2022–23 DFB-Pokal

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2022–23 DFB-Pokal
CountryGermany
Dates29 July 2022 – 3 June 2023
Championship venueOlympiastadion, Berlin
Teams64
2023–24 →

The 2022–23 DFB-Pokal will be the 80th season of the annual German football cup competition. Sixty-four teams will participate in the competition, including all teams from the previous year's Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga. The competition will begin on 29 July 2022 with the first of six rounds and will end on 3 June 2023 with the final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, a nominally neutral venue, which has hosted the final since 1985.[1] The DFB-Pokal is considered the second-most important club title in German football after the Bundesliga championship. The DFB-Pokal is run by the German Football Association (DFB).

The winner of the DFB-Pokal earns automatic qualification for the group stage of the 2023–24 edition of the UEFA Europa League. If they have already qualified for the UEFA Champions League through position in the Bundesliga, then the spot will go to the team in sixth, and the league's UEFA Europa Conference League play-off round spot will go to the team in seventh. The winner also will host the 2023 edition of the DFL-Supercup at the start of the next season, and will face the champion of the 2022–23 Bundesliga.

Participating clubs[]

The following teams qualified for the competition:

Bundesliga
the 18 clubs of the 2021–22 season 		2. Bundesliga
the 18 clubs of the 2021–22 season 		3. Liga
the top 4 clubs of the 2021–22 season
  • Erzgebirge Aue
  • Werder Bremen
  • Darmstadt 98
  • Dynamo Dresden
  • Fortuna Düsseldorf
  • Hamburger SV
  • Hannover 96
  • 1. FC Heidenheim
  • FC Ingolstadt
  • Karlsruher SC
  • Holstein Kiel
  • 1. FC Nürnberg
  • SC Paderborn
  • Jahn Regensburg
  • Hansa Rostock
  • SV Sandhausen
  • Schalke 04
  • FC St. Pauli
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
Representatives of the regional associations
24 representatives of 21 regional associations of the DFB, qualify (in general) through the 2021–22 Verbandspokal[note 1]

Baden

  • TBD

Bavaria[note 2]

  • TBD (CW)
  • TBD (RB)

Berlin

  • TBD

Brandenburg

  • TBD

Bremen

  • TBD

Hamburg

  • TBD

Hesse

  • TBD

Lower Rhine

  • TBD

Lower Saxony[note 3]

  • TBD (3L/RL)
  • TBD (Am.)

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

  • TBD

Middle Rhine

  • TBD

Rhineland

  • TBD

Saarland

  • TBD

Saxony

  • TBD

Saxony-Anhalt

  • TBD

Schleswig-Holstein

  • TBD

South Baden

  • TBD

Southwest

  • TBD

Thuringia

  • TBD

Westphalia[note 4]

  • TBD (CW)
  • TBD (OL)

Württemberg

  • TBD

Format[]

Participation[]

The DFB-Pokal begins with a round of 64 teams. The 36 teams of the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, along with the top 4 finishers of the 3. Liga are automatically qualified for the tournament. Of the remaining slots, 21 are given to the cup winners of the regional football associations, the Verbandspokal. The 3 remaining slots are given to the three regional associations with the most men's teams, which currently is Bavaria, Lower Saxony, and Westphalia. The best-placed amateur team of the Regionalliga Bayern is given the spot for Bavaria. For Lower Saxony, the Lower Saxony Cup is split into two paths: one for 3. Liga and Regionalliga Nord teams, and the other for amateur teams. The winners of each path qualify. For Westphalia, the best-placed team of the Oberliga Westfalen also qualifies.[2] As every team is entitled to participate in local tournaments which qualify for the association cups, every team can in principle compete in the DFB-Pokal. Reserve teams and combined football sections are not permitted to enter, along with no two teams of the same association or corporation.[3]

Draw[]

The draws for the different rounds are conducted as following:[3]

For the first round, the participating teams will be split into two pots of 32 teams each. The first pot contains all teams which have qualified through their regional cup competitions, the best four teams of the 3. Liga, and the bottom four teams of the 2. Bundesliga. Every team from this pot will be drawn to a team from the second pot, which contains all remaining professional teams (all the teams of the Bundesliga and the remaining fourteen 2. Bundesliga teams). The teams from the first pot will be set as the home team in the process.

The two-pot scenario will also be applied for the second round, with the remaining 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) in the first pot and the remaining Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga teams in the other pot. Once again, the 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) will serve as hosts. This time the pots do not have to be of equal size though, depending on the results of the first round. Theoretically, it is even possible that there may be only one pot, if all of the teams from one of the pots from the first round beat all the others in the second pot. Once one pot is empty, the remaining pairings will be drawn from the other pot with the first-drawn team for a match serving as hosts.

For the remaining rounds, the draw will be conducted from just one pot. Any remaining 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) will be the home team if drawn against a professional team. In every other case, the first-drawn team will serve as hosts.

