2017–18 DFB-Pokal

2017–18 DFB-Pokal
German Cup
Country Germany
Dates 11 August 2017 – 19 May 2018
Championship venue Olympiastadion, Berlin
Teams 64
Matches played 4
Goals scored 14 (3.5 per match)
Attendance 51,925 (12,981 per match)
Top goal scorer(s) 14 players
(1 goal each)
← 2016–17 2018–19 →
All statistics correct as of 11 August 2017.
Goals scored in penalty shoot-outs not included.

The 2017–18 DFB-Pokal is the 75th season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 11 August 2017 with the first of six rounds and will end on 19 May 2018 with the final at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.[1] The winner of the DFB-Pokal then will qualify for next year's edition of the UEFA Europa League, if not already qualified for the UEFA Champions League through league position.

Participating clubs

The following 64 teams qualified for the competition:

Bundesliga
the 18 clubs of the 2016–17 season		 2. Bundesliga
the 18 clubs of the 2016–17 season		 3. Liga
the top 4 clubs of the 2016–17 season
Representatives of the regional associations
24 representatives of 21 regional associations of the DFB, qualify (in general) through the 2016–17 Verbandspokal[note 1]
  • Baden
FC Nöttingen
Schweinfurt 05 (CW)
SpVgg Unterhaching (RB)
  • Berlin
BFC Dynamo
  • Brandenburg
Energie Cottbus
  • Bremen
Leher TS
  • Hamburg
Eintracht Norderstedt
  • Hesse
Wehen Wiesbaden
  • Lower Rhine
Rot-Weiss Essen[note 3]
LSK Hansa
VfL Osnabrück
  • Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Hansa Rostock
  • Middle Rhine
Bonner SC
  • Rhineland
TuS Koblenz
  • Saarland
1. FC Saarbrücken
  • Saxony
Chemnitzer FC
  • Saxony-Anhalt
Germania Halberstadt[note 5]
  • Schleswig-Holstein
SV Eichede[note 6]
  • South Baden
1. FC Rielasingen-Arlen
  • Southwest
SV Morlautern
  • Thuringia
Rot-Weiß Erfurt
SC Paderborn (CW)
TuS Erndtebrück (PO)[note 8]
  • Württemberg
Sportfreunde Dorfmerkingen

Format

The trophy given to the champions.

Participation

The DFB-Pokal begins with a round of 64 teams. The 36 teams of the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, along with the top 4 finishers of the 3. Liga are automatically qualified for the tournament. Of the remaining slots, 21 are given to the cup winners of the regional football associations, the Verbandspokal. The 3 remaining slots are given to the three regional associations with the most men's teams, which currently is Bavaria, Lower Saxony, and Westphalia. The runner-up of the Lower Saxony Cup is given the slot, along with the best-placed amateur team of the Regionalliga Bayern. For Westphalia, the winner of a play-off between the best-placed team of the Regionalliga West and Oberliga Westfalen also qualify. As every team is entitled to participate in local tournaments which qualify for the association cups, every team can in principle compete in the DFB-Pokal. Reserve teams and combined football sections are not permitted to enter, along with no two teams of the same association or corporation.[2]

Draw

The draws for the different rounds are conducted as following:[2]

For the first round, the participating teams will be split into two pots of 32 teams each. The first pot contains all teams which have qualified through their regional cup competitions, the best four teams of the 3. Liga, and the bottom four teams of the 2. Bundesliga. Every team from this pot will be drawn to a team from the second pot, which contains all remaining professional teams (all the teams of the Bundesliga and the remaining fourteen 2. Bundesliga teams). The teams from the first pot will be set as the home team in the process.

The two-pot scenario will also be applied for the second round, with the remaining 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) in the first pot and the remaining Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga teams in the other pot. Once again, the 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) will serve as hosts. This time the pots do not have to be of equal size though, depending on the results of the first round. Theoretically, it is even possible that there may be only one pot, if all of the teams from one of the pots from the first round beat all the others in the second pot. Once one pot is empty, the remaining pairings will be drawn from the other pot with the first-drawn team for a match serving as hosts.

For the remaining rounds, the draw will be conducted from just one pot. Any remaining 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) will be the home team if drawn against a professional team. In every other case, the first-drawn team will serve as hosts.

Match rules

Teams meet in one game per round. Matches take place for 90 minutes, with two-halves of 45 minutes. If still tied after regulation, 30 minutes of extra time will be played, consisting of two periods of 15 minutes. If the score is still level after this, the match will be decided by a penalty shoot-out. A coin toss will decide who takes the first penalty.[2] A total of seven players are allowed to be listed on the substitute bench, with up to three substitutions being allowed during regulation. After approval by the IFAB during the previous season, the use of a fourth substitute is allowed in extra time as part of a pilot project.[3]

Suspensions

If a player receives five yellow cards in the competition, he will then be suspended from the next cup match. Similarly, receiving a second yellow card suspends a player from the next cup match. If a player receives a direct red card, they will be suspended a minimum of one match, but the German Football Association reserves the right to increase the suspension.[2]

Champion qualification

The winner of the DFB-Pokal earns automatic qualification for the group stage of next year's edition of the UEFA Europa League. If they have already qualified for the UEFA Champions League through position in the Bundesliga, then the spot will go to the team in sixth, and the league's third qualifying round spot will go to the team in seventh. The winner also will host the DFL-Supercup at the start of the next season, and will face the champion of the previous year's Bundesliga, unless the same team wins the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal, completing a double. In that case, the runner up of the Bundesliga will take the spot and host instead.

