1988–89 DDR-Oberliga

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
DDR-Oberliga
Season1988–89
ChampionsDynamo Dresden
Relegated
European CupDynamo Dresden
European Cup Winners' CupBFC Dynamo
UEFA Cup
Matches played182
Goals scored503 (2.76 per match)
Top goalscorerTorsten Gütschow (17)[1]
Total attendance1,857,830[2]
Average attendance10,208[2]

The 1988–89 DDR-Oberliga was the 40th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

The league was contested by fourteen teams. Dynamo Dresden won the championship, the club's seventh out of eight East German championships.[3][4]

Torsten Gütschow of Dynamo Dresden was the league's top scorer with 17 goals,[5] while Andreas Trautmann of Dynamo Dresden took out the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[6]

On the strength of the 1988–89 title Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1989–90 European Cup where the club was knocked out by AEK Athens in the first round. Second-placed club BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1989–90 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and was knocked out by AS Monaco in the second round. Third-placed FC Karl-Marx-Stadt qualified for the 1989–90 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out by Juventus in the third round while fourth-placed F.C. Hansa Rostock lost to FC Baník Ostrava in the first round.[7]

Table[]

The 1988–89 season saw two newly promoted clubs, BSG Energie Cottbus and BSG Sachsenring Zwickau.[8][9]

DDR-Fußball-Oberliga 1989.jpg
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dynamo Dresden (C) 26 16 8 2 61 26 +35 40 Qualification to European Cup first round
2 BFC Dynamo 26 12 8 6 51 32 +19 32 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
3 FC Karl-Marx-Stadt 26 12 6 8 38 36 +2 30 Qualified for the UEFA Cup first round
4 F.C. Hansa Rostock 26 12 5 9 34 31 +3 29
5 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 26 11 6 9 39 26 +13 28
6 1. FC Magdeburg 26 11 6 9 35 30 +5 28
7 BSG Wismut Aue 26 10 8 8 35 35 0 28
8 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 26 11 5 10 35 24 +11 27
9 Hallescher FC Chemie 26 8 9 9 36 38 −2 25
10 BSG Energie Cottbus 26 9 5 12 29 41 −12 23
11 Stahl Brandenburg 26 9 4 13 36 43 −7 22
12 FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt 26 9 3 14 27 39 −12 21
13 BSG Sachsenring Zwickau (R) 26 6 4 16 25 49 −24 16 Relegation to DDR-Liga
14 1. FC Union Berlin (R) 26 5 5 16 22 53 −31 15
Source:[citation needed]
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

References[]

  1. ^ fuwo, page: 93
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b fuwo, page: 23
  3. ^ "East Germany - List of Champions". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  4. ^ "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  5. ^ "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  6. ^ fuwo, page: 92
  7. ^ "European Competitions 1989–90". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  8. ^ "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  9. ^ "DDR-Oberliga 1988–89". Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2016.

Sources[]

  • "Das war unser Fußball im Osten" [This was our football in the East]. Fußball-Woche (fuwo) (in German). Berlin: Axel-Springer-Verlag. 1991.

External links[]

Retrieved from ""