2017–18 Danish Cup

The 2017–18 Danish Cup is the 64th season of the Danish Cup competition. The final match will be played at Parken Stadium on May 10, 2018. The winner of the competition will enter the second qualifying round of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League. If the winner is also the champion of the 2017-18 Superliga, qualifying for the 2016-17 UEFA Champions League, then the cup winner's space will go to the second-place finisher in the 2017-18 Superliga.

Structure
In the first round, there will be 87 teams. 55 coming from the qualifiers among series teams in season 2016-17 with DBU Bornholm (1 team), DBU Funen (8 teams), DBU Jutland (20 teams) DBU Copenhagen (8 teams), DBU Lolland-Falster (3 teams) and DBU Zealand (15 teams). 22 teams from the 2016-17 2nd Divisions and 8 teams from the 2016-17 1st Division. The last two teams are the bottom two from the 2016-17 Superliga.

In the second round, there will be 52 teams. 43 of them are winners from the first round (plus one team who received a first-round bye) with 6 teams from the 2016-17 Superliga. The last teams are the top two from the 2016-17 1st Division.

In the third round, there will be 32 teams. 26 are winners from the second round. The last teams are the top six from the 2016-17 Superliga.

The remainder of the competition will be in a "knockout" format.

Participants
101 teams will compete for the Danish Cup. All teams from the top three divisions in 2016-17 are automatically entered while lower division teams play qualifying matches to enter the competition.