1968–69 DDR-Oberliga
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The 1968–69 DDR-Oberliga was the 20th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.
Season | 1968–69 |
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Champions | FC Vorwärts Berlin |
Relegated | |
European Cup | FC Vorwärts Berlin |
European Cup Winners' Cup | 1. FC Magdeburg |
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | |
Matches played | 182 |
Goals scored | 456 (2.51 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Gerd Kostmann (18)[1] |
Total attendance | 2,111,000[2] |
Average attendance | 11,599[2] |
← 1967–68 1969–70 → |
The league was contested by fourteen teams. National People's Army club FC Vorwärts Berlin won the championship, the club's last of six East German championships.[3][4] It marked, together with a cup win in the following season, the last highlight in the club's history as, two seasons later, Vorwärts was moved from East Berlin to Frankfurt/Oder for political reasons and never again won another national title after the move.[5]
Gerd Kostmann of F.C. Hansa Rostock was the league's top scorer with 18 goals,[6] while Eberhard Vogel of FC Karl-Marx-Stadt won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.[7]
On the strength of the 1968–69 title Vorwärts qualified for the 1969–70 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Feyenoord in the quarter-finals. Third-placed club 1. FC Magdeburg qualified for the 1969–70 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winner and was knocked out by Académica de Coimbra in the second round. Second-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup where it was knocked out in the quarter-finals by Ajax while fourth-placed F.C. Hansa Rostock was knocked out by Inter Milan in the second round.[8]