| Goalkeeper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | Birthday | |||
| 16 |  | Bernd Jakubowski |  | Dynamo Dresden | 10.12.1952 † |
| 1 |  | Bodo Rudwaleit |  | BFC Dynamo | 03.08.1957 |
| Defence | |||||
| # | Name | Birthday | |||
| 5 |  | Frank Baum |  | 1. FC Lok Leipzig | 30.01.1956 |
| 3 |  | Lothar Hause |  | 1. FC Frankfurt (Oder) | 22.10.1955 |
| 13 |  | Matthias Müller | | Dynamo Dresden | 18.10.1954 |
| 12 |  | Norbert Trieloff | | BFC Dynamo | 24.08.1957 |
| 4 |  | Frank Uhlig |  | Chemnitzer FC | 08.12.1955 |
| 2 |  | Artur Ullrich | | BFC Dynamo | 10.10.1957 |
| Midfield | |||||
| # | Name | Birthday | |||
| 14 |  | Matthias Liebers | | 1. FC Lok Leipzig | 22.11.1958 |
| 6 |  | Rüdiger Schnuphase |  | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 23.01.1954 |
| 8 |  | Wolfgang Steinbach |  | 1. FC Magdeburg | 21.09.1954 |
| 7 |  | Frank Terletzki | | BFC Dynamo | 05.08.1950 |
| 15 |  | Andreas Trautmann | | Dynamo Dresden | 21.05.1959 |
| Forward | |||||
| # | Name | Birthday | |||
| 9 |  | Jürgen Bähringer | | Chemnitzer FC | 19.08.1950 |
| 11 |  | Dieter Kühn | | 1. FC Lok Leipzig | 04.07.1956 |
| 17 |  | Wolf-Rüdiger Netz | | BFC Dynamo | 15.12.1950 |
| 10 |  | Werner Peter |  | Hallescher FC | 25.05.1950 |
| Manager | |||||
| # | Name | Birthday | |||
 | Rudolf Krause | 21.01.1927 † | |||
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