At the Sunday, December 10th, begins at 7:15 p.m the draw for the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup. There are no seeded teams. Any of the eight remaining teams can meet anyone.
The coaches of the German U17 world champions Christian Wück and Jens Nowotny draw at the German Football Museum in Dortmund.
The pairings are drawn in the men’s and women’s competitions.
Former national player Nowotny acts as a “raffle ticket” and U17 head coach Wück is the draw manager.
The men’s DFB Cup has been a surprise so far – only three Bundesliga teams are still in the draw.
DFB Cup: Only three Bundesliga clubs left
The biggest sensation is the third division team’s entry into the quarter-finals 1. FC Saarbrücken. In addition, there are VfB Stuttgart, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Monchengladbach (all Bundesliga), Fortuna Dusseldorf, Hertha BSCthe 1. FC Kaiserslautern and the FC St Pauli (all 2nd Bundesliga) in the competition.
The men’s quarterfinals will take place on the 30th/31st. January 2024 and on 6/7. February 2024, the final will take place on May 25, 2024 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium.
The women will play their quarter-finals from March 5th to 7th, 2024, with the final taking place on May 9th, 2024 in Cologne.
Here you can find the draw in the live ticker.
7:46 p.m.: That concludes the ticker – thank you for stopping by!
7:45 p.m.: The highlight in the quarter-finals is of course the meeting between the top Bundesliga teams from Leverkusen and Stuttgart. But Pokalschreck Saarbrücken’s home game against Mönchengladbach will certainly be a treat. The two second division quarter-finals between St. Pauli and Düsseldorf as well as Hertha and Kaiserslautern will certainly be hotly contested.
7:41 p.m.: This means that all men’s quarter-final matches have been confirmed.
7.40 p.m.: FC St. Pauli can host Fortuna Düsseldorf at home in the quarter-finals.
7:37 p.m.: Bayer Leverkusen is fighting for a semi-final ticket against VfB Stuttgart in the new year. The two met just a few hours ago in the Bundesliga (1:1).
7:36 p.m.: Hertha BSC will play against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The duel only took place on Saturday in the 2nd Bundesliga, and the Berlin team won 2-1.
7:35 p.m.: 1. FC Saarbrücken will face Borussia Mönchengladbach. Will the foals be the next victim
7:34 p.m.: The quarterfinals will be on the 30th/31st. January and 6th/7th Held in February.
7:31 p.m.: Sacha Rösler, manager of Fortuna Düsseldorf, is also on site. He is still “annoyed” about the 0-1 home defeat against Holstein Kiel in the 2nd Bundesliga a few hours ago.
7:27 p.m.: The men’s quarterfinals will then be drawn immediately.
7:25 p.m.: Frankfurt or Freiburg (round of 16, will be played in January) will compete with MSV Duisburg in the quarter-finals. This means that the women’s quarterfinals have been drawn.
7:24 p.m.: Bayer Leverkusen’s women will face SGS Essen in the quarterfinals.
7:24 p.m.: It continues with the pairing of either Kickers Offenbach or FC Bayern Munich (round of 16; will be played in January) against Carl-Zeiss Jena.
7:23 p.m.: TSG Hoffenheim will face defending champions VfL Wolfsburg.
7:21 p.m.: It starts with the women’s quarter-finals in the DFB Cup.
7:18 p.m.: U17 world champion coach Wück and his co-star Jens Nowotny enter the scene with the World Cup trophy. The two will draw a draw to see who will meet him.
7:15 p.m.: The balls will be drawn soon and we are eagerly awaiting the draw in the German Football Museum.
6:20 p.m.: The draw begins in Dortmund in just under an hour – first the women’s quarter-finals, then the men’s. Then, surprisingly, some of the men’s top teams will not be in the draw, such as FC Bayern Munich and Eintracht Frankfurt (each eliminated against Saarbrücken), RB Leipzig (out against VfL Wolfsburg), and Borussia Dortmund, which fell victim to Stuttgart.
6:00 p.m.: Hello and welcome to the draw for the quarter-finals in the DFB Cup. It starts at 7:15 p.m. Eurosport.de accompanies you through the event in the live ticker.
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