DFB Cup 2019/20

This article is about men's competition. For the women's competition, see DFB-Pokal 2019/20 (women) .

DFB Cup 2019/20
Cup winners	FC Bayern Munich (20th title)
Beginning	August 9, 2019
final	4th July 2020
Final stadium	Olympic Stadium , Berlin
Teams	64
Games	63
Gates	245  (ø 3.89 per game)
spectator	1,314,015  (ø 20,857 per game)
Top scorer	Robert Lewandowski (6)
yellow cards	259  (ø 4.11 per game)
Yellow and red cards	6  (ø 0.1 per game)
Red cards	6  (ø 0.1 per game)
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The DFB-Pokal 2019/20 was the 77th edition of the men's soccer cup competition. The final should take place on May 23, 2020 and, as has been customary since 1985, be held in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. On April 24th, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was postponed and instead took place on July 4th. FC Bayern Munich defeated Bayer Leverkusen 4-2 and won their 20th DFB Cup title.

Because Bayern Munich had already qualified for the UEFA Champions League via the Bundesliga , the sixth in the Bundesliga final table , TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, moved from the Europa League qualifying place to the group stage, and the seventh, VfL Wolfsburg, received an additional participant the free place in the qualification.

Furthermore, during the competition, no two teams from a club or a corporation were allowed to participate in the games for the DFB club cup.

Participating teams

Aachen Aue augsburg Baunatal Berlin 7  (3 clubs) Bielefeld Bochum Bremen 4  (2 clubs) Chemnitz cottbus Darmstadt Dassendorf Delmenhorst Dortmund Dresden Drochtersen Dusseldorf Duisburg Eichstatt Frankfurt Freiburg Fuerth Gelsen- churches 1 Halberstadt Hall Hamburg 3  (2 clubs) Hanover Heidenheim Ingolstadt Kaisers- lautern Karlsruhe Kiel Cologne Krefeld 6 Leipzig Leverkusen Lübeck Magdeburg Mainz Mannheim Mönchen- gladbach Munich Nordhausen Nuremberg Osnabrück Paderborn regensburg Rödinghausen Rostock Saarbrücken Salmtal 5 Sandhausen Sinsheim 2 Stuttgart Ulm Loss Villingen- Schwenningen Wiesbaden Wolfsburg Wurzburg

Places of origin of the DFB Cup participants 2019/20 1 Gelsenkirchen: FC Schalke 04 2 Sinsheim: TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 3 Hamburg: Hamburger SV and FC St. Pauli 4th Bremen: Werder Bremen and FC Oberneuland 5 Salmtal: FSV Salmrohr 6th Krefeld: KFC Uerdingen 05 7th Berlin: Hertha BSC, 1. FC Union Berlin and FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin

The following 64 teams were athletically qualified for the first round:

