1st Round: Amateurs - 1. Bundesliga FC Teningen - Schalke Dynamo Berlin - Kaiserslautern ZFC Meuselwitz - Hertha BSC Germania Windeck - TSG Hoffenheim Leipzig - Wolfsburg SVN Zweibrücken - Mainz Wiedenbrück - Köln Anker Wismar - Hannover VfB Oldenburg - HSV Amateurs - 2. Bundesliga RW Essen - Union Berlin Hessen Kassel - Düsseldorf Oberneuland - Ingolstadt Holstein Kiel - Cottbus Hallescher FC - E. Frankfurt RW Ahlen - Paderborn Eimsbütteler TV - Greuther Fürth Kickers Emden - FSV Frankfurt Trier - St. Pauli 2. Bundesliga - 1. Bundesliga Dynamo Dresden - Bayer Leverkusen Braunschweig - Bayern 2. Bundesliga - 2. Bundesliga KSC - Aachen Rostock - Bochum 3. Liga - 1. Bundesliga Unterhaching - Freiburg Heidenheim - Werder Sandhausen - Dortmund Bielefeld - Nürnberg Regensburg - Gladbach Wehen - Stuttgart Oberhausen - Augsburg 3. Liga - 2. Bundesliga Saarbrücken - Aue Babelsberg - Duisburg Osnabrück - 1860
Trip to the beach, game , Reeperbahn in the night. Sounds like a good plan. Hope Bayern crash out and we have a derby in the next round!!!!
Braunschweig - Bayern and Dresden - Leverkusen are the crackers from this round.Hopefully both matches are scheduled on different days and broadcasted live by ARD.
Admittedly I'm probably more sympathetic to RBL than most people due to my experiences living in Leipzig, but I still found this matchup strangely fitting, at least considering the general opinion most people have of the two clubs. Which also makes me wonder if there's going to be two games happening in Leipzig. I remember Hallescher FC's DFB Cup games last season were moved to the Red Bull Arena due to construction on their usual home stadium, and AFAIK, it's still not going to be ready to go by late-July for their Cup game against Eintracht Frankfurt this time around.
Wolfsburg are pretty much the only team I'd like to see Rasenball win against. Of course the same goes vice versa. In other words, I can only win and lose at the same time with this match up .
How could they lose to a fourth division side? They have people like Diego and Benaglio how is that even possible that they could lose.
The Leipzig rooster is full of former BL players, mixed with young players (most of them snatched from BL club youth academies). Thus I would not call them a regular 4th division side, there in no non-professional in their squad and the budget is advanced 3.Liga, low 2. BL standard. Nevertheless the result is a surprise, but that makes football interesting.
Keep in mind that Ahlen dropped down two divisions for financial reasons - their current squad is pretty much a youth squad with some older amateur players mixed in.
Red Bull backs the club. They can afford to pay their players more and attract former Bundesliga players Looking at the roster, to be fair some of those players (Timo Rost, Tim Sebastian, and Chrisitian Mueller) should be playing for a 2. Buli side and maybe a basement deweller in the first division
Wow. That might the greatest comeback in DFB-Pokal history. #39 seed Dresden, down 3-0 to #2 Leverkusen, scores 3 times in the last 1/4 of regulation. Then goes ahead in the final minutes of 2ET! Wow, wow, wow!