BFC Dynamo won the championship, the club's sixth of ten consecutive East German championships from 1978 to 1988, thereby equalling the record held by Dynamo Dresden and FC Vorwärts Berlin.
[3][4] Rainer Ernst of BFC Dynamo was the league's top scorer with 20 goals,[5] while Hans-Jürgen Dörner of Dynamo Dresden took out the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.
[6] On the strength of the 1983–84 title BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1984–85 European Cup where the club was knocked out by FK Austria Wien in the second round.
Second-placed club Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1984–85 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and lost to SK Rapid Wien in the quarter-finals.
[7] The 1983–84 season saw two newly promoted clubs, Stahl Riesa and BSG Chemie Leipzig.