Bundesliga the 18 clubs of the 2018/19 season	2. Bundesliga the 18 clubs of the 2018/19 season	3rd league the 4 best placed of the 2018/19 season
FC Bayern Munich ( TV )   Borussia Dortmund   RB Leipzig   Bayer 04 Leverkusen   Borussia Monchengladbach   VfL Wolfsburg   Eintracht Frankfurt   Werder Bremen   TSG 1899 Hoffenheim   Fortuna Dusseldorf   Hertha BSC   1. FSV Mainz 05   Sc freiburg   FC Schalke 04   FC Augsburg   VfB Stuttgart (II)   Hanover 96 (II)   1. FC Nuremberg (II)	1. FC Cologne (I)   SC Paderborn 07 (I)   1. FC Union Berlin (I)   Hamburger SV   1. FC Heidenheim   Holstein Kiel   Arminia Bielefeld   SSV Jahn Regensburg   FC St. Pauli   SV Darmstadt 98   VfL Bochum   Dynamo Dresden   SpVgg Greuther Fürth   FC Erzgebirge Aue   SV Sandhausen   FC Ingolstadt 04 (III)   1. FC Magdeburg (III)   MSV Duisburg (III)	VfL Osnabrück (II)   Karlsruher SC (II)   SV Wehen Wiesbaden (II)   Hallescher FC
Representatives of the state associations 24 representatives of the 21 state associations of the DFB, usually the state cup winners of the 2018/19 season 1
Bathing 2   SV Waldhof Mannheim (III) Bavaria 1   Wurzburger Kickers (III)   VfB Eichstätt (IV) Berlin   FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin (IV) Brandenburg   Energy Cottbus (IV) Bremen   FC Oberneuland (V) Hamburg   TuS Dassendorf (V) Hesse 3   KSV Baunatal (V)	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania   Hansa Rostock (III) Middle Rhine   Alemannia Aachen (IV) Lower Rhine   KFC Uerdingen 05 (III) Lower Saxony 1   SV Drochtersen / Assel (IV)   SV Atlas Delmenhorst (V) Rhineland   FSV Salmrohr (VI) Saarland   1. FC Saarbrücken (IV) Saxony   Chemnitzer FC (III)	Saxony-Anhalt 4   VfB Germania Halberstadt (IV) Schleswig-Holstein   VfB Lübeck (IV) South Baden   FC 08 Villingen (V) southwest   1. FC Kaiserslautern (III) Thuringia   Wacker Nordhausen (IV) Westphalia 1   SV Rödinghausen (IV)   SC Verl (IV) Württemberg   SSV Ulm 1846 (IV)
League level in brackets: I = Bundesliga • II = 2. Bundesliga • III = 3. League • IV = Regional league • V = Oberliga • VI = Association league

¹The three state associations with the most men's teams in play (Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Westphalia) have two starting places. In addition to the cup winner, the winner of the second cup competition (Lower Saxony: 3rd league / regional league and amateurs), the best-placed Bavarian regional league team ( VfB Eichstätt ) and the winner of the qualifying game between the top-placed, eligible team of the Oberliga Westfalen and the best-placed team, do not already take part Qualified, eligible Westphalian team of the Regionalliga West ( TuS Haltern - SC Verl , 1: 3) participated via the Westfalenpokal .

²The Karlsruher SC has already qualified on the third league for the DFB Cup, so the defeated National Cup finalists could SV Waldhof Mannheim at the German Cup to participate.

³The SV Wehen Wiesbaden has already qualified on the third league for the DFB Cup, so the defeated National Cup finalists could KSV Baunatal on DFB Cup attend.

^4thThe Halle FC has already qualified on the third league for the DFB Cup, so the losing country Cup finalist was allowed VfB Germania Halberstadt at the German Cup to participate.

Events

The game rounds should originally be played on the following dates:

• 1st main round: August 9 to 12, 2019 (draw on June 15, 2019)
• 2nd main round: 29./30. October 2019 (draw on August 18, 2019)
• Round of 16: 4th / 5th February 2020 (draw on November 3, 2019)
• Quarter-finals: 3rd / 4th March 2020 (draw on February 9, 2020)
• Semi-finals: 21./22. April 2020 (draw on March 8, 2020)
• Final in Berlin: May 23, 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the semi-finals (without spectators) and the final had to be postponed. In the final, delegations from both finalists (125 spectators each) were allowed.

1st main round

The games of the first main round were drawn on June 15, 2019 in the German Football Museum. The ARD sports show broadcast the draw. The former German national soccer player Nia Künzer acted as ticket fairy ; DFB Vice President Peter Frymuth took over the role of the draw manager.

date		Result
08/09/2019, 8:45 p.m.	KFC Uerdingen 05 (III)	10: 2 (0: 0) 1	Borussia Dortmund (I)
08/09/2019, 8:45 p.m.	FC Ingolstadt 04 (III)	0: 1 (0: 0)	1. FC Nuremberg (II)
09.08.2019, 9:30 p.m. 2	SV Sandhausen (II)	0: 1 (0: 1)	Borussia Mönchengladbach (I)
08/10/2019, 3:30 p.m.	1. FC Kaiserslautern (III)	2: 0 (0: 0)	1. FSV Mainz 05 (I)
08/10/2019, 3:30 p.m.	Alemannia Aachen (IV)	1: 4 (0: 2)	Bayer 04 Leverkusen (I)
08/10/2019, 3:30 p.m.	TuS Dassendorf (V)	10: 3 (0: 1) 3	Dynamo Dresden (II)
08/10/2019, 3:30 p.m.	FC 08 Villingen (V)	1: 3 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0)	Fortuna Dusseldorf (I)
08/10/2019, 3:30 p.m.	SV Drochtersen / Assel (IV)	0: 5 (0: 1)	FC Schalke 04 (I)
08/10/2019, 3:30 p.m.	SC Verl (IV)	2: 1 (2: 0)	FC Augsburg (I)
08/10/2019, 3:30 p.m.	FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin (IV)	0: 1 (0: 1)	Arminia Bielefeld (II)
08/10/2019, 3:30 p.m.	Wacker Nordhausen (IV)	1: 4 (1: 1)	FC Erzgebirge Aue (II)
08/10/2019, 3:30 p.m.	1. FC Magdeburg (III)	0: 1 a.d.	SC Freiburg (I)
August 10, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	Wurzburger Kickers (III)	3: 3 n V. (2: 2 0: 1). (4: 5 i. E. )	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (I)
August 10, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	KSV Baunatal (V)	2: 3 (2: 1)	VfL Bochum (II)
August 10, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	SSV Ulm 1846 (IV)	0: 2 (0: 1)	1. FC Heidenheim (II)
08/10/2019, 8:45 p.m.	SV Atlas Delmenhorst (V)	21: 6 (1: 4) 4	Werder Bremen (I)
11.08.2019, 3:30 p.m.	FSV Salmrohr (VI)	0: 6 (0: 1)	Holstein Kiel (II)
11.08.2019, 3:30 p.m.	VfB Germania Halberstadt (IV)	0: 6 (0: 1)	1. FC Union Berlin (I)
11.08.2019, 3:30 p.m.	SV Rödinghausen (IV)	3: 3 n.V. (3: 3, 0: 2) (2: 4 on p.	SC Paderborn 07 (I)
11.08.2019, 3:30 p.m.	SV Waldhof Mannheim (III)	3: 5 (2: 2)	Eintracht Frankfurt (I)
11.08.2019, 3:30 p.m.	FC Oberneuland (V)	1: 6 (0: 3)	SV Darmstadt 98 (II)
11.08.2019, 3:30 p.m.	1. FC Saarbrücken (IV)	53: 2 (0: 0) 5	SSV Jahn Regensburg (II)
11.08.2019, 3:30 p.m.	VfB Lübeck (IV)	3: 3 n.V. (2: 2, 1: 0) (3: 4 p.e.)	FC St. Pauli (II)
11.08.2019, 3:30 p.m.	VfB Eichstätt (IV)	6th1: 5 (0: 3) 6	Hertha BSC (I)
11.08.2019, 3:30 p.m.	VfL Osnabrück (II)	2: 3 (1: 3)	RB Leipzig (I)
11.08.2019, 6:30 p.m.	Chemnitzer FC (III)	2: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 0: 0) (5: 6 p.e.)	Hamburger SV (II)
11.08.2019, 6:30 p.m.	MSV Duisburg (III)	2: 0 (2: 0)	SpVgg Greuther Fürth (II)
11.08.2019, 6:30 p.m.	SV Wehen Wiesbaden (II)	3: 3 n.V. (2: 2, 0: 2) (2: 3 in.E.)	1. FC Cologne (I)
August 12, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	Hallescher FC (III)	3: 5 a.d. (3: 3, 1: 1)	VfL Wolfsburg (I)
August 12, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	Karlsruher SC (II)	2: 0 (0: 0)	Hanover 96 (II)
August 12, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	Hansa Rostock (III)	0: 1 (0: 1)	VfB Stuttgart (II)
August 12, 2019, 8:45 p.m.	Energy Cottbus (IV)	1: 3 (0: 1)	FC Bayern Munich (I)

¹The game took place in the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf .

² Due to a storm, the game only kicked off around 9:30 p.m.

³The game took place in the Zwickau arena in Zwickau .

^4thThe game took place in the Weserstadion in Bremen as the closest suitable stadium. Since an exchange of home rights is excluded in the regulations, Delmenhorst rented the stadium from the operating company and Werder Bremen took on the role of visiting club in their own stadium.

⁵The game took place in the Hermann Neuberger Stadium in Völklingen .

^6thThe game took place in the Audi-Sportpark in Ingolstadt .

2nd main round

The draw for the games was broadcast on August 18, 2019 by the ARD sports show from the German Football Museum. “ Losfee ” was the former national player Christoph Metzelder ; U-21 national trainer Stefan Kuntz was the draw manager. The final dates were announced on August 23, 2019.

date		Result
October 29, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	Hamburger SV (II)	1: 2 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1)	VfB Stuttgart (II)
October 29, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	1. FC Saarbrücken (IV)	13: 2 (0: 0) 1	1. FC Cologne (I)
October 29, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	SC Freiburg (I)	1: 3 (1: 1)	1. FC Union Berlin (I)
October 29, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	MSV Duisburg (III)	0: 2 (0: 0)	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (I)
October 29, 2019, 8:00 p.m.	VfL Bochum (II)	1: 2 (1: 0)	FC Bayern Munich (I)
October 29, 2019, 8:45 pm	Arminia Bielefeld (II)	2: 3 (0: 3)	FC Schalke 04 (I)
October 29, 2019, 8:45 pm	SV Darmstadt 98 (II)	0: 1 (0: 0)	Karlsruher SC (II)
October 29, 2019, 8:45 pm	Bayer 04 Leverkusen (I)	1: 0 (1: 0)	SC Paderborn 07 (I)
October 30, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	VfL Wolfsburg (I)	1: 6 (0: 1)	RB Leipzig (I)
October 30, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	Werder Bremen (I)	4: 1 (4: 1)	1. FC Heidenheim (II)
October 30, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	SC Verl (IV)	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1) (8: 7 in.E.)	Holstein Kiel (II)
October 30, 2019, 6:30 p.m.	1. FC Kaiserslautern (III)	2: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 1: 1) (6: 5 in.E.)	1. FC Nuremberg (II)
October 30, 2019, 8:45 p.m.	FC St. Pauli (II)	1: 2 (1: 2)	Eintracht Frankfurt (I)
October 30, 2019, 8:45 p.m.	Hertha BSC (I)	3: 3 n.V. (2: 2, 0: 1) (5: 4 p.e.)	Dynamo Dresden (II)
October 30, 2019, 8:45 p.m.	Fortuna Dusseldorf (I)	2: 1 (1: 1)	FC Erzgebirge Aue (II)
October 30, 2019, 8:45 p.m.	Borussia Dortmund (I)	2: 1 (0: 0)	Borussia Mönchengladbach (I)

¹The game took place in the Hermann Neuberger Stadium in Völklingen .

Round of 16

On November 3, 2019, at 6 p.m., the draw for the round of 16 took place in the German Football Museum in Dortmund. The national soccer player Turid Knaak replaced the sick former ski racer Felix Neureuther as “Losfee”, and DFB goalkeeper coach Andreas Köpke was the draw manager. Unlike in the previous rounds, all tickets were drawn from the same pot.

