# 1981–82 DDR-Oberliga

The 1981–82 DDR-Oberliga was the 33rd season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.
The league was contested by fourteen teams. BFC Dynamo won the championship, the club's fourth of ten consecutive East German championships from 1978 to 1988.
Rüdiger Schnuphase of FC Carl Zeiss Jena was the league's top scorer with 19 goals, with Schnuphase also taking out the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.
On the strength of the 1981–82 title BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1982–83 European Cup where the club was knocked out in an East-West German encounter by Hamburger SV in the first round. Second-placed club Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1982–83 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and lost to Boldklubben af 1893 in the first round. Third-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1982–83 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out by Viking F.K. while fourth-placed FC Vorwärts Frankfurt lost to SV Werder Bremen and fifth-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena was eliminated by Girondins de Bordeaux, all in the first round.

## Table

The 1981–82 season saw two newly promoted clubs, BSG Energie Cottbus and BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Berliner FC Dynamo (C) | 26 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 74 | 27 | +47 | 41 | Qualification to European Cup first round |
| 2 | SG Dynamo Dresden | 26 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 50 | 24 | +26 | 34 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 3 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 26 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 53 | 29 | +24 | 33 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | FC Vorwärts Frankfurt | 26 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 56 | 39 | +17 | 33 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 5 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 26 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 49 | 27 | +22 | 32 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 6 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 49 | 42 | +7 | 32 | |
| 7 | FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 55 | 44 | +11 | 28 | |
| 8 | F.C. Hansa Rostock | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 37 | 40 | −3 | 25 | |
| 9 | FC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 50 | 38 | +12 | 24 | |
| 10 | BSG Wismut Aue | 26 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 33 | 48 | −15 | 23 | |
| 11 | Hallescher FC Chemie | 26 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 28 | 46 | −18 | 23 | |
| 12 | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau | 26 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 24 | 57 | −33 | 14 | |
| 13 | BSG Energie Cottbus (R) | 26 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 62 | −41 | 11 | Relegation to DDR-Liga |
| 14 | BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau (R) | 26 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 77 | −56 | 11 | Relegation to DDR-Liga |

## Results

| Home \ Away | BFC | CZJ | CBS | DRE | ECO | HFC | HRO | KMS | LOK | MAG | RWE | VFO | SZW | AUE |
| BFC Dynamo | | 3–1 | 7–0 | 2–1 | 7–2 | 5–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 4–2 | 6–0 | 3–0 | 5–0 |
| Carl Zeiss Jena | 1–2 | | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 6–0 | 4–0 |
| Chemie Buna Schkopau | 0–1 | 0–3 | | 0–1 | 3–1 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–2 |
| Dynamo Dresden | 2–1 | 0–1 | 10–1 | | 4–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–2 |
| Energie Cottbus | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 0–5 | 4–3 | 0–1 | 3–2 |
| Hallescher FC Chemie | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | | 4–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| Hansa Rostock | 1–1 | 2–0 | 5–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 4–2 | 2–2 |
| Karl-Marx-Stadt | 1–3 | 2–2 | 6–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2–4 | | 1–2 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 |
| 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 0–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 8–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | | 3–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 |
| 1. FC Magdeburg | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | | 4–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 |
| Rot-Weiß Erfurt | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 4–3 | 4–2 | | 1–4 | 5–2 | 4–1 |
| Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) | 3–3 | 5–3 | 6–0 | 2–1 | 5–2 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | | 2–0 | 3–0 |
| Sachsenring Zwickau | 1–4 | 1–2 | 3–4 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 3–3 | 2–2 | | 2–0 |
| Wismut Aue | 0–1 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | |