The 1958 DDR-Oberliga was the tenth season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany. Rather than in the traditional autumn-spring format the Oberliga played for six seasons from 1955 to 1960 in the calendar year format, modelled on the system used in the Soviet Union. From 1961–62 onwards the league returned to its traditional format.

DDR-Oberliga
Season1958
ChampionsASK Vorwärts Berlin
Relegated
European CupASK Vorwärts Berlin
Matches played182
Goals scored532 (2.92 per match)
Top goalscorerHelmut Müller (17)[1]
Total attendance1,779,800[2]
Average attendance9,779[2]
1957
1959

The league was contested by fourteen teams. National People's Army club ASK Vorwärts Berlin won the championship, the club's first of six national East German championships.[3][4] On the strength of the 1958 title Vorwärts qualified for the 1959–60 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Wolverhampton Wanderers in the preliminary round.[5]

Helmut Müller of SC Motor Jena was the league's top scorer with 17 goals.[6]

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The 1958 season saw two newly promoted clubs, SC Dynamo Berlin and SC Empor Rostock.[7][8]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 ASK Vorwärts Berlin (C) 26 17 4 5 50 24 +26 38 Qualification to European Cup preliminary round
2 SC Motor Jena 26 15 2 9 49 36 +13 32
3 SC Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg 26 12 6 8 41 25 +16 30
4 SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt 26 10 8 8 43 32 +11 28
5 SC Einheit Dresden 26 11 6 9 38 39 −1 28 FDGB-Pokal winners
6 SC Dynamo Berlin 26 10 6 10 37 34 +3 26
7 SC Empor Rostock 26 10 6 10 33 31 +2 26
8 BSG Motor Zwickau 26 8 10 8 38 41 −3 26
9 SC Lokomotive Leipzig 26 8 9 9 40 28 +12 25
10 SC Rotation Leipzig 26 10 5 11 38 41 −3 25
11 SC Turbine Erfurt 26 8 6 12 33 44 −11 22
12 SC Fortschritt Weißenfels 26 8 6 12 30 42 −12 22
13 SC Chemie Halle (R) 26 7 8 11 30 50 −20 22 Relegation to DDR-Liga
14 BSG Rotation Babelsberg (R) 26 5 4 17 32 65 −33 14
Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

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Home \ Away ABS CHH DBE EIN ROS WEI LOK MJE ZWI BAB ROT ERF VBE WIS
Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg 3–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 4–0 2–1 4–0 4–1 5–0 3–2 2–0 2–0 1–1
Chemie Halle 1–0 0–0 1–0 1–1 2–4 1–1 1–1 3–1 1–2 2–1 3–2 1–1 4–1
Dynamo Berlin 0–2 5–1 0–0 2–1 4–0 1–1 2–1 3–1 2–1 6–3 0–2 1–2 2–0
Einheit Dresden 2–0 1–2 0–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 3–2 2–1 5–1 5–0 0–2 3–1 2–2
Empor Rostock 0–0 1–1 2–0 1–3 2–0 0–0 2–1 0–2 3–0 3–1 2–1 3–1 4–1
Fortschritt Weißenfels 0–2 0–0 2–0 3–0 3–1 1–1 2–0 4–0 3–2 0–0 0–0 1–1 2–0
Lokomotive Leipzig 1–1 3–0 2–0 1–1 0–1 6–0 1–2 0–0 5–0 0–2 4–3 1–0 0–0
Motor Jena 3–0 4–0 1–2 5–2 3–2 1–0 3–1 3–0 6–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 1–0
Motor Zwickau 1–1 1–1 1–1 2–0 3–0 4–3 2–1 1–1 3–0 4–0 3–1 2–2 1–1
Rotation Babelsberg 3–2 5–0 1–1 0–1 2–1 1–1 1–4 2–4 0–0 1–2 6–1 1–2 1–1
Rotation Leipzig 1–0 1–0 4–1 1–0 0–0 2–0 2–4 1–2 1–1 4–0 1–1 1–2 3–0
Turbine Erfurt 2–1 4–2 0–2 2–2 0–1 1–0 2–2 1–0 2–1 3–1 0–3 0–0 1–3
Vorwärts Berlin 2–0 3–2 2–1 4–0 3–1 3–1 1–0 4–0 5–0 2–0 4–1 1–0 2–0
Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt 3–0 4–0 3–1 6–0 1–0 3–0 1–0 4–0 2–2 3–0 1–1 2–2 0–2
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

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  1. ^ fuwo, page: 93
  2. ^ a b fuwo, page: 23
  3. ^ "East Germany - List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  4. ^ "DDR-Meister" [East German champions]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  5. ^ "European Competitions 1959-60". RSSSF. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  6. ^ "DDDR » Oberliga » Torschützenkönige" [DDR-Oberliga top scorers]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  7. ^ "East Germany 1946-1990". RSSSF. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  8. ^ "DDR » Oberliga 1958" [DDR-Oberliga 1958]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2016.

Sources

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  • "Das war unser Fußball im Osten" [This was our football in the East]. Fußball-Woche (fuwo) (in German). Berlin: Axel-Springer-Verlag. 1991.
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