DFB Cup: Round of 16 drawn – These are the encounters

Round of 16 on December 5th & 6th

The eight matches in the round of 16 in the DFB Cup were drawn at the German Football Museum in Dortmund on Sunday afternoon. Bundesliga table leaders Bayer 04 Leverkusen, one of only six remaining clubs from the upper house, face SC Paderborn. Borussia Dortmund has to go to VfB Stuttgart, Eintracht Frankfurt plays against Bayern-Schreck 1. FC Saarbrücken. The round of 16 will take place on December 5th and 6th.

Para-athlete Denise Schindler drew the tickets, and DFB Vice President Peter Frymuth was the draw manager. There is home advantage for 1. FC Saarbrücken (3rd league) and the regional league team FC Homburg, who want to create a sensation against FC St. Pauli.

The quarterfinals will take place at the end of January and beginning of February, the semifinals on April 2nd and 3rd. The final in the Berlin Olympic Stadium is scheduled for May 25, 2024. The record winner of the competition is FC Bayern (20 titles) ahead of Werder Bremen (five).

DFB Cup: Which teams are or were there – regulations for 2023/24

In addition to the 36 professional clubs from the federal leagues, the four top teams from last season in the 3rd league also qualified for the 2023/24 DFB Cup. Since SC Freiburg II is not eligible to take part, Saarbrücken moved up to fifth place in the third division. There were also the 21 state cup winners and a team each from Bavaria, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. These are the regional associations of the German Football Association with the largest number of members. Since the local cup finalists Elversberg and Saarbrücken in Saarland had already qualified in the 3rd league, FC Homburg moved up, winning a playoff and surprisingly throwing out SpVgg Greuther Fürth in round two.

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