# 1962–63 DDR-Oberliga

The 1962–63 DDR-Oberliga was the 14th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.
The league was contested by fourteen teams. SC Motor Jena won the championship, the club's first-ever national East German championship. The club would go on to win two more, then under the name of FC Carl Zeiss Jena.
Peter Ducke of SC Motor Jena was the league's top scorer with 19 goals. For the first time the title East German Footballer of the year was awarded, going to Manfred Kaiser of SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt.
On the strength of the 1962–63 title Motor Jena qualified for the 1963–64 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Dinamo Bucharest in the preliminary round. Seventh-placed club BSG Motor Zwickau qualified for the 1963–64 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winner and was knocked out by MTK Budapest in the second round after having received a bye in the first round.

## Table

The 1962–63 season saw two newly promoted clubs, SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and Dynamo Dresden.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | SC Motor Jena (C) | 26 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 49 | 22 | +27 | 39 | Qualification to European Cup preliminary round |
| 2 | SC Empor Rostock | 26 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 42 | 24 | +18 | 33 | |
| 3 | ASK Vorwärts Berlin | 26 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 41 | 34 | +7 | 31 | |
| 4 | SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 43 | 42 | +1 | 28 | |
| 5 | SC Lokomotive Leipzig | 26 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 38 | 35 | +3 | 27 | |
| 6 | SC Chemie Halle | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 38 | 40 | −2 | 25 | |
| 7 | BSG Motor Zwickau | 26 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 38 | 41 | −3 | 25 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup second round |
| 8 | SC Turbine Erfurt | 26 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 45 | 45 | 0 | 24 | |
| 9 | SC Rotation Leipzig | 26 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 29 | 35 | −6 | 24 | |
| 10 | SC Dynamo Berlin | 26 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 37 | 32 | +5 | 23 | |
| 11 | SC Aufbau Magdeburg | 26 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 44 | 46 | −2 | 23 | |
| 12 | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 26 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 39 | 44 | −5 | 23 | |
| 13 | Dynamo Dresden (R) | 26 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 36 | 45 | −9 | 22 | Relegation to DDR-Liga |
| 14 | SC Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg (R) | 26 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 22 | 56 | −34 | 17 | Relegation to DDR-Liga |

## Results

| Home \ Away | ABS | MAG | CHH | DBE | DRE | ROS | LOK | MJE | KMS | ZWI | ROT | ERF | VBE | WIS |
| Aktivist Brieske-Senftenberg | | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 |
| Aufbau Magdeburg | 1–2 | | 5–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 4–3 | -:+ | 2–2 | 2–4 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 5–1 |
| Chemie Halle | 4–0 | 3–0 | | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 5–4 | 3–1 | 2–0 |
| Dynamo Berlin | 5–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | | 4–2 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 |
| Dynamo Dresden | 7–0 | 3–5 | 3–2 | 1–0 | | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Empor Rostock | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 5–0 |
| Lokomotive Leipzig | 2–0 | 2–4 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–3 | | 3–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 0–3 | 1–0 |
| Motor Jena | 4–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 4–0 |
| Karl-Marx-Stadt | 5–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–5 | 1–1 | | 4–0 | 1–2 | 4–5 | 0–2 | 2–2 |
| Motor Zwickau | 6–3 | +:- | 1–0 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–2 |
| Rotation Leipzig | 3–1 | 0–0 | 5–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | | 0–0 | 2–4 | 0–1 |
| Turbine Erfurt | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–2 | | 6–1 | 3–1 |
| Vorwärts Berlin | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | | 2–2 |
| Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt | 0–0 | 5–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 6–1 | 3–2 | |
* 1 2 The matches Aufbau Magdeburg–Motor Jena (originally 2–1) and Chemie Halle–Aufbau Magdeburg (originally 1:1) were each given a 0-0 goal and a win for Jena and Halle respectively, because Magdeburg did not provide evidence from a sports doctor.