- East Germany earned its 4th consecutive victory
East Germany vs Romania 1974 World Cup qualification match reportDate, kick-off time: | Wednesday, 26 September 1973, 19:00 (UTC+01:00) | National teams, score: | - 2:0 | Competition: | 1974 FIFA World Cup Qualification, Group 4 | Referee: | Rudolf Scheurer, Bettlach / | Attendance, venue: | 77 764, Zentralstadion, Leipzig  | Goals: | 1:0 (42') Bernd Bransch, 2:0 (64') Bernd Bransch |
East Germany national football team line-up in match Nr.123 Managed by head coach Georg Buschner | Player | Caps | Age | Club | Jürgen Croy | 40 | 26 | BSG Sachsenring, Zwickau | Bernd Bransch | 46 | 28 | FC Carl Zeiss, Jena | Joachim Fritsche | 1 | 21 | 1. FC Lokomotive, Leipzig | Klaus Sammer | 17 | 30 | SG Dynamo, Dresden | Lothar Kurbjuweit | 25 | 22 | FC Carl Zeiss, Jena | Reinhard Lauck | 6 | 27 | BFC Dynamo, Berlin | Wolfgang Seguin | 13 | 28 | 1. FC Magdeburg, Magdeburg | Hans-Jürgen Kreische 61' | 40 | 26 | SG Dynamo, Dresden | 61' Jürgen Sparwasser | 24 | 25 | 1. FC Magdeburg, Magdeburg | Wolfram Löwe | 27 | 28 | 1. FC Lokomotive, Leipzig | Peter Ducke | 58 | 31 | FC Carl Zeiss, Jena | Joachim Streich | 22 | 22 | FC Hansa, Rostock |
Romania national football team line-up in match Nr.226 Managed by head coach Valentin Stănescu | Player | Caps | Age | Club | Răducan Necula | 29 | 27 | FC Rapid, Bucureşti | Lajos Sătmăreanu | 43 | 29 | CSA Steaua, Bucureşti | Dumitru Antonescu | 4 | 28 | FC Constanţa, Constanţa | Cornel Dinu | 37 | 25 | CS Dinamo, Bucureşti | Augustin Deleanu | 24 | 29 | CS Dinamo, Bucureşti | Ion Dumitru | 27 | 23 | CSA Steaua, Bucureşti | Radu Nunweiller | 38 | 28 | CS Dinamo, Bucureşti | Teodor Ţarălungă 46' | 3 | 28 | CS Universitatea, Craiova | 46' Emerich Dembrovschi | 27 | 27 | SC Bacău, Bacău | Nicolae Dobrin 83' | 36 | 26 | FC Argeş, Piteşti | 83' Dumitru Marcu | 7 | 23 | CS Universitatea, Craiova | Florea Dumitrache | 26 | 25 | CS Dinamo, Bucureşti | Anghel Iordănescu | 14 | 23 | CSA Steaua, Bucureşti |
Match stats National team | Players | Average caps | Average age | Clubs | Goals | Cautions | Expulsions | East Germany | 12 | 26.583 | 26.727 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Romania | 13 | 24.231 | 26.684 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Historical data sources  Die Neue Fussball-Woche (Berlin), №40, 02.10.1973; FuWo Archiv Comments  | db - posted on 14 April 2010 at 21:22:13 Die Fußball-Nationalmannschaft der DDR vor dem Weltmeisterschafts-Qualifikationsspiel gegen Rumänien (2:0, am 26.9.73 im Leipziger Zentralstadion).
V.l.n.r.: Joachim Streich, Peter Ducke, Wolfram Löwe, Wolfgang Seguin, Reinhard Lauck, Lothar Kurbjuweit, Joachim Fritsche, Hans-Jürgen Kreische, Klaus Sammer, Torwart Jürgen Croy und Mannschaftskapitän Bernd Bransch. (link: ) | | |
East Germany vs Romania post-match head-to-head | East Germany national team matches Previous match: Next match: Romania national team matches Previous match: Next match: Top East Germany goal scorers 1. Hans-Jürgen Kreische (1968 - 1973) - 24 goals 2. Henning Frenzel (1962 - 1971) - 18 goals 3. Eberhard Vogel (1962 - 1973) - 18 goals 4. Jürgen Nöldner (1960 - 1967) - 16 goals ... Bernd Bransch (1973) - 2 goals
(correct as of September 26, 1973) Brief match report Wed. 26 Sep 1973 Zentralstadion, Leipzig East Germany 2-0 Romania Goals: Bransch 42, Bransch 64
East Germany: Croy, Bransch (c), Fritsche, Sammer, Kurbjuweit, Lauck, Seguin, Kreische (Sparwasser 61), Löwe, Ducke, Streich. Managed by Buschner. Booked: Streich .
Romania: Necula, Sătmăreanu, Antonescu, Dinu (c), Deleanu, Dumitru, Nunweiller, Ţarălungă (Dembrovschi 46), Dobrin (Marcu 83), Dumitrache, Iordănescu. Managed by Stănescu. Booked: Dobrin .
Att: 77 764, Ref: Scheurer (Switzerland) |