DFB-Pokal 2020/21

DFB-Pokal 2020/21
Final Location	Olympiastadion, Berlin
Winner	DVD
Runners Up	RB Leipzig
Top Scorer	Jadon Sancho (6)
Competitions
Previous Competition	DFB-Pokal 2019/20
Next Competition	DFB-Pokal 2021/22

The 20/21 DFB-Pokal was the 78th edition of the DFB-Pokal, including 64 teams from 3 different divisions of german football. The competition suffered various effects from the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, the competition was delayed, and the teams were enabled to use 5 substitutions due to the impact of fixture congestion in the pandemic.

Participating teams

All 18 Bayernsliga 2019/20 teams	All 18 2. Bundesliga 2019/20 teams	Best 4 3. Liga 2019/20 teams
FC Buttplugs Hertha Locker Onion Berlin River Island DVD Fortuna Düsseldorf Eintracht Frankfart AsteriSC Freiburg The Hoff Colon RB Leipzig Better than Bayer(n) Leverkusen Beanz Mainz Heinz Borussia Monchengladcack FC Buyern Monstermunchen SC Paderporned Schanze 04 Wolvesburger	Erzgebirge Aue Armenia Bielefield VfL Bochum Darmstadt Boy Scouts Dynamo Dresden SpVgg Greuther Fürth Hamburger SV Hannover 96 1. FC Heidenheim Karlsruher SC Hollywood Kiel 1. FC Nürnberg VfL Osnabrück Jahn Regensburg SV Sandhausen FC St. Pauli St-t-t-utterg-g-gart Wehen Wiesbaden	Würzburger Kickers Eintracht Braunschweig Ingolshaton MSV Duisburg
Qualified through regional cups
Baden Waldhof Mannheim Bavaria 1860 Münich (CW) 1. FC Schweinfurt (RB) Berlin VSG Altglienicke Brandenburg Union Fürstenwalde Bremen FC Oberneuland Hamburg Eintracht Norderstedt Hesse TSV Steinbach Haiger	Lower Rhine Rot-Weiss Essen Lower Saxony TSV Havelse (3L/RL) Eintracht Celle (amateur cup winners) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Hansa Rostock Middle Rhine 1. FC Düren Rhineland FV Engers Saarland SV Elversberg Saxony Chemnitzer FC	Saxony-Anhalt 1. FC Magdeburg Schleswig-Holstein SV Todesfelde South Baden 1. FC Rielasingen-Arlen Southwest Kaiserslautern Thuringia Carl Ziess Jena Westphalia RSV Meinerzhagen SC Wiedenbrück Württemberg SSV Ulm

Tournament progress

Knockout stage

• D(N) meaning division. (example; D1 = Division 1, D2 = Division 2, etc.)
• Winner in bold.
• LR is an acronym for Lower Rhine.
• A third place match was not played, so their total goal difference across the competition will be used to place third and fourth place.

Round of 16

Quarter-Final

Semi-Final

Final

D1

RB Leipzig

4

D2

VfL Bochum

0

D1

RB Leipzig

2

D1

Wolvesburger

0

D1

Wolvesburger

1

D1

Schanze 04

0

D1

RB Leipzig

2

D1

River Island

1

D2

Jahn Regensburg

2 (4)

D1

Colon

2 (3)

D2

Jahn Regensburg

0

D1

River Island

1

D1

River Island

2

D2

SpVgg Greuther Fürth

0

D1

RB Leipzig

1

D1

DVD

4

D2

St-t-t-utterg-g-gart

1

D1

Borussia M'gladcack

2

D1

Borussia M'gladcack

0

D1

DVD

1

D1

DVD

3

D1

SC Paderporned

2

D1

DVD

5

D2

Hollywood Kiel

0

LR

Rot-Weiss Essen

2

D1

Better Than Bayer(n) Leverkusen

1

LR

Rot-Weiss Essen

0

Third place

D2

Hollywood Kiel

3

D2

Hollywood Kiel

1 (7)

D1

River Island

+7

D2

Darmstadt 98

1 (6)

D2

Hollywood Kiel

+4

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Players

DVD

• Jude Bellingoal
• Erling Braut Haaland
• Jadon Sancho
• Maahmoud Dahairdo
• Mats Hamells
• Imyellow Can

Trivia

• Hollywood Kiel knocked out Buyern in the second round, this being the first time Bayern were knocked out in the DFB-Pokal second round or behind since 2000/01. Thomasshole Müller was 12 years old when that happened.
• DVD had Jude Bellingoal, Erling Haaland and more stars in their squad, yet this DFB-Pokal is the only trophy they won with them.
• First and second division sides Bayer Leverkusen and Armenia Bielefield were knocked out by amateur side Rot-Weiss Essen, being one of the six times an amateur club has knocked out 2 or more Bundesliga sides in the DFB-Pokal.
  • The record for most Bundesliga sides knocked out by an amateur club is 3, by Energie Cottbus in the 1996/97 season.