Five 3.Liga, 22 Regionalliga, 10 Oberliga and five 6. Liga clubs fought it out on Monday to claim the 21 regional association cup finals and book themselves a place in the first round draw of next season’s DFB Pokal.
The biggest shock came from 6. Liga side SV Linx, who came through 2-1 against Oberliga side FC 08 Villingen, while the clash of the clubs from Koblenz also saw a surprise result as 5. Liga TuS Rot-Weiss Koblenz won their Rheinland duel with higher-ranked Regionalliga side TuS Koblenz 1-0.
The battle of the two former Bundesliga clubs saw Rot-Weiss Essen beaten by Rot-Weiss Oberhausen 2-1 – and saw the latter claim a third Niederrheinpokal triumph. Viktoria Köln needed extra time to beat Alemannia Achen 2-0 in the Mittelrhein final.
North-East champions Energie Cottbus won 1-0 away at SV Babelsberg, while Northern champions SC Weiche Flensburg 08 were thorough in their 3-0 win triumph over Husumer SV from Schleswig Holstein. SV Elversbuerg from Saarland defeat South-West champions 1.FC Saarbrücken 1-0.
The 3.Liga sides with work to do also came through their regional play-off finals. FC Magdeburg beat FC Lok Stendal 1-0, though they had already qualified having been promoted to Bundesliga 2 this season, meaning Lok will take their place in the hat too. The same could be said of Paderborn, who beaz TuS Erndtebrück 4-2 and Karlsruher SC, who needed penalties to beat CfR Pforzheim. Hansa Rostock (2-1 v Mecklenburg Schwerin) and Carl Zeiss Jena (5-0 v BSC Wismut Gera) will also be in the first round draw.
Results Overview:
Sachsen: BSG Chemie Leipzig 1-0 FC Oberlausitz Neugersdorf
Niedersachsen: SV Drochtersen/Assel 5-1 SSV Jeddeloh II
Baden: 1. CfR Pforzheim 1-1 Karlsruher SC *KSC won 6-5 on penalties
Rheinland: TuS Koblenz 0-1 TuS Rot-Weiss Koblenz
Hamburg: Niendorfer TSV 0-2 TuS Dassendorf
Südwest: VfR Wormatia Worms 3-1 SV Alemannia Waldalgesheim (aet)
Sachsen-Anhalt: 1. FC Lok Stendal 0-1 1. FC Magdeburg
Westfalen: TuS Erndtebrück 2-4 SC Paderborn 07
Bremen: Blumenthaler SV 0-3 BSC Hastedt
Bayern: SpVgg Oberfranken Bayreuth 1-3 1. FC Schweinfurt 05
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: FC Hansa Rostock 2-1 FC Mecklenburg Schwerin
Thüringen: BSG Wismut Gera 0-5 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Südbaden: FC 08 Villingen 1-2 SV Linx
Schleswig-Holstein: Husumer SV 0-3 SC Weiche Flensburg 08
Niederrhein: Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 2-1 Rot-Weiss Essen
Brandenburg: SV Babelsberg 03 0-1 FC Energie Cottbus
Hessen: TSV Steinbach 2-0 KSV Hessen Kassel
Berlin: BFC Dynamo 2-1 Berliner SC
Saarland: SV 07 Elversberg 1-0 1. FC Saarbrücken
Württemberg: TSV Ilshofen 0-3 SSV Ulm 1846 Fußball
Mittelrhein: Alemannia Aachen 0-2 FC Viktoria Köln (aet)