DFB Cup 2020/21

This article is about men's competition. For the women's competition, see DFB-Pokal 2020/21 (women) .

DFB Cup 2020/21
Cup winners	Borussia Dortmund (5th title)
Beginning	September 11, 2020
final	May 13, 2021
Final stadium	Olympic Stadium Berlin
Teams	64
Games	63
Gates	230  (ø 3.65 per game)
spectator	34,132  (ø 542 per game)
Top scorer	Jadon Sancho (6)
yellow cards	242  (ø 3.84 per game)
Yellow and red cards	3  (ø 0.05 per game)
Red cards	3  (ø 0.05 per game)
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The 2020/21 DFB-Pokal was the 78th edition of the men's soccer cup competition. The final took place on May 13, 2021, unchanged since 1985, in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. Borussia Dortmund won the final 4-1 against RB Leipzig and won the trophy for the fifth time. Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, the final took place without spectators.

The cup winner Borussia Dortmund would have received a direct starting place in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League 2021/22 . Since Dortmund has also qualified for an international starting place via the league, the sixth-placed Bundesliga 2020/21 will move up from the playoffs of the UEFA Europa Conference League 2021/22 into the group stage of the Europa League, instead the seventh will receive the vacated starting place.

In contrast to previous years, the semi-finals kicked off on the first weekend in May and not during the week. In addition, the final did not take place on a Saturday, but on a Thursday (Ascension Day). Furthermore, no two teams from a club or a corporation were allowed to take part in the games for the DFB Cup.

Defending champion FC Bayern Munich was eliminated in the second main round against second division Holstein Kiel , last year's finalist Bayer 04 Leverkusen failed in the round of 16 against regional division Rot-Weiss Essen .

Participating teams

Hamburg 3 (2 clubs) Munich (2 clubs) Wolfsburg Mönchen- gladbach Cologne Leverkusen Gelsen- churches 1 augsburg Sinsheim 2 Bremen 7 (2 clubs) Dortmund Frankfurt Mainz Stuttgart Hanover Berlin 6  (3 clubs) Darmstadt regensburg Dusseldorf Leipzig Chemnitz Heidenheim Nuremberg Bochum Bielefeld Freiburg Fuerth Sandhausen Dresden Aue Kiel Paderborn Osnabrück Karlsruhe Wiesbaden Wurzburg Braunschweig Ingolstadt Duisburg Magdeburg Jena Ulm Rielasingen-Worblingen 4 Neuwied 5 eat Norderstedt Fürstenwalde Mannheim Haiger Rostock Düren Celle Elversberg Fields of death Kaiserslautern Meinerzhagen Garbsen 8 Rheda-Wiedenbrück Schweinfurt

Places of origin of the DFB Cup participants 2020/21 1 Gelsenkirchen: FC Schalke 04 2 Sinsheim: TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 3 Hamburg: FC St. Pauli 4th Rielasingen-Worblingen: 1. FC Rielasingen-Arlen 5 Neuwied: FV Engers 07 6th Berlin: VSG Altglienicke 7th Bremen: FC Oberneuland 8th Garbsen: TSV Havelse

64 teams were athletically qualified for the first round, made up as follows:

Bundesliga the 18 clubs of the 2019/20 season	2. Bundesliga the 18 clubs of the 2019/20 season	3rd league the 4 best eligible teams of the 2019/20 season
FC Bayern Munich ( TV )   Borussia Dortmund   RB Leipzig   Borussia Monchengladbach   Bayer 04 Leverkusen   TSG 1899 Hoffenheim   VfL Wolfsburg   Sc freiburg   Eintracht Frankfurt   Hertha BSC   1. FC Union Berlin   FC Schalke 04   1. FSV Mainz 05   1. FC Cologne   FC Augsburg   Werder Bremen   Fortuna Dusseldorf (II)   SC Paderborn 07 (II)	Arminia Bielefeld (I)   VfB Stuttgart (I)   1. FC Heidenheim   Hamburger SV   SV Darmstadt 98   Hannover 96   FC Erzgebirge Aue   VfL Bochum   SpVgg Greuther Fürth   SV Sandhausen   Holstein Kiel   SSV Jahn Regensburg   VfL Osnabrück   FC St. Pauli   Karlsruher SC   1. FC Nuremberg   SV Wehen Wiesbaden (III)   Dynamo Dresden (III)	Wurzburger Kickers (II)   Eintracht Braunschweig (II)   FC Ingolstadt 04   MSV Duisburg 2nd
Representatives of the state associations 24 representatives of the 21 state associations of the DFB, usually the state cup winners of the 2019/20 season 1
Swimming   SV Waldhof Mannheim (III) Bavaria 1   TSV 1860 Munich (III)   1. FC Schweinfurt 05 (IV) Berlin   VSG Altglienicke (IV) Brandenburg   FSV Union Fürstenwalde (IV) Bremen   FC Oberneuland (IV) Hamburg   Eintracht Norderstedt (IV) Hesse   TSV Steinbach Haiger (IV)	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania   Hansa Rostock (III) Middle Rhine   1. FC Düren (V) Lower Rhine   Rot-Weiss Essen (IV) Lower Saxony 1   TSV Havelse (IV)   MTV Eintracht Celle (V) Rhineland   FV Engers 07 (V) Saarland   SV Elversberg (IV) Saxony   Chemnitzer FC (IV)	Saxony-Anhalt 3   1. FC Magdeburg (III) Schleswig-Holstein   SV Todesfelde (V) South Baden   1. FC Rielasingen-Arlen (V) southwest   1. FC Kaiserslautern (III) Thuringia   FC Carl Zeiss Jena (IV) Westphalia 1   RSV Meinerzhagen (V)   SC Wiedenbrück (IV) Württemberg   SSV Ulm 1846 (IV)
League level in brackets: I = Bundesliga • II = 2. Bundesliga • III = 3. League • IV = Regionalliga • 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), the best-placed Bavarian regional league team and the winner of the qualifying game between the champions of the Oberliga Westfalen and the best-placed Westphalian team in the Regionalliga West take part.

² Since the champions of the 3rd division, FC Bayern Munich II, are not eligible to start as the second team in the DFB-Pokal, MSV Duisburg qualified fifth for the DFB-Pokal.

³Since the FSA Cup 2019/20 was canceled before the semi-finals were completed due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the participants concerned and the Saxony-Anhalt Football Association agreed to register 1. FC Magdeburg as a participant in the DFB Cup.

Events

The game rounds are played on the following dates:

• 1st main round: September 11 to 14, 2020, October 15, 2020, November 3, 2020 (draw: July 26, 2020)
• 2nd main round: 22./23. December 2020, 12./13. January 2021 (draw: November 8, 2020)
• Round of 16: 2/3 February 2021 (draw: January 3, 2021)
• Quarter-finals: 2/3 March 2021, April 7, 2021 (draw: February 7, 2021)
• Semi-finals: April 30th / April 1st May 2021 (draw: March 7, 2021)
• Final: May 13, 2021

Overview

The top team in each case had home rights.