Unlike in the past two seasons, when the video evidence in the DFB Cup was only used from the quarter-finals, it was now used in the second round.

date		Result
February 4th, 2020, 6:30 p.m.	1. FC Kaiserslautern (III)	2: 5 (2: 1)	Fortuna Dusseldorf (I)
February 4th, 2020, 6:30 p.m.	Eintracht Frankfurt (I)	3: 1 (1: 0)	RB Leipzig (I)
February 4th, 2020, 8:45 pm	FC Schalke 04 (I)	3: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 0: 2)	Hertha BSC (I)
February 4th, 2020, 8:45 pm	Werder Bremen (I)	3: 2 (2: 0)	Borussia Dortmund (I)
February 5th, 2020, 6:30 p.m.	Bayer 04 Leverkusen (I)	2: 1 (0: 0)	VfB Stuttgart (II)
February 5th, 2020, 6:30 p.m.	SC Verl (IV)	0: 1 (0: 0)	1. FC Union Berlin (I)
February 5th, 2020, 8:45 pm	1. FC Saarbrücken (IV)	10: 0 n.v. 1 (5: 3 in good condition)	Karlsruher SC (II)
February 5th, 2020, 8:45 pm	FC Bayern Munich (I)	4: 3 (3: 1)	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (I)

¹The game took place in the Hermann Neuberger Stadium in Völklingen .

Quarter finals

The draw for the quarter-finals took place on February 9, 2020 in the German Football Museum in Dortmund. The former national player Cacau acted as the “ticket fairy”, while the general secretary of the DFB, Friedrich Curtius , was the drawing director .

date		Result
03.03.2020, 6:30 p.m.	1. FC Saarbrücken (IV)	11: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0) 1 (7: 6 p.e.)	Fortuna Dusseldorf (I)
03.03.2020, 8:45 p.m.	FC Schalke 04 (I)	0: 1 (0: 1)	FC Bayern Munich (I)
March 4th, 2020, 6:30 p.m.	Bayer 04 Leverkusen (I)	3: 1 (0: 1)	1. FC Union Berlin (I)
March 4th, 2020, 8:45 p.m.	Eintracht Frankfurt (I)	2: 0 (1: 0)	Werder Bremen (I)

¹The game took place in the Hermann Neuberger Stadium in Völklingen .

Semifinals

For the first time in the history of the DFB Cup, a fourth division team made it into the semi-finals with 1. FC Saarbrücken.

The semi-finals were drawn on Sunday, March 8th, 2020. The balls were drawn by the national goalkeeper Almuth Schult . DFB Vice President Peter Frymuth acted as the drawing manager .

The games were scheduled to take place on April 21 and 22, 2020, but have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . According to a decision of the DFB on May 11, 2020, the matches were played without spectators on June 9 and 10.

date		Result
June 9th, 2020, 8:45 pm	1. FC Saarbrücken (IV)	10: 3 (0: 2) 1	Bayer 04 Leverkusen (I)
June 10th, 2020, 8:45 pm	FC Bayern Munich (I)	2: 1 (1: 0)	Eintracht Frankfurt (I)

¹The game took place in the Hermann Neuberger Stadium in Völklingen .

final

The final was planned for May 23, 2020 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium , but was postponed to July 4 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Spectators were not allowed, with the exception of delegations from both finalists (125 people each).

pairing	Bayer 04 Leverkusen - FC Bayern Munich
Result	2: 4 (0: 2)
date	4th July 2020 at 8:00 p.m.
Stadion	Olympic Stadium , Berlin
referee	Tobias Welz ( Wiesbaden )
Assistant referees	Rafael Foltyn , Martin Thomsen
Fourth official	Patrick Ittrich
Gates	0: 1 David Alaba (16th) 0: 2 Serge Gnabry (24th) 0: 3 Robert Lewandowski (59th) 1: 3 Sven Bender (64th) 1: 4 Robert Lewandowski (89th) 2: 4 Kai Havertz (90. + 5 ', hand penalty)
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Lukáš Hrádecký - Lars Bender (82nd Mitchell Weiser ), Edmond Tapsoba , Sven Bender , Wendell - Charles Aránguiz , Julian Baumgartlinger (46th Kerem Demirbay ), Moussa Diaby , Nadiem Amiri (46th Kevin Volland ), Leon Bailey (76th Karim Bellarabi ) - Kai Havertz Coach: Peter Bosz ( Netherlands )
FC Bayern Munich	Manuel Neuer - Benjamin Pavard , Jérôme Boateng (69th Lucas Hernández ), David Alaba , Alphonso Davies - Joshua Kimmich , Leon Goretzka , Serge Gnabry (87th Philippe Coutinho ), Thomas Müller (87th Thiago ), Kingsley Coman (65th Ivan Perišić ) - Robert Lewandowski Coach: Hansi Flick
yellow cards	Wendell (28th) - Lewandowski (67th)

