FDGB-Pokal 1978–79
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The 1978-79 season saw the 28th competition for the FDGB-Pokal, the East German national football cup. Starting from the third round, the fixtures were played over two legs, culminating in a one-legged final.

The competition began with three qualifying matches between three second-tier DDR-Liga
DDR-Liga
The DDR-Liga was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the second level of football competition in the DDR , being roughly equivalent to the Bundesliga in West Germany.-1950-1955:The league was established with two divisions of ten teams each in 1950...

 clubs and three Bezirkspokal finalists. Two of the finalists, Dynamo Gera and BSG
Betriebssportgemeinschaft (GDR)
A Betriebssportgemeinschaft was an organizational form of sports clubs in East Germany.After World War II, the Allied Control Commission had dissolved all existing sports structures, including the dissolution of all existing sports clubs on the basis of directive 23, dated 17 December 1945. This...

 Stahl Thale, qualified for the first round.

The first round pitted 48 DDR-Liga sides and 24 Bezirkspokal finalists against each other. After an intermediate round with 36 teams, the 14 DDR-Oberliga
DDR-Oberliga
The DDR-Oberliga was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the elite level of football competition in the DDR , being roughly equivalent to the Oberliga or Bundesliga in West Germany.-Overview:Following World...

 clubs joined in the second round. The two remaining Bezirkspokal finalists Stahl Thale and Dynamo Fürstenwalde were eliminated in this round, along with no less than five Oberliga sides: Wismut Aue
FC Erzgebirge Aue
FC Erzgebirge Aue is a German football club based in Aue, Saxony. The former East German side was a charter member of the 3. Liga in 2008–09, after being relegated from the 2. Bundesliga in 2007–08. The city of Aue has a population of about 18,000 making it one of the smallest cities to ever...

, Chemie Böhlen
FC Sachsen Leipzig
FC Sachsen Leipzig was a German football club from Leipzig, Saxony. The roots of the club go back to 1899 and the founding of Britannia Leipzig. Following World War I, a 1919 merger with FC Hertha 05 Leipzig created Leipziger Sportverein 1899...

, Chemie Halle
Hallescher FC
Hallescher FC is a German association football club based in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:The club's roots are in the 1946 formation of SG Glaucha in Soviet-occupied East Germany around the core of Hallescher Fußball-Club Wacker which was founded in 1900...

, BSG Stahl Riesa
Stahl Riesa
TSV Stahl Riesa is a German association football club from Riesa in Saxony.-History:The club was founded as SC Riesa in 1903 in the cellar of the local pub "Bodega" and was re-named Riesaer SV two years later...

 and BSG Sachsenring Zwickau
FSV Zwickau
FSV Zwickau is a German association football club located in Zwickau, Saxony. Today's club claims as part of its complex heritage sides that were East Germany's first champions: 1948 Ostzone winners SG Planitz and 1950 DDR-Oberliga champions ZSG Horch Zwickau.-History:In addition to the earliest...

.

Of the 6 DDR-Liga teams that had reached the third round, only two survived to reach the quarter-finals, FC Energie Cottbus and BSG Motor Suhl. However, both were then eliminated by last year's finalists 1. FC Magdeburg
1. FC Magdeburg
1. FC Magdeburg is a German association football club playing in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:Football has been played in Magdeburg since the end of the 19th century. On 15 June 1896 SV Victoria 96 Magdeburg was founded, a club that had its best days before World War II, when it participated...

 and Dynamo Dresden
Dynamo Dresden
SG Dynamo Dresden are a German association football club, based in Dresden, Saxony. They were founded in 1950, as a club affiliated with the East German police, and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football, winning eight league titles...

, respectively. Dresden went out to Berliner FC Dynamo
Berliner FC Dynamo
Berliner FC Dynamo is a German association football club and is the successor organization to the club that played in East Berlin as Dynamo Berlin from 1953 to 1966.-Founding and Stasi patronage:...

 in the semi finals, while 1. FC Magdeburg went on to reach the final with two wins over 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig.

