The first decision of the season is coming up. Werder Bremen will be drawn their first opponent in the German DFB Cup on Saturday. German national team manager Oliver Bierhoff will oversee the...
The first decision of the season is coming up. Werder Bremen will be drawn their first opponent in the German DFB Cup on Saturday. German national team manager Oliver Bierhoff will oversee the...
The first decision of the season is coming up. Werder Bremen will be drawn their first opponent in the German DFB Cup on Saturday. German national team manager Oliver Bierhoff will oversee the drawing of the matches at 6 p.m. in Gdansk, Poland.
The 32 matches of the first round will be played from Friday-Monday 17-20 August 2012. All the teams will be fighting to play in the final on 1 June 2013 in Berlin.
The draw pots in overview:
Pot 1:
From the Bundesliga: Werder Bremen, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Hannover, Mainz, Nuremberg, Fortuna Dusseldorf, Hamburg SV, Freiburg, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hoffenheim, Stuttgart, Schalke, Wolfsburg, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Greuther Fürth, Augsburg.
From the 2nd Bundesliga: Hertha Berlin, St. Pauli, Bochum, Kaiserslautern, Eintracht Braunschweig, Energie Cottbus, Cologne, Duisburg, 1860 Munich, Dynamo Dresden, Union Berlin, Paderborn, FSV Frankfurt, Ingolstadt.
Pot 2:
From the 2nd Bundesliga: Erzgebirge Aue, Sandhausen, Aalen, Jahn Regensburg.
Relegated from 2nd Bundesliga: Karlsruhe, Alemannia Aachen, Hansa Rostock.
Fourth place from Third League: Heidenheim
Winners of association cups:
Nöttingen (Oberliga Baden-Wurttemberg), Unterhaching (Third League) and SV Wacker Burghausen (Third League), Berliner AK 07 (Regional league Northeast), Falkensee/Finkenkrug (Brandenburg League), Oberneuland (Regional league North), Victoria Hamburg (Regional league North), Kickers Offenbach (Third League), Schönberg (Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Hennef (Mittelrhein-Liga), Rot-Weiss Essen (Regional league West), Havelse (Regional league North) and SV Wilhelmshaven (Regional league North), Rossbach/Verscheid (Oberliga Southwest), Saarbrucken (Third League), Chemnitz (Third League), Hallescher FC (Third League), Lubeck (Regional league North), Offenburger FV (Oberliga Baden-Wurttemberg), Wormatia Worms (Regional league Southwest), Carl Zeiss Jena (Regional league Northeast), Preussen Munster (Third League) and Arminia Bielefeld (Third League), Sonnenhof-Grossaspach (Regional league Southwest).
