DFB-Pokal 2021/22: Participants and TV broadcast

The first round of the DFB Cup will be drawn on July 4th. © Marius Becker / dpa

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DFB-Pokal – The draw for the first round will take place on July 4th. Who does SV Waldhof meet? Teams and TV broadcast – all information about the draw:

The DFB Cup is one of the first highlights of the 2021/22 soccer season. The first round of the DFB Cup will take place from 6 to 8 August 2021. The draw will take place at the beginning of July. As the winner of the Badischer Pokal, SV Waldhof Mannheim has qualified for the DFB Cup for the third time in a row. The Mannheim team failed in the first round at Eintracht Frankfurt in 2019 and at SC Freiburg in 2020. Will there be a duel with the reigning cup winners Borussia Dortmund or the record cup winners FC Bayern Munich in 2021? In addition to SVW, the Bundesliga clubs TSG Hoffenheim, SC Freiburg and VfB Stuttgart from Baden-Württemberg, as well as the second division clubs Karlsruher SC and SV Sandhausen, are taking part in the DFB Cup.

DFB-Pokal: When does the draw take place and which clubs take part in the first round?

The draw for the first round of the DFB Cup will take place on Sunday, July 4th at 6:30 p.m. The ARD will broadcast these live on free TV and free of charge in the live stream. “Losfee” is ARD expert Thomas Broich. Stephanie Müller-Spirra will be the moderator and Peter Frymuth will be there live as the drawing director. Who takes part in the DFB Cup? All clubs from the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga have qualified directly for the DFB Cup, as have the four best-placed teams in the 3rd division.

In addition, there are the regional cup winners and three clubs from the three regional associations with the largest number of members. A total of 64 teams take part in the DFB Cup. The DFB-Pokal will also be broadcast live in full on the pay TV broadcaster Sky in the 2021/22 season. ARD and Sport1 also show selected games live on free TV and free of charge in the stream.

DFB-Pokal – 1st round: All participants in the overview

• 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, Hertha BSC, RB Leipzig, SC Freiburg, SpVgg Greuther Fürth, TSG Hoffenheim, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg
• 2. Bundesliga: 1. FC Heidenheim, 1. FC Nürnberg, Erzgebirge Aue, FC St. Pauli, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Holstein Kiel, Karlsruher SC, SC Paderborn, Jahn Regensburg, Schalke 04, SV Darmstadt 98, SV Sandhausen, Werder Bremen, Dynamo Dresden, Hansa Rostock, FC Ingolstadt
• 3. League: VfL Osnabrück, Eintracht Braunschweig, Würzburger Kickers, 1860 Munich, Viktoria Cologne, SV Waldhof Mannheim, SV Meppen, SV Wehen Wiesbaden, 1. FC Magdeburg, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Türkgücü Munich
• Regionalliga: Preußen Münster, Sportfreunde Lotte, BFC Dynamo, Wuppertaler SV, SV Elversberg, TuS RW Koblenz, SSV Ulm, SV Babelsberg, Lok Leipzig, SpVgg Bayreuth, FC Eintracht Norderstedt, SC Weiche Flensburg 08, Carl Zeiss Jena
• Oberliga: Greifswalder FC, VfL Oldenburg, FC 08 Villingen, Bremer SV

DFB-Pokal 2021/22: All dates at a glance

• Round 1: 6./7./8. / 9. August 2021
• Round 2: 26./27. October 2021:
• Round of 16: 18./19. January 2022
• Quarter-finals: 1./2. March 2022
• Semi-finals: 19./20. April 2022
• Final: May 21, 2022

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