The 1967–68 DDR-Oberliga was the 19th season of the

DDR-Oberliga The DDR-Oberliga (English: ''East German Premier League'' or ''GDR Premier League'') was the top-level association football league in East Germany. Overview Following World War II, separate sports competitions emerged in the Allied-occupied G ...

, the first tier of league football in

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. The league was contested by fourteen teams.

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won the championship, the club's second of three East German championships, having previously won the 1962–63 edition under the name of SC Motor Jena. Gerd Kostmann of F.C. Hansa Rostock was the league's top scorer with 15 goals, while Bernd Bransch of Hallescher FC Chemie won the seasons

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award. On the strength of the 1967–68 title Jena qualified for the

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where the club was drawn against

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in the first round but withdrew after a redraw following the events of the

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had drawn all Eastern European teams against each other to avoid a possible boycott by Western European clubs which, in turn, resulted in a boycott by the clubs from the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria. Eighth-placed club

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qualified for the

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as the seasons

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winner but withdrew for the same reasons. Fifth-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the

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, a non-UEFA competition, where it was knocked out in the second round by Hibernian F.C. while second-placed F.C. Hansa Rostock was knocked out by

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, also in the second round. Towards the end of the season BSG Motor Zwickau was renamed to BSG Sachsenring Zwickau, ''Sachsenring'' being both a

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and a

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in East Germany.

Table

The 1967–68 season saw two newly promoted clubs

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and

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Results

Attendances

References

Sources

External links

Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv
Historic German league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Ddr-Oberliga 1967-68 1967-68 1

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