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1979–80 DDR-Oberliga
The 1979–80 DDR-Oberliga was the 31st season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of East German football league system, league football in East Germany. 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. Dieter Kühn of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was the league's top scorer with 21 goals, while Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin of FC Carl Zeiss Jena took out the seasons Footballer of the Year in Germany, East German Footballer of the year award. 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 FC Dinamo Tbilisi, Dinamo Tbilisi in the final, becoming only the second East German team to reach a final in a European Cup competition. Second-place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DDR-Oberliga
The DDR-Oberliga (English: ''East German Premier League'' or ''GDR Premier League'') was the top-level association football league in East Germany. 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'', 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'', German Football Association of the GDR). In its inaugural season in 1949/50, the DDR-Oberliga was made up of 14 teams with two relegation spots. 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 three or fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
