Football Association Cup 2019/20

This article covers the men's football association cups for the 2019/20 season. For the women 's association cups, see Football Association Cup 2019/20 (women) .

22 participants from the 21 national associations of the DFB in the DFB-Pokal 2020/21 will be determined via the football association cup 2019/20 . 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 2019/20 Regional League season in addition to the winner of the association cup for the first main round of the DFB Cup, in Westphalia this is the winning team in the qualifying game between the best eligible team of the Oberliga Westfalen 2019/20 and the best eligible Westphalian team of the Regionalliga West 2019/20 .

If an association cup winner reaches one of the first four places in the 3rd division, the defeated finalist moves up.

Finals

The table gives an overview of the association cup finals for the 2019/20 season. All games will take place on the final day of the amateurs, which was originally scheduled for May 23, 2020, the day of the 2019/20 DFB Cup final . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the postponed DFB Cup final, the final day of the amateurs was scheduled for August 22nd. However, the final of the Bavarian Cup will be played at a later date, on September 5th, and will be broadcast live on BR television . The exact schedule was announced on August 8th after the ARD presented it. Kick-off times are 2:45 p.m., 4:45 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. In the last kick-off time, the associations play their final without extra time and go straight to penalties in the event of a tie.

The teams that have qualified for the DFB Cup are shown in bold .

Association cup finals of the 2019/20 season

Association	Cup	meeting	venue	Stadion	1st finalist	Result	2nd finalist
to bathe	bfv Rothaus Cup	4:45 p.m.	Hoffenheim	Dietmar Hopp Stadium	FC Nöttingen (OL)	1: 4 (0: 0)	SV Waldhof Mannheim (3L)
Bavaria 1	Toto Cup ( 2019/20 )	September 5, 2 p.m.			TSV 1860 Munich (3L) 2
Berlin	AOK State Cup Berlin	4:45 p.m.	Berlin	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sports Park	FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin (RL)	0: 6 (0: 1)	VSG Altglienicke (RL)
Brandenburg	AOK State Cup Brandenburg ( 2019/20 )	2:45 p.m.	Luckenwalde	Werner Seelenbinder Stadium	FSV Union Fürstenwalde (RL)	2: 1 (2: 0)	SV Babelsberg 03 (RL)
Bremen	LOTTO Cup Bremen	5:45 pm	Bremen	Florian Wellmann Stadium	Blumenthaler SV (OL)	2: 2 (2: 2) (2: 3 i. E.)	FC Oberneuland (OL)
Hamburg	LOTTO Cup Hamburg	2:45 p.m.	Hamburg	Wolfgang Meyer Sports Facility	Eintracht Norderstedt (RL)	5: 1 (2: 1)	TSV Sasel (OL)
Hesse	Bitburger Hessenpokal ( 2019/20 )	4:45 p.m.	Frankfurt am Main	PSD Bank Arena	FSV Frankfurt (RL)	0: 1 (0: 1)	TSV Steinbach Haiger (RL)
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Lübzer Pils Cup	4:45 p.m.	Rostock	Ostseestadion	Hansa Rostock (3L)	3: 0 (1: 0)	Torgelower FC Greif (OL)
Middle Rhine	Bitburger Cup ( 2019/20 )	4:45 p.m.	Bonn	Sports park north	1. FC Düren (OL)	1: 0 (1: 0)	Alemannia Aachen (RL)
Lower Rhine	RevierSport Lower Rhine Cup	2:45 p.m.	eat	Essen stadium	Rot-Weiss Essen (RL)	3: 1 (1: 0)	1. FC Kleve (OL)
Lower Saxony 1	Krombacher Lower Saxony Cup ( 2019/20 )	23 August 3 p.m.	Rehden	Sports field forest sports facilities	BSV Rehden (RL)	1: 4 (0: 1)	TSV Havelse (RL) 3
	Krombacher Lower Saxony Cup Amateurs ( 2019/20 )	5:45 pm	Hanover	Eilenriedestadion	MTV Gifhorn (OL)	2: 3 (1: 1)	MTV Eintracht Celle (OL)
Rhineland	Bitburger Rhineland Cup	2:45 p.m.	Koblenz	Oberwerth Stadium	FC Karbach (OL)	0: 5 (0: 1)	FV Engers 07 (OL)
Saarland	Sparkasse Cup Saar	4:45 p.m.	Elversberg	Waldstadion Kaiserlinde	FC 08 Homburg (RL)	2: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 0: 0) (4: 5 p.e.)	SV Elversberg (RL)
Saxony	Wernesgrüner Saxony Cup ( 2019/20 )	2:45 p.m.	Eilenburg	Ilburg Stadium	FC Eilenburg (OL)	1: 2 (0: 1)	Chemnitzer FC (3L)
Saxony-Anhalt	FSA Cup	not carried out 4
Schleswig-Holstein	SHFV Lotto Cup	4:45 p.m.	Malente	Uwe Seeler Football Park	SV Todesfelde (OL)	3: 2 (1: 2)	VfB Lübeck (RL)
South Baden	SBFV Rothaus Cup	2:45 p.m.	Freiburg in Breisgau	Black Forest Stadium	1. FC Rielasingen-Arlen (OL)	3: 0 (1: 0)	SV Oberachern (OL)
southwest	Bitburger Association Cup	4:45 p.m.	Pirmasens	Husterhöhe sports park	1. FC Kaiserslautern (3L)	0: 0 n.v. (5: 3 in good condition)	SV Alemannia Waldalgesheim (VL)
Thuringia	Köstritzer Cup	2:45 p.m.	Jena	Ernst Abbe sports field	FSV Martinroda (OL) 5	2: 8 (1: 3)	FC Carl Zeiss Jena (3L)
Westphalia 1	Krombacher Westfalenpokal ( 2019/20 )	5:45 pm	Came	Sports school Kaiserau	RSV Meinerzhagen (OL)	2: 0 (1: 0)	SV Schermbeck (OL)
Württemberg	DB Regio-wfv-Cup ( 2019/20 )	2:45 p.m.	Stuttgart	Gazi Stadium on the Waldau	TSG Balingen (RL)	0: 3 (0: 0)	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 regional associations with the most men's teams in play (Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Westphalia) each have two starting places. In addition to the cup winner, either the winner of the second cup competition (Lower Saxony), the best-placed regional league team (Bavaria) or the winner in a qualifying game of the best-placed Westphalian team of the Regionalliga West that was not already qualified through the Westphalia Cup in the top-placed team of the Oberliga Westphalia part.

