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DFB-Pokal draw to take place on Sunday at the German Football Museum
The draw for the first round of the 2025/26 DFB-Pokal will be held at the German Football Museum on Sunday (15/6). Owen Ansah, who last year became the first German to run under 10 seconds for the 100 metres (9.99 seconds), will conduct the draw together with DFB vice president Peter Frymuth. The draw will start at 17:15 CEST.
The 64 teams in this season’s competition consist of all 36 clubs in Germany’s top two divisions and the top four sides from last season’s 3. Liga. The remaining teams are the 21 regional cup winners and three additional sides from the state associations with the most clubs (Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Westfalia).
Clubs from the amateur pot (which also includes Preußen Münster, Eintracht Braunschweig, SSV Ulm 1846 and SSV Jahn Regensburg, who finished in the bottom four in last season’s 2. Bundesliga) will all play at home in the first round.
The first round of the DFB-Pokal will be played between 15th and 18th August. Bundesliga winners FC Bayern and defending Pokal champions VfB Stuttgart will face one another in the DFL-Supercup that weekend, meaning their first-round fixtures will take place on 26th or 27th August. The final in Berlin is scheduled for 23rd May 2026.
The 64 teams:
Bundesliga: Bayern München, Bayer Leverkusen, Eintracht Frankfurt, Borussia Dortmund, SC Freiburg, 1. FSV Mainz 05, RB Leipzig, Werder Bremen, VfB Stuttgart, Borussia Mönchengladbach, VfL Wolfsburg, FC Augsburg, 1. FC Union Berlin, FC St. Pauli, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, 1. FC Heidenheim, VfL Bochum, Holstein Kiel
2. Bundesliga: 1. FC Köln, Hamburger SV, SV Elversberg, SC Paderborn 07, 1. FC Magdeburg, Fortuna Düsseldorf, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Karlsruher SC, Hannover 96, 1. FC Nürnberg, Hertha BSC, SV Darmstadt 98, Greuther Fürth, FC Schalke 04, Preußen Münster, Eintracht Braunschweig, SSV Ulm 1846 Fußball, SSV Jahn Regensburg
3. Liga: Arminia Bielefeld, Dynamo Dresden, 1. FC Saarbrücken, Energie Cottbus
Regional cup winners: SV Sandhausen (Baden), FV Illertissen (Bavaria), BFC Dynamo (Berlin), RSV Eintracht 1949 (Brandenburg), SV Hemelingen (Bremen), Eintracht Norderstedt (Hamburg), SV Wehen Wiesbaden (Hesse), Hansa Rostock (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Viktoria Köln (Middle Rhine), Rot-Weiss Essen (Lower Rhine), Blau-Weiß Lohne (Lower Saxony I), SV Atlas Delmenhorst (Lower Saxony II), FV Engers 07 (Rhineland), FC 08 Homburg (Saarland), 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig (Saxony), Hallescher FC (Saxony-Anhalt), VfB Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein), Bahlinger SC (South Baden), FK Pirmasens (South West), ZFC Meuselwitz (Thuringia), SG Sonnenhof Großaspach (Württemberg)
Winners of the Regionalliga Bayern: 1. FC Schweinfurt 05
Highest-placed Westphalian side in the Regionalliga: FC Gütersloh
Finalists of the Westphalia Cup: Sportfreunde Lotte*
*Lotte qualified as runners-up because the winners Arminia Bielefeld had already booked their place in the DFB-Pokal by finishing in first place in the 3. Liga.
