2025–26 DFB-Pokal
{{Infobox football tournament season
| title = DFB-Pokal
| year = 2025–26
| country = Germany
| venue = {{nowrap|Olympiastadion, Berlin}}
| dates = 15 August 2025 – 23 May 2026
| num_teams = 64
| winners =
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| continental_cup_title = Europa League
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| extra_information = Goals scored in penalty shoot-outs not included.
| prev_season = 2024–25
| next_season = 2026–27
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The 2025–26 DFB-Pokal will be the 83rd season of the annual German football cup competition. Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all teams from the previous year's Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga. The competition will begin on 15 August 2025 with the first of six rounds and will end on 23 May 2026 with the final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, a nominally neutral venue, which has hosted the final since 1985.{{cite news |url=https://www.dfl.de/de/aktuelles/rahmenterminkalender-fur-die-saison-2025-26/|title=Rahmenterminkalender für die Saison 2025/26: Bundesliga-Auftakt am 22. August 2025 – 2. Bundesliga startet am 1. August 2025|website=DFB.de |publisher=German Football Association |date=8 November 2024|access-date=8 November 2024|language=de}} 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). VfB Stuttgart are the defending champions.
The winner of the DFB-Pokal earns automatic qualification for the group stage of the 2026–27 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 Conference League play-off round spot will go to the team in seventh. The winners will also host the 2026 edition of the DFL-Supercup at the start of the next season, and will face the champions of the 2025–26 Bundesliga.
Participating clubs
The following teams qualified for the competition:
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| style="width:33%" | Bundesliga | style="width:33%" | 2. Bundesliga | style="width:34%" | 3. Liga |
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| Baden Bavaria{{refn|group=note|In addition to the Bavarian Cup winners, the best-placed amateur team of the Regionalliga Bayern also qualified.}}
Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse | Lower Rhine Lower Saxony{{refn|group=note|The Lower Saxony Cup was split into two paths: one for 3. Liga and Regionalliga Nord teams, and the other for amateur teams. The winners of each path qualified.}}
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Middle Rhine Rhineland Saarland Saxony | Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein South Baden Southwest Thuringia Westphalia{{refn|group=note|In addition to the Westphalian Cup winners, the best-placed Westphalian team of the Regionalliga West also qualified.{{cite web |url=https://flvw.de/de/oberliga-staffeltag-entscheidungsspiel-um-den-dfb-pokal-platz-wi.htm |title=Oberliga Staffeltag: Entscheidungsspiel um den DFB-Pokal-Platz wird abgeschafft |trans-title=Oberliga season day: Decisive game for the DFB-Pokal place is abolished |website=FLVW.de |publisher=Westphalian Football and Athletics Association |date=22 July 2022 |access-date=12 February 2023 |language=de}}}}
Württemberg |
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 four finishers of the 3. Liga automatically qualified for the tournament. Of the remaining slots, 21 were given to the cup winners of the regional football associations, the Verbandspokal. The three remaining slots were given to the three regional associations with the most men's teams, which were Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Westphalia. The best-placed amateur team of the Regionalliga Bayern will be 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 qualified. For Westphalia, the spot rotates each season between the best-placed Westphalian team of the Regionalliga West and the best-placed amateur team of the Oberliga Westfalen. For the 2025–26 DFB-Pokal, this spot will be awarded to a team from the Regionalliga. As every team is entitled to participate in local tournaments which qualified for the association cups, every team could 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.dfb.de/dfb-pokal/modus/ |title=Modus |trans-title=Mode |website=DFB.de |publisher=German Football Association |date=15 August 2012 |access-date=11 June 2015 |language=de}}
=Draw=
The draws for the different rounds are conducted as follows:
For the first round, the participating teams were split into two pots of 32 teams each. The first pot contained all teams which 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 was drawn to a team from the second pot, which contained all remaining professional teams (all the teams of the Bundesliga and the remaining fourteen 2. Bundesliga teams). The teams from the first pot were set as the home team in the process.
