11 34 39 −5 23
10 Hallescher FC Chemie 26 8 7 11 32 41 −9 23
11 BSG Wismut Aue 26 9 4 13 32 40 −8 22
12 BSG Chemie Leipzig 26 7 7 12 26 32 −6 21
13 SG Dynamo Dresden (R) 26 5 11 10 25 33 −8 21 Relegation to DDR-Liga
14 BSG Lokomotive Stendal (R) 26 7 6 13 26 42 −16 20
Source:
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results
Home \ Away CZJ CHM DRE HFC HRO KMS LLE LST MAG RWE SZW UNI VBE AUE
Carl Zeiss Jena 2–0 2–0 2–0 4–1 2–0 3–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 3–0 3–0 3–1
Chemie Leipzig 0–2 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 3–1 0–1 1–2 2–0 3–0 5–2 1–0 1–1
Dynamo Dresden 2–2 1–1 0–0 0–1 2–0 1–1 4–1 1–1 1–2 2–0 3–1 0–0 1–4
Hallescher FC Chemie 2–2 2–2 0–0 0–2 1–0 4–2 1–0 1–3 3–2 2–1 1–0 0–2 4–0
Hansa Rostock 2–1 2–1 1–1 3–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 3–2 1–0 3–0 1–0 0–1 2–1
Karl-Marx-Stadt 0–4 1–0 1–1 1–1 3–0 0–1 2–0 1–0 2–2 5–2 3–2 1–1 5–0
Lokomotive Leipzig 0–0 3–1 2–1 5–1 2–2 2–2 4–1 4–1 3–0 1–0 0–1 1–1 0–2
Lokomotive Stendal 1–4 2–0 0–0 2–0 2–3 1–1 1–1 0–0 4–2 2–0 0–2 2–0 2–1
1. FC Magdeburg 3–2 1–0 2–0 3–2 1–0 1–1 2–0 3–2 3–3 1–2 1–1 3–1 1–0
Rot-Weiß Erfurt 2–1 1–1 1–2 1–1 1–0 2–1 0–3 3–0 1–1 1–2 3–0 2–0 5–1
Sachsenring Zwickau 1–2 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 2–2 2–0 4–0 5–0 5–0 1–2 2–1 0–1
Union Berlin 0–0 0–0 2–1 3–1 2–1 0–1 1–0 0–0 2–3 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–5
Vorwärts Berlin 3–2 2–1 4–0 3–0 1–1 0–0 2–2 1–1 3–3 0–0 2–1 1–1 3–0
Wismut Aue 0–0 4–0 2–0 1–4 1–2 1–0 1–0 3–1 1–2 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–2
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References
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  2. fuwo, page: 23
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  6. fuwo, page: 92
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  8. "East Germany 1946-1990". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  9. "DDR » Oberliga 1967–68" [DDR-Oberliga 1967–68]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 24 January 2016.

Sources
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