The 1976–77 DDR-Oberliga was the 28th 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.

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won the championship, the club's fifth of eight East German championships. Dynamo Dresden went on to win the

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as well, defeating 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig in the final and thereby repeating its double. Joachim Streich of

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was the league's top scorer with 17 goals, the first of four occasions to finish as league top scorer, a record jointly held with Hans-Jürgen Kreische, while Hans-Jürgen Dörner of Dynamo Dresden won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award. On the strength of the 1976–77 title Dresden qualified for the 1977–78 European Cup where the club was knocked out by eventual winners

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in the second round. Fourth-placed club 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons

runners-up and was knocked out by

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in the second round. Second-placed

qualified for the 1977–78 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the quarter-finals by

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while third-placed

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lost to SEC Bastia, also in the quarter-finals.

Table

The 1976–77 season saw two newly promoted clubs 1. FC Union Berlin and F.C. Hansa Rostock.

Results

References

Sources

External links

Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv
Historic German league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Ddr-Oberliga 1976-77

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