Football league season
The 1977–78 DDR-Oberliga was the 29th 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 sixth of eight East German championships, thereby equalling FC Vorwärts Berlin 's record.[3] [4]
Klaus Havenstein of BSG Chemie Böhlen was the league's top scorer with 15 goals,[5] while Jürgen Croy of BSG Sachsenring Zwickau won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award for a record third time.[6]
On the strength of the 1977–78 title Dresden qualified for the 1978–79 European Cup where the club was knocked out by FK Austria Wien in the quarter-finals. Second-placed club 1. FC Magdeburg qualified for the 1978–79 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and was knocked out by Baník Ostrava in the quarter-finals. For the first time three East German clubs qualified for the 1978–79 UEFA Cup with third-placed BFC Dynamo being knocked out in the first round by Red Star Belgrade while fourth-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig lost to Arsenal , also in the first round and fifth-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena was defeated by MSV Duisburg in the second round.[7]
Table
The 1977–78 season saw two newly promoted clubs BSG Chemie Böhlen and BSG Wismut Gera .[8] [9]
Results
Source:
[citation needed ] Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
References
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
Seasons
DDR-Oberliga NOFV-Oberliga
History
Domestic leagues Domestic cups League cups Super cups UEFA competitions Non-UEFA competitions