2023–24 DFB-Pokal

DFB-Pokal 2023–24
Region	Germany
Championship venue	Olympiastadion, Berlin
Dates	11 August 2023–25 May 2024
Number of teams	64
Defending champions	RB Leipzig
Champions	Bayer Leverkusen
Runner-up	1. FC Kaiserslautern
Total matches played	63
Total goals scored	303
Top goal scorer	Amine Adli (5 goals)
← 2022–23	2024–25 →

The 2023–24 DFB-Pokal was the 81st season of the annual German football cup competition. Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all teams from the previous year's Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga. The competition began on 11 August 2023 with the first of six rounds and ended on 25 May 2024 with the final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, a nominally neutral venue, which has hosted the final since 1985. The DFB-Pokal is considered the second-most important club title in German football after the Bundesliga championship. The DFB-Pokal is run by the German Football Association (DFB).

The two-time defending champions were Bundesliga side RB Leipzig, after they had defeated Eintracht Frankfurt 2–0 in the previous final, but they were eliminated in the second round by VfL Wolfsburg.

The winner of the DFB-Pokal earns automatic qualification for the group stage of the 2024–25 edition of the UEFA Europa League. If they have already qualified for the UEFA Champions League through position in the Bundesliga, then the spot will go to the team in sixth, and the league's UEFA Conference League play-off round spot will go to the team in seventh. The winners will also host the 2024 edition of the DFL-Supercup at the start of the next season, and will face the champions of the 2023–24 Bundesliga.

Participating clubs

The following teams qualified for the competition:

Bundesliga the 18 clubs of the 2022–23 season	2. Bundesliga the 18 clubs of the 2022–23 season	3. Liga the top 4 clubs of the 2022–23 season
FC Augsburg Hertha BSC Union Berlin VfL Bochum Werder Bremen Borussia Dortmund Eintracht Frankfurt SC Freiburg TSG Hoffenheim 1. FC Köln RB Leipzig Bayer Leverkusen Mainz 05 Borussia Mönchengladbach Bayern Munich Schalke 04 VfB Stuttgart VfL Wolfsburg	Arminia Bielefeld Eintracht Braunschweig Darmstadt 98 Fortuna Düsseldorf Greuther Fürth Hamburger SV Hannover 96 1. FC Heidenheim 1. FC Kaiserslautern Karlsruher SC Holstein Kiel 1. FC Magdeburg 1. FC Nürnberg SC Paderborn Jahn Regensburg Hansa Rostock SV Sandhausen FC St. Pauli	SV Elversberg VfL Osnabrück Wehen Wiesbaden 1. FC Saarbrücken
Representatives of the regional associations 24 representatives of 21 regional associations of the DFB, qualified (in general) through the 2022–23 Verbandspokal
Baden Astoria Walldorf Bavaria FV Illertissen (CW) SpVgg Unterhaching (RB) Berlin Makkabi Berlin Brandenburg Energie Cottbus Bremen FC Oberneuland Hamburg Teutonia Ottensen Hesse FSV Frankfurt	Lower Rhine Rot-Weiss Essen Lower Saxony Atlas Delmenhorst (3L/RL) TuS Bersenbrück (Am.) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Rostocker FC Middle Rhine Viktoria Köln Rhineland Rot-Weiß Koblenz Saarland FC 08 Homburg Saxony Lokomotive Leipzig	Saxony-Anhalt Hallescher FC Schleswig-Holstein VfB Lübeck South Baden SV Oberachern Southwest Schott Mainz Thuringia Carl Zeiss Jena Westphalia FC Gütersloh (CW) Preußen Münster (RW) Württemberg TSG Balingen

Format

Participation

The DFB-Pokal began 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 automatically qualified for the tournament. Of the remaining slots, 21 were given to the cup winners of the regional football associations, the Verbandspokal. The three remaining slots were given to the three regional associations with the most men's teams, which were Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Westphalia. The best-placed amateur team of the Regionalliga Bayern was given the spot for Bavaria. For Lower Saxony, the Lower Saxony Cup was split into two paths: one for 3. Liga and Regionalliga Nord teams, and the other for amateur teams. The winners of each path qualified. For Westphalia, the spot was rotated each season between the best-placed Westphalian team of the Regionalliga West and the best-placed amateur team of the Oberliga Westfalen. For the 2023–24 DFB-Pokal, this spot was awarded to a team from the Regionalliga. As every team was entitled to participate in local tournaments which qualified for the association cups, every team could in principle compete in the DFB-Pokal. Reserve teams and combined football sections were not permitted to enter, along with no two teams of the same association or corporation.

Draw

The draws for the different rounds are conducted as follows:

For the first round, the participating teams were split into two pots of 32 teams each. The first pot contained all teams which 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 was drawn to a team from the second pot, which contained all remaining professional teams (all the teams of the Bundesliga and the remaining fourteen 2. Bundesliga teams). The teams from the first pot were set as the home team in the process.

