1953–54 DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga
Season	1953–54
Champions	BSG Turbine Erfurt
Relegated	BSG Lokomotive Stendal; Motor Dessau; BSG Stahl Thale;
Matches played	210
Goals scored	676 (3.22 per match)
Top goalscorer	Heinz Satrapa (21)
Total attendance	2,941,000
Average attendance	14,005
	← 1952–53 1954–55 →

The 1953–54 DDR-Oberliga was the fifth season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

The league was contested by fifteen teams, two less than in the previous season, and BSG Turbine Erfurt won the championship. It was the first of two championships for the club, winning it the following season as well.^[3]^[4]

Heinz Satrapa of BSG Wismut Aue was the league's top scorer with 21 goals.^[1]

The 1953–54 season saw the best-ever average support for the Oberliga with 14,005 spectators per game.^[2]

Table

The 1953–54 season saw two newly promoted clubs, Fortschritt Meerane and Einheit Ost Leipzig. The FDGB-Pokal was won by second division DDR-Liga club ZSK Vorwärts Berlin.^[5]^[6]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	BSG Turbine Erfurt (C)	28	17	5	6	58	36	1.611	39	League champions
2	BSG Chemie Leipzig	28	15	5	8	51	37	1.378	35
3	SG Dynamo Dresden	28	15	4	9	54	44	1.227	34
4	BSG Wismut Aue	28	15	3	10	59	42	1.405	33
5	BSG Rotation Babelsberg	28	12	8	8	58	43	1.349	32
6	BSG Aktivist Brieske-Ost	28	11	8	9	48	43	1.116	30
7	BSG Rotation Dresden	28	9	10	9	46	39	1.179	28
8	BSG Turbine Halle	28	11	6	11	30	30	1.000	28
9	BSG Empor Lauter	28	8	11	9	40	38	1.053	27
10	BSG Fortschritt Meerane	28	8	9	11	46	46	1.000	25
11	BSG Motor Zwickau	28	10	5	13	39	56	0.696	25
12	BSG Einheit Ost	28	9	5	14	43	57	0.754	23
13	BSG Lokomotive Stendal (R)	28	6	11	11	38	51	0.745	23	Relegation to DDR-Liga
14	BSG Motor Dessau (R)	28	7	9	12	38	55	0.691	23
15	BSG Stahl Thale (R)	28	4	7	17	28	59	0.475	15

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ABO	CHM	DRE	EOL	EMP	MEE	LST	DES	ZWI	BAB	RDD	THA	ERF	HAL	AUE
Aktivist Brieske-Ost		0–0	3–5	2–1	1–1	4–2	3–3	5–2	3–0	3–1	0–4	4–0	3–1	2–2	3–2
Chemie Leipzig	3–0		2–3	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–2	1–1	3–2	3–1	2–0	-:+^[a]	2–0	1–0	3–2
Dynamo Dresden	1–0	0–3		3–2	0–0	1–3	2–0	4–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	4–2	3–0	2–1
Einheit Ost Leipzig	2–1	1–5	2–3		2–4	1–1	2–0	3–0	0–1	3–2	0–3	3–2	0–0	0–1	1–2
Empor Lauter	0–0	1–1	1–2	4–0		0–0	2–2	4–2	2–1	2–2	1–1	5–1	1–4	1–0	2–0
Fortschritt Meerane	1–2	3–1	4–2	1–2	3–1		1–2	1–1	4–1	1–1	2–1	5–1	0–0	2–0	3–3
Lokomotive Stendal	1–2	2–2	3–3	1–1	1–0	1–1		3–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	4–2	0–3	0–1	1–3
Motor Dessau	2–3	2–4	3–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	3–2		1–4	3–1	2–0	0–0	2–5	1–1	1–1
Motor Zwickau	1–0	4–1	0–4	2–1	0–5	3–1	1–1	0–3		2–2	0–1	1–0	0–3	1–2	2–3
Rotation Babelsberg	1–1	2–0	5–3	4–2	5–0	4–3	2–0	1–1	2–2		4–2	2–1	1–2	3–1	2–0
Rotation Dresden	1–1	3–1	3–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	4–0	2–2	2–2	2–1		3–4	0–2	1–0	0–1
Stahl Thale	0–0	1–2	3–0	2–4	1–1	1–1	0–3	0–0	1–2	0–4	1–1		2–2	0–1	0–1
Turbine Erfurt	2–1	3–0	1–0	3–3	2–0	2–1	1–2	2–1	5–2	3–2	1–0	3–5		1–0	2–0
Turbine Halle	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–1		5–1
Wismut Aue	3–1	2–1	1–2	6–2	0–0	4–1	4–0	4–0	1–2	0–1	5–3	3–0	3–2	3–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ The match between Chemie Leipzig and Stahl Thale (originally 6–3) was scored 0–0 and a victory for Thale. The players from Chemie Leipzig, who had changed at their home Georg-Schwarz-Sportpark in Leutzsch, arrived late for the game at the Bruno-Plache-Stadion in Probstheida because of a bus breakdown.

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