Football league season
The 1976–77 DDR-Oberliga was the 28th season of the DDR-Oberliga , the first tier of league football in East Germany .
The league was contested by fourteen teams. Dynamo Dresden won the championship, the club's fifth of eight East German championships.[ 3] [ 4] Dynamo Dresden went on to win the FDGB-Pokal as well, defeating 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig in the final and thereby repeating its double.[ 1]
Joachim Streich of 1. FC Magdeburg was the league's top scorer with 17 goals, the first of four occasions to finish as league top scorer, a record jointly held with Hans-Jürgen Kreische ,[ 5] while Hans-Jürgen Dörner of Dynamo Dresden won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[ 6]
On the strength of the 1976–77 title Dresden qualified for the 1977–78 European Cup where the club was knocked out by eventual winners Liverpool in the second round. Fourth-placed club 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal runners-up and was knocked out by Real Betis in the second round. Second-placed 1. FC Magdeburg qualified for the 1977–78 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the quarter-finals by PSV Eindhoven while third-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena lost to SEC Bastia , also in the quarter-finals.[ 7]
Table
The 1976–77 season saw two newly promoted clubs 1. FC Union Berlin and F.C. Hansa Rostock .[ 8] [ 9]
Results
Source:
[citation needed ] Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
References
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
Seasons
DDR-Oberliga NOFV-Oberliga
History
Domestic leagues Domestic cups League cups Super cups UEFA competitions Non-UEFA competitions