	1st main round					2nd main round					Round of 16					Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
		SV Wehen Wiesbaden	1
		1. FC Heidenheim	0
							SV Wehen Wiesbaden	0 (2)0
							SSV Jahn Regensburg	0 (4) 2
		1. FC Kaiserslautern	1 (3)0
		SSV Jahn Regensburg	1 (4) 2
												SSV Jahn Regensburg	2 (4) 2
												1. FC Cologne	2 (3)0
		1. FC Cologne	6th
		VSG Altglienicke	0
							1. FC Cologne	1
							VfL Osnabrück	0
		SV death field	0
		VfL Osnabrück	1
																	SSV Jahn Regensburg	0
																	Werder Bremen	1
		Wurzburger Kickers	2
		Hannover 96	3
							Hannover 96	0
							Werder Bremen	3
		FC Carl Zeiss Jena	0
		Werder Bremen	2
												Werder Bremen	2
												SpVgg Greuther Fürth	0
		Chemnitzer FC	2 (2)0
		TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	2 (3) 2
							TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	2 (6)0
							SpVgg Greuther Fürth	2 (7) 2
		SpVgg Greuther Fürth	6 1
		RSV Meinerzhagen	10
																						Werder Bremen	10
																						RB Leipzig	2 1
		FC Augsburg	7th
		MTV Eintracht Celle	0
							FC Augsburg	0
							RB Leipzig	3
		1. FC Nuremberg	0
		RB Leipzig	3
												RB Leipzig	4th
												VfL Bochum	0
		1. FSV Mainz 05	5
		TSV Havelse	1
							1. FSV Mainz 05	2 (0)0
							VfL Bochum	2 (3) 2
		VfL Bochum	3
		FV Engers 07	0
																	RB Leipzig	2
																	VfL Wolfsburg	0
		VfL Wolfsburg	4th
		FSV Union Fürstenwalde	1
							VfL Wolfsburg	4th
							SV Sandhausen	0
		TSV Steinbach Haiger	1
		SV Sandhausen	2
												VfL Wolfsburg	1
												FC Schalke 04	0
		FC Schalke 04	4th
		1. FC Schweinfurt 05	1
							FC Schalke 04	3
							SSV Ulm 1846	1
		SSV Ulm 1846	2
		FC Erzgebirge Aue	0
																										RB Leipzig	1
																											Borussia Dortmund	4th
		Hansa Rostock	0
		VfB Stuttgart	1
							VfB Stuttgart	1
							Sc freiburg	0
		SV Waldhof Mannheim	1
		Sc freiburg	2
												VfB Stuttgart	1
												Borussia Monchengladbach	2
		SV Elversberg	4th
		FC St. Pauli	2
							SV Elversberg	0
							Borussia Monchengladbach	5
		Borussia Monchengladbach	8th
		FC Oberneuland	0
																	Borussia Monchengladbach	0
																	Borussia Dortmund	1
		Eintracht Braunschweig	5
		Hertha BSC	4th
							Eintracht Braunschweig	0
							Borussia Dortmund	2
		MSV Duisburg	0
		Borussia Dortmund	5
												Borussia Dortmund	3 1
												SC Paderborn 07	20
		Karlsruher SC	00
		1. FC Union Berlin	1 1
							1. FC Union Berlin	2
							SC Paderborn 07	3
		SC Wiedenbrück	0
		SC Paderborn 07	5
																					Borussia Dortmund	5
																						Holstein Kiel	0
		Red and white food	1
		Arminia Bielefeld	0
							Red and white food	3
							Fortuna Dusseldorf	2
		FC Ingolstadt 04	0
		Fortuna Dusseldorf	1
												Red and white food	2 1
												Bayer 04 Leverkusen	10
		Bayer 04 Leverkusen	7th
		Eintracht Norderstedt	0
							Bayer 04 Leverkusen	4th
							Eintracht Frankfurt	1
		TSV 1860 Munich	1
		Eintracht Frankfurt	2
																	Red and white food	0
																	Holstein Kiel	3
		Holstein Kiel	7th
		1. FC Rielasingen-Arlen	1
							Holstein Kiel	2 (6) 2
							FC Bayern Munich	2 (5)0
		FC Bayern Munich	3
		1. FC Dueren	0
												Holstein Kiel	1 (7) 2
												SV Darmstadt 98	1 (6)0
		Dynamo Dresden	4th
		Hamburger SV	1
							Dynamo Dresden	0
							SV Darmstadt 98	3
		1. FC Magdeburg	20
		SV Darmstadt 98	3 1

¹ win after extra time
² win on penalties

1st main round

• The games of the 1st main round were drawn on July 26, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the draw was carried out with placeholders for the state cup winners . The ARD sports show broadcast the draw. Deputy DFB General Secretary Heike Ullrich acted as the ticket agent ; DFB President Fritz Keller took over the role of the draw manager.