Qualification round

Home team Away team | Result
BSG Motor Hermsdorf SG Dynamo Gera 0–3
BSG Stahl Thale BSG Aktivist Espenhain 3–0
BSG Motor Steinach
SV 08 Steinach
SV Steinach is a German association football club that plays in Steinach, a town 75 km south of Erfurt in Thuringia.-History:This small local club was founded on 4 November 1908 as FC Steinach. Play was suspended through World War I and after the war, in 1919, they merged with another football...

 
SG Dynamo Eisleben 1–6

First round

Home team Away team | Result
BSG Fortschritt Weida BSG Motor Werdau 3–2 a.e.t.
ISG Schwerin Süd BSG Stahl Blankenburg 3–2
BSG Akt. Kali Werra Tiefenort II BSG Motor Weimar 2–0
BSG Demminer Verkehrsbetriebe ASG Vorwärts Stralsund 1–6
BSG Einheit Güstrow BSG Schiffahrt/Hafen Rostock 3–3 a.e.t.
3–4 pen.
BSG Rotes Banner Trinwillershagen BSG KK-Werk Greifswald
Greifswalder SV
Greifswalder SV 04 is a German association football club from the city of Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The club was formed out of the merger of SSV Grün-Schwarz Greifswald, ESV/Empor Greifswald, and Greifswalder SV 98...

 
1–1 a.e.t.
3–2 pen.
BSG Traktor Groß Lindow BSG Stahl Brandenburg
Stahl Brandenburg
FC Stahl Brandenburg is a German association football club based in Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg.-History:The club was formed in 1950 as BSG Einheit Brandenburg and played its earliest seasons in the II division of East German football. They took on the name BSG Stahl Brandenberg in 1955...

 
1–4
BSG Motor Hennigsdorf FC Energie Cottbus  0–2
SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde ASG Vorwärts Dessau
Vorwärts Dessau
ASG Vorwärts Dessau is a German association football club based in Dessau-Roßlau, Saxony-Anhalt.- ASG Vorwärts :At the end of the 1973–74 season of the second-tier DDR-Liga the leadership of the Armeesportvereinigung Vorwärts decided to move ASG Vorwärts Leipzig to Dessau...

 
2–0
BSG Chemie Schönebeck BSG Stahl Hennigsdorf 1–2
BSG MAB Schkeuditz TSG Gröditz 2–3
ASG Vorwärts Plauen SG Dynamo Eisleben 1–4
BSG Chemie Zeitz BSG Chemie Leipzig
FC Sachsen Leipzig
FC Sachsen Leipzig was a German football club from Leipzig, Saxony. The roots of the club go back to 1899 and the founding of Britannia Leipzig. Following World War I, a 1919 merger with FC Hertha 05 Leipzig created Leipziger Sportverein 1899...

 
0–3
BSG Motor Ascota Karl-Marx-Stadt BSG Chemie Wolfen
FC Grün-Weiß Wolfen
FC Grün-Weiß Wolfen is a German association football club from the industrial city of Bitterfeld-Wolfen in southern Saxony-Anhalt. They currently compete in the tier V NOFV-Oberliga Süd.-History:...

 
1–2
SG Dynamo Lübben FC Vorwärts Frankfurt/Oder
FC Viktoria Frankfurt
Frankfurter FC Viktoria is a German association football club based in Frankfurt , Brandenburg. The club was originally founded in East Germany as the army club SV Vorwärts der HVA Leipzig in 1951 in the city of Leipzig.- History :One of the characteristics of East German football after World War...

 
0–5
BSG Landbau Bad Langensalza BSG Einheit Wernigerode 3–4
BSG NARVA Berlin BSG Motor Eberswalde
FV Motor Eberswalde
FV Motor Eberswalde is a German association football club from Eberswalde, Brandenberg northeast of Berlin.-History:The club was founded on 1 July 1909 as FC Preussen Eberswalde and steadily improved in the period leading up to World War I advancing to play in the top local league...

