DFB-Pokal draw on Saturday night

The draw for the first round of the 2024/25 DFB-Pokal will take place at 18:00 CEST this Saturday (1/6). Former Germany international Nils Petersen will conduct the draw with DFB vice-president Peter Frymuth at the German Football Museum.

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64 teams will be in the hat for the first round draw. All 36 teams from the top two divisions and the top four from the 3. Liga last season automatically qualify for the first round.

The rest of the draw is made up of the 21 regional cup winners, as well an extra team from the states of Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony (the states with the most clubs).

FC Schalke 04 are seeded for the first round and will play away against an unseeded team.

Participating clubs

Seeded teams:
Bayer Leverkusen, VfB Stuttgart, Bayern München, RB Leipzig, Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, 1. FC Heidenheim, Werder Bremen, SC Freiburg, FC Augsburg, VfL Wolfsburg, 1. FSV Mainz 05, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Union Berlin, VfL Bochum, 1. FC Köln, SV Darmstadt 98, FC St. Pauli, Holstein Kiel, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Hamburger SV, Karlsruher SC, Hannover 96, SC Paderborn 07, SpVgg Greuther Fürth, Hertha BSC, FC Schalke 04, SV Elversberg, 1. FC Nürnberg, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and 1. FC Magdeburg.

Unseeded teams:
Eintracht Braunschweig, SV Wehen Wiesbaden, Hansa Rostock, VfL Osnabrück, SSV Ulm 1846, Preußen Münster, Jahn Regensburg, Dynamo Dresden, 1. FC Saarbrücken, SV Sandhausen, Hallescher FC, Erzgebirge Aue, Rot-Weiss Essen, FC Ingolstadt, Arminia Bielefeld, Kickers Offenbach, Energie Cottbus, Carl-Zeiss Jena, Viktoria Berlin, Alemannia Aachen, TSV Schott Mainz, Teutonia Ottensen, Bremer SV, Greifswalder FC, 1. FC Phönix Lübeck, TuS Koblenz, SV Meppen, VfV 06 Hildesheim, FC 08 Villingen, VfR Aalen, Würzburger Kickers and Sportfreunde Lotte.

Schedule

First round: 16th to 19th August 2024*
Second round: 29th / 30th October 2024
Round of 16: 3rd / 4th December 2024
Quarter-finals: 4th / 5th and 25th / 26th February 2025
Semi-finals: 1st / 2nd April 2025
Final in Berlin: 24th May 2025

* Due to the Supercup being played on 17th August, double winners Bayer Leverkusen and runners-up VfB Stuttgart will play their first-round games on 27th or 28th August.

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