The 2021/22 DFB Cup season is already casting its shadow. All information about participants, dates and TV rights.
Who will win the DFB Cup 2021/22? The defending champion is Borussia Dortmund.
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The participants in the DFB Cup 2021/22:
In addition to the 36 professional teams from the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga from the past season, the four best-placed teams from the 3rd division from the previous season are sure to be there. In addition to these 40 teams, there are the 21 regional cup winners as well as one team from each of the three regional associations with the largest number of members: Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. Numerous decisions were made on the final day of the amateurs, others only later due to the corona. The DFB’s registration deadline is July 1st.
These 55 teams will definitely be in the DFB Cup in 2021/22:
Bundesliga: 1. FC Cologne, 1. FSV Mainz 05, 1. FC Union Berlin, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Augsburg, FC Bayern, Schalke 04, Hertha BSC, RB Leipzig, SC Freiburg , Werder Bremen, TSG Hoffenheim, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg
2. Bundesliga: 1. FC Heidenheim, 1. FC Nuremberg, Eintracht Braunschweig, Erzgebirge Aue, FC St. Pauli, Würzburger Kickers, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Holstein Kiel, Karlsruher SC, SC Paderborn, SpVgg Greuther Fürth, Jahn Regensburg, SV Darmstadt 98, SV Sandhausen, VfL Bochum, VfL Osnabrück
3. League: Dynamo Dresden, Hansa Rostock, FC Ingolstadt, 1860 Munich, Viktoria Cologne (as winner of the Middle Rhine Cup), Waldhof Mannheim (winner of the Baden state cup), SV Meppen (winner of the state cup of Lower Saxony), SV Wehen Wiesbaden (winner of the state cup of Hesse), 1. FC Magdeburg (winner of the State Cup Saxony-Anhalt, has yet to be confirmed by the association’s arbitration board)
Regionalliga: Preußen Münster (as the best Westphalian west regional league), Sportfreunde Lotte (as a finalist in the Westphalia Cup against the already qualified Münster), BFC Dynamo (as the winner of the Berlin State Cup), Wuppertaler SV (winner of the Lower Rhine Cup), SpVgg Elversberg (winner of the Saarland State Cup ), TuS RW Koblenz (winner qualification Rhineland), SSV Ulm (winner Landespokal Württemberg), SV Babelsberg (winner Landespokal Brandenburg), Lok Leipzig (winner Landespokal Sachsen)
Oberliga: Greifswalder FC (as the highest-ranking club in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, as Hansa Rostock is already qualified as a second division promoter)
The following participants are still open:
Two representatives from Bavaria (winner of the league cup and winner of the Toto cup)
A representative from Bremen
A representative from Hamburg (FC Eintracht Norderstedt or FC Teutonia 05 Ottensen)
A representative from Lower Saxony (Cup winners amateurs)
A representative from Schleswig-Holstein
A representative from southern Baden
A representative from the southwest
A representative from Thuringia
The dates of the DFB-Pokal season 2021/22:
6./7./8. August 2021: 1st Round
26./27. October 2021: 2nd round
18./19. January 2022: Round of 16
1./2. March 2022: quarter-finals
19./20. April 2022: semi-finals
21. Mai 2022: Final in Berlin
The DFB-Pokal 2021/22 live on TV:
As in the previous year, the pay TV broadcaster Sky will broadcast all 63 games live. ARD shows nine games per season live on free TV – one in each of the first two rounds, two each from the eighth to semifinals and the final. Free TV broadcaster Sport1 has the rights for one game from the first round to the quarter-finals. The broadcasting rights will soon be reassigned for the seasons 2022/23 to 2025/26.
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