The Cup tournament perhaps was the best example of the rapid and fundamental political changes: for the first time 2 Second Division teams reached the semi-finals and one of them – the final. And when one looks at the whole Cup record the finalists did not appear to the very end, when they suddenly popped-out as if from nowhere. SG Dynamo (Dresden) and SG Dynamo (Schwerin) won the semi-finals, but 1.FC Dynamo (Dresden) and PSV Schwerin (Schwerin) played at the final. Well, the same clubs, but they were renamed in the pause between semi-finals and final. Considering the poor season the team from Schwerin had – they finished 13th in Group 1 of Second Division – the final was between David and Goliath. But the chance to win – and to win big – motivated the lowly club. They opened the score in the 5th minute and only 6 minutes before the end of the game mighty Dresden managed to get the lead, thanks to Kirsten. Dramatic battle in which, just like in the championship, Dresden prevailed however minimally: 2-1.
It would have been great if PSV Schwerin won the Cup, but no luck. No famous players here – naturally – but they came very close to success. The photo also shows the rapid changes in DDR: not only club names were changing during this season, but shirt adds appeared eventually in the second half of it.
1.FC Dynamo (Dresden) won the Cup – with difficulty, but won it. It was their 6th – overall, Dynamo was the second-best East German club in both titles and cups: former Dynamo (Berrlin) had more titles and 1.FC Magdeburg the same number of cups. It was the 3rd double for them. Presently, the team had 11 national team players, but in the new reality was not going to keep them: Matthias Sammer and Ulf Kirsten were going to the West for money and fame.
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