1976–77 DDR-Oberliga
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The 1976–77 DDR-Oberliga was the 28th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.
Season | 1976–77 |
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Champions | Dynamo Dresden |
Relegated | |
European Cup | Dynamo Dresden |
European Cup Winners' Cup | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig |
UEFA Cup | |
Matches played | 182 |
Goals scored | 500 (2.75 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Joachim Streich (17)[1] |
Total attendance | 2,516,500[2] |
Average attendance | 13,827[2] |
← 1975–76 1977–78 → |
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]