The season started on 30 August 2014 and finished with the championship final on 16 May 2015 in Heidelberg, interrupted by a winter break from December to late February.

Nominally the league should consist of twenty-four teams however only twenty-one fulfilled the licensing requirements for 2014–15.

[1] The defending champions were Heidelberger RK who defeated TV Pforzheim in the 2014 final to take out its tenth championship and fifth in a row.

[3] The league saw only minor changes compare to the previous season, having played at full strength of 24 clubs in 2013–14 instead of only 21 in 2014–15.

The knock-out stage was played in a single-game format with the higher seeded team enjoying home advantage and the winner advancing to the next round.

However, as the western division had only four clubs the fourth placed team in the south received a bye and direct entry into the championship round.

The same system applied to the northern and eastern division where the league strength required both games to take place.

The DRV-Pokal ranks as a second tier to the German championship but also functioned as a qualifying competition for the 2015–16 Rugby-Bundesliga.