1954–55 DDR-Oberliga

The 1954–55 DDR-Oberliga was the sixth season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany. After the 1954–55 season the league played a transition round in autumn 1955, followed by five seasons, until 1960, where it played in the calendar year format. From 1961–62 onwards the league returned to its traditional format.

For other uses, see 1954–55 Oberliga (disambiguation).
DDR-Oberliga
Season1954–55
ChampionsBSG Turbine Erfurt
RelegatedSC Chemie Halle-Leuna
Fortschritt Meerane
Matches played182
Goals scored614 (3.37 per match)
Top goalscorerWilly Tröger (22)[1]
Total attendance2,524,500[2]
Average attendance13,871[2]
1955 →

The league was contested by fourteen teams, one less than in the previous season, a strength the DDR-Oberliga would operate at for the rest of its history. BSG Turbine Erfurt won the championship, its second consecutive one for the club, becoming the first club to win back-to-back titles.[3][4]

Willy Tröger of SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt was the league's top scorer with 22 goals.[1]

Two teams were relocated during the season, in November 1954, with Dynamo Dresden relocating to East Berlin to continue as SC Dynamo Berlin and BSG Empor Lauter relocating to Rostock to continue as SC Empor Rostock. A number clubs were replaced by the new Sport clubs from October 1954 onwards, indicated by the SC before the name, to concentrate the best players in centers of excellence at certain locations and to improve the level of the game in East Germany.[5] The football department of BSG Wismut Aue was delegated to the newly founded sports club SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt, but the team remained in Aue and did not move to Chemnitz, then called Karl-Marx-Stadt, despite joining SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt.[6] BSG Einheit Ost and BSG Chemie Leipzig were dissolved, and their football players were delegated to the newly founded sports clubs SC Rotation Leipzig and SC Lokomotive Leipzig respectively.

Unlike the 1954–55 champions of West Germany and the Saar Protectorate the East German champion did not take part in the first edition of the European Cup the following season. It would take until 1957–58 for the DDR-Oberliga winner to compete in Europe.

Table

The 1954–55 season saw two newly promoted clubs, ASK Vorwärts Berlin and BSG Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt.[6][7]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 SC Turbine Erfurt (C) 26 13 8 5 58 25 +33 34 League champions
2 SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt 26 13 7 6 62 38 +24 33 FDGB-Pokal winners
3 SC Rotation Leipzig 26 10 10 6 58 47 +11 30
4 SC Einheit Dresden 26 13 3 10 64 55 +9 29
5 BSG Motor Zwickau 26 13 2 11 51 49 +2 28
6 SC Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg 26 11 5 10 37 44 −7 27
7 SC Dynamo Berlin 26 12 2 12 50 49 +1 26
8 ZSK Vorwärts Berlin 26 10 6 10 43 46 −3 26
9 SC Empor Rostock 26 12 2 12 29 33 −4 26
10 BSG Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt 26 8 9 9 34 43 −9 25
11 SC Lokomotive Leipzig 26 9 6 11 32 38 −6 24
12 BSG Rotation Babelsberg 26 10 3 13 36 36 0 23
13 SC Chemie Halle-Leuna (R) 26 8 4 14 28 52 −24 20 Relegation to DDR-Liga
14 Fortschritt Meerane (R) 26 5 3 18 31 58 −27 13
Source:
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
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References
  1. "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  2. fuwo, page: 23
  3. "East Germany - List of Champions". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  4. "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  5. fuwo, page: 94
  6. "East Germany 1946-1990". rsssf.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  7. "DDR » Oberliga 1954/1955" [DDR-Oberliga 1954–55]. 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.
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