The 1977–78 DDR-Oberliga was the 29th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.
The league was contested by fourteen teams. Dynamo Dresden won the championship, the club's sixth of eight East German championships, thereby equalling FC Vorwärts Berlin's record.
Klaus Havenstein of BSG Chemie Böhlen was the league's top scorer with 15 goals, while Jürgen Croy of BSG Sachsenring Zwickau won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award for a record third time.fuwo, page: 92
On the strength of the 1977–78 title Dresden qualified for the 1978–79 European Cup where the club was knocked out by FK Austria Wien in the quarter-finals. Second-placed club 1. FC Magdeburg qualified for the 1978–79 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and was knocked out by Baník Ostrava in the quarter-finals. For the first time three East German clubs qualified for the 1978–79 UEFA Cup with third-placed BFC Dynamo being knocked out in the first round by Red Star Belgrade while fourth-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig lost to Arsenal, also in the first round and fifth-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena was defeated by MSV Duisburg in the second round.
Table The 1977–78 season saw two newly promoted clubs BSG Chemie Böhlen and BSG Wismut Gera.
Results
Attendances
Source:
No. Club Average 1 Dynamo Dresden 30,231 2 1. FC Union 17,308 3 Hallescher 17,038 4 Magdeburg 14,115 5 BFC Dynamo 13,154 6 Lokomotive Leipzig 12,462 7 Karl-Marx-Stadt 11,438 8 Carl Zeiss Jena 8,538 9 Wismut Aue 8,231 10 Erfurt 7,577 11 Sachsenring Zwickau 7,346 12 Wismut Gera 6,785 13 Chemie Böhlen 5,454 14 Vorwärts Frankfurt 4,385
References
Sources
External links Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv Historic German league tables