• Due to the high economic and organizational effort required to comply with the Corona hygiene concept and the lack of audience income, the DFB exceptionally allowed the amateur clubs to assign the home rights. TSV Havelse, FV Engers 07, FSV Union Fürstenwalde, FC Oberneuland, RSV Meinerzhagen, VSG Altglienicke, MTV Eintracht Celle, Eintracht Norderstedt, FC Rielasingen-Arlen, 1. FC Düren and 1 FC Schweinfurt 05 use and competed abroad.

• Since FC Bayern Munich had only played the Champions League final in Lisbon on August 23 , its game was postponed to October 15 at the request of FC Bayern.

• The DFB basically allowed spectators, although visiting fans were banned. However, the decisions were made by the local health authorities . In addition to some ghost games , the number of spectators ranged from a few hundred to just under 10,000 in the Rudolf Harbig Stadium for the game Dynamo Dresden against HSV.

• FC Schalke 04 should have played against 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 in the local Veltins Arena on September 13th . 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 was announced by the Bavarian Football Association (BFV) as the best Bavarian regional league for the DFB Cup. At the time of the report by the BFV, however, the club was only in first place in the interrupted regional league season that only continued in September , because the table leader Türkgücü Munich previously declared promoted to the 3rd division 2020/21 and from the rating in the current season had been taken. On September 11th, the Munich Regional Court I granted an application from Türkgücü Munich from the previous day and obliged the BFV by means of an injunction to "provisionally" revoke the notification of 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 and instead "provisionally" to Türkgücü Munich for the first main round Report. The DFB was obliged to accept this. According to the 37th Civil Chamber , which specializes in antitrust law , the advancement of 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 was not covered by the BFV's statutes and was therefore illegal. The DFB then canceled the game between Schalke and Schweinfurt.

The BFV and the DFB laid contradiction one of the preliminary injunction. The 37th Civil Chamber partially overturned the preliminary injunction with a judgment of September 30th and changed it by obliging the BFV to revoke the registration of 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 and of the registration for the 1st DFB Cup main round the legal opinion of the court to decide again. According to the ruling, the BFV would have had two options: reporting from Türkgücü Munich on the basis of the game rules of May 5, 2020 or a short-term change to the game rules, on the basis of which 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 could be reported. An appeal against the judgment could be lodged with the Higher Regional Court in Munich .

On October 8, the BFV announced that it had appealed the judgment and at the same time wanted to appeal to the competent arbitration tribunal in Nuremberg . On the same day, the DFB rescheduled the game on November 3rd or 4th. The Bavarian Supreme Court rejected an application from Türkgücü Munich to establish that this arbitration procedure was inadmissible . On October 27, 2020, the arbitral tribunal confirmed the BFV's report by 1. FC Schweinfurt 05. Since the arbitration agreement precluded going to ordinary courts , the decision was final. For the game, the Schweinfurt team again relinquished home rights to FC Schalke 04.

