🚨 DFB-Pokal draw revealed: here are all the first round ties

The first round of the DFB-Pokal marks the start of the season for all professional clubs, because after the second and third division teams, whose leagues begin earlier, the Bundesliga clubs also enter the new season. Now it has been decided which opponents they will each face.

The Matchups at a Glance

Dynamo Dresden - 1. FSV Mainz 05

Arminia Bielefeld - SV Werder Bremen

1. FC Schweinfurt (Champions of Regionalliga Bayern) - Fortuna Düsseldorf

SV Wehen Wiesbaden (Hessen) - FC Bayern Munich

SG Sonnenhof Großaspach (Württemberg) - Bayer Leverkusen

1. FC Saarbrücken - 1. FC Magdeburg

1. FC Lok Leipzig (Saxony) - FC Schalke 04

Bahlinger SC (Südbaden) - 1. FC Heidenheim

Hansa Rostock (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) - TSG Hoffenheim

Blau-Weiß Lohne (Lower Saxony) - SpVgg Greuther Fürth

SV Sandhausen (Baden) - RB Leipzig

Energie Cottbus - Hannover 96

FC 08 Homburg (Saarland) - Holstein Kiel

Jahn Regensburg - 1. FC Köln

Preußen Münster - Hertha BSC

FC Gütersloh (Runners-up Regionalliga West) - 1. FC Union Berlin

Sportfreunde Lotte (Finalist Westphalia State Cup) - SC Freiburg

BFC Dynamo (Berlin) - VfL Bochum

Eintracht Norderstedt (Hamburg) - FC St. Pauli

VfB Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein) - SV Darmstadt 98

FV Engers 07 (Rhineland) - Eintracht Frankfurt

FV Illertissen (Bavaria) - 1. FC Nürnberg

ZFC Meuselwitz (Thuringia) - Karlsruher SC

Eintracht Braunschweig - VfB Stuttgart

Rot-Weiss Essen (Lower Rhine) - Borussia Dortmund

RSV Eintracht 1949 (Brandenburg) - 1. FC Kaiserslautern

Viktoria Köln (Middle Rhine) - SC Paderborn

SV Atlas Delmenhorst (Lower Saxony) - Borussia Mönchengladbach

Hallescher FC (Saxony-Anhalt) - FC Augsburg

FK Pirmasens (Southwest) - Hamburger SV

SV Hemelingen (Bremen) - VfL Wolfsburg

SSV Ulm 1846 - SV Elversberg

The first-round matches will be played from Friday, August 15, to Monday, August 18. The exact schedule will be announced by the DFB in due course. Champions Bayern and cup winners Stuttgart will play the Supercup on Saturday, August 16, and will make up their cup matches on August 26 and 27.

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