1955 DDR-Oberliga

For other uses, see 1954–55 Oberliga (disambiguation).

The 1955 DDR-Oberliga was the seventh 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.

DDR-Oberliga

Season	1955
Champions	SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
Relegated	none
Matches played	91
Goals scored	323 (3.55 per match)
Top goalscorer	Klaus Selignow (12)[1]
Total attendance	1,057,000[2]
Average attendance	11,615[2]
← 1954–55 1956 →

The league was contested by fourteen teams. SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt won in the unofficial championship.^[3][4]

Klaus Selignow of Rotation Babelsberg was the league's top scorer with 12 goals.^[5]

Overview

After the conclusion of the 1954–55 season, the Oberliga was supposed to be played exclusively in the summer months, as was the standard in the Soviet Union. As it was deemed impractical to not hold a competition for almost a year (the 1954-55 season had ended in April, the 1956 season was planned to begin in March) a transition championship was played. 14 clubs competed, but neither a champion was determined, nor was any club relegated.^[6]

Table

The 1955 season saw two newly promoted clubs, Fortschritt Weißenfels and BSG Lokomotive Stendal.^[6][7]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (C)	13	8	4	1	30	13	+17	20
2	SC Empor Rostock	13	8	3	2	25	13	+12	19
3	SC Dynamo Berlin	13	8	2	3	35	12	+23	18
4	BSG Motor Zwickau	13	7	3	3	36	21	+15	17
5	BSG Rotation Babelsberg	13	6	3	4	29	24	+5	15
6	SC Lokomotive Leipzig	13	6	2	5	21	17	+4	14
7	SC Fortschritt Weißenfels	13	5	3	5	19	20	−1	13
8	SC Turbine Erfurt	13	5	3	5	16	18	−2	13
9	BSG Lokomotive Stendal	13	5	1	7	16	31	−15	11
10	ZSK Vorwärts Berlin	13	4	2	7	26	28	−2	10
11	SC Rotation Leipzig	13	4	2	7	16	27	−11	10
12	SC Einheit Dresden	13	3	2	8	21	24	−3	8
13	SC Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg	13	4	0	9	17	33	−16	8
14	BSG Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt	13	2	2	9	16	42	−26	6

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	ABS	DBE	EIN	ROS	WEI	LLE	LST	KMS	ZWI	BAB	ROT	ERF	VBE	WIS
Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg		0–4	2–1		4–1			3–0	0–6			2–0
Dynamo Berlin				1–2	3–2			9–0		4–2	2–1	3–0
Einheit Dresden		0–2		0–1			4–0		0–1	3–5		0–1		0–2
Empor Rostock	2–1					1–0	1–3	6–0	1–1		2–0		4–1
Fortschritt Weißenfels			1–2	2–0			1–0		2–1	1–1			0–0
Lokomotive Leipzig	4–1	2–1	3–3		2–0					1–1			3–1	1–2
Lokomotive Stendal	3–2	2–1				1–2				0–6		1–0		1–3
Chemie Karl-Marx-Stadt			1–4		2–5	2–0	2–3				1–2		5–1
Motor Zwickau		0–4				3–2	1–1	5–1			6–1	4–1		1–3
Rotation Babelsberg	1–0			2–3				3–1	2–2		3–0		2–0
Rotation Leipzig	4–2		2–2		0–1	0–1	1–0					1–1	2–0
Turbine Erfurt				2–2	3–1	1–0		0–0		4–1				2–0
Vorwärts Berlin	5–0	0–0	3–2				7–1		3–5			3–1		2–3
Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	2–0	1–1		0–0	2–2			1–1		5–0	6–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.