| 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] |
1980–81 → | |
The1979–80 DDR-Oberliga was the 31st season of theDDR-Oberliga, the first tier ofleague football inEast Germany.
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 of1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was the league's top scorer with 21 goals,[5] whileHans-Ulrich Grapenthin ofFC Carl Zeiss Jena took out the seasonsEast German Footballer of the year award.[6]
On the strength of the 1979–80 title BFC Dynamo qualified for the1980–81 European Cup where the club was knocked out byBaník Ostrava in the second round. Third-placed clubFC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the1980–81 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasonsFDGB-Pokal winners and lost toDinamo Tbilisi in the final, becoming only the second East German team to reach a final in a European Cup competition. Second-placedDynamo Dresden qualified for the1980–81 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the third round byStandard Liège while fourth-placed1. FC Magdeburg lost toTorino F.C. and fifth-placedFC Vorwärts Frankfurt was eliminated byVfB Stuttgart, both in the second round.[7]
The 1979–80 season saw two newly promoted clubsFC Vorwärts Frankfurt andBSG 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 toEuropean Cup first round |
| 2 | SG Dynamo Dresden | 26 | 20 | 2 | 4 | 65 | 22 | +43 | 42 | Qualification toUEFA Cup first round |
| 3 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 41 | 24 | +17 | 32 | Qualification toCup Winners' Cup first round |
| 4 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 45 | 37 | +8 | 30 | Qualification toUEFA 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 toDDR-Liga |
| 14 | BSG Chemie Leipzig(R) | 26 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 58 | −37 | 15 |
| Home \ Away | BFC | CZJ | CHM | DRE | HFC | KMS | LOK | MAG | RWE | SZW | STR | UNI | VFO | AUE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BFC Dynamo | 1–0 | 10–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 9–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | |
| Carl Zeiss Jena | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | |
| Chemie Leipzig | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–5 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | |
| Dynamo Dresden | 1–2 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 4–2 | |
| Hallescher FC Chemie | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 5–1 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 2–1 | |
| Karl-Marx-Stadt | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | |
| Lokomotive Leipzig | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 4–2 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 4–0 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | |
| 1. FC Magdeburg | 0–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 5–2 | 5–1 | 3–2 | 2–0 | |
| Rot-Weiß Erfurt | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 2–5 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 3–3 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | |
| Sachsenring Zwickau | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | |
| Stahl Riesa | 1–1 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | |
| Union Berlin | 0–6 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | |
| Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) | 0–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 0–5 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | |
| Wismut Aue | 1–4 | 0–1 | 5–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 |