The 1988–89 DDR-Oberliga was the 40th 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 seventh out of eight East German championships.
Torsten Gütschow of Dynamo Dresden was the league's top scorer with 17 goals, while Andreas Trautmann of Dynamo Dresden took out the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.fuwo, page: 92
On the strength of the 1988–89 title Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1989–90 European Cup where the club was knocked out by AEK Athens in the first round. Second-placed club BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1989–90 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and was knocked out by AS Monaco in the second round. Third-placed FC Karl-Marx-Stadt qualified for the 1989–90 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out by Juventus in the third round while fourth-placed F.C. Hansa Rostock lost to FC Baník Ostrava in the first round.
Table The 1988–89 season saw two newly promoted clubs, BSG Energie Cottbus and BSG Sachsenring Zwickau.
Results
Attendances
Source:
No. Club Average 1 Dynamo Dresden 22,215 2 Hansa Rostock 20,308 3 Energie Cottbus 13,088 4 Wismut Aue 10,646 5 Hallescher 10,568 6 Stahl Brandenburg 9,346 7 Karl-Marx-Stadt 8,950 8 BFC Dynamo 8,385 9 Erfurt 8,038 10 1. FC Union 7,308 11 Magdeburg 6,615 12 Lokomotive Leipzig 6,546 13 Sachsenring Zwickau 6,085 14 Carl Zeiss Jena 4,862
References
Sources
External links Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv Historic German league tables