Television broadcasts

In the 2019/20 season, all DFB Cup matches were also broadcast live on the pay-TV channel Sky Deutschland . Free to Air nine games of competition in were also the first program of the ARD (first and second round of a game, second round to the semi-final two games and the finals each) and four games on Sport1 (each a game of the first round to the quarter-finals) to see.

The draws were generally held in front of an audience on the Sunday after the respective cup round from 6 p.m. in the German Football Museum and broadcast live on the ARD Sportschau . In contrast to this, the first round was drawn on June 15, 2019.

Bonuses from television and marketing revenues

The share of the marketing revenue per participant is 175,500 euros for the first round. Clubs that move into the second round can plan with revenue of 351,000 euros. For reaching the round of 16, 702,000 euros will be paid out. The quarter-finalists receive 1,404,000 euros, the semi-finalists 2,808,000 euros. The final will be billed separately.

The state associations had the opportunity to conclude an additional agreement with all participants in the state cup competitions 2018/2019. This agreement stipulates that a reasonable proportion of the fees due to the representatives of the regional association for participation in the first round of the DFB Cup is to be provided for the participants in the respective regional cup competitions. The actual distribution is a matter for the regional associations. While Hallesche FC , which made it through the league, and the relegated second division 1. FC Magdeburg , MSV Duisburg and FC Ingolstadt 04 received exactly 175,500 euros, KFC Uerdingen 05 , 1. FC Kaiserslautern , Würzburger Kickers , SV Waldhof Mannheim , Chemnitzer FC and Hansa Rostock as the regional cup winners initially satisfied with 130,500 euros. The remaining 45,000 euros will be shared among all participating teams in the national cup. From the second round, all clubs receive the same awards.

Round reached	Bonus per team		Total distributed
	round	summed up	round	summed up
1st main round (64 teams)	175,500 € (amateurs: 130,500 €)		€ 11,232,000
2nd main round (32 teams)	€ 351,000	€ 526,500 (amateurs: € 481,500)	€ 11,232,000	€ 22,464,000
Round of 16 (16 teams)	€ 702,000	€ 1,228,500 (amateurs: € 1,183,000)	€ 11,232,000	€ 33,696,000
Quarterfinals (8 teams)	€ 1,404,000	€ 2,632,500 (amateurs: € 2,587,500)	€ 11,232,000	€ 44,928,000
Semi-finals (4 teams)	€ 2,808,000	€ 5,440,500 (amateurs: € 5,395,500)	€ 11,232,000	€ 56,160,000

Best goal scorers

Listed below are the top goal scorers of the 2019/20 DFB Cup season. Sorting is based on the number of hits, alphabetically if the number of hits is the same.

rank	player	society	Gates
1	Robert Lewandowski	FC Bayern Munich	6th
2	Rouwen Hennings	Fortuna Dusseldorf	4th
3	Lucas Alario	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	3
	Robert Andrich	1. FC Union Berlin	3
	Makana Baku	Holstein Kiel	3
	Serdar Dursun	SV Darmstadt 98	3
	Silvère Ganvoula	VfL Bochum	3
	Gillian Jurcher	1. FC Saarbrücken	3
	Filip Kostic	Eintracht Frankfurt	3
	Benito Raman	FC Schalke 04	3
	Milot Rashica	Werder Bremen	3
	Ante Rebić	Eintracht Frankfurt	3
	Marcel Sabitzer	RB Leipzig	3

See also : List of the top scorer of the DFB Cup

Individual evidence

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