1987–88 DFB-Pokal

1987–88 DFB-Pokal
Country	West Germany
Teams	64
Defending champions	Hamburg
Champions	Eintracht Frankfurt
Runners-up	VfL Bochum
Matches played	72
Goals scored	249 (3.46 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Stefan Kuntz (5)
	← 1986–87 1988–89 →

The 1987–88 DFB-Pokal was the 45th season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 28 August 1987 and ended on 28 May 1988. Eintracht Frankfurt defeated VfL Bochum 1–0 thereby winning the trophy for the fourth time.^[1]

Matches[]

First round[]

28 August 1987

SV Südwest Ludwigshafen	1–6	SC Fortuna Köln
54' (o.g.)	report (in German)	Fuchs 9', 40' Baffoe 24', 52' Gede 70', 76' (pen.)

Attendance: 200

Referee: (Püttlingen)

28 August 1987

FC St. Pauli	0–3 (a.e.t.)	Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin
	report (in German)	110' Hellmann 112', 119'

Millerntor-Stadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 5.500

Referee: (Beckum)

28 August 1987

1. FC Pforzheim	3–2	1. FC Saarbrücken
Walz 12' Pfirrmann 25' 57' (o.g.)	report (in German)	Hintermaier 2' 50'

, Pforzheim

Attendance: 5.000

Referee: Stocker (Freiburg)

28 August 1987

	0–4	SV Werder Bremen
	report (in German)	Meier 34', 77' Neubarth 60' Ordenewitz 72'

Attendance: 12.000

Referee: (Hamburg)

28 August 1987

Eintracht Frankfurt	3–2	FC Schalke 04
Möller 16' Schulz 29' Balzis 72'	report (in German)	Thon 43', 63'

Waldstadion, Frankfurt

Attendance: 18.000

Referee: ()

28 August 1987

VfB Oldenburg	0–0 (a.e.t.)	VfL Bochum
	report (in German)

Marschweg-Stadion, Oldenburg

Attendance: 8.200

Referee: (Bremerhaven)

28 August 1987

VfL Wolfsburg	3–0	Hannover 96
Plagge 11' (pen.) Kretzschmar 46' Fiebich 81'	report (in German)

Attendance: 7.200

Referee: (Berlin)

28 August 1987

1. FC Kaiserslautern	3–1 (a.e.t.)	SV Waldhof Mannheim
Wolf 81' Emmerling 97' Wuttke 119'	report (in German)	Dais 23'

Betzenberg, Kaiserslautern

Attendance: 15.600

Referee: Dieter Pauly (Rheydt)

28 August 1987

Hamburger SV	3–0	FC 08 Homburg
Kaltz 15' (pen.) Gründel 34' Kastl 73'	report (in German)

Attendance: 4.500

Referee: (Kronberg)

28 August 1987

Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Frontzeck 55' Rahn 112'	report (in German)	Falkenmayer 61'

Attendance: 12.000

Referee: (Bremen)

28 August 1987

1. FC Köln	3–0	VfB Stuttgart
Littbarski 27', 37' Engels 90'	report (in German)

Radrennbahn Müngersdorf, Köln

Attendance: 30.000

Referee: (Berlin)

28 August 1987

Rot-Weiss Essen	1–3	FC Bayern Munich
54'	report (in German)	Wohlfarth 37', 54', 77'

Georg-Melches-Stadion, Essen

Attendance: 3.000

Referee: ()

28 August 1987

	0–5	Karlsruher SC
	report (in German)	Süss 10' Bogdan 34' 62' Biewendt 79' (o.g.) 90'

Attendance: 2.000

Referee: (Essen)

28 August 1987

SV Heidingsfeld	1–2	Bayer 05 Uerdingen
Winkler 37'	report (in German)	Kuntz 62' Herget 87'

Attendance: 6.000

Referee: (Heilbronn)

28 August 1987

Arminia Bielefeld	1–4 (a.e.t.)	SC Freiburg
57'	report (in German)	85' Sané 98' Higl 106' Schaub 109' (pen.)

Alm, Bielefeld

Attendance: 1.500

Referee: Hans-Jürgen Weber (Essen)

28 August 1987

TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus	0–5	Stuttgarter Kickers
	report (in German)	15' 33' Vollmer 57', 73' Schlotterbeck 81'

Attendance: 4.200

Referee: Junk

28 August 1987

RSV Würges	0–3	Fortuna Düsseldorf
	report (in German)	Thomas 34', 88' Weikl 81' (pen.)