The two-pot scenario will be also 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) serve as hosts. This time the pots will not have to be of equal size though, depending on the results of the first round. Theoretically, it was even possible that there could 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 each. If still tied after regulation, 30 minutes of extra time will be played, consisting of two periods of 15 minutes each. 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.dfb.de/fileadmin/_dfbdam/270541-Heft_04_Spielordnung_Schiedsrichterordnung_20220930.pdf |title=Spielordnung/Schiedsrichterordnung |trans-title=Match rules/referee rules |website=DFB.de |publisher=German Football Association |at=sec. 46, par. 2.1.2 (p. 77) |date=30 September 2022 |access-date=12 February 2023 |language=de |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221217222738/https://www.dfb.de/fileadmin/_dfbdam/270541-Heft_04_Spielordnung_Schiedsrichterordnung_20220930.pdf |archive-date=17 December 2022}} A maximum of nine players can be listed on the substitute bench, while a maximum of five substitutions are allowed. However, each team is only given three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.{{cite web |url=https://www.dfb.de/fileadmin/_dfbdam/277458-Heft_05_Durchfuehrungsbestimmungen_20230201.pdf |title=Durchführungsbestimmungen zur DFB-Spielordnung und weitere Richtlinien |trans-title=Implementing regulations for the DFB match regulations and other guidelines |website=DFB.de |publisher=German Football Association |at=par. 30–31 (pp. 26–27) |date=1 February 2023 |access-date=12 February 2023 |language=de |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212162434/https://www.dfb.de/fileadmin/_dfbdam/277458-Heft_05_Durchfuehrungsbestimmungen_20230201.pdf |archive-date=12 February 2023}} From the round of 16 onward, a video assistant referee will be appointed for all DFB-Pokal matches. Though technically possible, VAR was not used for home matches of Bundesliga clubs prior to the round of 16 in order to provide a uniform approach to all matches.{{cite news |url=https://www.dfb.de/news/detail/pokal-ab-achtelfinale-mit-video-assistent-205868/ |title=Pokal ab Achtelfinale mit Video-Assistent |trans-title=Pokal from round of 16 with VAR |website=DFB.de |publisher=German Football Association |date=7 August 2019 |access-date=7 August 2019 |language=de}}
=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.
=International qualification=
The winners of the DFB-Pokal earn automatic qualification for the league 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 place, and the league's UEFA Conference League play-off round spot will go to the team in seventh place. The winners will also host the DFL-Supercup at the start of the next season, and will face the champions of the previous year's Bundesliga, unless the same team wins the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal, completing a double. In that case, the runners-up of the Bundesliga will take the spot and host instead.
Schedule
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All draws will generally be held on a Sunday evening after each round (unless noted otherwise).{{cite news |url=https://www.dfb.de/news/detail/auslosungen-des-dfb-pokals-im-neuen-tv-format-167941/ |title=Kehl lost erste Runde in der ARD aus |trans-title=Kehl draws the first round on ARD |website=DFB.de |publisher=German Football Association |date=8 June 2017 |access-date=8 June 2017 |language=German}}
The rounds of the 2025–26 competition are scheduled as follows:
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| Round
! Draw date ! Matches |
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| First round
| 15 June 2025 | 15–18 August & 26–27 August 2025 |
| Second round
| 31 August 2025 | 28–29 October 2025 |
| Round of 16
| 2 November 2025 | 2–3 December 2025 |
| Quarter-finals
| 7 December 2025 | 3–4 February & 10–11 February 2026 |
| Semi-finals
| rowspan=2|15 February 2026 | 21–22 April 2026 |
| Final
| 23 May 2026 at Olympiastadion, Berlin |
Matches
=First round=
The draw took place on 15 June 2025, with Owen Ansah drawing the matches.{{cite news |url=https://www.dfb.de/news/owen-ansah-lost-erste-pokalrunde-am-15-juni-aus|title=Owen Ansah lost erste Pokalrunde am 15. Juni aus|website=DFB.de |publisher=German Football Association |date=6 June 2025|access-date=6 June 2025|language=de}}{{cite news |url=https://www.dfb.de/news/fc-bayern-zu-gast-beim-sv-wehen-wiesbaden-eintracht-braunschweig-empfaengt-stuttgart|title=FC Bayern zu Gast beim SV Wehen Wiesbaden, Eintracht Braunschweig empfängt Stuttgart|website=DFB.de |publisher=German Football Association |date=15 June 2025|access-date=15 June 2025|language=de}} The matches take place between 15 and 27 August 2025.
