Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) – With six clubs in three finals, North Rhine-Westphalia is represented on the nationwide final day of the amateurs this Saturday. Outstanding from a West German perspective is the Middle Rhine duel between the regional league team Alemannia Aachen and the fifth-class 1. FC Düren (4.45 p.m.) in Bonn. Mainly because the opponent in the first DFB Cup main round is extremely tempting for the winner of this game.
Because on September 11th (8.45 p.m.) the Middle Rhine Cup winner will host none other than the German record champions and Champions League finalists FC Bayern Munich. This game will also be broadcast live on Sport1, which guarantees additional income. While Alemannia coach Stefan Vollmerhausen is pushing a possible meeting with the record winner Bayern Munich, Düren’s sporting director Dirk Ruhrig admitted frankly: “Of course you can’t completely ignore that. I think the players are already in Bayern Have a head. But first we are dealing with Aachen, it will be difficult enough. “
Already at 2:45 p.m. the traditional club Rot-Weiss Essen (regional league) and the upper league team 1. FC Kleve will meet in the fight for the Lower Rhine Cup. In the Westphalia Cup final, the two top division clubs RSV Meinerzhagen and SV Schermbeck (5.45 p.m.) face each other. In these finals, too, advancing is definitely worth it. The Niederrhein winner welcomes Bundesliga promoted Arminia Bielefeld in the first round of the DFB Cup.
The opponent of the Westphalian winner has not yet been determined because there will be a second playoff in the west next Tuesday (6.30 p.m.) in Kamen. There, the Regionalliga-promoted SV Rödinghausen and Oberliga champion SC Wiedenbrück play for a place in the DFB Cup main round. So there are two places there for the strong Football and Athletics Association Westphalia (FLVW). Whoever is Westphalia 1 and who is Westphalia 2 at the end will only be drawn after this game. Main round opponents of the two Westfalen representatives are the second division clubs Spvgg Greuther Fürth and SC Paderborn.
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