# 1966–67 DDR-Oberliga

The 1966–67 DDR-Oberliga was the 18th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.
The league was contested by fourteen teams. FC Karl-Marx-Stadt won the championship, the club's sole national East German championship, being a separate club from SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt, a club that won three championships in the 1950s.
Hartmut Rentzsch of BSG Motor Zwickau was the league's top scorer with 17 goals, while Dieter Erler of FC Karl-Marx-Stadt won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.
On the strength of the 1966–67 title Karl-Marx-Stadt qualified for the 1967–68 European Cup where the club was knocked out by R.S.C. Anderlecht in the first round. Third-placed club BSG Motor Zwickau qualified for the 1967–68 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winner and was knocked out by FC Torpedo Moscow in the first round. Second-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1967–68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup where it was knocked out in the second round by FK Vojvodina while fourth-placed Dynamo Dresden was knocked out by Rangers F.C. in the first round.

## Table

The 1966–67 season saw two newly promoted clubs, 1. FC Union Berlin and BSG Wismut Gera.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (C) | 26 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 39 | 23 | +16 | 37 | Qualification to European Cup first round |
| 2 | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 26 | 14 | 2 | 10 | 39 | 32 | +7 | 30 | Qualification to Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round |
| 3 | BSG Motor Zwickau | 26 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 41 | 26 | +15 | 27 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 4 | SG Dynamo Dresden | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 35 | 31 | +4 | 27 | Qualification to Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round |
| 5 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 31 | 29 | +2 | 27 | |
| 6 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 26 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 33 | 35 | −2 | 27 | |
| 7 | BSG Lokomotive Stendal | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 39 | 44 | −5 | 27 | |
| 8 | FC Vorwärts Berlin | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 43 | 34 | +9 | 26 | |
| 9 | BSG Wismut Aue | 26 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 45 | 43 | +2 | 26 | |
| 10 | F.C. Hansa Rostock | 26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 26 | |
| 11 | Hallescher FC Chemie | 26 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 38 | 41 | −3 | 26 | |
| 12 | BSG Chemie Leipzig | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 35 | 38 | −3 | 25 | |
| 13 | Berliner FC Dynamo (R) | 26 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 28 | 40 | −12 | 21 | Relegation to DDR-Liga |
| 14 | BSG Wismut Gera (R) | 26 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 27 | 57 | −30 | 12 | Relegation to DDR-Liga |

## Results

| Home \ Away | BFC | CZJ | CHM | DRE | HFC | HRO | KMS | LLE | LST | ZWI | UNI | VBE | AUE | WGE |
| BFC Dynamo | | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 4–3 | 2–1 |
| Carl Zeiss Jena | 1–3 | | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 |
| Chemie Leipzig | 1–1 | 2–3 | | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 3–1 |
| Dynamo Dresden | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 6–1 | 6–1 |
| Hallescher FC Chemie | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 0–4 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 5–2 | 2–0 |
| Hansa Rostock | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 | | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 |
| Karl-Marx-Stadt | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| Lokomotive Leipzig | 3–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 4–2 |
| Lokomotive Stendal | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 5–0 |
| Motor Zwickau | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 6–2 | | 5–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 |
| Union Berlin | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | | 0–0 | 0–3 | 1–0 |
| Vorwärts Berlin | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 5–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | | 2–2 | 5–1 |
| Wismut Aue | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–3 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | | 0–1 |
| Wismut Gera | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–4 | 2–4 | |