²TSV 1860 Munich reached the final without a fight after the intended semi-final opponent, FC Memmingen , decided not to play the game due to the uncertain future of the game.

³TSV Havelse reached the final without a fight, after the intended semi-final opponent Eintracht Braunschweig had already qualified for the DFB-Pokal through the third division and therefore waived the semi-finals.

^4thSince the FSA Cup 2019/20 before completion of the semi-finals because of COVID-19 pandemic has been canceled, the participants concerned and the agreed Saxony-Anhalt Football Association on the 1. FC Magdeburg to report as a participant for the DFB Cup.

⁵The FSV Martinroda reached the final without a fight after the intended semi-final opponent, FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt , had stopped playing the first team in the course of insolvency proceedings and the sports court of the Thuringian Football Association ruled that another club could not move up.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ lv: Final day of the amateurs 2020 terminated. In: dfb.de. DFB , accessed on August 27, 2019 . 
2. ↑ The final day of the football amateurs will not take place on May 23rd. In: donaukurier.de. Donaukurier , May 6, 2020, accessed on May 11, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Amateurs final day planned for August 22, 2020. In: fvm.de. Football Association Mittelrhein , July 9, 2020, accessed on July 9, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Julian Koch: “Final day of the amateurs” without the Bayern final. In: liga3-online.de. July 9, 2020, accessed August 8, 2020 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} TSV 1860 Munich: Toto Cup final without fans - BR broadcasts live. In: fupa.net. August 28, 2020, accessed August 31, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Final day of the amateurs 2020: kick-off times are scheduled. In: sportschau.de. August 6, 2020, accessed August 8, 2020 . 
7. ↑ 1860 Munich prematurely in the Toto cup final. Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), July 10, 2020, accessed on July 16, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Eintracht Braunschweig waived: TSV Havelse moves into the NFV cup final. Sportbuzzer, July 23, 2020, accessed on July 24, 2020 . 
9. ↑ The FSA cancels the state cup , fsa-online.de, accessed on July 16, 2020
10. ↑ Sports court decides: FSV Martinroda without a fight into the cup final. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), February 21, 2020, accessed on July 19, 2020 .