Season | 1977β78 |
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Champions | Dynamo Dresden |
Relegated | |
European Cup | Dynamo Dresden |
European Cup Winners' Cup | 1. FC Magdeburg |
UEFA Cup | |
Matches played | 182 |
Goals scored | 528 (2.9 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Klaus Havenstein (15) [1] |
Total attendance | 2,132,300 [2] |
Average attendance | 11,716 [2] |
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1976β77
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The 1977β78 DDR-Oberliga was the 29th 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 sixth of eight East German championships, thereby equalling FC VorwΓ€rts Berlin's record. [3] [4]
Klaus Havenstein of BSG Chemie BΓΆhlen was the league's top scorer with 15 goals, [5] while JΓΌrgen Croy of BSG Sachsenring Zwickau won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award for a record third time. [6]
On the strength of the 1977β78 title Dresden qualified for the 1978β79 European Cup where the club was knocked out by FK Austria Wien in the quarter-finals. Second-placed club 1. FC Magdeburg qualified for the 1978β79 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and was knocked out by BanΓk Ostrava in the quarter-finals. For the first time three East German clubs qualified for the 1978β79 UEFA Cup with third-placed BFC Dynamo being knocked out in the first round by Red Star Belgrade while fourth-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig lost to Arsenal, also in the first round and fifth-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena was defeated by MSV Duisburg in the second round. [7]
The 1977β78 season saw two newly promoted clubs BSG Chemie BΓΆhlen and BSG Wismut Gera. [8] [9]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | SG Dynamo Dresden (C) | 26 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 70 | 25 | +45 | 41 | Qualification to European Cup first round |
2 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 26 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 52 | 17 | +35 | 38 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round |
3 | BFC Dynamo | 26 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 54 | 25 | +29 | 35 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
4 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 57 | 34 | +23 | 32 | |
5 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 26 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 53 | 32 | +21 | 31 | |
6 | Hallescher FC Chemie | 26 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 44 | 34 | +10 | 30 | |
7 | FC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 26 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 34 | 37 | −3 | 24 | |
8 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 27 | 36 | −9 | 24 | |
9 | FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt | 26 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 35 | −12 | 23 | |
10 | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau | 26 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 45 | −23 | 23 | |
11 | BSG Wismut Aue | 26 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 22 | 47 | −25 | 22 | |
12 | BSG Chemie BΓΆhlen | 26 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 34 | 51 | −17 | 20 | |
13 | FC VorwΓ€rts Frankfurt (R) | 26 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 19 | 35 | −16 | 15 | Relegation to DDR-Liga |
14 | BSG Wismut Gera (R) | 26 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 75 | −58 | 6 |