1959 DDR-Oberliga
| Season | 1959 |
|---|---|
| Champions | SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt |
| Relegated | |
| European Cup | SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt |
| European Cup Winners' Cup | ASK Vorwärts Berlin |
| Matches played | 182 |
| Goals scored | 476 (2.62 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Bernd Bauchspieß (18)[1] |
| Total attendance | 1,785,000[2] |
| Average attendance | 9,808[2] |
← 1958 1960 → | |
The 1959 DDR-Oberliga was the eleventh season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany. Rather than in the traditional autumn-spring format the Oberliga played for six seasons from 1955 to 1960 in the calendar year format, modelled on the system used in the Soviet Union. From 1961–62 onwards the league returned to its traditional format.
The league was contested by fourteen teams. SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt, incidentally based at Aue and not Karl-Marx-Stadt, won the championship, the club's last of three national East German championships.[3][4] On the strength of the 1959 title Wismut qualified for the 1960–61 European Cup where the club was knocked out by SK Rapid Wien in the first round. League runners-up ASK Vorwärts Berlin qualified for the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup instead of FDGB-Pokal winner SC Dynamo Berlin and was knocked out by Rudá Hvězda Brno in the preliminary round.[5]
Bernd Bauchspieß of Chemie Zeitz was the league's top scorer with 18 goals.[6]
Table
The 1959 season saw two newly promoted clubs, BSG Lokomotive Stendal and Chemie Zeitz.[7][8]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (C) | 26 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 44 | 25 | +19 | 39 | Qualification to European Cup preliminary round |
| 2 | ASK Vorwärts Berlin | 26 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 49 | 24 | +25 | 35 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round |
| 3 | SC Dynamo Berlin | 26 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 46 | 26 | +20 | 33 | FDGB-Pokal winners |
| 4 | SC Empor Rostock | 26 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 36 | 26 | +10 | 29 | |
| 5 | SC Motor Jena | 26 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 29 | 27 | +2 | 29 | |
| 6 | Fortschritt Weißenfels | 26 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 36 | 39 | −3 | 27 | |
| 7 | SC Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg | 26 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 36 | 30 | +6 | 24 | |
| 8 | BSG Motor Zwickau | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 30 | 32 | −2 | 24 | |
| 9 | SC Lokomotive Leipzig | 26 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 28 | 36 | −8 | 24 | |
| 10 | Chemie Zeitz | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 42 | 52 | −10 | 24 | |
| 11 | SC Rotation Leipzig | 26 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 31 | 40 | −9 | 22 | |
| 12 | SC Einheit Dresden | 26 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 23 | 42 | −19 | 19 | |
| 13 | SC Turbine Erfurt (R) | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 27 | 45 | −18 | 18 | Relegation to DDR-Liga |
| 14 | BSG Lokomotive Stendal (R) | 26 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 19 | 32 | −13 | 17 |
References
- ^ fuwo, page: 93
- ^ a b fuwo, page: 23
- ^ "East Germany - List of Champions". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
- ^ "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
- ^ "European Competitions 1960-61". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
- ^ "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.
- ^ "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
- ^ "DDR » Oberliga 1959" [DDR-Oberliga 1959]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.
Sources
- "Das war unser Fußball im Osten" [This was our football in the East]. Fußball-Woche (fuwo) (in German). Berlin: Axel-Springer-Verlag. 1991.
External links
- Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv (in German) Historic German league tables