The football season is hardly over – we are already looking forward to the new season in the DFB Cup 2022/23. The draw for the first round of the DFB Cup was held in Dortmund on May 29th.
All information, dates for the new cup season, as well as all pairings of the 1st round in the DFB Cup are here for you at a glance.
DFB Cup: That’s new
Kicking off: The first round is now played earlier. Two games each on Saturday and Sunday will start at 1 p.m. instead of 3.30 p.m.
Stretched Round of 16: Instead of playing the quarter-finalists over two days, as before, the round of 16 games will now be stretched over two weeks.
TV: In the 22/23 season, 15 games will be shown on free TV. ARD and ZDF share the games. ARD showed 13 games live on free TV until last season.
DFB Cup: All games of the 1st round
These are the games in the first round of the new 2022/23 DFB Cup season:
- Jahn Regensburg – 1 FC Cologne
- FV Engers – Arminia Bielefeld
- VfB Luebeck – Hansa Rostock
- 1. FC Kaan-M. – 1. FC Nuremberg
- Schott Mainz – Hanover 96
- TSG Neustrelitz – Karlsruher SC
- Dynamo Dresden vs VfB Stuttgart
- Viktoria 89 Berlin – VfL Bochum
- Chemnitz FC – 1. FC Union Berlin
- SV Elversberg – Bayer Leverkusen
- BSV Rehden – SV Sandhausen
- FC Unity Wernigerode – SC Paderborn 07
- SV Rödinghausen – TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
- FV Illertissen – 1 FC Heidenheim
- Kickers Offenbach – Fortuna Dusseldorf
- Eintracht Braunschweig – Hertha BSC
- TSV 1860 Munich – Borussia Dortmund
- 1 FC Kaiserslautern – SC Freiburg
- SV Oberachern – Bor. Monchengladbach
- FC Ingolstadt 04 – Darmstadt 98
- SV Waldhof Mannheim – Holstein Kiel
- TuS BW Lohne – FC Augsburg
- SV Straelen – FC St Pauli
- SpVgg Bayreuth – Hamburger SV
- Erzgebirge Aue – FSV Mainz 05
- Energie Cottbus – Werder Bremen
- Bremen SV vs Schalke 04
- FC CZ Jena VfL Wolfsburg
- Stuttgarter Kickers – SpVgg Greuther Furth
- 1. FC Magdeburg – Eintracht Frankfurt
- FC Teutonia Ottensen – RB Leipzig
- Viktoria Cologne – Bayern Munich
DFB Cup: votes on the draw
Viktoria Cologne coach Olaf Janßen celebrates winning the Bitburger Pokal against Fortuna Cologne
Photo: Andreas Pohl
Viktoria Köln-Trainer Olaf Janßen (55) to the draw FC Bayern Munich: “More is not possible. I had a gut feeling before the draw. I think it’s cool. The anticipation is already huge.” The club is considering moving to the Rheinenergie Stadium for the game.
Otmar Schork (sports director) meets FC Magdeburg, an international cup winner
Photo: picture alliance / Eibner-Pressefoto
The third division champion FC Magdeburg meets the Europa League winner Eintracht Frankfurt! FCM sports director Otmar Schork (64): “Eintracht is a great draw. We got with the most attractive and difficult opponents. That will be a big challenge. We will make it as difficult as possible for Eintracht.”
Is BVB also looking forward to 1860 from coach Köllner?
Photo: picture alliance / Eibner-Pressefoto
1860 München-Coach Michael Köllner about her opponent in the DFB-Pokal Borussia Dortmund: “It’s a bit of a paradox, we secured qualification for the DFB Cup against Borussia Dortmund’s second team in order to play against the first team. This is an extremely difficult draw. We will prepare meticulously for this game and do our best. We hope that our fans in the Grünwalder Stadion will be able to enjoy another magical cup day or cup night.”
The really big opponent stayed for Unit Wernigerode out. Goalkeeper André Helmstedt comments on opponents in an MDR interview SC Paderborn: “It was a bit unfortunate. If you’re already playing in the first round of the DFB Cup, then it really has to be Dortmund or Bayern. We have to accept that and then eliminate Paderborn.”
DFB Cup: The dates in the 2022/23 season
This is how the winner RB Leipzig celebrated winning the DFB Cup 2022
Photo: ARD
The DFB Cup season starts on July 29th. The first round lasts until the end of August due to the participation in the Supercup of FC Bayern and RB Leipzig. The second round will be played in October 2022. After the turn of the year, the round of 16 will take place from the end of January. As every year, the DFB Cup final will be held on June 3, 2023 in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
- July 29 to August 1, 2022: 1 round
- 30./31. August 2022: 1st round, games of Bayern and Leipzig take place because of the participation in the Supercup
- 18./19. October 2022: 2nd round
- January 31/January 1 February and 7./8. February 2023: round of 16
- 4./5. April 2023: Quarterfinals
- 2./3. May 2023: semifinals
- 3. June 2023: DFB Cup final in Berlin
How did the draw go?
The game pairings of the first round in the DFB Cup were drawn from two containers. The balls of the teams from the Bundesliga and 2nd division were in the first pot, those of the amateur teams in the other pot. However: The 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th of the past second division season and those promoted to the second division end up in the amateur pot. This meant that there were 32 balls in each of the two pots.
In the draw, one ticket was drawn first from the amateur container and then from the other container. The team drawn first has home advantage.
Stephanie Mueller-Spirra moderated the ARD sports show, in which DFB Vice President Peter Frymuth and former professional Kevin Grosskreutz drew lots for the first round of the DFB Cup in the German Football Museum in Dortmund.
Foto: Getty Images for DFB
DFB-Pokal – All matches
All games in the overview you find in Sports image Sports data center.
