1979–80 DDR-Oberliga

The 1979–80 DDR-Oberliga was the 31st season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

DDR-Oberliga
Season1979–80
ChampionsBFC Dynamo
Relegated
European CupBFC Dynamo
European Cup Winners' CupFC Carl Zeiss Jena
UEFA Cup
Matches played182
Goals scored525 (2.88 per match)
Top goalscorerDieter Kühn (21)[1]
Total attendance2,210,700[2]
Average attendance12,207[2]

The league was contested by fourteen teams. BFC Dynamo won the championship, the club's second of ten consecutive East German championships from 1978 to 1988.[3][4]

Dieter Kühn of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was the league's top scorer with 21 goals,[5] while Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin of FC Carl Zeiss Jena took out the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[6]

On the strength of the 1979–80 title BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1980–81 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Baník Ostrava in the second round. Third-placed club FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1980–81 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and lost to Dinamo Tbilisi in the final, becoming only the second East German team to reach a final in a European Cup competition. Second-placed Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1980–81 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the third round by Standard Liège while fourth-placed 1. FC Magdeburg lost to Torino F.C. and fifth-placed FC Vorwärts Frankfurt was eliminated by VfB Stuttgart, both in the second round.[7]

Table

The 1979–80 season saw two newly promoted clubs FC Vorwärts Frankfurt and BSG Chemie Leipzig.[8][9]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Berliner FC Dynamo (C) 26 20 3 3 72 16 +56 43 Qualification to European Cup first round
2 SG Dynamo Dresden 26 20 2 4 65 22 +43 42 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 26 13 6 7 41 24 +17 32 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
4 1. FC Magdeburg 26 12 6 8 45 37 +8 30 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5 FC Vorwärts Frankfurt 26 11 8 7 41 40 +1 30
6 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 26 11 7 8 50 34 +16 29
7 Hallescher FC Chemie 26 12 4 10 38 37 +1 28
8 BSG Sachsenring Zwickau 26 9 4 13 27 42 −15 22
9 BSG Wismut Aue 26 8 4 14 26 42 −16 20
10 BSG Stahl Riesa 26 5 10 11 22 53 −31 20
11 FC Karl-Marx-Stadt 26 6 7 13 26 38 −12 19
12 FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt 26 6 6 14 33 38 −5 18
13 1. FC Union Berlin (R) 26 6 4 16 18 44 −26 16 Relegation to DDR-Liga
14 BSG Chemie Leipzig (R) 26 4 7 15 21 58 −37 15
Source:
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results
Home \ Away BFC CZJ CHM DRE HFC KMS LOK MAG RWE SZW STR UNI VFO AUE
BFC Dynamo 1–0 10–0 1–0 4–1 3–0 4–1 2–1 1–0 5–0 9–1 2–0 4–0 3–0
Carl Zeiss Jena 2–0 3–0 0–1 4–1 2–1 1–1 3–2 1–1 3–0 2–0 3–1 3–1 3–0
Chemie Leipzig 1–2 2–1 1–4 2–0 0–0 1–5 0–1 0–0 1–1 2–2 0–2 1–2 2–1
Dynamo Dresden 1–2 3–0 4–0 3–0 1–0 3–0 3–1 1–1 3–1 5–0 1–0 4–1 4–2
Hallescher FC Chemie 3–1 1–0 2–0 0–1 2–0 1–1 5–1 3–2 3–1 1–1 1–0 2–3 2–1
Karl-Marx-Stadt 1–3 0–0 1–1 1–3 1–0 2–2 3–0 2–1 3–2 0–0 1–1 3–0 1–0
Lokomotive Leipzig 0–0 2–1 3–0 4–2 2–3 3–2 1–1 0–2 4–0 5–0 1–0 1–1 2–0
1. FC Magdeburg 0–1 1–1 4–0 2–2 2–0 2–0 2–1 2–1 2–0 5–2 5–1 3–2 2–0
Rot-Weiß Erfurt 0–2 0–1 2–2 2–5 1–2 2–0 1–2 3–3 4–0 3–1 2–0 0–1 1–0
Sachsenring Zwickau 2–1 2–0 0–3 0–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 3–1 3–0 2–0 1–1 0–0
Stahl Riesa 1–1 0–3 1–0 1–3 0–0 1–0 2–2 0–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–1 4–0
Union Berlin 0–6 1–1 0–0 0–3 0–2 2–1 2–1 2–3 2–1 1–0 2–0 0–1 0–2
Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) 0–0 2–2 2–0 0–3 2–2 3–1 0–5 0–0 2–2 3–1 5–0 3–1 2–0
Wismut Aue 1–4 0–1 5–2 2–1 2–1 2–2 2–1 3–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–3
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References
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  2. fuwo, page: 23
  3. "East Germany - List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  4. "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  5. "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  6. fuwo, page: 92
  7. "European Competitions 1980–81". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  8. "East Germany 1946-1990". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  9. "DDR-Oberliga 1979–80". Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2016.

Sources
  • "Das war unser Fußball im Osten" [This was our football in the East]. Fußball-Woche (fuwo) (in German). Berlin: Axel-Springer-Verlag. 1991.
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