2016–17 DFB-Pokal

2016–17 DFB-Pokal
German Cup
Country Germany
Dates 19 August 2016 – 27 May 2017
Championship venue Olympiastadion, Berlin
Teams 64
Matches played 48
Goals scored 161 (3.35 per match)
Attendance 737,263 (15,360 per match)
Top goal scorer(s) Antonio Čolak
Vincenzo Grifo
Martin Harnik
Felix Klaus
Andrej Kramarić
Robert Lewandowski
(3 goals)
← 2015–16 2017–18 →
All statistics correct as of 26 October 2016.
Goals scored in penalty shoot-outs not included.

The 2016–17 DFB-Pokal is the 74th season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 19 August 2016 with the first of six rounds and will end on 27 May 2017 with the final at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.[1] The winner of the DFB-Pokal then will qualify for next year's edition of the UEFA Europa League, if not already qualified for the UEFA Champions League through league position.

Participating clubs

The following 64 teams qualified for the competition:[2][3]

Bundesliga
the 18 clubs of the 2015–16 season		 2. Bundesliga
the 18 clubs of the 2015–16 season		 3. Liga
the top 4 clubs of the 2015–16 season
Representatives of the regional associations
24 representatives of 21 regional associations of the DFB, qualified (in general) through the 2015–16 Verbandspokal[note 1]
  • Baden
Astoria Walldorf
SpVgg Unterhaching[note 3]
Jahn Regensburg
  • Berlin
BFC Preussen
  • Brandenburg
SV Babelsberg
  • Bremen
Bremer SV
  • Hamburg
Eintracht Norderstedt
  • Hesse
Kickers Offenbach
  • Lower Rhine
Rot-Weiss Essen
SV Drochtersen/Assel
Germania Egestorf/Langreder
  • Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Hansa Rostock
  • Middle Rhine
Viktoria Köln
  • Rhineland
Eintracht Trier[note 5]
  • Saarland
FC 08 Homburg
  • Saxony
FSV Zwickau[note 6]
  • Saxony-Anhalt
Hallescher FC[note 7]
  • Schleswig-Holstein
VfB Lübeck
  • South Baden
FC 08 Villingen
  • Southwest
SC Hauenstein
  • Thuringia
Carl Zeiss Jena
SG Wattenscheid
Sportfreunde Lotte
  • Württemberg
FV Ravensburg

Format

The trophy given to the champions.

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 runner-up of the Lower Saxony Cup is given the slot, along with the best-placed amateur team of the Regionalliga Bayern. For Westphalia, the winner of a play-off between the best-placed team of the Regionalliga West and Oberliga Westfalen also qualify. 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. For the first two rounds of the competition, a maximum of three players could be substituted, regardless of whether the match went into extra time. However, after a proposal by the German Football Association, the IFAB approved the use of a fourth substitute in extra time as part of a pilot project. This rule will go into effect starting with the round of 16 onwards.[4]

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 third qualifying 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.

The rounds of the 2016–17 competition are scheduled as follows:[5]

Round Draw date and time Matches
Round 1 18 June 2016, 23:30 CEST 19–22 August 2016
Round 2 26 August 2016, 22:45 CEST 25–26 October 2016
Round of 16 26 October 2016, 23:45 CEST 7–8 February 2017
Quarter-finals 28 February – 1 March 2017
Semi-finals 25–26 April 2017
Final 27 May 2017 at Olympiastadion, Berlin

Matches

A total of sixty-three matches will take place, starting with the first round on 19 August 2016, and culminating with the final on 27 May 2016 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.

Round 1

The draw was held on 18 June 2016 at 23:30.[6] Caroline Siems drew the games.[7][8]

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Round 2

The draw was held on 26 August 2016 at 22:45, with Oliver Bierhoff drawing the games.[9][10]

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Round of 16

The draw was held on 26 October 2016 at 23:45, with Fabian Hambüchen drawing the games.[11]

All times are CET (UTC+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 team of the Regionalliga Bayern also qualified.
  3. ↑ Since Bavarian Cup winners Würzburger Kickers already qualified via their 3. Liga position, finalists SpVgg Unterhaching took the spot.
  4. ↑ Both finalists of the Lower Saxony Cup qualify.
  5. ↑ Eintracht Trier qualified regardless of the outcome of the final of the Middle Rhine Cup, as combined football sections of clubs such as SG HWW Niederroßbach, the other finalists, are not allowed entrance into the DFB-Pokal.
  6. ↑ Since Saxony Cup winners Erzgebirge Aue already qualified via their 3. Liga position, finalists FSV Zwickau took the spot.
  7. ↑ Hallescher FC qualified regardless of the outcome of the final of the Saxony-Anhalt Cup, as 1. FC Magdeburg, the other finalists, already qualified for the DFB-Pokal their their 3. Liga position.
  8. ↑ In addition to the Westphalian Cup winners, the winner of a play-off between the best-placed team of the Regionalliga West and the best-placed team of the Oberliga Westfalen also qualified.

References

  1. ↑ "Erste DFB-Pokalrunde der Saison 2016/2017 vom 19. bis 22. August 2016". dfb.de (in German). Deutsche Fußball Liga. 4 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Die Wege in den DFB-Pokal" [The ways to qualify for the DFB-Pokal]. kicker.de (in German). kicker (sports magazine). 14 April 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "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 cup]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Rahmenterminkalender 2016/17". dfb.de (in German). Deutsche Fußball Liga. 4 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "DFB-Pokal: Auslosung der 1. Hauptrunde am 18. Juni live in der ARD". dfb.de. 27 May 2016.
  7. ↑ "Grindel und U 17-Europameisterin Siems losen erste Pokalrunde aus". dfb.de. 18 June 2016.
  8. ↑ "Jena vs. Bayern, Trier vs. BVB, Sachsenderby Dynamo vs. RB Leipzig". dfb.de. 19 June 2016.
  9. ↑ "Bierhoff zieht zweite Runde: Auslosung am 26. August in der ARD". dfb.de. 19 August 2016.
  10. ↑ "2. Runde: FC Bayern im Derby gegen Augsburg". dfb.de. 26 August 2016.
  11. ↑ "Hambüchen lost Achtelfinale in der ARD aus". dfb.de. 26 October 2016.

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