The two-pot scenario was also applied for the second round, with the remaining 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) in the first pot and the remaining Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga teams in the other pot. Once again, the 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) will serve as hosts. This time the pots did not have to be of equal size though, depending on the results of the first round. Theoretically, it was even possible that there could be only one pot, if all of the teams from one of the pots from the first round beat all the others in the second pot. Once one pot was empty, the remaining pairings were drawn from the other pot with the first-drawn team for a match serving as hosts.

For the remaining rounds, the draw will be conducted from just one pot. Any remaining 3. Liga and/or amateur team(s) will be the home team if drawn against a professional team. In every other case, the first-drawn team will serve as hosts.

Match rules

Teams meet in one game per round. Matches take place for 90 minutes, with two halves of 45 minutes each. If still tied after regulation, 30 minutes of extra time will be played, consisting of two periods of 15 minutes each. If the score is still level after this, the match will be decided by a penalty shoot-out. A coin toss will decide who takes the first penalty. A maximum of nine players can be listed on the substitute bench, while a maximum of five substitutions are allowed. However, each team is only given three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time. From the round of 16 onward, a video assistant referee will be appointed for all DFB-Pokal matches. Though technically possible, VAR will not be used for home matches of Bundesliga clubs prior to the round of 16 in order to provide a uniform approach to all matches.

Suspensions

If a player receives five yellow cards in the competition, he will then be suspended from the next cup match. Similarly, receiving a second yellow card suspends a player from the next cup match. If a player receives a direct red card, they will be suspended a minimum of one match, but the German Football Association reserves the right to increase the suspension.

International qualification

The winners of the DFB-Pokal earns automatic qualification for the league stage of next year's edition of the UEFA Europa League. If they have already qualified for the UEFA Champions League through position in the Bundesliga, then the spot will go to the team in sixth place, and the league's UEFA Europa Conference League play-off round spot will go to the team in seventh place. The winners will also host the DFL-Supercup at the start of the next season, and will face the champions of the previous year's Bundesliga, unless the same team wins the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal, completing a double. In that case, the runners-up of the Bundesliga will take the spot and host instead.

Schedule

All draws will generally be held on a Sunday evening after each round (unless noted otherwise).

The rounds of the 2023–24 competition are scheduled as follows:

Round	Draw date	Matches
First round	18 June 2023	11–14 August & 26–27 September 2023
Second round	1 October 2023	31 October – 1 November 2023
Round of 16	5 November 2023	5–6 December 2023
Quarter-finals	10 December 2023	30–31 January & 6–7 February 2024
Semi-finals	11 February 2024	2–3 April 2024
Final		25 May 2024 at Olympiastadion, Berlin

Matches

A total of sixty-three matches will take place, starting with the first round on 11 August 2023 and culminating with the final on 25 May 2024 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.

Times up to 28 October 2023 and from 31 March 2024 are CEST (UTC+2). Times from 29 October 2023 to 30 March 2024 are CET (UTC+1).

First round

The draw for the first round was held on 18 June 2023, with Sarah Vogel drawing the matches. Thirty of the thirty-two matches took place from 11 to 14 August 2023. The remaining two matches, involving the participants of the 2023 DFL-Supercup (played on 12 August), took place from 26 to 27 September 2023.

11 August 2023 (2023-08-11)	SV Sandhausen	3–3 (4–2 pen)	Hannover 96	Sandhausen]]
18:00	Hennings  45+3' (pen.) Arrey-Mbi  77' (o.g.) Knipping  86'	Report	Schaub  27' Halstenberg  42' Teuchert  82'	Stadium: GP Stadion am Hardtwald Attendance: 4,605 Referee: Deniz Aytekin
		Penalties
	Diekmeier Mühling Maciejewski El-Zein		Besuschkow Tresoldi Halstenberg Ernst

11 August 2023 (2023-08-11)	1. FC Saarbrücken	2–1	Karlsruher SC	Saarbrücken
18:00	Civeja  47' Brünker  90'	Report	Stindl  65'	Stadium: Ludwigsparkstadion Attendance: 14,284 Referee: Arne Aarnink

11 August 2023 (2023-08-11)	TuS Bersenbrück	0–7	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Osnabrück
18:00		Report	Honorat  21', 56' Ngoumou  26' Čvančara  32', 34' Hack  77' Ranos  89'	Stadium: Stadion an der Bremer Brücke Attendance: 16,098 Referee: Alexander Sather

11 August 2023 (2023-08-11)	Eintracht Braunschweig	1–3	Schalke 04	Braunschweig
20:45	Ujah  12'	Report	Karaman  19' Seguin  42' Latza  90+4'	Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion Attendance: 21,800 Referee: Patrick Ittrich

12 August 2023 (2023-08-12)	TSG Balingen	0–4	VfB Stuttgart	Reutlingen
13:00		Report	Millot  25' Silas  34' Guirassy  43' Endō  55'	Stadium: Stadion an der Kreuzeiche Attendance: 13,400 Referee: Robert Kampka

