1965–66 DDR-Oberliga

The 1965/66 season was the 17th edition of the East German Oberliga. It began on August 14, 1965 and ended on 14 May 1966. Champion for the fifth time the team of Forward Berlin. This game was a period marked by the establishment of football clubs based on the sports club sections.

Formation of football clubs

To promote the development of football specific, the DTSB 1965, the formation of independent football clubs, to its end, the football departments have been extracted from the sports clubs decided. Except for the TSC Berlin all sports club sections were excluded from this measure, the first teams at that time did not belong to the big leagues. The affected SC team from Potsdam, Cottbus, Dresden Neubrandenburg and thus lost as future BSG teams their previous aid status. While the former districts possessed from now, do not have a football training center more, the Dresden district was henceforth represented by the SG Dynamo Dresden, which never was a sports club by name, but get paid as a football center of gravity of the Sports Association Dynamo has always been the same subsidies had.

Because of these transformations occurred during the season in the leagues to various name changes. In the league, the team names changed as follows.

Course of the season

The decision for the championship ended in a proverbial championship final, as the last round the table first Carl Zeiss Jena traveled to the tied second- Vorwärts Berlin. 30,000 spectators at the domestic Friedrich -Ludwig -Jahn -Sportpark the forward team won 2-0, defending the title from the previous year. The team of Jena, however, which was almost the entire second half on to the first place in the standings, had to settle behind forward as in the pre-season with second place.

Behind Berlin and Jena placed Locomotive Leipzig and Hansa Rostock, which for the third ( locomotive ) or fifth (Hansa ) were among the top five in a row. The Master of 1964 Chemie Leipzig played a bad season and was in the first round even close to the relegation zone. In the end it was eighth, but could the " chemist " win the fdgb Cup.

The descent was already decided in the penultimate round. Back in the league had surprisingly Cup Winners' Cup in 1964 and 1965, Magdeburg and the previous Movers Erfurt, who was almost always the relegation zone. The other climber Hall debuted at number eleven. The best BSG bismuth Aue graduated from sixth place after a long bismuth was in the first round in last place.

Statistics

The champion team

Werner Unger ( 22 / - ), Hans -Dieter Krampe (26/ 4), Otto Fräßdorf (23 /2) Manfred Müller (14 / - ), Gerhard grains (21 /1) Jürgen Nöldner (20/ 6), Horst Begerad (26 /13), Jürgen Großheim ( 20/5 ), Gerhard Vogt ( 19/3 ), Jürgen Piepenburg (22/ 6)

Goals

In the 182 point games were 485 goals, an average of 2.66 per game. There were nine own goals. Henning Frenzel from 1 FC Locomotive Leipzig was first scorer in the league. With 22 goals, he referred the competition significantly to the places. Less than four times there were 5-0 the clearest victory of the season: Dynamo Berlin - Magdeburg (2nd Round ), Dresden - Karl- Marx-Stadt ( 6 ), SC Leipzig - Stendal ( 17 ), Jena, Germany - Rostock ( 21 ) and Lok Leipzig - Zwickau ( 23 ). Aue ( 6:2, 5 Matchday), Dynamo Berlin - - SC Leipzig ( 5:3, 6 ) and Stendal - With eight hits encounters SC Leipzig were Vorwärts Berlin ( 3:5, 14 ) on the highest-scoring.

Audience

A total of 1.8857 million viewers watched the 182 league games, which gives an average of 10,361 spectators per game. The highest average attendance again recorded Dynamo Dresden with 25,615, in Karl -Marx-Stadt ( 14,846 ) and Chemie Leipzig ( 13,308 ). Least spectators came to the games of locomotive Stendal ( 4846 ). The home games of the titleholder forward were also as in previous years, poorly attended. The average of 6,385 over the previous year meant even worse. The Leipzig local derby BSG Chemie - SC Leipzig reached on Matchday 2 with 31,000 visitors viewers - season record.

Player of the year

After the season was first honored as Player of the Year in 1966 Jürgen Nöldner FC Vorwärts Berlin. Nöldner was one of the most influential players in the premier league champions forward. In second place was Dieter Erler, who was to receive this award in the following year.

Fdgb Cup

The fdgb Cup was won this season of Chemie Leipzig. In the finals, which took place during the current league season, defeated the Leipziger the league competitors locomotive Stendal 1-0. The Cup defender Magdeburg had failed in the quarterfinals.

International Competitions

For the crews of the GDR meant in this season each English club teams from the European Cup. Vorwärts Berlin lost the European Cup champions Manchester United, building Magdeburg in European Cup Winners' Cup in the quarter finals ( then already as 1 FC ) West Ham United and the SC Leipzig in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Leeds United. In the International Football Cup, however, the East German teams played again successful. The four DDR representatives SC Leipzig, Jena engine, Empor Rostock and Leipzig chemistry all reached the quarter-finals, both clubs Leipzig then faced each other in the semifinals. In the semi-final first leg, the city rivals split 1:1 draw. The return match was won by the now renamed 1 FC locomotive SC Leipzig 1-0. Both matches were held in front of 10,000 or 30,000 spectators at the Central Stadium. In the final locomotive won against IFK Norrköping the first (albeit in comparison to the other three competitions rather subordinated ) international title for the GDR.