Draw tonight
DFB Cup: These opponents threaten FC St. Pauli
06/06/2026 – 05:54 amReading time: 2 minutes
Important date for FC St. Pauli: The opponent in the first round of the DFB Cup will be drawn on Saturday. Which teams are in the draw.
Three weeks after relegation, the first important date of the new season awaits FC St Pauli: The first round of the DFB Cup will be drawn on Saturday evening.
The Kiezkickers were only eliminated in the quarter-finals last season. St. Pauli lost 3-0 at Bayer Leverkusen. The club celebrated its greatest success to date in the DFB Cup in 2006, when it reached the semi-finals as a regional league team. There it was over against FC Bayern Munich.
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As a second division team, St. Pauli belongs to the so-called professional pot. This means that one thing is certain: the “Kiezkicker” have to play away at the start, because the lower-class clubs enjoy home advantage in the first round.
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These are the possible opponents in the first round of the DFB Cup:
- Hansa Rostock
- Erzgebirge Aue
- Westfalia Rhynern
- Eintracht Braunschweig
- SpVgg Greuther Fürth
- Fortuna Dusseldorf
- Carl Zeiss Jena
- Energy Cottbus
- Prussia Münster
- Hallescher FC
- VfL Osnabruck
- Red and white food
- MSV Duisburg
- Würzburger Kickers
- SV Waldhof Mannheim
- VSG Altglienicke
- VfB Krieschow
- SV Hemelingen
- HEBC Hamburg
- SV Wehen Wiesbaden
- Victoria Cologne
- Lüneburg SK Hansa
- Eintracht Trier
- 1. FC Saarbrücken
- 1. FC Phoenix Lübeck
- Bahlinger SC
- SC Verl
- TSV Schott Mainz
- SC St. Tönis
- SG Sonnenhof Großaspach
- TSV 1860 Munich
- SSV Jeddeloh II
The first round of the DFB Cup will be played from August 21st to 24th, 2026. Sky shows all games live on pay TV. ARD has secured eight games including the final for free TV, while RTL is showing a total of seven matches.
On June 6th, the matches in the first round of the cup will be drawn live on the ARD Sportschau from 6 p.m.