1979–80 DDR-Oberliga

The 1979–80 DDR-Oberliga was the 31st season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

DDR-Oberliga

Season	1979–80
Champions	BFC Dynamo
Relegated	1. FC Union Berlin BSG Chemie Leipzig
European Cup	BFC Dynamo
European Cup Winners' Cup	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
UEFA Cup	Dynamo Dresden 1. FC Magdeburg FC Vorwärts Frankfurt
Matches played	182
Goals scored	525 (2.88 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dieter Kühn (21)[1]
Total attendance	2,210,700[2]
Average attendance	12,207[2]
← 1978–79 1980–81 →

The league was contested by fourteen teams. BFC Dynamo won the championship, the club's second of ten consecutive East German championships from 1978 to 1988.^[3][4]

Dieter Kühn of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was the league's top scorer with 21 goals,^[5] while Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin of FC Carl Zeiss Jena took out the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.^[6]

On the strength of the 1979–80 title BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1980–81 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Baník Ostrava in the second round. Third-placed club FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1980–81 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and lost to Dinamo Tbilisi in the final, becoming only the second East German team to reach a final in a European Cup competition. Second-placed Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1980–81 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the third round by Standard Liège while fourth-placed 1. FC Magdeburg lost to Torino F.C. and fifth-placed FC Vorwärts Frankfurt was eliminated by VfB Stuttgart, both in the second round.^[7]

Table

The 1979–80 season saw two newly promoted clubs FC Vorwärts Frankfurt and BSG Chemie Leipzig.^[8][9]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Berliner FC Dynamo (C)	26	20	3	3	72	16	+56	43	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	SG Dynamo Dresden	26	20	2	4	65	22	+43	42	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	26	13	6	7	41	24	+17	32	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
4	1. FC Magdeburg	26	12	6	8	45	37	+8	30	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	FC Vorwärts Frankfurt	26	11	8	7	41	40	+1	30
6	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	26	11	7	8	50	34	+16	29
7	Hallescher FC Chemie	26	12	4	10	38	37	+1	28
8	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau	26	9	4	13	27	42	−15	22
9	BSG Wismut Aue	26	8	4	14	26	42	−16	20
10	BSG Stahl Riesa	26	5	10	11	22	53	−31	20
11	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	26	6	7	13	26	38	−12	19
12	FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt	26	6	6	14	33	38	−5	18
13	1. FC Union Berlin (R)	26	6	4	16	18	44	−26	16	Relegation to DDR-Liga
14	BSG Chemie Leipzig (R)	26	4	7	15	21	58	−37	15

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

Results

Home \ Away	BFC	CZJ	CHM	DRE	HFC	KMS	LOK	MAG	RWE	SZW	STR	UNI	VFO	AUE
BFC Dynamo		1–0	10–0	1–0	4–1	3–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	5–0	9–1	2–0	4–0	3–0
Carl Zeiss Jena	2–0		3–0	0–1	4–1	2–1	1–1	3–2	1–1	3–0	2–0	3–1	3–1	3–0
Chemie Leipzig	1–2	2–1		1–4	2–0	0–0	1–5	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–2	1–2	2–1
Dynamo Dresden	1–2	3–0	4–0		3–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–1	3–1	5–0	1–0	4–1	4–2
Hallescher FC Chemie	3–1	1–0	2–0	0–1		2–0	1–1	5–1	3–2	3–1	1–1	1–0	2–3	2–1
Karl-Marx-Stadt	1–3	0–0	1–1	1–3	1–0		2–2	3–0	2–1	3–2	0–0	1–1	3–0	1–0
Lokomotive Leipzig	0–0	2–1	3–0	4–2	2–3	3–2		1–1	0–2	4–0	5–0	1–0	1–1	2–0
1. FC Magdeburg	0–1	1–1	4–0	2–2	2–0	2–0	2–1		2–1	2–0	5–2	5–1	3–2	2–0
Rot-Weiß Erfurt	0–2	0–1	2–2	2–5	1–2	2–0	1–2	3–3		4–0	3–1	2–0	0–1	1–0
Sachsenring Zwickau	2–1	2–0	0–3	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	3–1		3–0	2–0	1–1	0–0
Stahl Riesa	1–1	0–3	1–0	1–3	0–0	1–0	2–2	0–0	1–0	1–1		2–0	1–1	4–0
Union Berlin	0–6	1–1	0–0	0–3	0–2	2–1	2–1	2–3	2–1	1–0	2–0		0–1	0–2
Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder)	0–0	2–2	2–0	0–3	2–2	3–1	0–5	0–0	2–2	3–1	5–0	3–1		2–0
Wismut Aue	1–4	0–1	5–2	2–1	2–1	2–2	2–1	3–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–3

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