Attendance: 4.000

Referee: (Sinzig)

28 August 1987

TSV Vestenbergsgreuth	0–4	SV Darmstadt 98
	report (in German)	5' 52', 89' Emig 60'

Attendance: 5.000

Referee: ()

28 August 1987

SV St. Ingbert	0–2	Union Solingen
	report (in German)	20' 68'

Attendance: 1.300

Referee: (Konz)

28 August 1987

Viktoria Aschaffenburg	4–0	SG Wattenscheid 09
Aulbach 4' Schäfer 40', 46' Lindenau 73'	report (in German)

, Aschaffenburg

Attendance: 5.000

Referee: ()

28 August 1987

VfR Aalen	1–2	Alemannia Aachen
Zeller 79'	report (in German)	Gries 20', 82'

Attendance: 1.900

Referee: (Eggenfelden)

28 August 1987

FSV Salmrohr	2–0	VfL Osnabrück
Rolshausen 36' Irmisch 82'	report (in German)

, Salmrohr

Attendance: 1.000

Referee: Paulus (Primstal)

28 August 1987

VfL Hamm	2–7	KSV Hessen Kassel
Wilhelm 63' Becher 90'	report (in German)	Drube 3' Th. Schmidt 30' Knauf 39' Hecking 45' (pen.), 57', 69' Scott 84'

Attendance: 1.300

Referee: Kreutz

28 August 1987

	0–1
	report (in German)	G. Tekale 67'

Attendance: 1.000

Referee: (Leiwen)

28 August 1987

SV Werder Bremen II	5–1	MTV Ingolstadt
Spannuth 14', 85' Krampe 23' Hanses 56' Rose 68'	report (in German)	Andresen 17'

Attendance: 300

Referee: Lüttig (Hamburg)

28 August 1987

Eintracht Braunschweig	2–3	1. FC Nürnberg
Posipal 44' Buchheister 85'	report (in German)	Eckstein 20' Schneider 33' Dittwar 59'

Stadion an der Hamburger Straße, Braunschweig

Attendance: 13.500

Referee: (Unna)

28 August 1987

KSV Baunatal	1–1 (a.e.t.)	SSV Ulm 1846
Lindemann 90'	report (in German)	Glückler 80'

Attendance: 1.000

Referee: (Einbeck)

28 August 1987

FV Offenburg	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Borussia Dortmund
Ritter 35' Wagner 60', 115'	report (in German)	Răducanu 34' Banach 49' Anderbrügge 105'

Attendance: 7.000

Referee: Schäfer ()

28 August 1987

VfB Lübeck	1–2	Schwarz-Weiß Essen
Jeschke 89'	report (in German)	Wirbitzky 22' Sassen 72'

Lohmühle, Lübeck

Attendance: 3.500

Referee: Wolfgang Engelmann (Hamburg)

28 August 1987

SC Concordia Hamburg	3–0 (a.e.t.)	SpVgg Erkenschwick
Witte 101' Malek 103' Petersen 109'	report (in German)

, Hamburg

Attendance: 800

Referee: Augar (Berlin)

28 August 1987

SC Preußen Münster	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
Riemann 63'	report (in German)	17'

Preußenstadion, Münster

Attendance: 4.500

Referee: (Leverkusen)

30 August 1987

Viktoria Köln	1–3	Hertha BSC
Herren 66'	report (in German)	Dietrich 2' Vogler 37', 63' (pen.)

Südstadion, Köln

Attendance: 2.000

Referee: Blütgen (Gelsenkirchen)

Replays[]

15 September 1987

SSV Ulm 1846	2–1	KSV Baunatal
Patzer 16' (o.g.) 79'	report (in German)	Dounogher 22'

Donaustadion, Ulm

Attendance: 800

Referee: (Schrobenhausen)

6 October 1987

Borussia Dortmund	5–0	FV Offenburg
Dickel 8' Mill 46', 81' Lusch 54' Pagelsdorf 87'	report (in German)

Westfalenstadion, Dortmund

Attendance: 5.600

Referee: Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder (Oberhausen)

6 October 1987

Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	0–2	SC Preußen Münster
	report (in German)	Riemann 20' Koop 70'

Niederrheinstadion, Oberhausen

Attendance: 1.200

Referee: (Herzogenrath)

13 October 1987

VfL Bochum	4–1	VfB Oldenburg
Woelk 27', 69' (pen.) Nehl 57' Fischer 83'	report (in German)	Voigt 90'

