DFB Cup final 2017

The final of the 2016/17 season in the DFB Cup took place on Saturday, May 27, 2017 in the Olympiastadion Berlin . The two Bundesliga clubs Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Dortmund faced each other. Borussia Dortmund won the DFB Cup for the first time since 2012 and for the fourth time.

The way to the final

Note: The results are given from the perspective of the finalists.

Eintracht Frankfurt			Borussia Dortmund
opponent	Result	round	opponent	Result
1. FC Magdeburg	5: 4 n.e. ( A )	1 round	Eintracht Trier	3: 0 ( A )
FC Ingolstadt 04	4: 1 n.e. ( H )	2nd round	1. FC Union Berlin	4: 1 n.e. ( H )
Hannover 96	2: 1 ( A )	Round of 16	Hertha BSC	4: 3 n.e. ( H )
Arminia Bielefeld	1: 0 ( H )	Quarter finals	Sports fanatic Lotte	3: 0 ( A )
Borussia Monchengladbach	8: 7 n.e. ( A )	Semifinals	FC Bayern Munich	3: 2 ( A )

backgrounds

referee

At the end of April, the DFB selected Deniz Aytekin from Altenberg as referee for the cup final . The reason given by Lutz Michael Fröhlich , head of the DFB referee commission, was the Bundesliga season in which Aytekin had whistled consistently well. Aytekin whistled in the 2016/17 cup season before the final of both clubs' games. He himself described his schedule for the final in advance as the high point of his career.

Christian Dietz and Eduard Beitinger acted as assistants at Aytekin's side. The fourth official was Benjamin Brand .

Halftime show

On May 22, 2017 it was announced that the German pop singer Helene Fischer would appear in the stadium during the half-time break of the game in front of the main stand with a medley specially created for the occasion from Breathless Through the Night and Heartbeat . She sang on two of her concert tours in the Olympic Stadium. In 2014 football fans could already see them at the Brandenburg Gate at the arrival party of the German national team after they had won the World Cup . Nevertheless, their appearance in the half-time break was criticized, similar to the US Super Bowl , the show around the sport was increasingly brought to the fore. In addition, reference was made to the appearance of the singer Anastacia in the half-time of the 34th matchday of the Bundesliga a week before the cup final on the lawn of the Munich Allianz Arena , which was not well received and organizationally failed. During her performance, Fischer was whistled by the audience at an unusually high volume and throughout the entire period of her performance. ARD almost completely shut down the whistle concert a few seconds after it began and only broadcast the musicians' sound, Sky faded out of the performance in the middle of the broadcast and broadcast advertising.

Attendees

Borussia Dortmund was in the final for the fourth time in a row after 2014, 2015 and 2016. In the previous three years Dortmund lost to Bayern Munich, VfL Wolfsburg and again Bayern Munich. The competition was last won in 2012. Eintracht Frankfurt was back in the final for the first time since 2006 , when it lost to Bayern Munich; the last victory in the Frankfurt Cup came in 1988, 29 years ago.

Others

The 74th final took place for the 33rd time in a row in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. The kick-off was at 8:00 p.m. When this time was introduced as kick-off time in 2006, Frankfurt was also in the cup final. The game was broadcast live in Germany on Erste on free TV and on Sky Sport on pay TV . Both also broadcast it live .

On the day of the final, the women's DFB Cup final took place a few hours earlier in the Rheinenergiestadion in Cologne , as usual . The VfL Wolfsburg won with 2: 1 against the SC Sand .

Game dates

pairing	Eintracht Frankfurt - Borussia Dortmund
Result	1: 2 (1: 1)
date	May 27, 2017 at 8:00 p.m.
Stadion	Olympic Stadium , Berlin
spectator	74,322 (out of stock)
referee	Deniz Aytekin ( Altenberg )
Gates	0: 1 Ousmane Dembélé (8th) 1: 1 Ante Rebić (29th) 1: 2 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (67th, penalty kick)
Eintracht Frankfurt	Lukáš Hrádecký - Michael Hector , David Abraham , Jesús Vallejo - Timothy Chandler (72nd Alex Meier ), Slobodan Medojević (56th Taleb Tawatha ), Mijat Gaćinović , Bastian Oczipka - Marco Fabián (79th Danny Blum ), Ante Rebić - Haris Seferović Coach: Niko Kovač ( Croatia ) (C) Croatia
Borussia Dortmund	Roman Bürki - Marc Bartra (76th Erik Durm ), Sokratis , Marcel Schmelzer (46th Gonzalo Castro ) - Łukasz Piszczek , Matthias Ginter , Raphaël Guerreiro - Ousmane Dembélé , Shinji Kagawa - Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang , Marco Reus (46th Christian Pulisic ) Trainer: Thomas Tuchel(C)
yellow cards	Mijat Gaćinović (38th), Lukáš Hrádecký (66th), David Abraham (70th), Ante Rebić (87th) - Ousmane Dembélé (90th + 4 ')