1998 DFB-Ligapokal Final

The 1998 DFB-Ligapokal Final decided the winner of the 1998 DFB-Ligapokal, the 2nd edition of the reiterated DFB-Ligapokal, a knockout football cup competition.

The match was played on 8 August 1998 at the BayArena in Leverkusen. Bayern Munich won the match 4–0 against VfB Stuttgart for their 2nd title.^[1]

Route to the final

The DFB-Ligapokal is a six team single-elimination knockout cup competition. There are a total of two rounds leading up to the final. Four teams enter the preliminary round, with the two winners advancing to the semi-finals, where they will be joined by two additional clubs who were given a bye. For all matches, the winner after 90 minutes advances. If still tied, extra time, and if necessary penalties are used to determine the winner.^[2]

Match

Details

Bayern Munich

VfB Stuttgart

GK 1 Oliver Kahn CB 2 Markus Babbel CB 10 Lothar Matthäus (c)  67' CB 5 Thomas Helmer RWB 8 Thomas Strunz LWB 18 Michael Tarnat CM 11 Stefan Effenberg CM 17 Thorsten Fink RW 14 Mario Basler  61' LW 20 Hasan Salihamidžić CF 9 Giovane Élber  72' Substitutes: GK 22 Bernd Dreher DF 25 Thomas Linke MF 13 Jens Jeremies  67' FW 19 Carsten Jancker  72' FW 21 Alexander Zickler  61' Manager: Ottmar Hitzfeld

GK 1 Franz Wohlfahrt CB 2 Martin Spanring  35' CB 5 Frank Verlaat  46' CB 4 Thomas Berthold RWB 7 Kristijan Đorđević LWB 15 Mitko Stojkovski DM 20 Zvonimir Soldo CM 8 Michael Zeyer  27' CM 22 Krisztián Lisztes AM 10 Krasimir Balakov CF 11 Fredi Bobic Substitutes: GK 25 Marc Ziegler MF 17 Timo Rost  46' MF 18 Pablo Thiam  35' FW 9 Sreto Ristić  27' FW 13 Saša Marković Manager: Winfried Schäfer

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