Match rules[]

Teams meet in one game per round. Matches take place for 90 minutes, with two-halves of 45 minutes. If still tied after regulation, 30 minutes of extra time will be played, consisting of two periods of 15 minutes. If the score is still level after this, the match will be decided by a penalty shoot-out. A coin toss will decide who takes the first penalty.[3] A total of seven players are allowed to be listed on the substitute bench, with up to three substitutions being allowed during regulation. After approval by the IFAB in 2016, the use of a fourth substitute is allowed in extra time as part of a pilot project.[4] From the quarter-finals onward, a video assistant referee will be appointed for all DFB-Pokal matches. Though technically possible, VAR will not be used for home matches of Bundesliga clubs prior to the quarter-finals in order to provide a uniform approach to all matches.[5]

Suspensions[]

If a player receives five yellow cards in the competition, he will then be suspended from the next cup match. Similarly, receiving a second yellow card suspends a player from the next cup match. If a player receives a direct red card, they will be suspended a minimum of one match, but the German Football Association reserves the right to increase the suspension.[3]

Champion qualification[]

The winner of the DFB-Pokal earns automatic qualification for the group stage of next year's edition of the UEFA Europa League. If they have already qualified for the UEFA Champions League through position in the Bundesliga, then the spot will go to the team in sixth, and the league's UEFA Europa Conference League play-off round spot will go to the team in seventh. The winner also will host the DFL-Supercup at the start of the next season, and will face the champion of the previous year's Bundesliga, unless the same team wins the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal, completing a double. In that case, the runner up of the Bundesliga will take the spot and host instead.

Schedule[]

The Olympiastadion in Berlin will host the final.

All draws will generally be held at the German Football Museum in Dortmund, on a Sunday evening after each round (unless noted otherwise). The draws will be televised on ARD's Sportschau, broadcast on Das Erste.[6]

From the 2022–23 season, the schedule of the DFB-Pokal will be reformed, with fewer matches played simultaneously to increase attractiveness for television broadcasts. This includes the first round, in which two matches will be played on a Tuesday and Wednesday a month after the other matches in the round, and the round of 16, which will be split across two weeks.[7][8]

The rounds of the 2022–23 competition are scheduled as follows:[1]

Round Draw date Matches
First round TBD 2022 29 July – 1 August & 30–31 August 2022
Second round 4 September 2022 18–19 October 2022
Round of 16 23 October 2022 31 January – 1 February & 7–8 February 2023
Quarter-finals 12 February 2023 4–5 April 2023
Semi-finals 9 April 2023 2–3 May 2023
Final 3 June 2023 at Olympiastadion, Berlin

Matches[]

A total of sixty-three matches will take place, starting with the first round on 29 July 2022 and culminating with the final on 3 June 2023 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.

Times up to 29 October 2022 and from 26 March 2023 are CEST (UTC+2). Times from 30 October 2022 to 25 March 2023 are CET (UTC+1).

First round[]

The draw for the first round will be held in 2022.[6] Thirty of the thirty-two matches will take place from 29 July to 1 August 2022. The remaining two matches, involving the participants of the 2022 DFL-Supercup (played on 30 July), will take place on 30 to 31 August 2022.[1]

Notes[]

  1. ^ The three regions with the most participating teams in their league competitions (Bavaria, Lower Saxony, and Westphalia) are allowed to enter two teams for the competition.
  2. ^ In addition to the Bavarian Cup winners, the best-placed amateur team of the Regionalliga Bayern also qualify.
  3. ^ The Lower Saxony Cup is split into two paths: one for 3. Liga and Regionalliga Nord teams, and the other for amateur teams. The winners of each path qualify.
  4. ^ In addition to the Westphalian Cup winners, the best-placed amateur team of the Oberliga Westfalen also qualifies.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Zwei Monate WM-Pause: Rahmenterminkalender 2022/2023 fix" [Two-month World Cup break: 2022–2023 schedule set]. DFB.de (in German). German Football Association. 29 October 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Krombacher Westfalenpokal wird mit Dritt- und Regionalligisten fortgesetzt" [Krombacher Westphalian Cup is continued with 3. Liga and Regionalliga teams]. flvw.de (in German). Westphalian Football and Athletics Association. 21 April 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d "Modus" [Mode]. DFB.de (in German). German Football Association. 15 August 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  4. ^ "DFB-Präsidium beschließt vierte Einwechslung im Pokal" [DFB presidium establishes fourth substitution in the Pokal]. DFB.de (in German). German Football Association. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Pokal ab Viertelfinale mit Video-Assistent" [Pokal from quarter-finals with VAR]. DFB.de (in German). German Football Association. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Kehl lost erste Runde in der ARD aus" [Kehl draws the first round on ARD]. DFB.de (in German). German Football Association. 8 June 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Ausschreibung audiovisuelle Medienrechte: DFB-Pokal 2022/23 – 2025/26" [Tender for audiovisual media rights: 2022–23 to 2025–26 DFB-Pokal] (PDF). DFB.de (in German). German Football Association. 23 April 2021. pp. 2–4. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  8. ^ "Bis zu 15 Spiele im Free-TV: ARD und ZDF kaufen gemeinsam Rechte für DFB-Pokal" [Up to 15 games on free TV: ARD and ZDF jointly buy DFB-Pokal rights]. Sportbuzzer (in German). 21 July 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2021.

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