The DFB makes it perfectly clear that the report today by the Sport-Informations-Dienst (SID) with the headline “The XXL-Cup is coming: The DFB-Pokal reform is a done deal” is false and is not based on any facts at all. The SID has since deleted the report and has requested that all media do not use it.
The DFB, as the organisers of the competition, and the DFL, which represents Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga teams, are in concrete discussions about the format of the DFB-Pokal from the 2019/2020 season, though no decisions have yet been made. “We want to stick to the policy of the minnows against the giants and to the principle of two pots for the draw – one for the professional clubs, one for the amateurs. Every amateur club who qualifies for the DFB-Pokal should have the chance of facing FC Bayern, Borussia Dortmund or any other dream opponent in the first round,” DFB President Reinhard Grindel said.
The DFB’s and the DFL’s own ideas are being discussed, though the resulting speculation about the future format of the competition is not reliable. The now retracted claim in the SID report, that the competition is being expanded, is not in accordance with the facts.
The DFB makes it perfectly clear that the report today by the Sport-Informations-Dienst (SID) with the headline “The XXL-Cup is coming: The DFB-Pokal reform is a done deal” is false and is not based on any facts at all. The SID has since deleted the report and has requested that all media do not use it.
The DFB, as the organisers of the competition, and the DFL, which represents Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga teams, are in concrete discussions about the format of the DFB-Pokal from the 2019/2020 season, though no decisions have yet been made. “We want to stick to the policy of the minnows against the giants and to the principle of two pots for the draw – one for the professional clubs, one for the amateurs. Every amateur club who qualifies for the DFB-Pokal should have the chance of facing FC Bayern, Borussia Dortmund or any other dream opponent in the first round,” DFB President Reinhard Grindel said.
The DFB’s and the DFL’s own ideas are being discussed, though the resulting speculation about the future format of the competition is not reliable. The now retracted claim in the SID report, that the competition is being expanded, is not in accordance with the facts.
