2017–18 DFB-Pokal
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| Country | Germany | ||
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| Dates | 11 August 2017 – 19 May 2018 | ||
| Championship venue | Olympiastadion, Berlin | ||
| Teams | 64 | ||
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| Goals scored in penalty shoot-outs not included. | |||
The 2017–18 DFB-Pokal will be the 75th season of the annual German football cup competition. It will begin on 11 August 2017 with the first of six rounds and will end on 19 May 2018 with the final at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The winner of the DFB-Pokal then will qualify for next year's edition of the UEFA Europa League, if not already qualified for the UEFA Champions League through league position.
The following 64 teams qualified for the competition:
The DFB-Pokal begins with a round of 64 teams. The 36 teams of the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, along with the top 4 finishers of the 3. Liga are automatically qualified for the tournament. Of the remaining slots, 21 are given to the cup winners of the regional football associations, the Verbandspokal. The 3 remaining slots are given to the three regional associations with the most men's teams, which currently is Bavaria, Lower Saxony, and Westphalia. The runner-up of the Lower Saxony Cup is given the slot, along with the best-placed amateur team of the Regionalliga Bayern. For Westphalia, the winner of a play-off between the best-placed team of the Regionalliga West and Oberliga Westfalen also qualify. As every team is entitled to participate in local tournaments which qualify for the association cups, every team can in principle compete in the DFB-Pokal. Reserve teams and combined football sections are not permitted to enter, along with no two teams of the same association or corporation.
The draws for the different rounds are conducted as following:
For the first round, the participating teams will be split into two pots of 32 teams each. The first pot contains all teams which have qualified through their regional cup competitions, the best four teams of the 3. Liga, and the bottom four teams of the 2. Bundesliga. Every team from this pot will be drawn to a team from the second pot, which contains all remaining professional teams (all the teams of the Bundesliga and the remaining fourteen 2. Bundesliga teams). The teams from the first pot will be set as the home team in the process.
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