date		Result
Fri., 09/11/2020, 8:45 p.m.	1. FSV Mainz 05 (I)	5: 1 (0: 1)	TSV Havelse (IV)
Fri., 09/11/2020, 8:45 p.m.	Eintracht Braunschweig (II)	5: 4 (3: 2)	Hertha BSC (I)
Sat., 12.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	VfL Bochum (II)	G3: 0 (1: 0) G.	FV Engers 07 (V)
Sat., 12.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	VfL Wolfsburg (I)	G14: 1 (2: 1) G 1	FSV Union Fürstenwalde (IV)
Sat., 12.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	Borussia Mönchengladbach (I)	8: 0 (5: 0)	FC Oberneuland (IV)
Sat., 12.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	SpVgg Greuther Fuerth (II)	G6: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 0) G.	RSV Meinerzhagen (V) 2
Sat., 12.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	1. FC Cologne (I)	6: 0 (3: 0)	VSG Altglienicke (IV)
Sat., 12.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	1. FC Nuremberg (II)	G0: 3 (0: 1) G.	RB Leipzig (I)
Sat., 12.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	SV Todesfelde (V)	0: 1 (0: 0)	VfL Osnabrück (II)
Sat., 12.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	TSV 1860 Munich (III)	G1: 2 (0: 0) G.	Eintracht Frankfurt (I)
Sat., 12.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	FC Augsburg (I)	G7-0 (2-0) G.	MTV Eintracht Celle (V)
Sat., 12.09.2020, 6:30 p.m.	SSV Ulm 1846 (IV)	2: 0 (1: 0)	FC Erzgebirge Aue (II)
Sat., 12.09.2020, 6:30 p.m.	FC Ingolstadt 04 (III)	G0: 1 (0: 0) G.	Fortuna Dusseldorf (II)
Sat., 12.09.2020, 6:30 p.m.	Karlsruher SC (II)	0: 1 a.d.	1. FC Union Berlin (I)
Sat., 12.09.2020, 8:45 p.m.	FC Carl Zeiss Jena (IV)	0: 2 (0: 0)	Werder Bremen (I)
Sun., 13.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	TSV Steinbach Haiger (IV)	1: 2 (1: 2)	SV Sandhausen (II)
Sun., 13.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	SV Elversberg (IV)	4: 2 (2: 1)	FC St. Pauli (II)
Sun., 13.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	Bayer 04 Leverkusen (I)	7: 0 (6: 0)	Eintracht Norderstedt (IV)
Sun., 13.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	SC Wiedenbrück (IV) 2	0: 5 (0: 3) 3	SC Paderborn 07 (II)
Sun., 13.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	1. FC Kaiserslautern (III)	G1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 1) G (3: 4 in.E. )	SSV Jahn Regensburg (II)
Sun., 13.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	Chemnitzer FC (IV)	2: 2 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 0) (2: 3 in.E.)	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (I)
Sun., 13.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	Holstein Kiel (II)	7: 1 (5: 1)	1. FC Rielasingen-Arlen (V)
Sun., 13.09.2020, 3:30 p.m.	Hansa Rostock (III)	0: 1 (0: 1)	VfB Stuttgart (I)
Sun., 13.09.2020, 6:30 p.m.	SV Waldhof Mannheim (III)	1: 2 (0: 1)	SC Freiburg (I)
Sun., 13.09.2020, 6:30 p.m.	1. FC Magdeburg (III)	2: 3 n.V. (2: 2, 2: 0)	SV Darmstadt 98 (II)
Sun., 13.09.2020, 6:30 p.m.	SV Wehen Wiesbaden (III)	1: 0 (0: 0)	1. FC Heidenheim (II)
Mon., 14.09.2020, 6:30 p.m.	Dynamo Dresden (III)	4: 1 (2: 0)	Hamburger SV (II)
Mon., 14.09.2020, 6:30 p.m.	Wurzburger Kickers (II)	G2: 3 (0: 1) G.	Hanover 96 (II)
Mon., 14.09.2020, 6:30 p.m.	Rot-Weiss Essen (IV)	1: 0 (1: 0)	Arminia Bielefeld (I)
Mon., 14.09.2020, 8:45 p.m.	MSV Duisburg (III)	0: 5 (0: 3)	Borussia Dortmund (I)
Thursday, October 15, 2020, 8:45 p.m.	FC Bayern Munich (I)	G3-0 (2-0) G.	1. FC Düren (V)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020, 4:30 p.m.	FC Schalke 04 (I)	G4: 1 (2: 1) G.	1. FC Schweinfurt 05 (IV)

^G Ghost game

¹After the assignment of home rights, the game could not take place in the Volkswagen Arena for organizational reasons and was therefore relocated to the AOK Stadium .

