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2025/26 DFB Cup: Draws, fixtures and results

25.06.2025

After overcoming third-tier Arminia Bielefeld to win the DFB Cup last season, VfB Stuttgart will begin the defence of their title against Eintracht Braunschweig in 2025/26. Bayern Munich take on Wehen Wiesbaden.

bundesliga.com details all the fixtures and results on the road to Berlin on 23 May 2026...

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First round fixtures

Games will be played on the weekend of 15-18 August, except for those involving Bundesliga champions Bayern and holders Stuttgart, who are contesting the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup on 16 August. They will play their first-round games on 26/27 August.

Watch: All of Stuttgart's 2024/25 cup goals

Friday 15 August

Gütersloh vs. Union Berlin (6pm CEST)
Sonnenhof Großaspach vs. Bayer Leverkusen (6pm CEST)
Saarbrücken vs. Magdeburg (6pm CEST)
Arminia Bielefeld vs. Werder Bremen (8.45pm CEST)

Saturday 16 August

BFC Dynamo vs. Bochum (1pm CEST)
Pirmasens vs. Hamburg (1pm CEST)
Eintracht Norderstedt vs. St. Pauli (3.30pm CEST)
Hansa Rostock vs. Hoffenheim (3.30pm CEST)
Sandhausen vs. RB Leipzig (3.30pm CEST)
Bahlinger SC vs. Heidenheim (3.30pm CEST)
Illertissen vs. Nuremberg (3.30pm CEST)
Hemelingen vs. Wolfsburg (3.30pm CEST)
Lübeck vs. Darmstadt (6pm CEST)
Energie Cottbus vs. Hannover (6pm CEST)
Sportfreunde Lotte vs. Freiburg (6pm CEST)

Sunday 17 August

Engers vs. Eintracht Frankfurt (1pm CEST)
Viktoria Cologne vs. Paderborn (1pm CEST)
Atlas Delmenhorst vs. Borussia Mönchengladbach (3.30pm CEST)
Lokomotive Leipzig vs. Schalke (3.30pm CEST)
Jahn Regensburg vs. Cologne (3.30pm CEST)
Blau-Weiß Lohne vs. Greuther Fürth (3.30pm CEST)
Meuselwitz vs. Karlsruhe (3.30pm CEST)
RSV Eintracht vs. Kaiserslautern (3.30pm CEST)
Homburg vs. Holstein Kiel (6pm CEST)
Hallescher FC vs. Augsburg (6pm CEST)
Ulm vs Elversberg (6pm CEST)