The 1967–68 DDR-Oberliga was the 19th season of the

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 ...

, the first tier of league football in East Germany. 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. Gerd Kostmann of

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was the league's top scorer with 15 goals, while

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of Hallescher FC Chemie won the seasons

East German Footballer of the year The title Footballer of the Year (German: ''Fußballer des Jahres'') has been awarded in Germany since 1960. Eligible are German players as well as non-German players playing in Germany. In 1996, the title Women's Footballer of the Year (German ...

award. On the strength of the 1967–68 title Jena qualified for the

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where the club was drawn against Red Star Belgrade in the first round but withdrew after a redraw following the events of the

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. 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

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qualified for the

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as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winner but withdrew for the same reasons. Fifth-placed

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qualified for the

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, a non-UEFA competition, where it was knocked out in the second round by

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while second-placed

was knocked out by Fiorentina, also in the second round. Towards the end of the season BSG Motor Zwickau was renamed to BSG Sachsenring Zwickau, ''Sachsenring'' being both a race track and a

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in East Germany.

Table

The 1967–68 season saw two newly promoted clubs

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and FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt.

Results

References

Sources

External links

Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv
Historic German league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Ddr-Oberliga 1967-68 1967-68 1

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