²Since SV Rödinghausen could still have qualified at the time of the draw via the Westphalia Cup as well as the qualifying game of the Regionalliga West , the final allocation of the two participants was determined after the two competitions were over.

³The game took place in the Heidewald Stadium in Gütersloh .

2nd main round

The draw had to be postponed twice due to the legal dispute over the opponents of FC Schalke 04 in the first main round and finally took place on November 8, 2020. The broadcast ran on the ARD sports show ; The former national player Inka Grings acted as ticket fairy .

The game between Holstein Kiel and FC Bayern Munich was postponed to January 13, 2021 at the request of FC Bayern “due to the enormous number of games until Christmas”. The game between Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Eintracht Frankfurt was also held for the same reason Postponed January 12, 2021. SSV Ulm 1846 ceded its home rights to FC Schalke 04. Due to the changed pandemic situation, all games had to take place in camera.

date		Result
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020, 6:30 p.m.	FC Augsburg (I)	0: 3 (0: 1)	RB Leipzig (I)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020, 6:30 p.m.	1. FC Cologne (I)	1: 0 (1: 0)	VfL Osnabrück (II)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020, 6:30 p.m.	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (I)	2: 2 n.v. (2: 2, 1: 1) (6: 7 in good condition)	SpVgg Greuther Fuerth (II)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020, 6:30 p.m.	FC Schalke 04 (I)	3: 1 (1: 0)	SSV Ulm 1846 (IV)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020, 8:00 p.m.	Eintracht Braunschweig (II)	0: 2 (0: 1)	Borussia Dortmund (I)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020, 8:45 p.m.	1. FC Union Berlin (I)	2: 3 (1: 3)	SC Paderborn 07 (II)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020, 8:45 p.m.	SV Elversberg (IV)	0: 5 (0: 3)	Borussia Mönchengladbach (I)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020, 8:45 p.m.	Dynamo Dresden (III)	0: 3 (0: 1)	SV Darmstadt 98 (II)
Wed., 23.12.2020, 6:30 p.m.	VfL Wolfsburg (I)	4: 0 (3: 0)	SV Sandhausen (II)
Wed., 23.12.2020, 6:30 p.m.	Rot-Weiss Essen (IV)	3: 2 (2: 1)	Fortuna Dusseldorf (II)
Wed., 23.12.2020, 8:45 p.m.	VfB Stuttgart (I)	1: 0 (1: 0)	SC Freiburg (I)
Wed., 23.12.2020, 8:45 p.m.	Hanover 96 (II)	0: 3 (0: 2)	Werder Bremen (I)
Wed., 23.12.2020, 8:45 p.m.	1. FSV Mainz 05 (I)	2: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 1: 0) (0: 3 in.E.)	VfL Bochum (II)
Wed., 23.12.2020, 8:45 p.m.	SV Wehen Wiesbaden (III)	0: 0 n.v. (2: 4 in good condition)	SSV Jahn Regensburg (II)
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021, 8:45 pm	Bayer 04 Leverkusen (I)	4: 1 (1: 1)	Eintracht Frankfurt (I)
Wed., January 13th, 2021, 8:45 pm	Holstein Kiel (II)	2: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 1: 1) (6: 5 in.E.)	FC Bayern Munich (I)

Round of 16

The draw took place on January 3, 2021; The former ski jumper Sven Hannawald acted as the lottery ticket . The round of 16 matches were played on February 2 and 3, 2021.

