The 2024–25 DFB-Pokal is the 43rd season of the annual German football cup competition.
The competition will begin on 17 August 2024 with the first of six rounds and will end on 1 May 2025 with the final at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne, a nominally neutral venue, which has hosted the final since 2010.
[2] The following clubs qualified for the competition: Baden Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Lower Rhine Lower Saxony Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Middle Rhine Rhineland Saarland Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein South Baden Southwest Thuringia Westphalia Württemberg All clubs from the 2023–24 Frauen-Bundesliga and the four best-placed teams from the 2023–24 2.
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).
[3][4] The teams are split into a North and a South group.