32 teams play in the DFB Cup across Tuesday, 25th October and Wednesday, 26th October, knowing that they are just four wins away from making a dream final in the capital. DFB.de looks at the most important facts ahead of these 16 upcoming matches.
Dates: Second round matches take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the games on both days kicking off at 18:30 CEST or 20:45 CEST.
Match ball: The home side makes the decision as to which ball will be used in the DFB Cup. However Bundesliga teams generally tend to revert back to the ball they play with in the league every week, the Torfabrik. Whichever ball is to be used by the national team at the next international tournament will be chosen for the final in Berlin. For example, the ball for Euro 2016, the Beau Jeu, featured in last season’s DFB Cup final, whereas it will be the Confederations Cup ball that this season’s finalists will kick off with.
Searching for a 74th winner: The DFB Cup was founded in 1935, meaning that this season’s competition is the 74th in the tournament’s history. 25 different clubs have lifted the trophy, but there are just three cities where more than one team has gone all the way, with Essen (Schwarz-Weiß and Rot-Weiss), Munich (FC Bayern and TSV 1860) and Vienna (First Vienna FC and SK Rapid Vienna) all seeing two of their teams come out on top in previous years.
Kings of set-pieces: Two teams of set-piece specialists come up against each other in Freiburg. SC Freiburg scored three goals from set-pieces in the first round of the cup, the highest in the tournament’s history, while their opponents Sandhausen scored both their goals in a 2-1 victory over Paderborn from dead ball situations.
The Olympiastadion: Hertha BSC’s home ground has played host to the final every year since 1985. Bayern München lost the first ever cup final at the Olympiastadion 2-1 to Bayer 05 Uerdingen on 3rd May 1985. This season’s competition finale will be played on 27th May 2017.
Route to the final: To win the tournament, a team must progress through six rounds, every one of which is a knockout game. Should a match remain all square after 90 minutes, extra-time will follow and if the teams still cannot be separated, penalties will be the decider.
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32 teams play in the DFB Cup across Tuesday, 25th October and Wednesday, 26th October, knowing that they are just four wins away from making a dream final in the capital. DFB.de looks at the most important facts ahead of these 16 upcoming matches.
Dates: Second round matches take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the games on both days kicking off at 18:30 CEST or 20:45 CEST.
Match ball: The home side makes the decision as to which ball will be used in the DFB Cup. However Bundesliga teams generally tend to revert back to the ball they play with in the league every week, the Torfabrik. Whichever ball is to be used by the national team at the next international tournament will be chosen for the final in Berlin. For example, the ball for Euro 2016, the Beau Jeu, featured in last season’s DFB Cup final, whereas it will be the Confederations Cup ball that this season’s finalists will kick off with.
Searching for a 74th winner: The DFB Cup was founded in 1935, meaning that this season’s competition is the 74th in the tournament’s history. 25 different clubs have lifted the trophy, but there are just three cities where more than one team has gone all the way, with Essen (Schwarz-Weiß and Rot-Weiss), Munich (FC Bayern and TSV 1860) and Vienna (First Vienna FC and SK Rapid Vienna) all seeing two of their teams come out on top in previous years.
Kings of set-pieces: Two teams of set-piece specialists come up against each other in Freiburg. SC Freiburg scored three goals from set-pieces in the first round of the cup, the highest in the tournament’s history, while their opponents Sandhausen scored both their goals in a 2-1 victory over Paderborn from dead ball situations.
The Olympiastadion: Hertha BSC’s home ground has played host to the final every year since 1985. Bayern München lost the first ever cup final at the Olympiastadion 2-1 to Bayer 05 Uerdingen on 3rd May 1985. This season’s competition finale will be played on 27th May 2017.
Route to the final: To win the tournament, a team must progress through six rounds, every one of which is a knockout game. Should a match remain all square after 90 minutes, extra-time will follow and if the teams still cannot be separated, penalties will be the decider.
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The draw: There are two second round cup clashes featuring one team from the third division and one top division side. Sportfreunde Lotte, who provided a shock victory over Werder Bremen in the first round, now take on Bayer 04 Leverkusen. The second third-division club still left in the competition is Hallescher FC who will welcome Hamburger SV to their ground. The last remaining amateur team in the competition is Regionalliga side FC-Astoria Walldorf who face Bundesliga side Darmstadt 98 in the second round.
Record champion Schweinsteiger: Bastian Schweinsteiger has lifted the DFB Cup trophy more times than any other player, winning the coveted title a total of seven times with Bayern München. Close behind him are Oliver Kahn, Claudio Pizarro and Philipp Lahm with six victories each.
The trophy: The cup itself is exactly 52 centimeters high and weighs 12.5 lbs. Art experts value the object at €100,000 but the sentimental value of bringing home the trophy is undoubtedly far greater.
Record attendance: The highest-attended match in the history of the tournament was the semi-final between Borussia Dortmund and Carl Zeiss Jena on 18th March 2008, with 80,078 fans witnessing the home side book their place in the final with a 3-0 victory.
Hawk-Eye: Six stadiums will make use of goal-line technology in the second round, namely in Munich, Cologne, Dortmund, Mönchengladbach, Freiburg and Frankfurt. However there are two very important conditions that must be met for Hawk-Eye to be deployed. First, the technology must be pre-existing in any stadium in which it is used in cup games, something that is only the case for the 18 teams that play in the Bundesliga. Secondly, the chosen match ball must be compatible with the goal-line technology system.
Strong away record: Hamburger SV have scored in each of their last 17 away matches in the DFB Cup, netting 44 goals (2.6 per match). The last time Hamburg failed to score away from home in the DFB Cup was in a 1-0 defeat at FC Bayern in December 2005. Halleschen FC boast the record for scoring in the most consecutive away games in the competition, finding the back of the net 18 games in a row between 1935 and 1967.
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