| East German Football Championship |
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| Founded |
| 1948 |
| Folded |
| 1991 |
| Last Champions |
| F.C. Hansa Rostock (1st title) |
| Country |
 East Germany |
| 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 Dynamo 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 |
| SG Dynamo Dresden 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| FC Vorwärts Frankfurt 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
| FC Carl Zeiss Jena 4 | 3 | 9 | 5 |
| 1. FC Magdeburg | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| BSG Wismut Aue 5 | 3 | 2 | — |
| FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| BSG Chemie Leipzig 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| BSG Sachsenring Zwickau 8 | 2 | — | 3 |
| BSG Turbine Halle 9 | 2 | — | — |
| F.C. Hansa Rostock 10 | 1 | 4 | — |
| FC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 11 | — | 3 | 8 |
| Hallescher FC Chemie 12 | — | 1 | 1 |
| BSG Aktivist Senftenberg 13 | — | 1 | 1 |
| SG Friedrichstadt | — | 1 | — |
| BSG Motor Dessau 14 | — | — | 1 |
Notes:
| City | Winners | Club(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Berlin | 16 | BFC Dynamo (10), FC Vorwärts Berlin (6) |
| Dresden | 8 | SG Dynamo Dresden (8) |
| Chemnitz | 4 | SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (3), FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (1) |
| Jena | 3 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena (3) |
| Magdeburg | 3 | 1. FC Magdeburg (3) |
| Erfurt | 2 | FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt (2) |
| Leipzig | 2 | BSG Chemie Leipzig (2) |
| Zwickau | 2 | BSG Sachsenring Zwickau (2) |
| Halle | 2 | BSG Turbine Halle (2) |
| Rostock | 1 | F.C. Hansa Rostock (1) |
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