1979–80 DDR-Oberliga
Football league season
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The 1979–80 DDR-Oberliga was the 31st season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.
| Season | 1979–80 |
|---|---|
| Champions | BFC Dynamo |
| Relegated | |
| European Cup | BFC Dynamo |
| European Cup Winners' Cup | FC Carl Zeiss Jena |
| UEFA Cup | |
| Matches | 182 |
| Goals | 525 (2.88 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Dieter Kühn (21)[1] |
| Total attendance | 2,210,700[2] |
| Average attendance | 12,207[2] |
← 1978–79 1980–81 → | |
The league was contested by fourteen teams. BFC Dynamo won the championship, the club's second of ten consecutive East German championships from 1978 to 1988.[3][4]
Dieter Kühn of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was the league's top scorer with 21 goals,[5] while Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin of FC Carl Zeiss Jena took out the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[6]
On the strength of the 1979–80 title BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1980–81 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Baník Ostrava in the second round. Third-placed club FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1980–81 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and lost to Dinamo Tbilisi in the final, becoming only the second East German team to reach a final in a European Cup competition. Second-placed Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1980–81 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the third round by Standard Liège while fourth-placed 1. FC Magdeburg lost to Torino F.C. and fifth-placed FC Vorwärts Frankfurt was eliminated by VfB Stuttgart, both in the second round.[7]
Table
The 1979–80 season saw two newly promoted clubs FC Vorwärts Frankfurt and BSG Chemie Leipzig.[8][9]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berliner FC Dynamo (C) | 26 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 72 | 16 | +56 | 43 | Qualification to European Cup first round |
| 2 | SG Dynamo Dresden | 26 | 20 | 2 | 4 | 65 | 22 | +43 | 42 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 3 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 41 | 24 | +17 | 32 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 4 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 45 | 37 | +8 | 30 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 5 | FC Vorwärts Frankfurt | 26 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 41 | 40 | +1 | 30 | |
| 6 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 26 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 50 | 34 | +16 | 29 | |
| 7 | Hallescher FC Chemie | 26 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 38 | 37 | +1 | 28 | |
| 8 | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau | 26 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 27 | 42 | −15 | 22 | |
| 9 | BSG Wismut Aue | 26 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 26 | 42 | −16 | 20 | |
| 10 | BSG Stahl Riesa | 26 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 22 | 53 | −31 | 20 | |
| 11 | FC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 26 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 26 | 38 | −12 | 19 | |
| 12 | FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 33 | 38 | −5 | 18 | |
| 13 | 1. FC Union Berlin (R) | 26 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 44 | −26 | 16 | Relegation to DDR-Liga |
| 14 | BSG Chemie Leipzig (R) | 26 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 58 | −37 | 15 |