2017–18 DFB-Pokal

German Cup

Country

Germany

Dates

11 August 2017 – 19 May 2018

Championship venue

Olympiastadion, Berlin

Teams

← 2016–17

2018–19 →

Goals scored in penalty shoot-outs not included.

The 2017–18 DFB-Pokal will be the 75th season of the annual German football cup competition. It will begin on 11 August 2017 with the first of six rounds and will end on 19 May 2018 with the final at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.^[1] The winner of the DFB-Pokal then will qualify for next year's edition of the UEFA Europa League, if not already qualified for the UEFA Champions League through league position.

Participating clubs

The following 64 teams qualified for the competition:

2016–17 Bundesliga all clubs	2016–17 2. Bundesliga all clubs	2016–17 3. Liga best four teams
1899 Hoffenheim FC Augsburg Bayer Leverkusen Bayern Munich SV Darmstadt 98 Borussia Dortmund SC Freiburg Borussia Mönchengladbach Eintracht Frankfurt Hamburger SV Hertha BSC Ingolstadt 04 1. FC Köln Mainz 05 RB Leipzig Schalke 04 Werder Bremen VfL Wolfsburg	1860 Munich Arminia Bielefeld VfL Bochum Eintracht Braunschweig Dynamo Dresden Fortuna Düsseldorf Erzgebirge Aue Greuther Fürth Hannover 96 1. FC Heidenheim Karlsruher SC 1. FC Kaiserslautern 1. FC Nürnberg SV Sandhausen VfB Stuttgart FC St. Pauli Union Berlin Würzburger Kickers	TBD TBD TBD TBD
24 representatives of regional associations, qualified through the 2016–17 Verbandspokal^{[lower-alpha 1]}
North Baden Cup winners: Bavarian Cup winners: Best amateur team of Regionalliga Bayern 2016–17^{[lower-alpha 1]}: Berlin Cup winners: Brandenburg Cup winners: Bremen Cup winners: Hamburg Cup winners: Hesse Cup winners:	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Cup winners: Middle Rhine Cup winners: Lower Rhine Cup winners: Lower Saxony Cup finalists^{[lower-alpha 1]}: Lower Saxony Cup finalists^{[lower-alpha 1]}: Rhineland Cup winners: Saarland Cup winners: Saxony Cup winners:	Saxony-Anhalt Cup winners: Schleswig-Holstein Cup finalists: South Baden Cup winners: South West Cup winners: Thuringia Cup winners: Westphalia Cup winners: Best amateur team of 2016–17 Oberliga Westfalen^{[lower-alpha 1]}: TBD Württemberg Cup winners:

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 The three regions with the most participating teams in their league competitions (Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Westphalia) are allowed to enter two teams for the competition.

Format

The trophy given to the champions.

Participation

The DFB-Pokal begins with a round of 64 teams. The 36 teams of the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, along with the top 4 finishers of the 3. Liga are automatically qualified for the tournament. Of the remaining slots, 21 are given to the cup winners of the regional football associations, the Verbandspokal. The 3 remaining slots are given to the three regional associations with the most men's teams, which currently is Bavaria, Lower Saxony, and Westphalia. The runner-up of the Lower Saxony Cup is given the slot, along with the best-placed amateur team of the Regionalliga Bayern. For Westphalia, the winner of a play-off between the best-placed team of the Regionalliga West and Oberliga Westfalen also qualify. As every team is entitled to participate in local tournaments which qualify for the association cups, every team can in principle compete in the DFB-Pokal. Reserve teams and combined football sections are not permitted to enter, along with no two teams of the same association or corporation.^[2]

Draw

The draws for the different rounds are conducted as following:^[2]

For the first round, the participating teams will be split into two pots of 32 teams each. The first pot contains all teams which have qualified through their regional cup competitions, the best four teams of the 3. Liga, and the bottom four teams of the 2. Bundesliga. Every team from this pot will be drawn to a team from the second pot, which contains all remaining professional teams (all the teams of the Bundesliga and the remaining fourteen 2. Bundesliga teams). The teams from the first pot will be set as the home team in the process.

The two-pot scenario will also be applied for the second round, with the remaining 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) in the first pot and the remaining Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga teams in the other pot. Once again, the 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) will serve as hosts. This time the pots do not have to be of equal size though, depending on the results of the first round. Theoretically, it is even possible that there may be only one pot, if all of the teams from one of the pots from the first round beat all the others in the second pot. Once one pot is empty, the remaining pairings will be drawn from the other pot with the first-drawn team for a match serving as hosts.

For the remaining rounds, the draw will be conducted from just one pot. Any remaining 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) will be the home team if drawn against a professional team. In every other case, the first-drawn team will serve as hosts.

Match rules

Teams meet in one game per round. Matches take place for 90 minutes, with two halves of 45 minutes. If still tied after regulation, 30 minutes of extra time will be played, consisting of two periods of 15 minutes. If the score is still level after this, the match will be decided by a penalty shoot-out. A coin toss will decide who takes the first penalty.^[2] A total of seven players are allowed to be listed on the substitute bench, with up to three substitutions being allowed during regulation. After approval by the IFAB during the previous season, the use of a fourth substitute is allowed in extra time as part of a pilot project.^[3]

Suspensions

If a player receives five yellow cards in the competition, he will then be suspended from the next cup match. Similarly, receiving a second yellow card suspends a player from the next cup match. If a player receives a direct red card, they will be suspended a minimum of one match, but the German Football Association reserves the right to increase the suspension.^[2]

Champion qualification

The winner of the DFB-Pokal earns automatic qualification for the group stage of next year's edition of the UEFA Europa League. If they have already qualified for the UEFA Champions League through position in the Bundesliga, then the spot will go to the team in sixth, and the league's third qualifying round spot will go to the team in seventh. The winner also will host the DFL-Supercup at the start of the next season, and will face the champion of the previous year's Bundesliga, unless the same team wins the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal, completing a double. In that case, the runner up of the Bundesliga will take the spot and host instead.

Schedule

The Olympiastadion in Berlin will host the final.

The rounds of the 2017–18 competition are scheduled as follows:^[4]

Round	Draw date and time	Matches
Round 1		11–14 August 2017
Round 2		24–25 October 2017
Round of 16		19–20 December 2017
Quarter-finals		6–7 February 2018
Semi-finals		17–18 April 2018
Final		19 May 2018 at Olympiastadion, Berlin

References

↑ "DFB-Präsidium verabschiedet Rahmenterminkalender". dfb.de (in German). Deutsche Fußball Liga. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
1 2 3 4 "Modus" [Mode]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. 15 August 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
↑ "DFB-Präsidium beschließt vierte Einwechslung im Pokal" [DFB presidium establishes fourth substitution in the cup]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
↑ "Rahmenterminkalender 2017/18". dfb.de (in German). Deutsche Fußball Liga. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.

External links

DFB-Pokal on kicker.de

DFB-Pokal

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