 
2–3
BSG Aktivist Brieske/Senftenberg II BSG Motor WaMa Görlitz 2–2 a.e.t.
3–5 pen.
ASG Vorwärts Kamenz BSG Aktivist Schwarze Pumpe 0–0 a.e.t.
1–3 pen.
BSG Motor Rudisleben BSG Motor Suhl 3–5
BSG Ingenieurhochbau Frankfurt/Oder BSG Motor Babelsberg
SV Babelsberg 03
SV Babelsberg 03 is a German association football club based in Potsdam-Babelsberg, on the outskirts of Berlin. The team was founded as Sport-Club Jugendkraft 1903 and again as SG Karl-Marx Babelsberg in 1948 as successor to the pre-war side SpVgg Potsdam 03.-History:Playing as SV Nowawes the team...

 
1–3 a.e.t.
BSG Motor Zeulenroda BSG Robotron Sömmerda 1–3
BSG ZWK Nebra BSG Akt. Kali Werra Tiefenort 0–3
BSG Wismut Aue II
FC Erzgebirge Aue
FC Erzgebirge Aue is a German football club based in Aue, Saxony. The former East German side was a charter member of the 3. Liga in 2008–09, after being relegated from the 2. Bundesliga in 2007–08. The city of Aue has a population of about 18,000 making it one of the smallest cities to ever...

 
SG Dynamo Gera 0–2
BSG Chemie Eilenburg BSG Stahl Thale 0–0 a.e.t.
0–2 pen.
BSG Lokomotive Stendal
Lok Stendal
1. FC Lok Stendal is a German association football club that plays in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt.- History :Founded in 1909, FC Viktoria Stendal was dissolved in the aftermath of World War II and re-established in Soviet-occupied East Germany in 1945 as SG Stendal-Nord. The club underwent a number of...

 
BSG Bergmann Borsig Pankow 1–0
BSG Lokomotive Malchin SG Dynamo Schwerin 2–3
BSG Motor Rathenow
FSV Optik Rathenow
FSV Optik Rathenow is a German association football club from the city of Rathenow, Brandenburg.-History:The earliest roots of football in the Rathenow area go back to the establishment of Spielvereinigung Rathenow in 1906...

 
BSG Chemie Premnitz 1–4
BSG Einheit Grimmen II ASG Vorwärts Neubrandenburg 1–4
BSG Chemie Veritas Wittenberge TSG Wismar 1–0
BSG Motor Nordhausen
FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen
FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen is a German association football club from Nordhausen, Thuringia.-History:The football team FC Wacker 05 Nordhausen was founded on 1 November 1905 as an offshoot of a Protestant youth club in the city...

 
BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau 1–4 a.e.t.
BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt
FC Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt
Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl is a German association football club based in Eisenhüttenstadt, Brandenburg, near the Polish border.-History:The club's predecessors were founded as BSG Stahl Fürstenberg Ost in 1950. The community of Stalinstadt was built nearby for the workers of the local ironworks,...

 
FSV Lokomotive Dresden 4–2
BSG Bau Rostock BSG Post Neubrandenburg 2–1
BSG Motor Wolgast BSG Chemie PCK Schwedt 1–2
BSG Fortschritt Bischofswerda BSG Wismut Gera  1–1 a.e.t.
3–4 pen.
BSG Rotation Berlin BSG Aktivist Brieske/Senftenberg 0–2

