Football Association Cup 2018/19
The 2018/19 Football Association Cup will determine 22 participants from the 21 national associations of the DFB in the 2019/20 DFB Cup . 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. Second teams from clubs and corporations are not allowed to participate in the DFB Cup.
In Lower Saxony, the winners of both cup competitions qualify for the DFB Cup, in Bavaria the best team eligible to participate in the 2018/19 regional league season qualifies for the first main round of the DFB Cup in addition to the winners of the association cup; in Westphalia this is the winning team of the Qualification game between the best eligible team of the Oberliga Westfalen 2018/19 and the best eligible Westphalian team of the Regionalliga West 2018/19 .
If an association cup winner reaches one of the first four places in the 3rd division, the defeated finalist moves up.
The finals of the national cups 2018/19 will be played on Saturday, May 25, 2019 on the so-called "Amateurs Final Day", on the same day as the DFB Cup final . ARD broadcasts all final games live in three consecutive conferences. The games of the associations Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will take place in the first broadcast block from 10:30 a.m. At 2:15 p.m. the games of the associations Bavaria, Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, Rhineland, Saxony, Westphalia and Württemberg and at 4:15 p.m. the games of the associations Middle Rhine, Lower Rhine, Saarland, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, South Baden, Southwest and Thuringia. In addition, the automotive group Volkswagen announced the conclusion of a sponsorship agreement in February 2019. Each of the 21 regional associations will receive 35,000 euros from the company's advertising budget.
Finals
The table gives an overview of the association cup finals of the 2018/19 season. The teams that have qualified for the DFB Cup are shown in bold. All games without a date will take place on the so-called final day of the amateurs on May 25th.
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| Assignment to the same season | |
|---|---|
| (3L) | 3rd league |
| (RL) | Regional league (4th league) |
| (OIL) | Oberliga (5th division) |
| (VL) | Association league (6th division) |
Individual evidence
- ^ "Landespokal-Endspiele im First" , sportschau.de, accessed on May 25, 2019
- ↑ Amateurs' final day: VW enters with 735,000 euros , liga3-online.de, accessed on February 14, 2019