1. Participating clubs

2. Format
    Participation  Draw  Match rules  Suspensions  Champion qualification 

3. Schedule

4. Matches
    First round  Second round  Round of 16  Quarter-finals  Semi-finals  Final 

5. Bracket

6. Top goalscorers

7. Notes

8. References

9. External links

The 2017–18 DFB-Pokal was the 75th season of the annual German football cup competition. Sixty-four teams participated in the competition, including all teams from the previous year's Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. The competition began on 11 August 2017 with the first of six rounds and ended on 19 May 2018 with the final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, a nominally neutral venue, which has hosted the final since 1985.^[1] The DFB-Pokal is considered the second-most important club title in German football after the Bundesliga championship. The DFB-Pokal is run by the German Football Association (DFB).

The defending champions were Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund, after they defeated Eintracht Frankfurt 2–1 in the previous final.^[2] Dortmund were knocked out of the competition in the round of 16 by record winners Bayern Munich, losing 1–2.^[3]

Eintracht Frankfurt defeated Bayern Munich 3–1 in the final to claim their fifth title.

As winners, Eintracht Frankfurt automatically qualified for the group stage of the 2018–19 edition of the UEFA Europa League. They also will host the 2018 edition of the DFL-Supercup at the start of the next season, and will face the champion of the 2017–18 Bundesliga, Bayern Munich.

Participating clubs

The following 64 teams qualified for the competition:

• FC Augsburg
• Hertha BSC
• Werder Bremen
• Darmstadt 98
• Borussia Dortmund
• Eintracht Frankfurt
• SC Freiburg
• Hamburger SV
• 1899 Hoffenheim
• FC Ingolstadt
• 1. FC Köln
• RB Leipzig
• Bayer Leverkusen
• Mainz 05
• Borussia Mönchengladbach
• Bayern Munich
• Schalke 04
• VfL Wolfsburg

• Erzgebirge Aue
• Union Berlin
• Arminia Bielefeld
• VfL Bochum
• Eintracht Braunschweig
• Dynamo Dresden
• Fortuna Düsseldorf
• Greuther Fürth
• Hannover 96
• 1. FC Heidenheim
• 1. FC Kaiserslautern
• Karlsruher SC
• 1860 Munich
• 1. FC Nürnberg
• SV Sandhausen
• FC St. Pauli
• VfB Stuttgart
• Würzburger Kickers

• MSV Duisburg
• Holstein Kiel
• 1. FC Magdeburg
• Jahn Regensburg

• Baden

FC Nöttingen

• Bavaria{{refn|group=note|In addition to the Bavarian Cup winners, the best-placed amateur team of the Regionalliga Bayern also qualify.}}

Schweinfurt 05 ({{abbr|CW|Cup winners}})

SpVgg Unterhaching ({{abbr|RB|Regionalliga Bayern}})

• Berlin

BFC Dynamo

• Brandenburg

Energie Cottbus

• Bremen

Leher TS

• Hamburg

Eintracht Norderstedt

• Hesse

Wehen Wiesbaden

• Lower Rhine

Rot-Weiss Essen{{refn|group=note|Rot-Weiss Essen qualified regardless of the outcome of the final of the Lower Rhine Cup, as MSV Duisburg, the other finalists, already qualified for the DFB-Pokal through their 3. Liga position.}}

• Lower Saxony{{refn|group=note|Both finalists of the Lower Saxony Cup qualify.}}

LSK Hansa

VfL Osnabrück

• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Hansa Rostock

• Middle Rhine

Bonner SC

• Rhineland

TuS Koblenz

• Saarland

1. FC Saarbrücken

• Saxony

Chemnitzer FC

• Saxony-Anhalt

Germania Halberstadt{{refn|group=note|Germania Halberstadt qualified regardless of the outcome of the final of the Saxony-Anhalt Cup, as 1. FC Magdeburg, the other finalists, already qualified for the DFB-Pokal through their 3. Liga position.}}

• Schleswig-Holstein

SV Eichede{{refn|group=note|SV Eichede qualified regardless of the outcome of the final of the Schleswig-Holstein Cup, as Holstein Kiel, the other finalists, already qualified for the DFB-Pokal through their 3. Liga position.}}