Intermediate round

Home team Away team | Result
BSG Stahl Thale BSG Wismut Gera 2–1
BSG Lokomotive Stendal ISG Schwerin Süd 2–1 a.e.t.
BSG Chemie Veritas Wittenberge BSG Einheit Wernigerode 1–3 a.e.t.
BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort II BSG Motor Suhl 1–3 a.e.t.
SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde BSG Chemie Premnitz 3–0
SG Dynamo Gera BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort 1–2
BSG Rotes Banner Trinwillershagen BSG Bau Rostock 0–1 a.e.t.
SG Dynamo Eisleben BSG Fortschritt Weida 7–1
BSG Motor WaMa Görlitz BSG Aktivist Brieske/Senftenberg 0–1
ASG Vorwärts Neubrandenburg FC Vorwärts Frankfurt/Oder 0–1 a.e.t.
ASG Vorwärts Stralsund BSG Chemie PCK Schwedt 1–2
BSG Schiffahrt/Hafen Rostock BSG Stahl Hennigsdorf 0–3
BSG Motor Babelsberg TSG Gröditz 2–1
BSG Chemie Leipzig BSG Aktivist Schwarze Pumpe 1–0
FC Energie Cottbus BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt 3–2
BSG Robotron Sömmerda BSG Chemie Wolfen 1–3 a.e.t.
SG Dynamo Schwerin BSG Motor Eberswalde 2–0

Second round

Home team Away team | Result
BSG Stahl Thale 1. FC Magdeburg
1. FC Magdeburg
1. FC Magdeburg is a German association football club playing in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:Football has been played in Magdeburg since the end of the 19th century. On 15 June 1896 SV Victoria 96 Magdeburg was founded, a club that had its best days before World War II, when it participated...

 
1–4 a.e.t.
BSG Chemie Wolfen BSG Sachsenring Zwickau
FSV Zwickau
FSV Zwickau is a German association football club located in Zwickau, Saxony. Today's club claims as part of its complex heritage sides that were East Germany's first champions: 1948 Ostzone winners SG Planitz and 1950 DDR-Oberliga champions ZSG Horch Zwickau.-History:In addition to the earliest...

 
1–0
BSG Aktivist Brieske/Senftenberg SG Dynamo Dresden
Dynamo Dresden
SG Dynamo Dresden are a German association football club, based in Dresden, Saxony. They were founded in 1950, as a club affiliated with the East German police, and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football, winning eight league titles...

 
0–3
BSG Chemie PCK Schwedt Berliner FC Dynamo
Berliner FC Dynamo
Berliner FC Dynamo is a German association football club and is the successor organization to the club that played in East Berlin as Dynamo Berlin from 1953 to 1966.-Founding and Stasi patronage:...

 
0–6
BSG Motor Babelsberg 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 0–2
BSG Motor Suhl BSG Wismut Aue 3–1
SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde FC Hansa Rostock  0–2
BSG Einheit Wernigerode FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt  3–5
BSG Stahl Hennigsdorf Hallescher FC Chemie
Hallescher FC
Hallescher FC is a German association football club based in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:The club's roots are in the 1946 formation of SG Glaucha in Soviet-occupied East Germany around the core of Hallescher Fußball-Club Wacker which was founded in 1900...

 
1–0
BSG Chemie Leipzig BSG Stahl Riesa
Stahl Riesa
TSV Stahl Riesa is a German association football club from Riesa in Saxony.-History:The club was founded as SC Riesa in 1903 in the cellar of the local pub "Bodega" and was re-named Riesaer SV two years later...

 
1–1 a.e.t.
4–3 pen.
BSG Stahl Brandeburg SG Dynamo Schwerin 2–1
FC Energie Cottbus BSG Chemie Böhlen
FC Sachsen Leipzig
FC Sachsen Leipzig was a German football club from Leipzig, Saxony. The roots of the club go back to 1899 and the founding of Britannia Leipzig. Following World War I, a 1919 merger with FC Hertha 05 Leipzig created Leipziger Sportverein 1899...

 
2–1
TSG Bau Rostock FC Vorwärts Frankfurt/Oder 0–4
BSG Aktivist Kali Werra Tiefenort FC Karl-Marx-Stadt
Chemnitzer FC
Chemnitzer FC is a German association football club based in Chemnitz, Saxony.The roots of the club go back to its establishment as Chemnitzer BC 1933 in 1933 after the collapse of former Chemnitzer BC 1899....

 
0–1
SG Dynamo Eisleben FC Carl Zeiss Jena
FC Carl Zeiss Jena
FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German association football club based in Jena, Thuringia.-History:The club was founded in May 1903 by workers at the Carl Zeiss AG optics factory as the company-sponsored Fussball-Club der Firma Carl Zeiss. The club underwent name changes in 1911 to Fussball Club Carl Zeiss...

