2024–25 DFB-Pokal

The 2024–25 DFB-Pokal is the 82nd season of the annual German football cup competition.

[1] The DFB-Pokal is considered the second-most important club title in German football after the Bundesliga championship.

The winner of the DFB-Pokal earns automatic qualification for the group stage of the 2025–26 edition of the UEFA Europa League.

The winners will also host the 2025 edition of the DFL-Supercup at the start of the next season, and will face the champions of the 2024–25 Bundesliga.

The following teams qualified for the competition: Baden Bavaria[note 2] Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Lower Rhine Lower Saxony[note 4] Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Middle Rhine Rhineland Saarland Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein South Baden Southwest Thuringia Westphalia[note 6] Württemberg The DFB-Pokal began with a round of 64 teams.

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.

This time the pots did not have to be of equal size though, depending on the results of the first round.

[5] From the round of 16 onward, a video assistant referee will be appointed for all DFB-Pokal matches.

[6] 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.

All draws will generally be held on a Sunday evening after each round (unless noted otherwise).

[7] The rounds of the 2024–25 competition are scheduled as follows:[1] Times up to 27 October 2024 and from 30 March 2025 are CEST (UTC+2).

The following are the top scorers of the DFB-Pokal, sorted first by number of goals, and then alphabetically if necessary.