• South Baden

1. FC Rielasingen-Arlen

• Southwest

SV Morlautern

• Thuringia

Rot-Weiß Erfurt

• Westphalia{{refn|group=note|In addition to the Westphalian Cup winners, the winners of a play-off between the best-placed amateur Westphalian team of the Regionalliga West and the best-placed amateur team of the Oberliga Westfalen also qualify.}}

SC Paderborn ({{abbr|CW|Cup winners}})

TuS Erndtebrück ({{abbr|PO|Play-off winners}})

• Württemberg

Sportfreunde Dorfmerkingen

Format

Participation

The DFB-Pokal begins with a round of 64 teams. The 36 teams of the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, along with the top 4 finishers of the 3. Liga are automatically qualified for the tournament. Of the remaining slots, 21 are given to the cup winners of the regional football associations, the Verbandspokal. The 3 remaining slots are given to the three regional associations with the most men's teams, which currently is Bavaria, Lower Saxony, and Westphalia. The runner-up of the Lower Saxony Cup is given the slot, along with the best-placed amateur team of the Regionalliga Bayern. For Westphalia, the winner of a play-off between the best-placed team of the Regionalliga West and Oberliga Westfalen also qualify. As every team is entitled to participate in local tournaments which qualify for the association cups, every team can in principle compete in the DFB-Pokal. Reserve teams and combined football sections are not permitted to enter, along with no two teams of the same association or corporation.^[4]

Draw

The draws for the different rounds are conducted as following:^[4]

For the first round, the participating teams will be split into two pots of 32 teams each. The first pot contains all teams which have qualified through their regional cup competitions, the best four teams of the 3. Liga, and the bottom four teams of the 2. Bundesliga. Every team from this pot will be drawn to a team from the second pot, which contains all remaining professional teams (all the teams of the Bundesliga and the remaining fourteen 2. Bundesliga teams). The teams from the first pot will be set as the home team in the process.

The two-pot scenario will also be applied for the second round, with the remaining 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) in the first pot and the remaining Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga teams in the other pot. Once again, the 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) will serve as hosts. This time the pots do not have to be of equal size though, depending on the results of the first round. Theoretically, it is even possible that there may be only one pot, if all of the teams from one of the pots from the first round beat all the others in the second pot. Once one pot is empty, the remaining pairings will be drawn from the other pot with the first-drawn team for a match serving as hosts.

For the remaining rounds, the draw will be conducted from just one pot. Any remaining 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) will be the home team if drawn against a professional team. In every other case, the first-drawn team will serve as hosts.

Match rules

Teams meet in one game per round. Matches take place for 90 minutes, with two-halves of 45 minutes. If still tied after regulation, 30 minutes of extra time will be played, consisting of two periods of 15 minutes. If the score is still level after this, the match will be decided by a penalty shoot-out. A coin toss will decide who takes the first penalty.^[4] A total of seven players are allowed to be listed on the substitute bench, with up to three substitutions being allowed during regulation. After approval by the IFAB during the previous season, the use of a fourth substitute is allowed in extra time as part of a pilot project.^[5] From the quarter-finals onward, a video assistant referee will be appointed for all DFB-Pokal matches. Though technically possible, VAR will not be used for home matches of Bundesliga clubs prior to the quarter-finals in order to provide a uniform approach to all matches.^[6]

Suspensions

If a player receives five yellow cards in the competition, he will then be suspended from the next cup match. Similarly, receiving a second yellow card suspends a player from the next cup match. If a player receives a direct red card, they will be suspended a minimum of one match, but the German Football Association reserves the right to increase the suspension.^[4]

Champion qualification

The winner of the DFB-Pokal earns automatic qualification for the group stage of next year's edition of the UEFA Europa League. If they have already qualified for the UEFA Champions League through position in the Bundesliga, then the spot will go to the team in sixth, and the league's second qualifying round spot will go to the team in seventh. The winner also will host the DFL-Supercup at the start of the next season, and will face the champion of the previous year's Bundesliga, unless the same team wins the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal, completing a double. In that case, the runner up of the Bundesliga will take the spot and host instead.

Schedule

All draws will generally be held at the German Football Museum in Dortmund, on a Sunday evening at 18:00 after each round. The draws will be televised on ARD's Sportschau, broadcast on Das Erste. From the quarter-finals onwards, the draw for the DFB-Pokal der Frauen will also take place at the same time.^[7]

The rounds of the 2017–18 competition are scheduled as follows:^[8]

Matches

A total of sixty-three matches will take place, starting with the first round on 11 August 2017 and culminating with the final on 19 May 2018 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.

