Verbandspokal

Verbandspokal
Region  Germany
Current champions 21 regional winners
Most successful team(s) SV Werder Bremen II (20 titles)
2015–16 Verbandspokal

The Verbandspokal (English: Association Cup) is a regional football competition in Germany. There are 21 Verbandspokal competitions which function as qualifying tournaments for the following seasons DFB-Pokal, the premier German Cup competition.[1] While no Verbandspokal winner has ever gone on to win the German Cup two have reached the final. Hertha BSC Amateure won the Berlin Cup in 1992 and went on to lose the 1992–93 DFB-Pokal final against Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC Energie Cottbus won the 1996 Brandenburg Cup and went on to lose the 1996–97 DFB-Pokal final against VfB Stuttgart.[2]

Apart from the 21 Verbandspokal champions three more teams are qualified from the regional football association to bring the number of clubs in the first round of the DFB-Pokal to 64. These three teams come from the three regional associations with the most amount of members, these currently being Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Westphalia.[1]

The regional competitions, (plural:Verbandspokale) are generally open to all clubs in the 3. Liga and below, however regional rules vary between associations. 3. Liga clubs have a double chance to qualify for the first round of the DFB-Pokal, through the Verbandspokale and through finishing in the top four in their league. Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga clubs are not permitted to enter as they are already directly qualified for the first round of the DFB-Pokal.

The finals of the competitions can attract large numbers of spectators, like the 2014 Lower Rhine Cup between MSV Duisburg and TV Jahn Hiesfeld did, which was watched by 24,000 in Duisburg.[3]

As of 2013–14 the SV Werder Bremen II, reserve team of SV Werder Bremen, is the most successful team in any Verbandspokal competition, having won the Bremen Cup twenty times, followed by Tennis Borussia Berlin with sixteen Berlin Cup wins and Holstein Kiel with 15 Schleswig-Holstein Cup wins.

Rules and regulations

Rules and regulations for the Verbandspokale are set by the regional football associations and vary. Bavaria, the largest one, stipulates that reserve teams are not permitted to participate in the Bavarian Cup. Teams from lower divisions always have home advantage, if two teams of the same division are drawn against each other the team drawn first receives home advantage.

Bavarian clubs from the 3. Liga and Regionalliga Bayern, except reserve teams, are obliged to participate in the cup. Clubs from the two Bayernliga divisions and the five Landesliga Bayern divisions play a qualifying round. Additionally, the 24 regional cup winners in Bavaria, the Kreispokale, are also qualified for the first round of the Bavarian Cup. If a game is undecided after regular time a penalty shoot out follows, no extra time is played.[4]

In Lower Saxony, the third-largest association, clubs from the state playing in the 3. Liga, Regionalliga Nord and Oberliga Niedersachsen as well as the four Bezirkspokal winners are qualified for the first round of the Lower Saxony Cup.[5]

History

The areas of the regional football associations and their Verbandspokale.

The longest-running competition of the Verbandspokale is the Berlin Cup, first held in 1907.[6] All other cup competitions originated after the Second World War.

In Southern Germany the South Baden Cup was established in 1945,[7] the Hesse Cup in 1946,[8] the Bavarian Cup in 1947, with a long interruption from 1954 to 1998,[9][10] the North Baden Cup in 1949[11] and the Württemberg Cup in 1950.[12][13]

In Northern Germany the Bremen Cup was established in 1950,[14] the Schleswig-Holstein Cup from 1953,[15] the Hamburg Cup was sporadically played from 1954 and permanently from 1981[16] and the Lower Saxony Cup from 1955.[17]

In the former East Germany the Verbandspokale, in the form of the , Brandenburg Cup,[18] Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Cup, Saxony Cup, Saxony-Anhalt Cup[19] and Thuringia Cup,[20] were established in 1990.

