DFB Cup 22/23: 2nd round will be drawn on September 4th

But not in the ARD!

And not as part of the usual ARD sports show, but on ZDF, which is celebrating its comeback this season after a ten-year break. The 2nd DFB Cup round itself will take place on October 18th and 19th, 2022.

These teams are still there:

Bundesliga:

1. FC Union Berlin
1.FSV Mainz 05
Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Monchengladbach
Eintracht Frankfurt
FC Augsburg
FC Schalke 04
SC Freiburg
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
VfB Stuttgart
VfL Bochum
VfL Wolfsburg
Werder Bremen

2. Bundesliga:

1. FC Heidenheim
1. FC Nürnberg
Arminia Bielefeld
Eintracht Braunschweig
FC St. Pauli
Fortuna Düsseldorf
Hamburger SV
Hannover 96
Karlsruhe SC
SC Paderborn 07
SSV Jahn Regensburg
SV Darmstadt 98
SV Sandhausen

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3. Liga:

SV Elversberg
SV Waldhof Mannheim

Regional and Major Leagues:

Stuttgart kickers
VfB Luebeck

Who is allowed to take part in the DFB Cup at the beginning?

In addition to the 36 professional teams in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga of the past season, the four best-placed teams in the 3rd Bundesliga from the previous season are sure to be there (Magdeburg has been determined so far).

These 40 teams are joined by the 21 state cup winners and one team each from the three state associations with the most members, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony.

The starting field of the 64 teams:

Bundesliga: 1. FC Cologne, 1. FSV Mainz 05, 1. FC Union Berlin, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Augsburg, FC Bayern, Hertha BSC, RB Leipzig, SC Freiburg, SpVgg Greuther Fürth , TSG Hoffenheim, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg

2. Bundesliga: 1. FC Heidenheim, 1. FC Nuremberg, Erzgebirge Aue, FC St. Pauli, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Holstein Kiel, Karlsruher SC, SC Paderborn, Jahn Regensburg, Schalke 04, SV Darmstadt 98, SV Sandhausen, Werder Bremen, Dynamo Dresden, Hansa Rostock, FC Ingolstadt

3. Liga: 1 FC Magdeburg,

Regional League: SpVgg Bayreuth (top-ranked Bavarian regional league team),

Oberliga: FC Unity Wernigerode (finalist of the Saxony-Anhalt state cup against already qualified Magdeburg),

The dates of the 2022/23 DFB Cup season:

1st round: 29/30/31 July; 1/30/31 August 2022:
2nd round: 18th/19th October 2022
Round of 16: January 31; 1st/7th/8th February 2023
Quarterfinals: 4th/5th April 2023
Semifinals: 2nd/3rd May 2023
Final in Berlin: June 3, 2023

Who is broadcasting the DFB Cup games?

Pay TV broadcaster Sky has the rights to broadcast all 63 games live. Instead of the previous 13, 15 games will be shown live on free TV from 2022/23, including the two semi-finals and the final. ARD and ZDF share these rights. ZDF is thus back in the DFB Cup business after more than ten years of a cup “broadcast break”.

Past finals:

21/22 RB Leipzig – SC Freiburg 5: 3 nE
20/21 Borussia Dortmund – RB Leipzig 4:1
19/20 Bayern Munich – Bayer Leverkusen 4:2
18/19 FC Bayern Munich – RB Leipzig 3:0
17/18 Eintracht Frankfurt – Bayern Munich 3:1
16/17 Borussia Dortmund – Eintracht Frankfurt 2:1
15/16 FC Bayern Munich – Borussia Dortmund 4: 3 nE
14/15 VfL Wolfsburg – Borussia Dortmund 3:1
13/14 FC Bayern München – Borussia Dortmund 2:0 nV

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