From this round onwards there was only one pot, the team that was first drawn into a pairing was given home rights. The exception was Rot-Weiss Essen , which was the only remaining regional league team to receive home rights. Due to the ongoing pandemic, all games had to take place in camera.

date		Result
Tuesday, 02/02/2021, 6:30 p.m.	Rot-Weiss Essen (IV)	2: 1 a.d. (0: 0, 0: 0)	Bayer 04 Leverkusen (I)
Tuesday, 02/02/2021, 6:30 p.m.	Holstein Kiel (II)	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 0) (7: 6 in.E.)	SV Darmstadt 98 (II)
Tue, 02/02/2021, 8:45 p.m.	Werder Bremen (I)	2: 0 (1: 0)	SpVgg Greuther Fuerth (II)
Tue, 02/02/2021, 8:45 p.m.	Borussia Dortmund (I)	3: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 2: 0)	SC Paderborn 07 (II)
Wed., 03.02.2021, 6:30 p.m.	VfL Wolfsburg (I)	1: 0 (1: 0)	FC Schalke 04 (I)
Wed., 03.02.2021, 6:30 p.m.	RB Leipzig (I)	4: 0 (2: 0)	VfL Bochum (II)
Wed., 03.02.2021, 8:45 p.m.	SSV Jahn Regensburg (II)	2: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 2: 2) (4: 3 in.E.)	1. FC Cologne (I)
Wed., 03.02.2021, 8:45 p.m.	VfB Stuttgart (I)	1: 2 (1: 1)	Borussia Mönchengladbach (I)

Quarter finals

The draw for the quarter-finals took place on February 7, 2021 live in the sports show; The sailor and fifth place in the Vendée Globe 2020/21 Boris Herrmann acted as ticket fairy . The quarter-finals were played on March 2 and 3, 2021, while SSV Jahn Regensburg's game against Werder Bremen had to be postponed to April 7, 2021 due to several COVID-19 infections in the Regensburg team. As in the draw for the round of 16, regional league team Rot-Weiss Essen basically received home rights.

date		Result
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021, 8:45 p.m.	Borussia Mönchengladbach (I)	0: 1 (0: 0)	Borussia Dortmund (I)
Wed., 03.03.2021, 6:30 p.m.	Rot-Weiss Essen (IV)	0: 3 (0: 2)	Holstein Kiel (II)
Wed., 03.03.2021, 8:45 p.m.	RB Leipzig (I)	2: 0 (0: 0)	VfL Wolfsburg (I)
Wed., April 7th, 2021, 6:30 p.m.	SSV Jahn Regensburg (II)	0: 1 (0: 0)	Werder Bremen (I)

Semifinals

The two semi-finals should be played on May 1st and 2nd, 2021. The draw for this took place on March 7, 2021 as part of the sports show. The former soccer player Bärbel Wohlleben acted as ticket fairy . On March 26, 2021, the DFB announced that the semi-final match between Werder Bremen (the winner of the Regensburg / Bremen duel, which had not yet been played at the time) and RB Leipzig on Sunday, May 2, 2021, would take place on Friday, April 30, 2021, was brought forward.

date		Result
Friday, April 30th, 2021, 8:30 p.m.	Werder Bremen (I)	1: 2 a.d. (0: 0, 0: 0)	RB Leipzig (I)
Sat., May 1st, 2021, 8:30 p.m.	Borussia Dortmund (I)	5: 0 (5: 0)	Holstein Kiel (II)

final

The final took place on Thursday, May 13th, 2021 ( Ascension Day ) at 8:45 p.m. in the Berlin Olympic Stadium.

