| East German Football Championship | |
|---|---|
| Founded | |
| 1948 | |
| Folded | |
| 1991 | |
| Last Champions | |
| F.C. Hansa Rostock (1st title) | |
| Country | |
| Most successful club | |
| BFC Dynamo (10 titles) |
The East German football champions were the annual winners of the DDR-Oberliga.
The 1948 and 1949 East German Champions were determined in a single elimination tournament of three rounds. A nationwide football league, the DDR-Oberliga, was established for the 1949–50 season.[1] The Oberliga was dissolved after the 1990–91 season.
The 1954–55 season was a transitional season and neither was a championship awarded nor were clubs relegated. Due to the transition from a fall-spring to a spring-fall schedule starting with 1956, teams only met each other once from August to December 1955.[2]
In the 1961–62 season the DDR-Oberliga returned from a spring-fall to fall-spring schedule, the teams thus met each other three times. The third meeting was held on neutral ground.[3]
The performance of various clubs is shown in the following table:[4]
Clubs are named by the last name they used before the German reunification.
| Club | Winners | Runners-up | Third Place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berliner FC Dynamo1 | ||||
| SG Dynamo Dresden2 | ||||
| FC Vorwärts Frankfurt 3 | ||||
| FC Carl Zeiss Jena 4 | ||||
| 1. FC Magdeburg | ||||
| BSG Wismut Aue 5 | ||||
| FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt 6 | ||||
| BSG Chemie Leipzig 7 | ||||
| BSG Sachsenring Zwickau 8 | ||||
| BSG Turbine Halle 9 | ||||
| F.C. Hansa Rostock 10 | ||||
| FC Karl-Marx-Stadt | ||||
| 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 11 | ||||
| Hallescher FC Chemie 12 | ||||
| BSG Aktivist Senftenberg13 | ||||
| SG Friedrichstadt | ||||
| BSG Motor Dessau14 |
| City | Winners | Club(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin | BFC Dynamo (10), FC Vorwärts Berlin (6) | ||
| Dresden | SG Dynamo Dresden (8) | ||
| Chemnitz | SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (3), FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (1) | ||
| Jena | FC Carl Zeiss Jena (3) | ||
| Magdeburg | 1. FC Magdeburg (3) | ||
| Erfurt | FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt (2) | ||
| Leipzig | BSG Chemie Leipzig (2) | ||
| Zwickau | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau (2) | ||
| Halle | BSG Turbine Halle (2) | ||
| Rostock | F.C. Hansa Rostock (1) |