Football Association Cup 2017/18

This article covers the men's football association cups for the 2017/18 season. For the women 's association cups, see Football Association Cup 2017/18 (women) .

The participants of the 21 regional associations of the DFB in the DFB-Pokal 2018/19 are determined via the football association cup 2017/18 . The winners of the association cups are entitled to participate in the first round of the DFB Cup. The three associations with the largest number of members, Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Westphalia, are also sending a second participant. This means that 24 amateur clubs qualify for the national cup competition, 22 of them via the association cups. The second teams of the professional clubs (1st and 2nd Bundesliga) are not allowed to participate in the DFB-Pokal.

In Lower Saxony, in addition to the cup winners, the defeated cup finalist qualifies for the DFB Cup, in Bavaria the best team in the 2017/18 regional league season - unless it is the second team of a professional club - in addition to the winner of the association cup for the first Main round of the DFB-Pokal, in Westphalia this is, with the same restriction as in Bavaria, the winning team of the qualifying game between the champions of Oberliga Westfalen 2017/18 and the best Westphalian team of Regionalliga West 2017/18 .

The finals of the national cups 2017/18 were played on Monday, May 21, 2018 (Whit Monday) again on the so-called "Amateurs Final Day". ARD broadcast all final matches live in three consecutive conferences.

Finals

The table gives an overview of the association cup finals of the 2017/18 season. The teams that have qualified for the DFB Cup are shown in bold.

Association cup finals of the 2017/18 season

Association	Cup	venue	Stadion	1st finalist	Result	2nd finalist
Bathing 2	bfv Rothaus Cup	Nöttingen	Panoramic stadium	1. CfR Pforzheim (OL)	1: 1 a.d. (1: 1, 0: 1) (4: 5 in good condition)	Karlsruher SC (3L) 3
Bavaria 1	Bavarian Toto Cup ( 2017/18 )	Bayreuth	Hans Walter Wild Stadium	SpVgg Bayreuth (RL)	1: 3 (1: 2)	1. FC Schweinfurt 05 (RL)
Berlin	Berlin Pilsner Cup	Berlin	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sports Park	BFC Dynamo (RL)	2: 1 (1: 0)	Berlin Sports Club (VL)
Brandenburg	AOK State Cup Brandenburg ( 2017/18 )	Potsdam	Karl Liebknecht Stadium	SV Babelsberg 03 (RL)	0: 1 (0: 0)	Energie Cottbus (RL)
Bremen	Lotto cup	Bremen	Obervieland stadium	Blumenthaler SV (OL)	0: 3 (0: 1)	BSC Hastedt (OL)
Hamburg	ODDSET cup	Hamburg	Hoheluft Stadium ( artificial turf )	Niendorfer TSV (OL)	0: 2 (0: 0)	TuS Dassendorf (OL)
Hesse	Krombacher Hessenpokal ( 2017/18 )	Stadtallendorf	Herrenwaldstadion	TSV Steinbach (RL)	2: 0 (0: 0)	KSV Hessen Kassel (RL)
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Lübzer Pils Cup	Neustrelitz	Park Stadium	FC Mecklenburg Schwerin (OL)	1: 2 (0: 1)	Hansa Rostock (3L)
Middle Rhine	Bitburger Cup ( 2017/18 )	Bonn	Sports park north	Alemannia Aachen (RL)	0: 2 n.V. (0: 0, 0: 0)	FC Viktoria Cologne (RL)
Lower Rhine	DerWesten.de Lower Rhine Cup	Oberhausen	Niederrhein Stadium	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (RL)	2: 1 (1: 0)	Rot-Weiss Essen (RL)
Lower Saxony 1	Krombacher Lower Saxony Cup ( 2017/18 )	Drochtersen	Kehdinger Stadium	SV Drochtersen / Assel (RL)	5: 1 (2: 1)	SSV Jeddeloh (RL)
Rhineland	Bitburger Rhineland Cup ( 2017/18 )	Koblenz	Oberwerth Stadium	TuS Koblenz (RL)	0: 1 (0: 0)	Red-White Koblenz (OL)
Saarland	Sparkassenpokal Saar ( 2017/18 )	Spiesen-Elversberg	Waldstadion Kaiserlinde	SV Elversberg (RL)	1: 0 (0: 0)	1. FC Saarbrücken (RL)
Saxony	Wernesgrüner Cup ( 2017/18 )	Leipzig	Alfred Kunze Sports Park	BSG Chemie Leipzig (RL)	1: 0 (1: 0)	FC Oberlausitz Neugersdorf (RL)
Saxony-Anhalt 2	Saxony-Anhalt Cup	Magdeburg	Heinrich Germer Stadium	1. FC Lok Stendal (OL)	0: 1 (0: 1)	1. FC Magdeburg (3L)
Schleswig-Holstein	SHFV Lotto Cup ( 2017/18 )	Flensburg	Manfred Werner Stadium	Husumer SV (VL)	0: 3 (0: 1)	SC switch Flensburg 08 (RL)
South Baden	SBFV Rothaus Cup	Lahr	Dammenmühle Stadium	FC 08 Villingen (OL)	1: 2 (0: 0)	SV Linx (VL)
southwest	Bitburger Association Cup ( 2017/18 )	Worms	EEA arena	Wormatia Worms (RL)	3: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0)	SV Alemannia Waldalgesheim (VL)
Thuringia	Köstritzer Cup - Thuringia	Erfurt	Steigerwald Stadium	BSG Wismut Gera (OL)	0: 5 (0: 2)	FC Carl Zeiss Jena (3L)
Westphalia 1 2	Krombacher Cup ( 2017/18 )	Erndtebrück	Powder Forest Stadium	TuS Erndtebrück (RL)	2: 4 (0: 4)	SC Paderborn 07 (3L)
Württemberg	DB Regio-wfv-Cup ( 2017/18 )	Stuttgart	Gazi Stadium	TSV Ilshofen (VL)	0: 3 (0: 3)	SSV Ulm 1846 (RL)

Assignment to the same season
(3L)	3rd league
(RL)	Regional league (4th league)
(OIL)	Oberliga (5th division)
(VL)	Association league (6th division)

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, either the defeated cup finalist (Lower Saxony), the top-ranked regional league team (Bavaria) or the winner of a qualifying game of the best-placed Westphalian team in the Regionalliga West ( SV Rödinghausen ) at the champions of the Oberliga Westfalen ( SV Lippstadt 08 ) (Westphalia) on May 31 (Corpus Christi).

²Since SC Paderborn 07, 1. FC Magdeburg and Karlsruher SC had already qualified for the DFB Cup via the 3rd league , the final opponents TuS Erndtebrück, 1. FC Lok Stendal and 1. CfR Pforzheim had already qualified in advance.

³ The Karlsruher SC did not play with the third division team, but with players from the second team and youth players, as they had to play a promotion game to the second division the next day

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 3rd final day of the amateurs on May 21, 2018. In: dfb.de. German Football Association , October 6, 2017, accessed on January 29, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Implementation regulations for the men's association cup from the 2015/16 season (under No. II 2.). (No longer available online.) In: flvw.de. Football and Athletics Association Westphalia , July 16, 2015, archived from the original on December 31, 2013 ; Retrieved April 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Match report in the Pforzheimer Zeitung