Overview
63 of 64 teams have already qualified for the coming DFB Cup season. The lottery pots for the draw on June 6th at a glance.
In the first round of the DFB Cup, a professional team will be drawn together with an amateur team. There are two draw pots with 32 teams each.
The professional pool includes all Bundesliga teams from last season as well as the 14 best-placed teams in the 2nd Bundesliga. The teams in places 15 to 18 in the 2nd Bundesliga, the four best teams in the 3rd league and the 21 state cup winners go into the amateur pot.
If a third division team wins the national cup even though they have already qualified through their league placement, the loser in the final moves up. The regional associations with the most teams in play will receive the remaining three starting places.
Cup draw on Saturday, June 6th
The draw for the first round of the cup will take place on June 6th in the German Football Museum in Dortmund and will be broadcast live on Sportschau.
The lottery pots at a glance:
All 32 teams in the professional pot
- FC Bayern Munich (Bundesliga)
- Borussia Dortmund (Bundesliga)
- RB Leipzig (Bundesliga)
- VfB Stuttgart (Bundesliga)
- TSG Hoffenheim (Bundesliga)
- Bayer 04 Leverkusen (Bundesliga)
- SC Freiburg (Bundesliga)
- Eintracht Frankfurt (Bundesliga)
- FC Augsburg (Bundesliga)
- 1. FSV Mainz 05 (Bundesliga)
- 1. FC Union Berlin (Bundesliga)
- Borussia Mönchengladbach (Bundesliga)
- Hamburger SV (Bundesliga)
- 1. FC Cologne (Bundesliga)
- SV Werder Bremen (Bundesliga)
- VfL Wolfsburg (Bundesliga)
- 1. FC Heidenheim (Bundesliga)
- FC St. Pauli (Bundesliga)
- FC Schalke 04 (2nd Bundesliga)
- SV Elversberg (2nd Bundesliga)
- SC Paderborn (2nd Bundesliga)
- Hannover 96 (2nd Bundesliga)
- SV Darmstadt 98 (2nd Bundesliga)
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern (2nd Bundesliga)
- Hertha BSC (2nd Bundesliga)
- 1. FC Nuremberg (2nd Bundesliga)
- VfL Bochum (2nd Bundesliga)
- Karlsruher SC (2nd Bundesliga)
- Dynamo Dresden (2nd Bundesliga)
- Holstein Kiel (2nd Bundesliga)
- Arminia Bielefeld (2nd Bundesliga)
- 1. FC Magdeburg (2nd Bundesliga)
31/32 teams in the amateur pot
- Eintracht Braunschweig (2nd Bundesliga)
- SpVgg Greuther Fürth (2nd Bundesliga)
- Fortuna Düsseldorf (2nd Bundesliga)
- Prussia Münster (2nd Bundesliga)
- VfL Osnabrück (3rd league)
- FC Energie Cottbus (3rd league)
- Rot-Weiss Essen (3rd league)
- MSV Duisburg (3rd league)
- Waldhof Mannheim (winner of the Baden State Cup)
- Würzburger Kickers (runner-up Regionalliga Bavaria)
- 1860 Munich (2nd place in the Bavarian State Cup)
- VSG Altglienicke (Winner of the Berlin State Cup)
- VfB Krieschow (winner of the Brandenburg State Cup)
- SV Hemelingen (Winner of the Bremen State Cup)
- Hamburg Eimsbütteler Ballspiel Club (Winner of the Hamburg State Cup)
- SV Wehen Wiesbaden (winner of the Hesse State Cup)
- Hansa Rostock (winner of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Cup)
- Viktoria Cologne (winner of the Middle Rhine State Cup)
- SC St. Tönis (2nd place in the Lower Rhine State Cup)
- Lüneburger SK Hansa (winner of the Lower Saxony State Cup – amateur competition)
- SSV Jeddeloh 2 (Winner State Cup Lower Saxony – 3rd League/Regional League)
- Eintracht Trier (Winner of the Rhineland State Cup)
- 1. FC Saarbrücken (winner of the Saarland State Cup)
- Erzgebirge Aue (winner of the Saxony State Cup)
- Hallescher FC (winner of the Saxony-Anhalt State Cup)
- 1. FC Phönix Lübeck (winner of the Schleswig-Holstein State Cup)
- Bahlinger SC (winner of the South Baden State Cup)
- TSV Schott Mainz (winner of the Southwest Regional Cup)
- Carl Zeiss Jena (Winner of the Thuringia State Cup)
- SC Verl (Winner of the Westphalia State Cup)
- SG Sonnenhof Großaspach (winner of the Württemberg State Cup)
Still an open participant
- Champions of the Oberliga Westphalia
