The 1977–78 DDR-Oberliga was the 29th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in

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. The league was contested by fourteen teams.

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won the championship, the club's sixth of eight East German championships, thereby equalling

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's record.

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of BSG Chemie Böhlen was the league's top scorer with 15 goals, while

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of BSG Sachsenring Zwickau won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award for a record third time. On the strength of the 1977–78 title Dresden qualified for the

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where the club was knocked out by

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in the quarter-finals. Second-placed club 1. FC Magdeburg qualified for the

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as the seasons

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winners and was knocked out by

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in the quarter-finals. For the first time three East German clubs qualified for the

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with third-placed BFC Dynamo being knocked out in the first round by

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while fourth-placed

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lost to Arsenal, also in the first round and fifth-placed

FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Formed in 1903 and initially associated with the Carl Zeiss AG factory, they were one of the strongest clubs in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s, winning the DDR-Ober ...

was defeated by

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in the second round.

Table

The 1977–78 season saw two newly promoted clubs BSG Chemie Böhlen and BSG Wismut Gera.

Results

References

Sources

External links

Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv
Historic German league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Ddr-Oberliga 1977-78 1977–78 in German football leagues 1977-78 1