 
1–5
BSG Lokomotive Stendal 1. FC Union Berlin
1. FC Union Berlin
1. FC Union Berlin is a German association football club based in Berlin. It is one of two sides in the city bearing the name Union that emerged during the Cold War and played in East Germany, while the other played in the west. The club currently plays in the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga.-Foundation to...

 
1–2

Third round

Home team Away team | Result
1. FC Union Berlin Berliner FC Dynamo 1–8, 1–7
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig FC Karl-Marx-Stadt 3–2, 4–1
FC Vorwärts Frankfurt/Oder 1. FC Magdeburg 0–1, 2–2
FC Hansa Rostock BSG Chemie Leipzig 4–0, 1–1
SG Dynamo Dresden FC Carl Zeiss Jena 5–0, 3–0
FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt BSG Stahl Brandenburg 4–0, 3–1
BSG Chemie Wolfen BSG Motor Suhl 0–5, 1–4
FC Energie Cottbus BSG Stahl Hennigsdorf 3–0, 0–2

Quarter finals

Home team Away team | Result
Berliner FC Dynamo FC Hansa Rostock 4–1, 7–1
FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 1–1, 2–3
1. FC Magdeburg BSG Motor Suhl 3–1, 5–2
FC Energie Cottbus SG Dynamo Dresden 1–4, 0–2

Semifinals

Home team Away team | Result
1. FC Magdeburg 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 5–1, 2–0
Berliner FC Dynamo SG Dynamo Dresden 1–0, 1–1

Final

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center> MAGDEBURG:
GK '   Dirk Heyne
Dirk Heyne
Dirk Heyne is a former German football goalkeeper turned manager.-Career:Heyne began his footballing career at 1. FC Magdeburg's youth teams in 1967. In 1977 he had his debut in the DDR-Oberliga team and went on to tend goal in 323 Oberliga matches for 1. FC Magdeburg...

SW '   Manfred Zapf
Manfred Zapf
Manfred Zapf is a German former footballer, later a coach. A defender, Zapf spent his entire senior career with 1. FC Magdeburg, and captained the club to its greatest successes – three DDR championships, four cups, and the Cup Winners' Cup of 1974...

DF '   Detlef Raugust
Detlef Raugust
Detlef Raugust is a German former footballer. He spent his entire career with 1. FC Magdeburg, and was part of their highly successful team of the 1970s.Raugust made three appearances for the East Germany national football team....

DF '   Wolfgang Seguin
Wolfgang Seguin
Wolfgang "Paule" Seguin is a retired East German footballer.-Club career:Seguin took up playing football in his hometown of Burg in 1953. He spent ten years with Einheit Burg, playing an attacking role. In 1963 he transferred to SC Aufbau Magdeburg, where he would play 380 Oberliga matches until...

DF '   Klaus Decker
Klaus Decker
Klaus Decker is a former East German football player who spent his entire senior career with 1. FC Magdeburg in the DDR-Oberliga.- Career :...

MF '   Jürgen Pommerenke
Jürgen Pommerenke
Jürgen Pommerenke is a former German football midfielder and manager.Pommerenke played his entire professional career for 1...

MF '   Axel Tyll
Axel Tyll
Axel Tyll is a German footballer who played for 1. FC Magdeburg between 1971 and 1982, winning three East German titles, four cups, and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1974...

 
MF '   Wolfgang Steinbach
Wolfgang Steinbach
Wolfgang "Maxe" Steinbach, born 21 September 1954 in Schönebeck is a former German football player and manager who spent most of his career playing for 1. FC Magdeburg in the DDR-Oberliga. In 2006 he was elected Best 1. FC Magdeburg Player of All Times in a telephone vote.Steinbach started his...

