The 1972–73 DDR-Oberliga was the 24th 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 Allied-occupied G ...

, the first tier of league football in

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. The league was contested by fourteen teams.

Dynamo Dresden Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e.V., commonly known as SG Dynamo Dresden or Dynamo Dresden, is a German association football club based in Dresden, Saxony.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kasse ...

won the championship, the club's third of eight East German championships.

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of Dynamo Dresden was the league's top scorer with 26 goals, the third of a record four top scorer finishes for Kreische, with him also winning the seasons

East German Footballer of the year The title Footballer of the Year (German: ''Fußballer des Jahres'') has been awarded in West Germany from 1960 to 1990 and Germany since 1991. Eligible are German players as well as non-German players playing in Germany. In 1996, the title W ...

award. On the strength of the 1972–73 title Dresden qualified for the

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where the club was knocked out by

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champions

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in the second round. It was the first time the East and West German champions were drawn against each other in an

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competition and resulted in a close contest, Bayern winning 7–6 on aggregate. Third-placed club

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qualified for the

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as the seasons

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winners and won the competition after a 2–0 final victory over

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, the greatest success of any East German club in Europe. Second-placed

FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Carl Zeiss Jena () is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Founded in 1903, it was initially associated with the optics manufacturer Carl Zeiss. From the 1960s to the 1980s it was one of the top-ranked clubs in East Germany, won ...

qualified for the

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where it was knocked out in the second round by

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while fourth-placed

1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 1. Fußballclub Lokomotive Leipzig e.V. is a German football club based in the locality of Probstheida in the Südost borough of Leipzig, Saxony. The club was previously known as VfB Leipzig and was the first national champion of Germany. It h ...

lost to

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in the semi-finals, having previously overcome

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in the third round in another German East-West encounter.

Table

The 1972–73 season saw two newly promoted clubs BSG Chemie Leipzig and

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Results

References

Sources

External links

Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv
Historic German league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Ddr-Oberliga 1972-73 1 1972-73

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