GDR upper league

the upper league was in the GDR in different kinds of sport, z. B. Football or hand ball the highest in each case play class and determined the GDR master. Particularly in the FRG the term GDR upper league was common, in order to distinguish it from the highest soccer game class “upper league “existing also there.

The following remarks refer to the GDR football upper league.

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football upper league - history

in the summer 1947 became in thatSoviet zone of occupation the supraregional play enterprise again taken up. The east zone master was determined twice in a cup round locking the season. 1949, still before establishment of the GDR, were introduced here a uniform highest play class, the DS upper league (DS = German sport committee). In the first season 1949/50 those playedUpper league without (east) citizen of Berlin crews, since these played the West-Berliner together with clubs still in a common upper league. The upper league played since the season 1954/55 firmly with 14 crews, whereby the two Letztplatzierten descended into the league. With establishment of the DFV she was called starting from 1958officially DFV Oberliga, was generally however always called upper league or football upper league. Between 1956 and 1960 the upper league played after Soviet model from spring to autumn. In the autumn 1955 therefore a transition round was played, i.e. a simple point round without championship and without ascending and descending.1961 one returned to the autumn spring mode, the season 1961/62 as three-fold play round was delivered (home and Auswärtsbegegnung as well as a play at neutral place). After the turn the DFV was dissolved and the NOFV as regional association of the DFB was created. The last upper league season 1990/1991 became under the designation NOFV Oberliga out easily. The last gate of GDR upper league history obtained Heiko weber for the fiber plastic Carl Zeiss Jena.

In the course of the decades almost 50 crews in the upper league played. Among them today represented associations are such as direct current generator Dresden , energy Cottbus or ore mountains Aue in the professional football.Some associations do not exist any longer, e.g. the SG Dresden Friedrichstadt or plays in lower play classes such as engine old person castle or the BSG steel Thale. A characteristic of the GDR football is that associations for political reasons were frequently renamed or shifted even within the country. Thus 1954 becamefrom the sports club up loud in the ore mountains the sports club up Rostock at the Baltic Sea or the ASK forward of Leipzig changed first 1953 to Berlin and then again for 1971 as fiber plastic forward of Frankfurt to the or. In Leipzig 40 years ago taken place more than hasObligation fusion of the two upper league associations sports club rotation and sports club locomotive still effects on the fans of the two meanwhile in the amateur football of settled associations 1. Fiber plastics locomotive and fiber plastic Saxonia.

Record master with 10 titles (still to it in series) is the citizen of Berlin fiber plastic direct current generator, during that Fiber plastic Carl Zeiss Jena the eternal table states. Record goal scorer is with 229 hits Joachim caper. Eberhard bird, which was used 440 times, completed most plays. The 8,046 upper league plays between 1949 and 1991 were seen by altogether 87.17 million spectators (10,835 spectatorsper play). 24,200 gates (3.01 gates for each play) fell.

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dissolution 1991

in the summer 1991 was dissolved the upper league, the associations were integrated into a new, all-German play class system. The following allocation applied: The master and the vice-master (Hansa Rostock, direct current generator Dresden) becametaken up to the federal league, which played 1991/92 übergangsweise with 20 crews in the season. The third to Sechstplatzierten (red white Erfurt, Halle fiber plastic, Chemnitzer fiber plastic, Carl Zeiss Jena) became into the 2. Federal league integrated, which played 1991/92 übergangsweise in two relays with twelve associations each. Twofurther associations could itself likewise for the 2. Federal league qualify. For this the crews at the places 7 to 12 formed league together with the two - masters two groups with four crews each, whose qualified themselves both winners (locomotive Leipzig, steel Brandenburg). The remaining crews played1991/92 in the upper league northeast, which consisted first of three relays. For the DFB cup competition 1991/92 all upper lyingists and lyingists of the season 1990/91 were certified, whereby the lyingists out-played a qualification round.

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