 
FW '   Jürgen Sparwasser
Jürgen Sparwasser
Jürgen Sparwasser is a retired German football player and later briefly a football manager.Sparwasser started his playing career in the youth department of his hometown club BSG Lokomotive Halberstadt in 1956. In 1965 he moved to 1. FC Magdeburg where he gave his senior debut in January 1966...

 
FW '   Joachim Streich
Joachim Streich
Joachim Streich is a former East German footballer, who won the bronze medal with East Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....

FW '   Martin Hoffmann 
Substitutes:
MF '   Siegmund Mewes
Siegmund Mewes
Siegmund Mewes, born 26 February 1951, is a retired East German football player and manager.Mewes began to play football at age 7 when he joined BSG Rotation Magdeburg. In 1961 he moved to BSG Aufbau Elbe and in 1965 he was delegated to DDR-Oberliga club SC Aufbau Magdeburg. here he played in the...

 
FW '   Holger Döbbel 
Manager:
  Klaus Urbanczyk
Klaus Urbanczyk
Klaus Urbanczyk, nicknamed Banne, born 4 June 1940 in Halle , is a former East German football player and manager.Urbanczyk began his football career at Turbine Halle in 1948. Beginning in 1960, he played for this team - in the meantime renamed Chemie Halle and later Hallescher FC Chemie - in the...

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center> DRESDEN: GK '   Bodo Rudwaleit
Bodo Rudwaleit
Bodo Rudwaleit is a former German former football goalkeeper who played in East Germany. He played during most of his career for the football club Dynamo Berlin where he was East German champion ten times in a row from 1979 to 1988...

SW '   Norbert Trieloff
Norbert Trieloff
Norbert Trieloff is a German former soccer player. He played for BFC Dynamo and represented East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics, where he won the silver medal.- References :...

DF
'   Michael Noack
Michael Noack
Michael Noack is the current Chief Financial Officer of Australian Vintage Limited. Michael Noack is the current Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Australian Vintage Limited. Michael Noack is the current Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Australian Vintage Limited. (formerly known as Mcguigan Simeon...

DF '   Rainer Troppa
Rainer Troppa
Rainer Troppa is a retired football defender.During his club career, Troppa played for Energie Cottbus and BFC Dynamo. He played once for the East German national team, featuring in the unsuccessful qualifying campaigns for the 1982 and 1986 World Cups and the 1984 European Championship-External...

DF
'   Artur Ullrich
Artur Ullrich
Artur Ullrich is a former football player from East Germany. He played for BFC Dynamo and represented East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics, where he won the silver medal.- References :*...

MF '   Frank Terletzki
Frank Terletzki
Frank Terletzki is a Germany football coach and former football player.Frank Terletzki played from 1966 to 1986 for the Berliner FC Dynamo. The midfield player obtained 91 goals for the citizens of Berlin in the GDR upper league in 373 plays...

MF
'   Reinhard Lauck
Reinhard Lauck
Reinhard Lauck was a German football player.Lauck played for 1. FC Union Berlin and BFC Dynamo ....

MF '   Roland Jüngling  MF '   Hans-Jürgen Riediger
Hans-Jürgen Riediger
Hans Jürgen Riediger , is a former German soccer player. Hans Jürgen Riediger played for youth team Motor Finsterwalde Süd and represented Berlin club BFC Dynamo for 14 years. The striker came to prominence with 34 youth international matches and made his league debut with Dynamo Berlin...

FW '   Ralf Sträßer
Ralf Sträßer
Ralf Sträßer is a German former footballer who won four caps for East Germany. He is the father of Carsten Sträßer.-External links:* *...

  FW
'   Wolf-Rüdiger Netz
Wolf-Rüdiger Netz
Wolf-Rüdiger Netz is a German former soccer player. He played for BFC Dynamo and represented East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics, where he won the silver medal.-References:...

Substitutes: FW '   Hartmut Pelka  MF '   Bernd Brillat  Manager:   Jürgen Bogs
Jürgen Bogs
Jürgen Bogs is a German football manager who managed Berliner FC Dynamo to ten consecutive DDR-Oberliga titles .-References:...

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