Season | 1976–77 |
---|---|
Champions | Dynamo Dresden |
Relegated | |
European Cup | Dynamo Dresden |
European Cup Winners' Cup | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig |
UEFA Cup | |
Matches played | 182 |
Goals scored | 500 (2.75 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Joachim Streich (17)[1] |
Total attendance | 2,516,500[2] |
Average attendance | 13,827[2] |
← 1975–76 1977–78 → |
The 1976–77 DDR-Oberliga was the 28th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.
The league was contested by fourteen teams. Dynamo Dresden won the championship, the club's fifth of eight East German championships.[3][4] Dynamo Dresden went on to win the FDGB-Pokal as well, defeating 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig in the final and thereby repeating its double.[1]
Joachim Streich of 1. FC Magdeburg was the league's top scorer with 17 goals, the first of four occasions to finish as league top scorer, a record jointly held with Hans-Jürgen Kreische,[5] while Hans-Jürgen Dörner of Dynamo Dresden won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[6]
On the strength of the 1976–77 title Dresden qualified for the 1977–78 European Cup where the club was knocked out by eventual winners Liverpool in the second round. Fourth-placed club 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal runners-up and was knocked out by Real Betis in the second round. Second-placed 1. FC Magdeburg qualified for the 1977–78 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the quarter-finals by PSV Eindhoven while third-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena lost to SEC Bastia, also in the quarter-finals.[7]
Table
The 1976–77 season saw two newly promoted clubs 1. FC Union Berlin and F.C. Hansa Rostock.[8][9]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | SG Dynamo Dresden (C) | 26 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 66 | 27 | +39 | 38 | Qualification to European Cup first round |
2 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 26 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 47 | 28 | +19 | 34 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
3 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 26 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 45 | 31 | +14 | 33 | |
4 | BFC Dynamo | 26 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 43 | 27 | +16 | 32 | |
5 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 26 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 40 | 29 | +11 | 29 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round |
6 | FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt | 26 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 27 | 35 | −8 | 25 | |
7 | Hallescher FC Chemie | 26 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 34 | 39 | −5 | 24 | |
8 | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau | 26 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 32 | 34 | −2 | 22 | |
9 | FC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 26 | 10 | 2 | 14 | 35 | 39 | −4 | 22 | |
10 | BSG Wismut Aue | 26 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 27 | 45 | −18 | 22 | |
11 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 26 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 30 | 42 | −12 | 21 | |
12 | FC Vorwärts Frankfurt | 26 | 9 | 3 | 14 | 23 | 36 | −13 | 21 | |
13 | BSG Stahl Riesa (R) | 26 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 28 | 47 | −19 | 21 | Relegation to DDR-Liga |
14 | F.C. Hansa Rostock (R) | 26 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 23 | 41 | −18 | 20 |
Results
References
- ^ a b fuwo, page: 93
- ^ a b fuwo, page: 23
- ^ "East Germany - List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
- ^ "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
- ^ "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ fuwo, page: 92
- ^ "European Competitions 1977-78". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
- ^ "East Germany 1946-1990". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
- ^ "DDR-Oberliga 1976–77". 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.
External links
- Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv (in German) Historic German league tables