Four Bundesliga clubs and four second division clubs are still there
The draw took place in the German Football Museum as part of the sports show broadcast. The former Bundesliga star and current stadium announcer for Borussia Dortmund, Norbert Dickel, proved to have a good hand as the Losfee.
There was no longer any allocation to pots in the quarter-finals, every encounter was possible. The team drawn first plays at home.
The DFB Cup Quarterfinals (March 1st and 2nd)
1. FC Union Berlin (Bundesliga) – FC St. Pauli (2nd Bundesliga)
Hamburger SV (2nd Bundesliga) – Karlsruher SC (2nd Bundesliga)
Hannover 96 (2nd Bundesliga) – RB Leipzig (Bundesliga)
VfL Bochum (Bundesliga) – SC Freiburg (Bundesliga)
Who was allowed to take part in the DFB Cup at the beginning?
In addition to the 36 professional teams in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga last season, i.e. the three relegated teams Würzburg, Braunschweig and Osnabrück, the four best-placed teams in the 3rd division from the previous season are sure to be there. This year these are the climbers Dynamo Dresden, Hansa Rostock and Ingolstadt as well as 1860 Munich.
These 40 teams are joined by the 21 state cup winners and one team each from the three state associations with the most members, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony.
The starting field with 64 teams
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 Nuremberg, 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
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3. Garter: VfL Osnabrück, Eintracht Braunschweig, Würzburger Kickers, 1860 Munich, Viktoria Köln (winner of the Middle Rhine Cup), Waldhof Mannheim (winner of the Baden State Cup), SV Meppen (winner of the Lower Saxony State Cup), SV Wehen Wiesbaden (winner of the Hesse State Cup), 1. FC Magdeburg (Winner of the Saxony-Anhalt state cup, legal dispute with Graf Zeppelin 09 Abtsberg settled), 1. FC Kaiserslautern (after the association cup was abandoned: decision by the Southwest German Football Association), Türkgücü Munich (winner of the Bavarian association cup)
Regionalliga: Preußen Münster (as the best Westphalian west regional league team), Sportfreunde Lotte (as a finalist in the Westphalia Cup against Münster, which has already qualified), BFC Dynamo (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 State Cup Württemberg), SV Babelsberg (Winner State Cup Brandenburg), Lok Leipzig (Winner State Cup Saxony), SpVgg Bayreuth (Winner League Cup Bavaria), FC Eintracht Norderstedt (Winner State Cup Hamburg) , SC Weiche Flensburg 08 (winner of the Schleswig-Holstein State Cup), FC Carl Zeiss Jena (winner of Thuringia)
Oberliga: Greifswalder FC (as the highest-ranking club in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, since Hansa Rostock has already qualified as a promoted team from the second division), VfL Oldenburg (as the winner of the Lower Saxony amateur cup), FC 08 Villingen (South Baden state cup), Bremer SV (Bremen state cup)
The dates of the 2021/22 DFB Cup season:
1st/2nd March 2022: Quarterfinals
19/20 April 2022: semi-finals
21. Mai 2022: Final in Berlin
Who is broadcasting the DFB Cup games?
Pay TV broadcaster Sky has the rights to broadcast all 63 games live. ARD shows nine games live on free TV – one in each of the first two rounds, two each from the round of 16 to the semi-finals and finally the final. Free TV broadcaster Sport1 has the rights for one game from the first round to the quarter-finals. The broadcasting rights will be reassigned for the 2022/23 to 2025/26 seasons.
Past finals:
20/21 Borussia Dortmund – RB Leipzig 4: 1
19/20 Bayern Munich – Bayer Leverkusen 4:2
18/19 FC Bayern Munich – RB Leipzig 3:0
17/18 Eintracht Frankfurt – Bayern Munich 3:1
16/17 Borussia Dortmund – Eintracht Frankfurt 2:1
15/16 FC Bayern Munich – Borussia Dortmund 4: 3 nE
14/15 VfL Wolfsburg – Borussia Dortmund 3:1
13/14 FC Bayern Munich – Borussia Dortmund 2:0 aet
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