You have to look back a long time to find a DFB Cup like the one in 2023/24. On board at the time: Bayern, who were kicked out by BVB, RWE, MSV, Schalke and SG Wattenscheid.
What a strange DFB Cup season. The favorites fly out of the competition, you can’t see that quickly.
With the mega surprise that FC Bayern Munich embarrassed themselves on Wednesday at third division club 1. FC Saarbrücken. Bayern are in good company: 1. FC Köln, Mainz 05, RB Leipzig, TSG Hoffenheim, SC Freiburg, FC Augsburg, Werder Bremen, 1. FC Heidenheim, Darmstadt 98, Union Berlin and VfL Bochum are also ahead of the upcoming one Round of 16 already out.
Six Bundesliga teams among the last 16 teams has never happened before. One would think. But that was also the case in the 1992/93 season. At that time there was still a qualifying round in which the then Bundesliga club SG Wattenscheid embarrassed themselves.
In the end there were only six teams from league one in the round of 16. With parallels to the current competition. Bayern were thrown out early, back then at BVB. And FC Homburg, who are in the round of 16 after beating Fürth, were also in the last 16 back then. They were eliminated there against 1. FC Nürnberg.
RWE will also remember the year fondly, because they defeated Schalke 04 in the first round before the Essen team had to give up against Chemnitz in the round of 16. By the way, the winner this year was Bayer Leverkusen.
The representatives from the RS catchment area in the 1992/93 cup season
BVB
VfL Bochum
SG Wattenscheid
VfL Bochum
Bayer 05 Uerdingen
MSV Duisburg
FC Remscheid
Red and white food
SpVg Beckum
Fortuna Cologne
Bundesliga teams that were eliminated in the first rounds (officially 3rd rounds, because back then there was still a qualifying round before all clubs got in)
1. FC Cologne (3:4 nE at MSV)
HSV (2:4 at Karlsruher SC)
Kaiserslautern (0:1 at Bayer Leverkusen)
Dynamo Dresden (2:3 against VfB Leipzig)
VfB Stuttgart (0:2 nV at Hansa Rostock)
1. FC Saarbrücken (1:2 at CZ Jena)
Bayern Munich (4:5 nE at BVB)
Schalke (0:2 at Rot-Weiss Essen)
VfL Bochum (1:2 against Hannover)
SG Wattenscheid (already out in qualifying against Salmrohr)
Uerdingen (0:1 against Hannover)
Gladbach (1:4 at KSC)
This is what the round of 16 looked like in 1992/1993
FC Carl Zeiss Jena – MSV 3:2 n. V.
FC Homburg – 1. FC Nürnberg 2:4 nE
Hertha BSC (A) – Hannover 96 4:3
TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen Hertha BSC 1:0
Fortuna Düsseldorf Karlsruher SC 0:1
Eintracht Frankfurt VfL Osnabrück 3:1
Rot-Weiss Essen – Chemnitzer FC 0:1
SV Werder Bremen – Borussia Dortmund 2-0
This is what the Bundesliga looked like in 1992/93, the last time there was such a debacle in the DFB Cup
SV Werder Bremen
Bayern Munich
Borussia Dortmund
Eintracht Frankfurt
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Karlsruhe SC
1. FC Kaiserslautern
VfB Stuttgart
Borussia Monchengladbach
FC Schalke 04
1. FC Cologne
Hamburger SV
1. FC Nürnberg
SG Wattenscheid 09
VfL Bochum
1. FC Dynamo Dresden
Bayer 05 Uerdingen
1. FC Saarbrücken
#Weisse #noch.. #DFB #Cup #strange #year