pairing	RB Leipzig - Borussia Dortmund
Result	1: 4 (0: 3)
date	May 13, 2021 at 8:45 p.m.
Stadion	Olympic Stadium , Berlin
spectator	none ( due to the corona pandemic )
referee	Felix Brych ( Munich )
Assistant referees	Mark Borsch , Stefan Lupp
Fourth official	Sascha Stegemann
Gates	0: 1 Jadon Sancho (5th) 0: 2 Erling Haaland (28th) 0: 3 Jadon Sancho (45th) 1: 3 Dani Olmo (71th) 1: 4 Erling Haaland (87th)
RB Leipzig	Péter Gulácsi - Lukas Klostermann , Dayot Upamecano , Marcel Halstenberg - Kevin Kampl (62nd Emil Forsberg ) - Nordi Mukiele (62nd Konrad Laimer ), Dani Olmo , Marcel Sabitzer , Amadou Haidara (70th Benjamin Henrichs ) - Alexander Sørloth (46th century ) Yussuf Poulsen ), Hee-Chan Hwang (46th Christopher Nkunku ) coach: Julian Nagelsmann
Borussia Dortmund	Roman Bürki - Raphaël Guerreiro , Mats Hummels , Manuel Akanji , Łukasz Piszczek - Emre Can - Mahmoud Dahoud (74th Thomas Delaney ), Jude Bellingham (46th Thorgan Hazard ) - Jadon Sancho (89th Thomas Meunier ), Erling Haaland (90th ) +2 ' Julian Brandt ), Marco Reus (90. + 2' Giovanni Reyna ) Coach: Edin Terzić
yellow cards	Upamecano (45th + 1 '), Olmo (81st) - Bellingham (25th), Dahoud (50th), Sancho (81st), Hummels (90th)

Borussia Dortmund's winning team

(The games and goals are given in brackets)

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Borussia Dortmund

Goal: Marwin Hitz (5 / -); Roman Bürki (1 / -) Defense: Raphaël Guerreiro (5 / -); Emre Can (5/1); Manuel Akanji (5 / -); Dan-Axel Zagadou (2 / -); Mats Hummels (5/1); Thomas Meunier (4 / -); Mateu Morey Bauzà (4 / -); Nico Schulz (2 / -); Felix Passlack (1 / -); Łukasz Piszczek (4 / -) Midfield: Giovanni Reyna (5/3); Jude Bellingham (6/2); Julian Brandt (5 / -); Reinier (2 / -); Thomas Delaney (6 / -); Marco Reus (6/2); Axel Witsel (2 / -); Mahmoud Dahoud (3 / -) Attack: Erling Haaland (4/3); Jadon Sancho (6/6); Thorgan Hazard (5/2); Steffen Tigges (1 / -) Coach: Lucien Favre (1st round); Edin Terzić (2nd round to final)

Television broadcasts

Like all games of the German Cup were broadcast live from in the preseason Pay TV transmitter Sky transferred. Ten games of the competition could be freely received in the first of the ARD are persecuted, four more games to the quarterfinals transferred Sport1 .

The drawing of the games should have been broadcast regularly on the Sunday after the respective round in the edition of the sports show at 6:30 p.m. from the German Football Museum in Dortmund . Notwithstanding this, the first main round was drawn on July 26, 2020 in the Sportschau studio; Due to the pandemic closure of the football museum due to COVID-19, the following rounds in the Sportschau studio were drawn.

Best goal scorers

Listed below are the top goal scorers of the 2020/21 DFB Cup season. Sorting is based on the number of hits, with the same number of hits alphabetically.

rank	player	society	Gates
1	Jadon Sancho	Borussia Dortmund	6th
2	Yussuf Poulsen	RB Leipzig	5
3	Dennis Srbeny	SC Paderborn 07	4th
4th	Simon Engelmann	Red and white food	3
	Erling Haaland	Borussia Dortmund	3
	Patrick Herrmann	Borussia Monchengladbach	3
	Hee-chan Hwang	RB Leipzig	3
	Martin Kobylański	Eintracht Braunschweig	3
	Andrej Kramarić	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	3
	Jean-Philippe Mateta	1. FSV Mainz 05	3
	Marco Meyerhöfer	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	3
	Sven Michel	SC Paderborn 07	3
	Benito Raman	FC Schalke 04	3
	Giovanni Reyna	Borussia Dortmund	3
	Janni Serra	Holstein Kiel	3
	João Victor	VfL Wolfsburg	3
	Wout Weghorst	VfL Wolfsburg	3

See also : List of top scorer of the DFB-Pokal

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