In Western Germany the Lower Rhine Cup was established in 1980,[21] the Westphalia Cup in 1981[22] and the Middle Rhine Cup in 1994.[23]

In South Western Germany the Rhineland Cup was established in 1953, the South West Cup in 1973[24] and the Saarland Cup in 1974.[25]

Current holders

The 2014–15 Verbandspokal finals with the winners qualified for the 2015–16 DFB-Pokal:[26]

Verbandspokal Date Location Home Away Result Attendance Report
Bavarian Cup
(2014–15 season)		 20 May 2015 Weiden SpVgg SV Weiden SpVgg Unterhaching 2–2 (5–6 pen) 2,200 Report
Berlin Cup 20 May 2015 Berlin BFC Dynamo SV Tasmania Berlin 1–0 6,914 Report
Brandenburg Cup 6 May 2015 Fürstenwalde Union Fürstenwalde Energie Cottbus 2–3 3,424 Report
Bremen Cup 25 May 2015 Bremen Brinkumer SV Bremer SV 1–5 Report
Hamburg Cup 25 May 2015 Hamburg HSV Barmbeck-Uhlenhorst Condor Hamburg 2–0 Report
Hesse Cup 13 May 2015 Kassel KSV Hessen Kassel VfB Gießen 2–1 6,100 Report
Lower Rhine Cup 14 May 2015 Essen Rot-Weiss Essen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 0–0 aet (6–5 pen) 18,500 Report
Lower Saxony Cup 13 May 2015 Meppen SV Meppen VfL Osnabrück 0–0 (4–5 pen) Report
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Cup 13 May 2015 Greifswald TSG Neustrelitz F.C. Hansa Rostock 0–1 4,500 Report
Middle Rhine Cup 14 May 2015 Bonn Bonner SC FC Viktoria Köln 1–4 6,193 Report
North Baden Cup 20 May 2015 Langensteinbach FC Nöttingen SV Spielberg 3–2 3,421 Report
Rhineland Cup 3 June 2015 Polch SpVgg Burgbrohl FSV Salmrohr 1–1 (3–5 pen) 2,081 Report
Saarland Cup 13 May 2015 Rehlingen SV Elversberg FC Homburg 2–1 aet 4,000 Report
Saxony Cup 13 May 2015 Zwickau FSV Zwickau Chemnitzer FC 0–2 3,615 Report
Saxony-Anhalt Cup 13 May 2015 Halle VfL Halle 96 Hallescher FC 0–6 12,855 Report
Schleswig-Holstein Cup 15 July 2015 Lübeck VfB Lübeck‡ Holstein Kiel Report
South Baden Cup 20 May 2015 Emmendingen Freiburger FC Bahlinger SC 0–3 3,500 Report
South West Cup 13 May 2015 Offenbach FK Pirmasens FV Dudenhofen 1–0 aet 2,500 Report
Thuringia Cup 13 May 2015 Meuselwitz ZFC Meuselwitz FC Carl Zeiss Jena 1–2 aet 3,871 Report
Westphalia Cup 14 May 2015 Verl SC Verl Sportfreunde Lotte 0–0 aet (3–4 pen) 1,600 Report
Württemberg Cup 6 May 2015 Stuttgart SSV Reutlingen FV Ravensburg 2–1 3,658 Report

Clubs by league

The clubs qualified for the 2015–16 DFB-Pokal by league:[27]

League Level Clubs
3. Liga[28] 3 VfL Osnabrück, FC Energie Cottbus, F.C. Hansa Rostock, Chemnitzer FC, Hallescher FC, SpVgg Unterhaching
Regionalliga Nord[29] 4 SV Meppen, VfB Lübeck
Regionalliga Nordost[30] FC Carl Zeiss Jena, BFC Dynamo
Regionalliga Südwest[31] KSV Hessen Kassel, SV Elversberg, FK Pirmasens, FC Nöttingen
Regionalliga West[32] Rot-Weiß Essen, FC Viktoria Köln, Sportfreunde Lotte
Oberliga Baden-Württemberg[33] 5 SSV Reutlingen, Bahlinger SC
Oberliga Hamburg[34] HSV Barmbeck-Uhlenhorst
Bremen-Liga[35] Bremer SV
Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar[36] FSV Salmrohr

Broadcasting

In February 2016 it was announced that German broadcaster ARD for the first time would show all 21 Verbandspokal finals live in a conference as well as live stream them and that all finals would be played on the same date, 28 May 2016.[37]

