Lower Rhine Cup

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Lower Rhine Cup
Founded
1980
Nation
Germany

State
North Rhine-Westphalia
Region
Lower Rhine
Qualifying competition for
German Cup
Current Champions 2012–13
Sportfreunde Baumberg

The Lower Rhine Cup (German: Niederrheinpokal) is a German football club Cup competition open to teams from the Lower Rhine region of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The competition is one of the 21 regional cup competitions of German football and acts as a qualifier to the following seasons' German Cup.^[1]

The competition is sponsored by the Diebels brewery and carries the official name Diebels Niederrheinpokal. It is operated by the Lower Rhine Football Association, the FVN.^[2]

Modus

Clubs from fully professional leagues are not permitted to enter the competition, meaning, no teams from the Fußball-Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga can compete.^[2]

All clubs from the Lower Rhine playing in the 3. Liga (III) and the Regionalliga West (IV) are directly qualified for the first round, the remaining places in the first round are filled with the teams who qualified from local cup competitions, the Kreispokale.^[2]

Since the establishment of the 3. Liga in 2008, reserve teams can not take part in the German Cup or the Lower Rhine Cup anymore.

Winners

The past winners of the competition:^[3]

Club	Wins	Years
Rot-Weiss Essen	7	1993, 1995, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012
Wuppertaler SV Borussia	6	1981, 1985, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007
FC Remscheid	3	1990, 1991, 1994
Schwarz-Weiß Essen	2	1987, 2010
SSVg. Velbert	2	2003, 2006
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	2	1996, 1998
Sportfreunde Baumberg	1	2013
VfB Speldorf	1	2009
KFC Uerdingen 05	1	2001
Borussia Mönchengladbach Amateure	1	1997
SV Viktoria Goch	1	1986
1. FC Bocholt	1	1983
Bayer 05 Uerdingen Amateure	1	1982

No cup held or winner known for 1984, 1988, 1989 and 1992. In 1992 Wuppertaler SV und Fortuna Düsseldorf Amateure both qualified for the first round of the German Cup through the Lower Rhine Cup.

References

↑ "DFB Cup Men – Mode". DFB. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Diebels Niederrheinpokal (German) FVN website, accessed: 9 July 2012
↑ Endspiele und Titelgewinner im Niederrheinpokal (German) FVN website - Finals and winners of the Lower Rhine Cup, accessed: 9 July 2012

Sources

Deutschlands Fußball in Zahlen, (German) An annual publication with tables and results from the Bundesliga to Verbandsliga/Landesliga, publisher: DSFS

External links

Fussball.de: Lower Rhine Cup (German)
Diebels Niederrheinpokal (German) FVN website

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Seasons	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14

Finals	1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

German Cup competitions

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North-East	Brandenburg Cup Berlin Cup Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Cup Saxony Cup Saxony-Anhalt Cup Thuringia Cup

West	Lower Rhine Cup Middle Rhine Cup Westphalia Cup

South-West	Rhineland Cup Saarland Cup South West Cup

South	Bavarian Cup Hesse Cup North Baden Cup South Baden Cup Württemberg Cup

Defunct

Category: German Cup competitions

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