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|id = FC Gütersloh v Union Berlin
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|time = 18:00
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|id = Sonnenhof Großaspach v Bayer Leverkusen
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|15|df=y}}
|time = 18:00
|team1 = Sonnenhof Großaspach
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|id = 1. FC Saarbrücken v 1. FC Magdeburg
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|15|df=y}}
|time = 18:00
|team1 = 1. FC Saarbrücken
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|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/1-fc-saarbruecken-1-fc-magdeburg-2397652
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|id = Arminia Bielefeld v Werder Bremen
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|15|df=y}}
|time = 20:45
|team1 = Arminia Bielefeld
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|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/arminia-bielefeld-werder-bremen-2397648
|team2 = Werder Bremen
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|id = BFC Dynamo v VfL Bochum
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|16|df=y}}
|time = 13:00
|team1 = BFC Dynamo
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|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/bfc-dynamo-vfl-bochum-2397664
|team2 = VfL Bochum
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|stadium = Stadion im Sportforum
|location = Berlin
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|id = FK Pirmasens v Hamburger SV
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|16|df=y}}
|time = 13:00
|team1 = FK Pirmasens
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|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/fk-pirmasens-hamburger-sv-2397676
|team2 = Hamburger SV
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|id = Eintracht Norderstedt v FC St. Pauli
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|16|df=y}}
|time = 15:30
|team1 = Eintracht Norderstedt
|score =
|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/eintracht-norderstedt-fc-st-pauli-2397665
|team2 = FC St. Pauli
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|location = Hamburg
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|id = Hansa Rostock v TSG Hoffenheim
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|16|df=y}}
|time = 15:30
|team1 = Hansa Rostock
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|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/hansa-rostock-tsg-hoffenheim-2397655
|team2 = TSG Hoffenheim
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|id = SV Sandhausen v RB Leipzig
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|16|df=y}}
|time = 15:30
|team1 = SV Sandhausen
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|id = Bahlinger SC v 1. FC Heidenheim
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|16|df=y}}
|time = 15:30
|team1 = Bahlinger SC
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|team2 = 1. FC Heidenheim
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|id = FV Illertissen v 1. FC Nürnberg
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|16|df=y}}
|time = 15:30
|team1 = FV Illertissen
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|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/fv-illertissen-1-fc-nuernberg-2397668
|team2 = 1. FC Nürnberg
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|id = SV Hemelingen v VfL Wolfsburg
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|16|df=y}}
|time = 15:30
|team1 = SV Hemelingen
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|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/sv-hemelingen-vfl-wolfsburg-2397677
|team2 = VfL Wolfsburg
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|stadium = Stadion am Berliner Ring
|location = Verden
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|id = VfB Lübeck v Darmstadt 98
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|16|df=y}}
|time = 18:00
|team1 = VfB Lübeck
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|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/vfb-luebeck-sv-darmstadt-98-2397666
|team2 = Darmstadt 98
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|location = Lübeck
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|id = Energie Cottbus v Hannover 96
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|16|df=y}}
|time = 18:00
|team1 = Energie Cottbus
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|id = Sportfreunde Lotte v SC Freiburg
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|16|df=y}}
|time = 18:00
|team1 = Sportfreunde Lotte
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|id = FV Engers v Eintracht Frankfurt
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|17|df=y}}
|time = 13:00
|team1 = FV Engers
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|team2 = Eintracht Frankfurt
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|id = Viktoria Köln v SC Paderborn
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|17|df=y}}
|time = 13:00
|team1 = Viktoria Köln
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|id = Atlas Delmenhorst v Borussia Mönchengladbach
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|17|df=y}}
|time = 15:30
|team1 = Atlas Delmenhorst
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|id = Lokomotive Leipzig v Schalke 04
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|17|df=y}}
|time = 15:30
|team1 = Lokomotive Leipzig
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|id = Jahn Regensburg v 1. FC Köln
