1978–79 DDR-Oberliga
The 1978/79 season was the 30th edition of the East German Oberliga. Champion for the first time the Berliner FC Dynamo, which thus marked the beginning of his decade-long dominance in the GDR football. The season began on August 19, 1978 and ended on June 9, 1979.
Course of the season
The BFC won his first championship in a sovereign manner before the Master of the previous years Dynamo Dresden and used it many new records: The total score of 46:6 was the highest points average (1.77 per game), which has been in the league ever achieved and was achieved only by the BFC itself again (1982 /83). The 75 goals scored in 26 games were the best second best Torschnitt (2.88 per game) in the history of the league (behind the SG Friedrichstadt with 3.35 goals per game in the 1949/50 season). The only defeat of the season, there were 23 game against Magdeburg - this was also previously unmatched.
For Berlin, it was the first of ten consecutive league titles. The second-placed Dresdner other hand experienced after three seasons spoiled by success the first untitled season. The following decade was marked by the battle between the two teams from Dynamo Berlin and Dresden, the Saxons in 1989 again reached a league title. Carl Zeiss Jena and 1.FC Magdeburg - Dresden next to the other two top teams of the 1970s - followed in third and fourth place.
The transition into the second-class league and had to play last year's freshman chemistry Bohlen ( for the fourth time ) the promoted Hansa Rostock. Also, the league 's founding members Zwickau and Aue had long tremble to avoid relegation, were able to save even more on the last two days. The second climber Stahl Riesa, however, landed in ninth place.
Statistics
The champion team
Norbert Trieloff (26 / -) Michael Noack (25/ 8), Rainer Troppa ( 21/2), Artur Ullrich (25 /1) Frank Terletzki (26 /12), Reinhard Lauck ( 21/3 ), Lutz own village (16/ 3) Hans -Jürgen Riediger (24 /20), Hartmut Pelka (20/ 4), Wolf -Rüdiger network (22 /8)
Goals
Footballer of the Year 1979
Fdgb Cup
The fdgb Cup was won again this season from 1 FC Magdeburg. The defending champion defeated play in the final the BFC Dynamo, who suffered his only defeat of the season against Magdeburg previously in the league. It was already Magdeburg sixth Cup triumph.
International Competitions
Like last year, the 1 FC Magdeburg reached a European Cup quarter-finals. This time was too strong in the Cup Winners' Cup competition Banik Ostrava. Dynamo Dresden also reached the quarterfinals in the national champion - Cup and retired from there against Austria Wien. In the UEFA Cup the BFC and Lok Leipzig failed at their respective Erstrundengegnern Red Star Belgrade and Arsenal. Especially bitter was the departure for Berlin, the first in the 90th minute which suffered 1:4 by an own goal from Lauck after a 5-2 home victory in Belgrade. Jena made it to the next round and it lost to the MSV Duisburg. The discharged before the season starts Intertoto Cup 1978 took place again without DDR participation.