Times up to 28 October 2017 and from 25 March 2018 are CEST (UTC+2). Times from 29 October 2017 to 24 March 2018 are CET (UTC+1).

First round

The draw for the first round was held on 11 June 2017 at 18:00, with Sebastian Kehl drawing the matches.^[7] The thirty-two matches took place from 11 to 14 August 2017.^[9]

• Božić {{goal|6}}
• Popovits {{goal|80}}

• Berko {{goal|11}}
• Heise {{goal|49}}
• Aosman {{goal|84}}

• Hofmann {{goal|79}}
• Raffael {{goal|82}}

• Kohr {{goal|93}}
• Pohjanpalo {{goal|99}}
• Bailey {{goal|105}}

• Drexler {{goal|71|pen.}}
• Ducksch {{goal|77}}

• Petersen {{goal|34}}
• Lachheb {{goal|42|o.g.}}

• Lewandowski {{goal|20||60}}
• Coman {{goal|51}}
• Ribéry {{goal|79}}
• Hummels {{goal|89}}

• Mutō {{goal|13||60}}
• Brosinski {{goal|45|pen.}}

• Bittencourt {{goal|28}}
• Sørensen {{goal|34}}
• Córdoba {{goal|50|pen.}}
• Zoller {{goal|69}}
• Guirassy {{goal|74}}

• Beermann {{goal|44||74}}
• Glatzel {{goal|80}}
• Pusch {{goal|86}}

• Chandler {{goal|35}}
• Gaćinović {{goal|72}}
• Haller {{goal|76}}

• Bartra {{goal|12}}
• Aubameyang {{goal|41|pen.|55||80}}

• Osawe {{goal|17||69}}
• Atik {{goal|40}}
• Moritz {{goal|85}}

• Lais {{goal|45+2|pen.}}
• Nietfeld {{goal|86}}
• Grüttner {{goal|90+4}}

• Hennings {{goal|68||96}}
• Fink {{goal|120+1}}

• Veljković {{goal|50}}
• Kruse {{goal|74}}
• M. Eggestein {{goal|77}}

• Lezcano {{goal|20}}
• Kutschke {{goal|83|pen.}}

• Savran {{goal|39}}
• Heider {{goal|61}}
• Arslan {{goal|71}}

• Lokotsch {{goal|20}}
• Perrey {{goal|83}}

• Füllkrug {{goal|34||74}}
• Harnik {{goal|60||90+3}}
• Karaman {{goal|90}}
• Maier {{goal|90+1}}

• Sabitzer {{goal|4||47}}
• Werner {{goal|56}}
• Poulsen {{goal|59|pen.}}
• Keïta {{goal|65}}

• Willsch {{goal|53}}
• Krautschneider {{goal|62}}

• Hofmann {{goal|16||18}}
• Raum {{goal|58}}
• Dursun {{goal|85}}
• Ernst {{goal|86}}

• Schönheim {{goal|23}}
• Hedlund {{goal|101}}

• Brenner {{goal|51|pen.}}
• Bilger {{goal|85}}

• Sağlam {{goal|1}}
• Hinterseer {{goal|3||65||74}}
• Bandowski {{goal|87}}

• Beck {{goal|87}}
• Schwede {{goal|90+1}}

• Viteritti {{goal|5}}
• Zimmer {{goal|28}}

• Brekalo {{goal|49}}
• Matuwila {{goal|77|o.g.}}

• Viteritti {{pengoal}}
• Stein {{pengoal}}
• Schlüter {{pengoal}}
• Ziegenbein {{penmiss}}
• Förster {{penmiss}}

• {{pengoal}} Terodde
• {{pengoal}} Ginczek
• {{pengoal}} Pavard
• {{pengoal}} Brekalo
• {{penmiss}} Özcan

• Blacha {{goal|4}}
• Andrist {{goal|7}}

• Behrens {{goal|21}}
• Margreitter {{goal|41}}

• Wassey {{goal|41}}
• Antwi-Adjei {{goal|79}}

• Weiser {{goal|86}}
• Ibišević {{goal|90+2}}

Second round

The draw for the second round was held on 20 August 2017 at 18:00, with Carolin Kebekus drawing the matches.^[11] The sixteen matches took place from 24 to 25 October 2017.^[12]