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|17|df=y}}
|time = 15:30
|team1 = Jahn Regensburg
|score =
|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/jahn-regensburg-1-fc-koeln-2397660
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|id = Blau-Weiß Lohne v Greuther Fürth
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|17|df=y}}
|time = 15:30
|team1 = Blau-Weiß Lohne
|score =
|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/blau-weiss-lohne-spvgg-greuther-fuerth-2397656
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|stadium = Heinz-Dettmer-Stadion
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|id = ZFC Meuselwitz v Karlsruher SC
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|17|df=y}}
|time = 15:30
|team1 = ZFC Meuselwitz
|score =
|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/zfc-meuselwitz-karlsruher-sc-2397669
|team2 = Karlsruher SC
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|id = RSV Eintracht v 1. FC Kaiserslautern
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|17|df=y}}
|time = 15:30
|team1 = RSV Eintracht
|score =
|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/rsv-eintracht-1949-1-fc-kaiserslautern-2397672
|team2 = 1. FC Kaiserslautern
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|id = FC 08 Homburg v Holstein Kiel
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|17|df=y}}
|time = 18:00
|team1 = FC 08 Homburg
|score =
|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/fc-08-homburg-holstein-kiel-2397659
|team2 = Holstein Kiel
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|id = Hallescher FC v FC Augsburg
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|17|df=y}}
|time = 18:00
|team1 = Hallescher FC
|score =
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|team2 = FC Augsburg
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|id = SSV Ulm v SV Elversberg
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|17|df=y}}
|time = 18:00
|team1 = SSV Ulm
|score =
|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/ssv-ulm-1846-fussball-sv-elversberg-2397678
|team2 = SV Elversberg
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Donaustadion
|location = Ulm
|attendance =
|referee =
}}
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|id = Preußen Münster v Hertha BSC
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|18|df=y}}
|time = 18:00
|team1 = Preußen Münster
|score =
|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/preussen-muenster-hertha-bsc-2397661
|team2 = Hertha BSC
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Preußenstadion
|location = Münster
|attendance =
|referee =
}}
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|id = 1. FC Schweinfurt v Fortuna Düsseldorf
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|18|df=y}}
|time = 18:00
|team1 = 1. FC Schweinfurt
|score =
|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/1-fc-schweinfurt-05-fortuna-duesseldorf-2397649
|team2 = Fortuna Düsseldorf
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Sachs-Stadion
|location = Schweinfurt
|attendance =
|referee =
}}
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|id = Dynamo Dresden v Mainz 05
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|18|df=y}}
|time = 18:00
|team1 = Dynamo Dresden
|score =
|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/dynamo-dresden-1-fsv-mainz-05-2397647
|team2 = Mainz 05
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion
|location = Dresden
|attendance =
|referee =
}}
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|id = Rot-Weiss Essen v Borussia Dortmund
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|18|df=y}}
|time = 20:45
|team1 = Rot-Weiss Essen
|score =
|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/rot-weiss-essen-borussia-dortmund-2397671
|team2 = Borussia Dortmund
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Stadion an der Hafenstraße
|location = Essen
|attendance =
|referee =
}}
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|id = Eintracht Braunschweig v VfB Stuttgart
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|26|df=y}}
|time = 20:45
|team1 = Eintracht Braunschweig
|score =
|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/eintracht-braunschweig-vfb-stuttgart-2397670
|team2 = VfB Stuttgart
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Eintracht-Stadion
|location = Braunschweig
|attendance =
|referee =
}}
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|id = Wehen Wiesbaden v Bayern Munich
|date = {{Start date|2025|8|27|df=y}}
|time = 20:45
|team1 = Wehen Wiesbaden
|score =
|report = https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/dfb-pokal/2025-26/1-runde/sv-wehen-wiesbaden-bayern-muenchen-2397650
|team2 = Bayern Munich
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Brita-Arena
|location = Wiesbaden
|attendance =
|referee =
}}
=Second round=
The matches take place on 28 and 29 October 2025.
=Round of 16=
The matches take place on 2 and 3 December 2025.
=Quarter-finals=
The matches take place between 3 and 11 February 2026.
=Semi-finals=
The matches take place on 21 and 22 April 2026.
=Final=
The match take place on 23 May 2026.
Notes
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References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.dfb.de/dfb-pokal/start/}} {{in lang|de}}
- [http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/dfbpokal/startseite.html DFB-Pokal on kicker.de] {{in lang|de}}
{{DFB-Pokal}}
{{2025–26 in German football}}
{{2025–26 in European football (UEFA)}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dfb-Pokal 2025-26}}