The 1985–86 DDR-Oberliga was the 37th 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
East Germany
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...
.
The league was contested by fourteen teams.
BFC Dynamo
Berliner Fussball Club Dynamo e. V., commonly abbreviated to BFC Dynamo () or BFC (), alternatively sometimes called Dynamo Berlin, is a German football club based in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen of the borough of Lichtenberg of Ber ...
won the championship, the club's eighth of ten consecutive East German championships from 1978 to 1988.
of
1. FC Union Berlin was the league's top scorer with 14 goals,
while
René Müller of
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig took out 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 1985–86 title BFC Dynamo qualified for the
1986–87 European Cup
The 1986–87 season was the 32nd season of the European Cup, Europe's premier club football competition. The tournament was won by Porto, who came from behind in the final against Bayern Munich to give a Portuguese club its first title since 19 ...
where the club was knocked out by
Brøndby IF
Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening (, usually abbreviated to Brøndby IF (), is a Danish professional Football club (association football), football club based in Brøndbyvester. Brøndby IF denotes the professional football section of Brøndbyernes ...
in the second round. Second-placed club
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the
1986–87 European Cup Winners' Cup
The 1986–87 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won by Ajax in the final against Lokomotive Leipzig. The young Ajax side, which included the likes of Marco van Basten, Frank Rijkaard and Dennis Bergkamp, was guided to victory by its coa ...
as the seasons
FDGB-Pokal
The FDGB-Pokal (Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Pokal or Free German Trade Union Federation Cup) was an elimination football tournament held annually in East Germany. It was the second most important national title in East German football af ...
winners and advanced all the way to the final where it lost to
Ajax
Ajax may refer to:
Greek mythology and tragedy
* Ajax the Great, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Periboea
* Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris
* Ajax (play), ''Ajax'' (play), by the an ...
. Third-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
1986–87 UEFA Cup
The 1986–87 UEFA Cup was the 16th season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The final was played over two legs at the Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden, and at ...
where it was knocked out by
Bayer 05 Uerdingen in the first round while fourth-placed
1. FC Magdeburg
1. FC Magdeburg is a German Association football Football club (association football), club based in Magdeburg. The club was founded in 1965 from the football department of the Sports club (East Germany), sports club ''SC Magdeburg'' and has bee ...
lost to
Athletic Bilbao
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in the first round and fifth-placed
Stahl Brandenburg was eliminated by
IFK Göteborg
Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll), commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK (especially locally) or Blåvitt, is a Swedish professional Football team, football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, it ...
in the second round.
Table
The 1985–86 season saw two newly promoted clubs,
1. FC Union Berlin and
BSG Sachsenring Zwickau.
Results
References
Sources
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External links
Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv Historic German league tables
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Ober
Ober may refer to:
* Ober (playing card), court card in the German and Swiss styles of playing cards
* Ober, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Starke County
* Oberek (also ''ober''), a lively Polish dance in triple metre ...
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