Schedule

The Olympiastadion in Berlin will host the final.

All draws will be held at the German Football Museum in Dortmund, on a Sunday evening at 18:00 after each round. The draws will be televised on ARD's Sportschau, broadcast on Das Erste. From the quarter-finals onwards, the draw for the DFB-Pokal der Frauen will also take place at the same time.[4]

The rounds of the 2017–18 competition are scheduled as follows:[5]

Round Draw date Matches
Round 1 11 June 2017 11–14 August 2017
Round 2 20 August 2017 24–25 October 2017
Round of 16 29 October 2017 19–20 December 2017
Quarter-finals 24 December 2017 6–7 February 2018
Semi-finals 11 February 2018 17–18 April 2018
Final 19 May 2018 at Olympiastadion, Berlin

Matches

A total of sixty-three matches will take place, starting with round 1 on 11 August 2017 and culminating with the final on 19 May 2018 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.

Times up to 28 October 2017 and from 25 March 2018 are CEST (UTC+2). Times from 29 October 2017 to 24 March 2018 are CET (UTC+1).

Round 1

The draw for the first round was held on 11 June 2017 at 18:00, with Sebastian Kehl drawing the matches.[6][4] The thirty-two matches will take place from 11 to 14 August 2017.[5]

Round 2

The draw for the second round will be held on 20 August 2017 at 18:00.[4] The sixteen matches will take place from 24 to 25 October 2017.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ The three regions with the most participating teams in their league competitions (Bavaria, Lower Saxony, and Westphalia) are allowed to enter two teams for the competition.
  2. ↑ In addition to the Bavarian Cup winners, the best-placed amateur team of the Regionalliga Bayern also qualify.
  3. ↑ Rot-Weiss Essen qualified regardless of the outcome of the final of the Lower Rhine Cup, as MSV Duisburg, the other finalists, already qualified for the DFB-Pokal through their 3. Liga position.
  4. ↑ Both finalists of the Lower Saxony Cup qualify.
  5. ↑ Germania Halberstadt qualified regardless of the outcome of the final of the Saxony-Anhalt Cup, as 1. FC Magdeburg, the other finalists, already qualified for the DFB-Pokal through their 3. Liga position.
  6. ↑ SV Eichede qualified regardless of the outcome of the final of the Schleswig-Holstein Cup, as Holstein Kiel, the other finalists, already qualified for the DFB-Pokal through their 3. Liga position.
  7. ↑ In addition to the Westphalian Cup winners, the winners of a play-off between the best-placed amateur Westphalian team of the Regionalliga West and the best-placed amateur team of the Oberliga Westfalen also qualify.
  8. ↑ TuS Erndtebrück, the champions of the Oberliga Westfalen, won the play-off 4–1 against SG Wattenscheid, the best-placed Westphalian team of the Regionalliga West.
  9. ↑ The match took place at the Stadion Zwickau in Zwickau instead of TuS Koblenz's home stadium.
  10. ↑ The match will take place at the Sportanlage Sülzwiesen in Lüneburg instead of LSK Hansa's home stadium.
  11. ↑ The match will take place at the Nordsee-Stadion in Bremerhaven instead of Leher TS's home stadium.
  12. ↑ The match will take place at the Leimbachstadion in Siegen instead of TuS Erndtebrück's home stadium.
  13. ↑ The match will take place at the Schwarzwald-Stadion in Freiburg im Breisgau instead of 1. FC Rielasingen-Arlen's home stadium.
  14. ↑ The match will take place at the Stadion Lohmühle in Lübeck instead of SV Eichede's home stadium.
  15. ↑ The match will take place at the Sparda-Bank-Hessen-Stadion in Offenbach am Main instead of Würzburger Kickers's home stadium.
  16. ↑ The match will take place at the Scholz-Arena in Aalen instead of Sportfreunde Dormerkingen's home stadium.
  17. ↑ The match will take place at the Sportpark Husterhöhe in Pirmasens instead of SV Morlautern's home stadium.
  18. ↑ The match will take place at the Wildparkstadion in Karlsruhe instead of FC Nöttingen's home stadium.

References

  1. ↑ "DFB-Präsidium verabschiedet Rahmenterminkalender". dfb.de (in German). Deutsche Fußball Liga. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Modus" [Mode]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. 15 August 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "DFB-Präsidium beschließt vierte Einwechslung im Pokal" [DFB presidium establishes fourth substitution in the cup]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 "Im Fußballmuseum: Neues TV-Format für Pokal-Auslosungen". dfb.de (in German). Deutsche Fußball Liga. 24 May 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 "Rahmenterminkalender 2017/18". dfb.de (in German). Deutsche Fußball Liga. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "Kehl lost erste Runde in der ARD aus". dfb.de. 8 June 2017.
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