DFB Junior Club Cup

The DFB-Junioren-Vereinspokal is a soccer competition for male A-youth soccer teams. Participants are the winners of the A youth association cups. The competition was first played in 1987 and was called the DFB-Jugend-Kicker-Pokal until 2002. Originally, the cup was played at the end of the season, since 2002 during the season. From 2010 to 2018 the final took place in the Olympiapark amateur stadium and, since 2012, on the same day as the men's DFB Cup final, which was held in the neighboring Olympiastadion Berlin in the evening . In 2019, the final took place on the evening before the men's final in the Karl Liebknecht Stadium in Potsdam . As before, the award ceremony will be held one day later in the run-up to the kick-off for the men's final.

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Up to and including the 2016/17 season, only the 21 winners of the A youth association cups qualified. From the 2017/18 season onwards , 11 teams from the A-Juniors Bundesliga will be added. The rounds are drawn and played in the knockout system with one game in each round. The offspring of amateur teams generally have home rights against the juniors of license clubs. If there is a tie after 90 minutes, the game is extended. If it is still a draw there will be a penalty shoot-out.

The previous finals

season	winner	finalist	Result	Venue	Stadion
1987	1. FC Nuremberg	Borussia Monchengladbach	2: 1	Rheydt	Grenzlandstadion
1988	1. FC Nuremberg	Borussia Monchengladbach	1-0	Fuerth	Ronhof
1989	VfL Bochum	Karlsruher SC	4: 1	Bochum	Ruhrstadion
1990	Stuttgart Kickers	Lueneburg SK	3-0	Stuttgart	Waldau Stadium
1991	FC Augsburg	1. FC Cologne	3: 2	Cologne	Franz Kremer Stadium
1992	FC Augsburg	Eintracht Braunschweig	1: 1 n.V., 6: 5 i. E.	augsburg	Rose Stadium
1993	1. FC Nuremberg	FC Schalke 04	2: 1	Gelsenkirchen	Glückauf-Kampfbahn
1994	FC Augsburg	1. FC Cologne	2: 1	augsburg	Rose Stadium
1995	FC Augsburg	FC Berlin	4: 2	Berlin	Britz-Süd stadium
1996	VfR Heilbronn	Energy Cottbus	6: 1	Heilbronn	Frankenstadion
1997	VfB Stuttgart II	FC Schalke 04	3: 1	Menden (Sauerland)	Huckenohl Stadium
1998	KFC Uerdingen 05	Eintracht Frankfurt	1: 1 n.V., 4: 3 i. E.	Ruesselsheim	Stadium on the summer dam
1999	1. FC Magdeburg	1. FC Saarbrücken	6: 1	Magdeburg	Ernst Grube Stadium
2000	TSV 1860 Munich	Hamburger SV	2: 1	Vaterstetten	Vaterstetten sports center
2001	VfB Stuttgart	FK Pirmasens	5: 1	Rottenburg am Neckar	Hohenberg Stadium
2002	FC Schalke 04	VfB Stuttgart	1: 1 n.V., 4: 3 i. E.	Berlin	Stadium An der Alten Försterei
2003	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	4: 1 a.d.	Berlin	Stadium An der Alten Försterei
2004	Hertha BSC	SGV Freiberg	5-0	Berlin	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sports Park
2005	FC Schalke 04	Tennis Borussia Berlin	3: 1	Berlin	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sports Park
2006	Sc freiburg	Karlsruher SC	4: 1	Berlin	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sports Park
2007	TSV 1860 Munich	VfL Wolfsburg	2: 1	Berlin	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sports Park
2008	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Borussia Monchengladbach	3-0	Potsdam	Karl Liebknecht Stadium
2009	Sc freiburg	Borussia Dortmund	2: 2 n.V., 6: 5 i. E.	Potsdam	Karl Liebknecht Stadium
2010	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Hertha BSC	2: 1	Berlin	Olympic Park amateur stadium
2011	Sc freiburg	Hansa Rostock	2: 2, 5: 3 i. E.	Berlin	Olympic Park amateur stadium
2012	Sc freiburg	Hertha BSC	2: 1	Berlin	Olympic Park amateur stadium
2013	1. FC Cologne	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1-0	Berlin	Olympic Park amateur stadium
2014	Sc freiburg	FC Schalke 04	1: 1 n.V., 7: 6 i. E.	Berlin	Olympic Park amateur stadium
2015	Hertha BSC	Energy Cottbus	1-0	Berlin	Olympic Park amateur stadium
2016	Hannover 96	Hertha BSC	4: 2	Berlin	Olympic Park amateur stadium
2017	Eintracht Braunschweig	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	3-0	Berlin	Olympic Park amateur stadium
2018	Sc freiburg	1. FC Kaiserslautern	2: 1	Berlin	Olympic Park amateur stadium
2019	VfB Stuttgart	RB Leipzig	2: 1	Potsdam	Karl Liebknecht Stadium
2020	not carried out 1

¹Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the competition was suspended before the semi-finals were held until further notice. After a decision by the DFB on May 25, 2020, the club cup was finally declared over without further game activities and accordingly no cup winners were chosen.

Record winner

• 6 wins: SC Freiburg
• 4 wins: FC Augsburg
• 3 wins: 1. FC Nürnberg, VfB Stuttgart
• 2 wins: FC Schalke 04, TSV 1860 Munich, Hertha BSC

Oddities

In 1997 the second A-youth team of VfB Stuttgart won the title and prevailed in the competition against teams whose players were on average a year older. To get that far, the team first had to win the district cup. Then you won the Württemberg Cup against your own first A youth team.

Web links

• DFB Junior Club Cup

Remarks

1. ↑ DFB Cup final for juniors takes place in Potsdam. In: dfb.de. German Football Association , December 7, 2018, accessed on February 19, 2019 . 
2. ↑ First cup round: Draw with Gnabry and Kuntz on Facebook . In: DFB - Deutscher Fußball-Bund eV ( dfb.de [accessed on June 13, 2017]).
3. ↑ no extension
4. ↑ Bundestag decides to end the season of junior competitions , dfb.de, accessed on May 25, 2020