| Season | 1970–71 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Dynamo Dresden |
| Relegated | |
| European Cup | Dynamo Dresden |
| European Cup Winners' Cup | BFC Dynamo |
| UEFA Cup | |
| Matches | 182 |
| Goals | 508 (2.79 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Hans-Jürgen Kreische (17)[1] |
| Total attendance | 2,140,500[2] |
| Average attendance | 11,761[2] |
1971–72 → | |
The1970–71 DDR-Oberliga was the 22nd season of theDDR-Oberliga, the first tier ofleague football inEast 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 1952–53 edition.[3][4]
Hans-Jürgen 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] whilePeter Ducke ofFC Carl Zeiss Jena won the seasonsEast German Footballer of the year award.[6]
On the strength of the 1970–71 title Dresden qualified for the1971–72 European Cup where the club was knocked out byAjax in the first round. Ninth-placed clubBFC Dynamo qualified for the1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasonsFDGB-Pokal runners-up, Dresden having won the double, and was knocked out byDynamo Moscow in the semi-finals. Second-placedFC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the1971–72 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the third round byWolverhampton Wanderers while third-placedHallescher FC Chemie withdrew after losing a player in theHotel 't Silveren Seepaerd fire before the second leg of their first round tie withPSV Eindhoven.[7]
At the end of the seasonNational People's Army club FC Vorwärts Berlin, based inEast Berlin, was moved toFrankfurt/Oder to become FC Vorwärts Frankfurt/Oder for political reasons. Vorwärts had been quite a popular club with East Berlin football supporters but was seen as an obstacle to the ambitions ofBFC Dynamo, which was supported by theMinistry 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 andSED First Secretary inBezirk FrankfurtErich Mückenberger, who anticipated a boost for the Frankfurt/Oder region.[9]
The 1970–71 season saw two newly promoted clubs1. FC Union Berlin and1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig.[10][11]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SG Dynamo Dresden(C) | 26 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 56 | 29 | +27 | 39 | Qualification toEuropean Cup first round |
| 2 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 26 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 58 | 29 | +29 | 33 | Qualification toUEFA 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 Vorwärts 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 toCup 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 toDDR-Liga |
| 14 | BSG Chemie Leipzig(R) | 26 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 27 | 43 | −16 | 19 |
| Home \ Away | BFC | CZJ | CHM | DRE | HFC | HRO | LOK | MAG | RWE | SZW | STR | UNI | VBE | AUE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BFC Dynamo | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 5–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | |
| Carl Zeiss Jena | 5–1 | 5–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 7–3 | 4–1 | 4–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | |
| Chemie Leipzig | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–4 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 1–0 | |
| Dynamo Dresden | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 5–0 | |
| Hallescher FC Chemie | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 6–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| Hansa Rostock | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 0–1 | |
| Lokomotive Leipzig | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | |
| 1. FC Magdeburg | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 2–1 | |
| Rot-Weiß Erfurt | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | |
| Sachsenring Zwickau | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 5–4 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 0–0 | |
| Stahl Riesa | 2–0 | 0–3 | 3–4 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 5–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | |
| Union Berlin | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | |
| Vorwärts Berlin | 1–0 | 4–4 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 5–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | |
| Wismut Aue | 2–2 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–5 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 4–1 |