References

  1. 1 2 Modus (German) DFB website: Modus, accessed: 17 January 2015
  2. ↑ Historie (German) DFB website: History, accessed: 17 January 2015
  3. ↑ Hiesfeld schnuppert am Pokal-Coup (German) Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, published: 16 May 2014, accessed: 18 January 2015
  4. ↑ Spielordnung (German) BFV website: Rules & Regulations, accessed: 18 January 2015
  5. ↑ Spielordnung (German) NFV website: Rules & Regulations, accessed: 18 January 2015
  6. ↑ Berliner Pokalendspiele 1907–2006 (German) www.die-fans.de: Berlin Cup finals since 1907, accessed: 17 January 2015
  7. ↑ Ehrentafel Südbadische Pokalsieger (German) DSFS, accessed: 17 January 2015
  8. ↑ Hessenpokal (German) DSFS, accessed: 17 January 2015
  9. ↑ Endspiele um den Bayerischen Pokal (German) DSFS, accessed: 17 January 2015
  10. ↑ Die Endspiele (German) BFV website: Cup finals since 1998, accessed: 18 January 2015
  11. ↑ Ehrentafel Nordbadische Pokalsieger (German) DSFS, accessed: 17 January 2015
  12. ↑ wfv-Pokal-Ergebnisse der Herren seit 1951 (German) Württemberg Football Association website, accessed: 17 January 2015
  13. ↑ Some sources state 1945 but the WFV website lists cup finals from 1950–51 onwards.
  14. ↑ Bremen: Meister und Pokalsieger (German) DSFS, accessed: 17 January 2015
  15. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein: Meister und Pokalsieger (German) DSFS, accessed: 17 January 2015
  16. ↑ Hamburg: Meister und Pokalsieger (German) DSFS, accessed: 17 January 2015
  17. ↑ Niedersachsen: Meister und Pokalsieger (German) DSFS, accessed: 17 January 2015
  18. ↑ Geschichte: 1991 (German) Brandenburg Football Associarion website: History 1991, accessed: 17 January 2015
  19. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt Cup statistics (German) Saxony-Anhalt Football Association, accessed: 17 January 2015
  20. ↑ Ehrentafel der Verbandspokalsieger Thüringens (German) DSFS, accessed: 17 January 2015
  21. ↑ Endspiele und Titelgewinner im Niederrheinpokal (German) Lower Rhine Football Association website, accessed: 17 January 2015
  22. ↑ Pokalsieger auf Verbandsebene seit 1982 (German) Football and Athletics Association of Westphalia website, accessed: 17 January 2015
  23. ↑ FVM-Pokalsieger Herren (German) Middle Rhine Football Association website, accessed: 17 January 2015
  24. ↑ Sieger des Verbandspokals seit 1973 (German) South West Football Association website, accessed: 17 January 2015
  25. ↑ Geschichte des Pokals (German) www.saarlandpokal.de, accessed: 17 January 2015
  26. ↑ Landespokal (German) kicker.de – 2014–15 Verbandspokal finals, accessed: 8 April 2015
  27. ↑ Diese Teams spielen 2015/16 im DFB-Pokal (German) kicker.de, accessed: 14 May 2015
  28. ↑ 2014–15 3. Liga table & results (German) kicker.de, accessed: 9 April 2015
  29. ↑ 2014–15 Regionalliga Nord table & results (German) kicker.de, accessed: 9 April 2015
  30. ↑ 2014–15 Regionalliga Nordost table & results (German) kicker.de, accessed: 14 May 2015
  31. ↑ 2014–15 Regionalliga Südwest table & results (German) kicker.de, accessed: 14 May 2015
  32. ↑ 2014–15 Regionalliga West table & results (German) kicker.de, accessed: 15 May 2015
  33. ↑ Oberliga Baden-Württemberg table & results (German) kicker.de, accessed: 7 May 2015
  34. ↑ Oberliga Hamburg table & results (German) kicker.de, accessed: 27 May 2015
  35. ↑ Bremen-Liga table & results (German) kicker.de, accessed: 27 May 2015
  36. ↑ Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar table & results (German) kicker.de, accessed: 4 June 2015
  37. ↑ "ARD überträgt alle Landespokal-Endspiele" [ARD will broadcast all State Cup finals]. kicker.de (in German). kicker (sports magazine). 11 February 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2016.

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