List of East German football champions
Champions
The performance of various clubs is shown in the following table:

List of East German football champions

Section Title: Champions
Table Section Text: The performance of various clubs is shown in the following table:

Season	Champion	Runner-up	Third Place	Top Scorer (Goals)

1948	SG Planitz (1)	SG Freiimfelde Halle	—	—

1949	Union Halle (1)	Fortuna Erfurt	—	—

1949–50	Horch Zwickau (2)	Dresden Friedrichstadt	Waggonbau Dessau	East Germany Heinz Satrapa (23)

1950–51	Chemie Leipzig (1)	Turbine Erfurt	Motor Zwickau	East Germany Johannes Schöne (37)

1951–52	Turbine Halle (2)	Volkspolizei Dresden	Chemie Leipzig	East Germany Rudolf Krause (27)

1952–53	Dynamo Dresden (1)	Wismut Aue	Motor Zwickau	East Germany Harry Arlt (26)

1953–54	Turbine Erfurt (1)	Chemie Leipzig	Dynamo Dresden	East Germany Heinz Satrapa (21)

1954–55	Turbine Erfurt (2)	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	SC Rotation Leipzig	East Germany Willy Tröger (22)

1955	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	Empor Rostock	Dynamo Berlin	East Germany Klaus Seligow (12)

1956	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (1)	Aktivist Brieske Senftenberg	SC Lokomotive Leipzig	East Germany Ernst Lindner (18)

1957	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (2)	ASK Vorwärts Berlin	SC Rotation Leipzig	East Germany Heinz Kaulmann (15)

1958	ASK Vorwärts Berlin (1)	Motor Jena	Aktivist Brieske Senftenberg	East Germany Helmut Müller (17)

1959	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (3)	ASK Vorwärts Berlin	Dynamo Berlin	East Germany Bernd Bauchspieß (18)

1960	ASK Vorwärts Berlin (2)	Dynamo Berlin	SC Lokomotive Leipzig	East Germany Bernd Bauchspieß (25)

1961–62	ASK Vorwärts Berlin (3)	Empor Rostock	Dynamo Berlin	East Germany Arthur Bialas (23)

1962–63	Motor Jena (1)	Empor Rostock	ASK Vorwärts Berlin	East Germany Peter Ducke (19)

1963–64	Chemie Leipzig (2)	Empor Rostock	SC Leipzig	East Germany Gerd Backhaus (15)

1964–65	ASK Vorwärts Berlin (4)	Motor Jena	Chemie Leipzig	East Germany Bernd Bauchspieß (14)

1965–66	FC Vorwärts Berlin (5)	Carl Zeiss Jena	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	East Germany Henning Frenzel (22)

1966–67	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (1)	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	Motor Zwickau	East Germany Hartmund Rentzsch (17)

1967–68	Carl Zeiss Jena (2)	Hansa Rostock	FC Magdeburg	East Germany Gerhard Kostmann (15)

1968–69	FC Vorwärts Berlin (6)	Carl Zeiss Jena	FC Magdeburg	East Germany Gerhard Kostmann (18)

1969–70	Carl Zeiss Jena (3)	FC Vorwärts Berlin	Dynamo Dresden	East Germany Otto Skrowny (12)

1970–71	Dynamo Dresden (2)	Carl Zeiss Jena	Hallescher FC Chemie	East Germany Hans-Jürgen Kreische (17)

1971–72	FC Magdeburg (1)	Berliner FC Dynamo	Dynamo Dresden	East Germany Hans-Jürgen Kreische (14)

1972–73	Dynamo Dresden (3)	Carl Zeiss Jena	FC Magdeburg	East Germany Hans-Jürgen Kreische (26)

1973–74	FC Magdeburg (2)	Carl Zeiss Jena	Dynamo Dresden	East Germany Hans-Bert Matoul (20)

1974–75	FC Magdeburg (3)	Carl Zeiss Jena	Dynamo Dresden	East Germany Manfred Vogel (17)

1975–76	Dynamo Dresden (4)	Berliner FC Dynamo	FC Magdeburg	East Germany Hans-Jürgen Kreische (24)

1976–77	Dynamo Dresden (5)	FC Magdeburg	Carl Zeiss Jena	East Germany Joachim Streich (17)

1977–78	Dynamo Dresden (6)	FC Magdeburg	Berliner FC Dynamo	East Germany Klaus Havenstein (15)

1978–79	Berliner FC Dynamo (1)	Dynamo Dresden	Carl Zeiss Jena	East Germany Joachim Streich (23)

1979–80	Berliner FC Dynamo (2)	Dynamo Dresden	Carl Zeiss Jena	East Germany Dieter Kühn (21)

1980–81	Berliner FC Dynamo (3)	Carl Zeiss Jena	FC Magdeburg	East Germany Joachim Streich (20)

1981–82	Berliner FC Dynamo (4)	Dynamo Dresden	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	East Germany Rüdiger Schnuphase (19)

1982–83	Berliner FC Dynamo (5)	FC Vorwärts Frankfurt	Carl Zeiss Jena	East Germany Joachim Streich (19)

1983–84	Berliner FC Dynamo (6)	Dynamo Dresden	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	East Germany Rainer Ernst (20)

1984–85	Berliner FC Dynamo (7)	Dynamo Dresden	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	East Germany Rainer Ernst (24)

1985–86	Berliner FC Dynamo (8)	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	Carl Zeiss Jena	East Germany Ralf Sträßer (14)

1986–87	Berliner FC Dynamo (9)	Dynamo Dresden	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	East Germany Frank Pastor (17)

1987–88	Berliner FC Dynamo (10)	FC Lokomotive Leipzig	Dynamo Dresden	East Germany Andreas Thom (20)

1988–89	Dynamo Dresden (7)	Berliner FC Dynamo	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	East Germany Torsten Gütschow (17)

1989–90	Dynamo Dresden (8)	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	FC Magdeburg	East Germany Torsten Gütschow (18)

1990–91	Hansa Rostock (1)	Dynamo Dresden	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	Germany Torsten Gütschow (20)

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