The big versus small duel is what makes the DFB Cup so attractive year after year. Almost every season at least one high-class team embarrasses itself against teams from the third, fourth or fifth division. In the upcoming games of the second round, there will be two duels between a regional league club (4th division) against a Bundesliga club – the highest class difference between the 16 remaining clubs: Preußen Münster receives Hertha BSC (Tuesday, 6.30 p.m. /Sky) and SV Babelsberg is expecting RB Leipzig (Tuesday, 6.30 p.m. /Sky). A success of the fourth division would be a sensation.
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Babelsberg knows how to take out a first division club. In the first round, the Potsdam team won against promoted Greuther Fürth on penalties. In the meantime, Münster had lost 2-0 to VfL Wolfsburg in terms of sport, but was subsequently able to continue at the green table due to the substitution error of the recently dismissed VfL coach Mark van Bommel
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The biggest surprise in this year’s competition was probably the first round of Eintracht Frankfurt at SV Waldhof Mannheim. The third division beat the highly favored Europa League participant 2-0 and screwed up new coach Oliver Glasner’s SGE debut. Now it’s time for the Mannheimers on Wednesday against Union Berlin (6.30 p.m. /Sky).
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Teams from different leagues meet eight times on Tuesday and Wednesday And every outsider hopes for his own little cup fairy tale – as the 1st FC Saarbrücken last achieved in the 2019/20 season. As the first fourth division team in cup history, the Saarlanders made it to the semi-finals on March 3, 2020.
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Cup miracle: The biggest sensations in DFB Cup history
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The Berlin AK sweeps Hoffenheim 4-0 off the pitch in 2012, Vestenbergsgreuth defeated the German champions FC Bayern in 1994 with goalkeeper Oliver Kahn 1-0. The SPORT BUZZER shows the biggest sensations in the history of the DFB Cup.
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TSV Vestenbergsgreuth didn’t make it that far, but the village club is still one of the biggest surprises in the history of the competition. In 1994/95, the then Regionalliga promoted team threw FC Bayern Munich 1-0 out in the first round.
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