There are four rounds left until the final in Berlin. 32 teams remain in the 2014/15 edition of the DFB Cup. The second round takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday; DFB.de take a look at the 16 matches will take place this week.
Participants: 13 out of the 18 Bundesliga teams qualified for the second round. There are 12 2. Bundesliga clubs, four from the third division and three Regionalliga sides left in the competition.
Matches: There are two all-Bundesliga ties in the second round. Reigning champions FC Bayern München face Hamburger SV and Eintracht Frankfurt play Borussia Mönchengladbach. Second-division side FC St Pauli host Borussia Dortmund, Regionalliga outfit1. FC Magdeburg play Bayer 04 Leverkusen, and third-division teams MSV Duisburg and Chemnitzer FC host 1. FC Köln and Werder Bremen respectively.
The draw means that at least five sides who ply their trade below the top division will make it to round three. There are two games between fourth and second tier sides (Kickers Offenbach against Karlsruher SC and Würzburger Kickers against Eintracht Braunschweig). There are two all 2. Bundesliga ties: Kaiserslautern face SpVgg Greuther Fürth and RB Leipzig face Erzgebirge Aue. Third-tier outfit Dynamo Dresden face 2. Bundesliga side VfL Bochum.
Kick-off: There will be eight games on Tuesday and eight on Wednesday. There will be four 19:00 CET and four 20:30 CET kick-offs on each night.
Champions: 13 of the teams remaining in the competition have won the DFB Cup before. Bayern are defending the title and have won it 17 times. SV Werder Bremen are next in the rankings, having won the tournament six times. Other previous winners are 1. FC Köln und Eintracht Frankfurt (4 each), Hamburger SV, Borussia Dortmund and Borussia Mönchengladbach (3 each), Karlsruher SC, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and TSV 1860 München (2 each) and Bayer Leverkusen, Hannover 96 und Kickers Offenbach, who have won it once each.
Previous encounters: Hamburger SV and FC Bayern München have played 11 times before in the DFB Cup. Bayern have won seven times, including a 5-0 win in last year’s quarterfinals. Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Mönchengladbach have met three times before in the cup. Borussia have won two of those games.
First meetings: It will be the first time Würzburger Kickers and Eintracht Braunschweig, as well as 1899 Hoffenheim and FSV Frankfurt have faced each other in competitive football. Arminia Bielefeld vs. Hertha BSC, RB Leipzig vs. Erzgebirge Aue and FC St. Pauli vs. Borussia Dortmund will meet for the first time in the DFB Cup.
There are four rounds left until the final in Berlin. 32 teams remain in the 2014/15 edition of the DFB Cup. The second round takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday; DFB.de take a look at the 16 matches will take place this week.
Participants: 13 out of the 18 Bundesliga teams qualified for the second round. There are 12 2. Bundesliga clubs, four from the third division and three Regionalliga sides left in the competition.
Matches: There are two all-Bundesliga ties in the second round. Reigning champions FC Bayern München face Hamburger SV and Eintracht Frankfurt play Borussia Mönchengladbach. Second-division side FC St Pauli host Borussia Dortmund, Regionalliga outfit1. FC Magdeburg play Bayer 04 Leverkusen, and third-division teams MSV Duisburg and Chemnitzer FC host 1. FC Köln and Werder Bremen respectively.
The draw means that at least five sides who ply their trade below the top division will make it to round three. There are two games between fourth and second tier sides (Kickers Offenbach against Karlsruher SC and Würzburger Kickers against Eintracht Braunschweig). There are two all 2. Bundesliga ties: Kaiserslautern face SpVgg Greuther Fürth and RB Leipzig face Erzgebirge Aue. Third-tier outfit Dynamo Dresden face 2. Bundesliga side VfL Bochum.
Kick-off: There will be eight games on Tuesday and eight on Wednesday. There will be four 19:00 CET and four 20:30 CET kick-offs on each night.
Champions: 13 of the teams remaining in the competition have won the DFB Cup before. Bayern are defending the title and have won it 17 times. SV Werder Bremen are next in the rankings, having won the tournament six times. Other previous winners are 1. FC Köln und Eintracht Frankfurt (4 each), Hamburger SV, Borussia Dortmund and Borussia Mönchengladbach (3 each), Karlsruher SC, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and TSV 1860 München (2 each) and Bayer Leverkusen, Hannover 96 und Kickers Offenbach, who have won it once each.
Previous encounters: Hamburger SV and FC Bayern München have played 11 times before in the DFB Cup. Bayern have won seven times, including a 5-0 win in last year’s quarterfinals. Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Mönchengladbach have met three times before in the cup. Borussia have won two of those games.
First meetings: It will be the first time Würzburger Kickers and Eintracht Braunschweig, as well as 1899 Hoffenheim and FSV Frankfurt have faced each other in competitive football. Arminia Bielefeld vs. Hertha BSC, RB Leipzig vs. Erzgebirge Aue and FC St. Pauli vs. Borussia Dortmund will meet for the first time in the DFB Cup.
Watch out Werder: SV Werder Bremen won the tournament in 2008 but have struggled since then. In 2009, they lost 4-0 to FC Bayern in the final. This season is the first time Bremen have reached the second round since 2010. They have lost to third-division sides in the past three editions of the tournament: FC Heidenheim (2011), Preußen Münster (2012) and 1. FC Saarbrücken (2013). Chemnitzer FC, who Bremen face on Tuesday, have already knocked out a top-flight team this season. They beat Mainz in a dramatic first-round match.
Offenbach: Kickers Offenbach have a long tradition in the DFB Cup, including a sensational victory in the final in 1970 against 1. FC Köln. The third-division outfit have reached the quarterfinal and the third round in the past three years. In 2010/2011 they beat eventual German Champions Borussia Dortmund on penalties in the second round. In the 2012/13 they almost made the semi-finals, but lost narrowly to VfL Wolfsburg.
Goalscorers: Thomas Müller scored eight goals last season and was the competition’s top scorer. This year Stefan Kießling (Bayer Leverkusen) and Sven Schipplock (1899 Hoffenheim) top the charts with five goals each. The record number of goals by one player in a season is 14; Ernst-Otto Willimowski achieved that feat for TSV 1860 München in the 1941/42 season. It was matched by 1. FC Köln’s Dieter Müller in the 1976/77 campaign.
