Season | 1970β71 |
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Champions | Dynamo Dresden |
Relegated | |
European Cup | Dynamo Dresden |
European Cup Winners' Cup | BFC Dynamo |
UEFA Cup | |
Matches played | 182 |
Goals scored | 508 (2.79 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Hans-JΓΌrgen Kreische (17) [1] |
Total attendance | 2,140,500 [2] |
Average attendance | 11,761 [2] |
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The 1970β71 DDR-Oberliga was the 22nd 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 second of eight East German championships, having previously won the 1952β53 edition. [3] [4]
Hans-JΓΌrgen Kreische of Dynamo Dresden was the league's top scorer with 17 goals, the first of a record four top scorer finishes for Kreische, [5] while Peter Ducke of FC Carl Zeiss Jena won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award. [6]
On the strength of the 1970β71 title Dresden qualified for the 1971β72 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Ajax in the first round. Ninth-placed club BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1971β72 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal runners-up, Dresden having won the double, and was knocked out by Dynamo Moscow in the semi-finals. Second-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1971β72 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the third round by Wolverhampton Wanderers while third-placed Hallescher FC Chemie withdrew after losing a player in the Hotel 't Silveren Seepaerd fire before the second leg of their first round tie with PSV Eindhoven. [7]
At the end of the season National People's Army club FC VorwΓ€rts Berlin, based in East Berlin, was moved to Frankfurt/Oder to become FC VorwΓ€rts Frankfurt/Oder for political reasons. VorwΓ€rts had been quite a popular club with East Berlin football supporters but was seen as an obstacle to the ambitions of BFC Dynamo, which was supported by the Ministry for State Security and its head Erich Mielke. [8] The relocation was allegedly driven by Erich Mielke, who wanted to create better sporting conditions for BFC Dynamo in East Berlin, and his fellow Politburo member and SED First Secretary in Bezirk Frankfurt Erich MΓΌckenberger, who anticipated a boost for the Frankfurt/Oder region. [9]
The 1970β71 season saw two newly promoted clubs 1. FC Union Berlin and 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig. [10] [11]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | SG Dynamo Dresden (C) | 26 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 56 | 29 | +27 | 39 | Qualification to European Cup first round |
2 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 26 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 58 | 29 | +29 | 33 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
3 | Hallescher FC Chemie | 26 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 35 | 29 | +6 | 30 | |
4 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 26 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 37 | 38 | −1 | 27 | |
5 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 26 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 27 | 33 | −6 | 27 | |
6 | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau | 26 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 40 | 42 | −2 | 26 | |
7 | FC VorwΓ€rts Berlin | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 38 | 44 | −6 | 26 | |
8 | F.C. Hansa Rostock | 26 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 31 | 25 | +6 | 25 | |
9 | BFC Dynamo | 26 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 31 | 29 | +2 | 25 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round |
10 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 42 | 46 | −4 | 24 | |
11 | BSG Wismut Aue | 26 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 30 | 36 | −6 | 21 | |
12 | Stahl Riesa | 26 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 28 | 41 | −13 | 21 | |
13 | FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt (R) | 26 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 28 | 44 | −16 | 21 | Relegation to DDR-Liga |
14 | BSG Chemie Leipzig (R) | 26 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 27 | 43 | −16 | 19 |