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.

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.