• Michel {{goal|7}}
• Wassey {{goal|85}}

• Di Santo {{goal|26}}
• Burgstaller {{goal|30}}
• Mintzel {{goal|53|o.g.}}

• Brandt {{goal|36}}
• Alario {{goal|58}}
• Wendell {{goal|89|pen.}}
• Aránguiz {{goal|90+2}}

• Haller {{goal|14||58}}
• Wolf {{goal|63}}
• Blum {{goal|85}}

• Castro {{goal|42}}
• Isak {{goal|47}}
• Yarmolenko {{goal|73|pen.}}
• Bartra {{goal|79}}
• Kagawa {{goal|90}}

• Fischer {{goal|22||67}}
• Brosinski {{goal|101}}

• Schindler {{goal|54|pen.}}
• Drexler {{goal|75|pen.}}

• Cohen {{goal|48|pen.}}
• Lex {{goal|83}}
• Morales {{goal|87}}

• Álvarez {{goal|4|pen.}}
• Groß {{goal|63}}

• Ishak {{goal|38}}
• Leibold {{goal|50}}
• Valentini {{goal|72}}

• Zoller {{goal|35}}
• Maroh {{goal|43}}
• Clemens {{goal|64}}

• Ginczek {{goal|21|pen.}}
• Akolo {{goal|66}}
• Terodde {{goal|71}}

• Nietfeld {{goal|45+1}}
• Grüttner {{goal|54}}

• Thiel {{goal|30||50}}
• Glatzel {{goal|32||82}}
• Pusch {{goal|55}}

• Petersen {{goal|50}}
• Schuster {{goal|61}}
• Haberer {{goal|81}}

• Bernardo {{pengoal}}
• Kampl {{pengoal}}
• Halstenberg {{pengoal}}
• Orban {{pengoal}}
• Werner {{penmiss}}

• {{pengoal}} Lewandowski
• {{pengoal}} Alaba
• {{pengoal}} Hummels
• {{pengoal}} Rudy
• {{pengoal}} Robben

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 29 October 2017 at 18:00, with Stefan Effenberg drawing the matches.^[13] The eight matches took place from 19 to 20 December 2017.^[14]

• Berggreen {{goal|62}}
• Diallo {{goal|71}}
• Serdar {{goal|90+3}}

• Uduokhai {{goal|96}}
• Didavi {{goal|118}}

• Belfodil {{goal|3}}
• Kainz {{goal|20}}
• Bargfrede {{goal|69}}

• Petersen {{goal|28|pen.}}
• Ravet {{goal|86}}

• Boateng {{goal|12}}
• Müller {{goal|40}}

• Gaćinović {{goal|95}}
• Haller {{goal|109}}

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 7 January 2018 at 18:00, with Oliver Roggisch drawing the matches.^[15] The four matches took place from 6 to 7 February 2018.^[16]

• Coman {{goal|19}}
• Lewandowski {{goal|25}}
• Kimmich {{goal|42}}
• Tolisso {{goal|55}}
• Robben {{goal|86||88}}

• Brandt {{goal|31||55}}
• Bellarabi {{goal|111}}
• Havertz {{goal|118}}

• Kruse {{goal|4|pen.}}
• Jóhannsson {{goal|7}}

• Rebić {{goal|17}}
• Hack {{goal|53|o.g.}}
• Mascarell {{goal|62}}

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 11 February 2018 at 18:00, with Andreas Köpke drawing the matches.^[17] The two matches took place from 17 to 18 April 2018.^[18]

• L. Bender {{goal|16}}
• Bailey {{goal|72}}

• Lewandowski {{goal|3||9}}
• Müller {{goal|52||64||78}}
• Thiago {{goal|60}}

Final

The final took place on 19 May 2018 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.^[8]

Bracket

The following is the bracket which the DFB-Pokal resembled. Numbers in parentheses next to the match score represent the results of a penalty shoot-out.

Top goalscorers

The following are the top scorers of the DFB-Pokal, sorted first by number of goals, and then alphabetically if necessary.^[19] Goals scored in penalty shoot-outs are not included.

Notes

References

External links

• {{Official website|https://www.dfb.de/dfb-pokal/start/}} {{de icon}}
• DFB-Pokal on kicker.de {{de icon}}

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