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Cup fever is rising: draw for the first round on Sunday in Dortmund!
The 2025/26 DFB Cup opener will be drawn on June 15th in Dortmund. 64 teams, including FC Homburg, are fighting for victory.
Cup fever is rising: draw for the first round on Sunday in Dortmund!
The DFB Cup draw for the 2025/26 season will take place on Sunday, June 15, 2025. This draw will take place in the German Football Museum in Dortmund and will be broadcast on television and online by ZDF from 5:15 p.m. Draw manager Owen Ansah, together with DFB vice-president Peter Frymuth, will chair the event, which will be moderated by Lili Engels.
Important for spectators: There are two lottery pots. The first pot, the “professional pot”, includes 32 clubs, including 18 Bundesliga teams and 14 of the best second division teams. The second pot, the “amateur pot”, also includes 32 teams, which consist of the winners of the state cups and the best third division teams, as well as four second division teams that have home advantage. 1. FC Kaiserslautern will also play an away game in the draw.
Participating teams
A total of 64 teams are taking part in the 2025/26 DFB Cup. These include 36 teams from the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga that automatically qualify. The four best-placed third division teams also receive a ticket. Second teams from DFL clubs are excluded from participation, meaning teams such as Stuttgart II, Dortmund II and Hannover II missed out on the top four of the 3rd division. In addition, 21 places will be awarded to the state cup winners. If a third division team that has already qualified wins the national cup, the loser of the final moves up.
The participating clubs are broken down as follows:
| 1st Bundesliga | 2nd Bundesliga | 3rd league | Regional league | State cup winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayern Munich | 1. FC Cologne | Arminia Bielefeld | 1. FC Schweinfurt | Hansa Rostock |
| Bayer 04 Leverkusen | Hamburger SV | Dynamo Dresden | FC Gütersloh | Red and white food |
| Eintracht Frankfurt | SV Elversberg | 1. FC Saarbrücken | – | – |
| Borussia Dortmund | SC Paderborn | – | – | – | SC Freiburg | 1. FC Magdeburg | – | – | – |
| 1. FSV Mainz 05 | Fortuna Dusseldorf | – | – | – |
| RB Leipzig | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | – | – | – |
| Werder Bremen | Karlsruhe SC | – | – | – |
| VfB Stuttgart | Hannover 96 | – | – | – |
| Borussia Monchengladbach | 1. FC Nuremberg | – | – | – |
| VfL Wolfsburg | Hertha BSC | – | – | – |
| FC Augsburg | SV Darmstadt 98 | – | – | – |
| 1. FC Union Berlin | SpVgg Greuther Fürth | – | – | – |
| FC St Pauli | FC Schalke 04 | – | – | – |
| TSG Hoffenheim | Prussia Münster | – | – | – |
| 1. FC Heidenheim | Eintracht Braunschweig | – | – | – |
| Holstein Kiel | SSV Ulm | – | – | – |
| VfL Bochum | Jahn Regensburg | – | – | – |
Important dates
The first round of the DFB Cup will take place from August 15th to 18th, 2025. While most teams are already competing in this first round, Bayern Munich and VfB Stuttgart have only scheduled their games for August 26th and 27th, 2025. The big final will be played on May 23, 2026 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium.
The anticipation for the DFB Cup is growing, and the coming months promise exciting encounters and numerous surprises. For further updates and details about the draw, fans can look forward to the live broadcast from ZDF and follow the latest information on the sports media websites, as reported by kicker.
In the meantime, 1. FC Kaiserslautern fans can look forward to possible away opponents that could arise in the first round, including established teams from the Bundesliga and rival teams from the 2nd league as well as the 3rd league and the regional leagues, as on der-betze-brennt mentioned.