DFB Cup 1971/72

DFB Cup winner in 1972 was the FC Schalke 04 . The games for the DFB Cup 1972 were played for the first time in home and returnmatches. Defending champion FC Bayern Munich was eliminated in the quarter-finals against 1. FC Köln , opponents in the final of the previous year, although they suffered their highest defeat in the cup at 5-1 in the second leg.

In the European Cup Winners' Cup , Schalke was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Sparta Prague .

1st main round

The overall results are from the point of view of the home team of the first leg.
First legs on December 4, 1971, second legs on December 15, 1971 (M'gladbach - Leverkusen and Oberhausen - St. Pauli on December 14, 1971)

	total		First leg	Return leg
FC St. Pauli	2: 3	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	1: 1	1: 2
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	2: 7	Borussia Monchengladbach	0: 3	2: 4
SV Alsenborn	0: 3	Fortuna Dusseldorf	0-0	0: 3
SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin	2: 4	VfL Bochum	2: 2	0: 2
VfR Heilbronn	1: 5	VfB Stuttgart	1: 1	0: 4
Kickers Offenbach	4: 1	Borussia Dortmund	1: 1	3-0
FC Schalke 04	5: 1	Hertha BSC	3: 1	[1] 0: 3
Freiburg FC	3: 4	Hamburger SV	1: 2	2: 2
Essen FV 1912	1:14	1. FC Cologne	1: 9	0: 5
Wuppertal SV	4: 4 (3: 5 in good condition)	1. FC Kaiserslautern	2: 1	2: 3 a.d.
SC Fortuna Cologne	2: 7	FC Bayern Munich	2: 1	0: 6
Arminia Bielefeld	2: 4	MSV Duisburg	1: 1	1: 3
SpVgg Bad Pyrmont	1:10	Werder Bremen	1: 4	0: 6
Borussia Neunkirchen	2: 4	Eintracht Braunschweig	2: 4	0-0
1. FC Schweinfurt 05	2: 6	Eintracht Frankfurt	1-0	1: 6
Holstein Kiel	6:11	Hannover 96	5: 4	1: 7

Round of 16

First leg on February 12, 1972, second leg on February 23, 1972 (Eintracht Frankfurt - Bor.M'gladbach on February 22, 1972)

	total		First leg	Return leg
Borussia Monchengladbach	6: 5	Eintracht Frankfurt	4: 2	2: 3
Hannover 96	4: 2	VfL Bochum	0-0	4: 2
Werder Bremen	4: 3	Hamburger SV	4: 2	0: 1
Fortuna Dusseldorf	2: 3	FC Schalke 04	1: 1	1: 2
VfB Stuttgart	5: 6	1. FC Kaiserslautern	4: 3	1: 3
MSV Duisburg	2: 3	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	2: 2	0: 1
Kickers Offenbach	3: 5	1. FC Cologne	3: 1	0: 4
Eintracht Braunschweig	1: 3	FC Bayern Munich	0-0	1: 3 a.d.

Quarter finals

First legs on April 1, 1972, second legs on April 5, 1972 (1. FC Cologne - Bayern Munich on April 12, 1972)

	total		First leg	Return leg
Borussia Monchengladbach	2: 3	FC Schalke 04	2: 2	0: 1
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	3: 6	1. FC K'lautern	3: 1	0: 5 a.d.
Hannover 96	1: 4	Werder Bremen	0: 2	1: 2
FC Bayern Munich	4: 5	1. FC Cologne	3-0	1: 5

Semifinals

First legs on May 30, 1972, second legs on June 10, 1972.

	total		First leg	Return leg
1. FC Kaiserslautern	4: 2	Werder Bremen	2: 1	2: 1
1. FC Cologne	6: 6 (5: 6 i.E.)	FC Schalke 04	4: 1	2: 5 a.d.

final

pairing	FC Schalke 04 - 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Result	5: 0 (2: 0)
date	July 1, 1972
Stadion	Lower Saxony Stadium , Hanover
spectator	61,000
referee	Heinz Aldinger ( Waiblingen )
Gates	1: 0 Helmut Kremers (13th) 2: 0 Scheer (32nd) 3: 0 Lütkebohmert (57th) 4: 0 Fischer (66th) 5: 0 Helmut Kremers (82nd)
FC Schalke 04	Norbert Nigbur - Klaus Fichtel - Hartmut Huhse , Rolf Rüssmann , Helmut Kremers - Herbert Lütkebohmert , Heinz van Haaren , Klaus Scheer - Reinhard Libuda , Klaus Fischer , Erwin Kremers Trainer: Ivica Horvat ( Yugoslavia )
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Josef Elting - Dietmar Schwager - Günther Reinders , Ernst Diehl , Fritz Fuchs - Josef Pirrung , Jürgen Friedrich , Hermann Bitz , Idriz Hošić (55th Karl-Heinz Vogt ) - Wolfgang Seel , Klaus Ackermann Trainer: Dietrich Weise

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The game was rated 2-0 for Schalke because Hertha used a suspended player
2. ↑ DFB-Pokal 1971/1972 - quarter-finals - Wed., April 12th, 1972 . fussballdaten.de. Retrieved May 6, 2019.