Ruhrstadion, Bochum

Attendance: 2.600

Referee: (Düsseldorf)

Second round[]

23 October 1987

1. FC Kaiserslautern	4–3	Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin
Kohr 9' Hartmann 19' Allievi 65', 88'	report (in German)	Schlumberger 20' Holzer 79' 83'

Betzenberg, Kaiserslautern

Attendance: 9.700

Referee: (Trier)

23 October 1987

SV Werder Bremen II	1–3	Hamburger SV
Eilts 73'	report (in German)	Kaltz 43' 62' Labbadia 68'

Attendance: 4.200

Referee: Zimmermann (Kiel)

23 October 1987

SC Preußen Münster	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Alemannia Aachen
Fleige 42' Knauer 86'	report (in German)	25' 31'

Preußenstadion, Münster

Attendance: 12.000

Referee: Heimann (Krefeld)

23 October 1987

	1–2 (a.e.t.)	VfL Bochum
Gentner 84'	report (in German)	Fischer 33' Hantzidis 112'

Attendance: 3.300

Referee: ()

23 October 1987

1. FC Pforzheim	2–0	SC Concordia Hamburg
Moutas 78', 88' (pen.)	report (in German)

Attendance: 4.800

Referee: Bauer (Ulm)

23 October 1987

Viktoria Aschaffenburg	1–0	1. FC Köln
Höfer 83'	report (in German)

, Aschaffenburg

Attendance: 12.000

Referee: (Stutensee)

23 October 1987

Eintracht Frankfurt	3–0	SSV Ulm 1846
Turowski 43', 64' Smolarek 62'	report (in German)

Waldstadion, Frankfurt

Attendance: 4.100

Referee: (Kemmern)

23 October 1987

KSV Hessen Kassel	3–1	Stuttgarter Kickers
Sippel 25', 48', 76'	report (in German)	Vollmer 54'

Auestadion, Kassel

Attendance: 3.000

Referee: (Steinhagen)

23 October 1987

Karlsruher SC	1–1 (a.e.t.)	1. FC Nürnberg
74'	report (in German)	Eckstein 65'

Wildparkstadion, Karlsruhe

Attendance: 15.000

Referee: (Rodalben)

23 October 1987

SC Fortuna Köln	1–0	SC Freiburg
Außem 74'	report (in German)

Attendance: 800

Referee: ()

23 October 1987

SG Union Solingen	1–2	Fortuna Düsseldorf
73' (pen.)	report (in German)	Fach 54' Demandt 89' (pen.)

, Solingen

Attendance: 7.000

Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher ()

23 October 1987

FSV Salmrohr	0–1	Borussia Dortmund
	report (in German)	MacLeod 26'

, Salmrohr

Attendance: 3.500

Referee: Markus Merk (Kaiserslautern)

23 October 1987

Schwarz-Weiß Essen	1–0	SV Darmstadt 98
Müffler 41'	report (in German)

Uhlenkrugstadion, Essen

Attendance: 5.500

Referee: Frorath (Köln)

23 October 1987

Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–2 (a.e.t.)	FC Bayern Munich
Hochstätter 78' 100'	report (in German)	Rummenigge 72' Dorfner 97'

Attendance: 34.000

Referee: (Neunkirchen)

24 October 1987

14:30

Hertha BSC	1–2	Bayer 05 Uerdingen
Rinke 90'	report (in German)	Kuntz 39', 56'

Olympiastadion, Berlin

Attendance: 5.600

Referee: (Lüneburg)

21 November 1987

VfL Wolfsburg	4–5 (a.e.t.)	SV Werder Bremen
Plagge 79' (pen.) Ansorge 89' Otto 90' Fiebich 90'	report (in German)	Neubarth 40' Ansorge 53' (o.g.) Kutzop 70' (pen.) Riedle 84' Ordenewitz 101'

Attendance: 10.000

Referee: Schmidt (Bad Hersfeld)

Replays[]

11 November 1987

Alemannia Aachen	0–1	SC Preußen Münster
	report (in German)	28' (o.g.)

Tivoli, Aachen

Attendance: 2.000

Referee: ()

11 November 1987

1. FC Nürnberg	2–1	Karlsruher SC
Eckstein 46' Philipkowski 50'	report (in German)	Bogdan 73'

Attendance: 7.400

Referee: (Eschweiler)

11 November 1987

FC Bayern Munich	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Matthäus 74' Rummenigge 93', 111'	report (in German)	57' Criens 110'

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 42.000

Referee: Heinz Werner (Auersmacher)

Round of 16[]

24 November 1987

Fortuna Düsseldorf	0–1	Eintracht Frankfurt
	report (in German)	Détári 77' (pen.)

Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf

Attendance: 6.500

Referee: Zimmermann (Kiel)

10 December 1987

SC Preußen Münster	2–3	SC Fortuna Köln
Koop 47' Gäher 79'	report (in German)	Baffoe 18' 32' 70'

Preußenstadion, Münster

Attendance: 22.000

Referee: (Pinneberg)

13 February 1988

Bayer 05 Uerdingen	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Borussia Dortmund
Fach 46' Witeczek 77' Kuntz 96'	report (in German)	Helmer 31' Hupe 87' Kutowski 119'

Grotenburg Stadion, Krefeld

Attendance: 13.000

Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher ()

13 February 1988

1. FC Pforzheim	1–1 (a.e.t.)	SV Werder Bremen
Pfirrmann 69'	report (in German)	Bratseth 7'

, Pforzheim

Attendance: 11.500

Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (Freiburg)

13 February 1988

KSV Hessen Kassel	0–1	Viktoria Aschaffenburg
	report (in German)	Höfer 66'

Auestadion, Kassel

Attendance: 8.000

Referee: (Bochum)

13 February 1988

1. FC Kaiserslautern	1–2	Hamburger SV
Moser 66'	report (in German)	Jakobs 41' Okoński 76' (pen.)

Attendance: 28.000

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

14 February 1988

FC Bayern Munich	3–1	1. FC Nürnberg
Nachtweih 20' Hughes 62' Matthäus 90' (pen.)	report (in German)	Andersen 33'

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 61.000

Referee: ()

14 February 1988

Schwarz-Weiss Essen	0–1	VfL Bochum
	report (in German)	Leifeld 57'

Uhlenkrugstadion, Essen

Attendance: 15.000

Referee: (Sinzig)

Replays[]

24 February 1988

Borussia Dortmund	1–2	Bayer 05 Uerdingen
Dickel 50'	report (in German)	W. Funkel 21' Kuntz 72'

Westfalenstadion, Dortmund

Attendance: 12.000

Referee: (Drentwede)

24 February 1988

SV Werder Bremen	3–1	1. FC Pforzheim
Neubarth 19' Ordenewitz 37' Riedle 43'	report (in German)	Mähler 30'

Weserstadion, Bremen

Attendance: 5.000

Referee: Hellmut Krug (Gelsenkirchen)

Quarter-finals[]

8 March 1988

Hamburger SV	2–1	FC Bayern Munich
Kastl 6' Gründel 45'	report (in German)	Matthäus 59'

Attendance: 45.000

Referee: (Bad Dürkheim)

8 March 1988

Eintracht Frankfurt	4–2	Bayer 05 Uerdingen
Détári 22' Sievers 33' Binz 55' Smolarek 64'	report (in German)	10' (o.g.) W. Funkel 39'

Waldstadion, Frankfurt

Attendance: 10.300

Referee: (Berlin)

9 March 1988

Viktoria Aschaffenburg	1–3	SV Werder Bremen
Lindenau 87'	report (in German)	Neubarth 7' Votava 31' Schaaf 55'

, Aschaffenburg

Attendance: 13.000

Referee: Hans-Jürgen Weber (Essen)

9 March 1988

VfL Bochum	4–1	SC Fortuna Köln
Leifeld 70', 83' Iwan 87' Epp 88'	report (in German)	Pförtner 29'

Ruhrstadion, Bochum

Attendance: 5.000

Referee: (Horb)

Semi-finals[]

12 April 1988

VfL Bochum	2–0	Hamburger SV
Kree 27' Iwan 60'	report (in German)

Ruhrstadion, Bochum

Attendance: 31.000

Referee: (Munich)

13 April 1988

SV Werder Bremen	0–1	Eintracht Frankfurt
	report (in German)	Schulz 45'

Weserstadion, Bremen

Attendance: 20.000

Referee: Dieter Pauly (Rheydt)

Final[]

28 May 1988

18:00 CEST

Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	VfL Bochum
Détári 81'	Report

Olympiastadion, West Berlin

Attendance: 76,000

Referee: (Drentwede)

References[]

^ "Spielstatistik Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 1:0 (0:0)" (in German). fussballdaten.de. 2008. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2008.

External links[]

(in German) fussballdaten.de

[1] "Spielstatistik Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 1:0 (0:0)" (in German). fussballdaten.de. 2008. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2008.

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