12 August 2023 (2023-08-12)	Carl Zeiss Jena	0–5	Hertha BSC	Jena
13:00		Report	Dardai  6' Tabaković  47' Richter  49', 52' Uremović  59' Hennings  45+3' (pen.)	Stadium: Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Florian Heft

12 August 2023 (2023-08-12)	Atlas Delmenhorst	0–5	FC St. Pauli	Delmenhorst
15:30		Report	Smith  24' Schobert  59' (o.g.) Saad  68' Hartel  70' (pen.) Afolayan  88'	Stadium: Städtisches Stadion an der Düsternortstraße Attendance: 4,999 Referee: Patrick Schwengers

12 August 2023 (2023-08-12)	FC Oberneuland	1–9	1. FC Nürnberg	Bremen
15:30	Lambers  89'	Report	Uzun  10', 14', 67' Hayashi  15' Gürleyen  19' Duman  25', 29' (pen.) Goller  71' Daferner  90'	Stadium: Marko Mock Arena Attendance: 2,187 Referee: Lukas Benen

12 August 2023 (2023-08-12)	Schott Mainz	1–6	Borussia Dortmund	Mainz
15:30	Gans  34'	Report	Haller  22', 35' Brandt  24' Sabitzer  57' Malen  79' Moukoko  85'	Stadium: Mewa Arena Attendance: 30,312 Referee: Benjamin Brand

12 August 2023 (2023-08-12)	Viktoria Köln	3–2	Werder Bremen	Cologne
15:30	Philipp  72', 79' Bogićević  90+4'	Report	Ducksch  43' Füllkrug  77' (pen.)	Stadium: Sportpark Höhenberg Attendance: 8,343 Referee: Frank Willenborg

12 August 2023 (2023-08-12)	Teutonia Ottensen	0–8	Bayer Leverkusen	Hamburg
15:30		Report	Tapsoba  16' Boniface  42' Wirtz  45+1' Adli  59' (pen.) Frimpong  67' Hložek  74', 89' Hofmann  81'	Stadium: Millerntor-Stadion Attendance: 11,035 Referee: Tom Bauer

12 August 2023 (2023-08-12)	FC Gütersloh	0–2	Holstein Kiel	Gütersloh
15:30		Report	Friðjónsson  72', 90+3'	Stadium: Heidewaldstadion Attendance: 5,259 Referee: Patrick Kessel

12 August 2023 (2023-08-12)	Hallescher FC	0–1	Greuther Fürth	Halle
18:00		Report	Sieb  18'	Stadium: Leuna Chemie Stadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Florian Exner

12 August 2023 (2023-08-12)	SV Elversberg	0–1	Mainz 05	Spiesen-Elversberg
18:00		Report	Ajorque  73' (pen.)	Stadium: Waldstadion an der Kaiserlinde Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Martin Petersen

12 August 2023 (2023-08-12)	Arminia Bielefeld	2–2 (4–1 pen)	VfL Bochum	Bielefeld
18:00	Shipnoski  25' Biankadi  29'	Report	Asano  45+2' Zoller  90+1'	Stadium: Schüco-Arena Attendance: 21,452 Referee: Sven Jablonski
		Penalties
	Klos Gohlke Boujellab Mizuta		Hofmann Stöger Mašović

13 August 2023 (2023-08-13)	Rostocker FC	0–8	1. FC Heidenheim	Rostock
13:00		Report	Beck  9' Kleindienst  12', 15' Maloney  18' Pieringer  38', 72' Dinkçi  53' Schimmer  87'	Stadium: Ostseestadion Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Nicolas Winter

13 August 2023 (2023-08-13)	Rot-Weiss Essen	3–4	Hamburger SV	Essen
13:00	Müsel  42' Doumbouya  56' Brumme  83'	Report	Jatta  37', 54' Glatzel  66' Bénes  117'	Stadium: Stadion an der Hafenstraße Attendance: 18,600 Referee: Felix Zwayer

13 August 2023 (2023-08-13)	FV Illertissen	1–3	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Illertissen
15:30	Frisorger  41'	Report	Frisorger  3' (o.g.) Vermeij  27' Tzolis  90+1'	Stadium: Vöhlinstadion Attendance: 3,719 Referee: Lars Erbst

13 August 2023 (2023-08-13)	Makkabi Berlin	0–6	VfL Wolfsburg	Berlin
15:30		Report	Nmecha  8' Wind  9' Tomás  53', 89' Gerhardt  57' Baku  79'	Stadium: Mommsenstadion Attendance: 4,800 Referee: Riem Hussein

13 August 2023 (2023-08-13)	Rot-Weiß Koblenz	0–5	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Koblenz
15:30		Report	Boyd  19', 90' Niehues  35' Tomiak  43' Redondo  66' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadion Oberwerth Attendance: 10,176 Referee: Sascha Stegemann

13 August 2023 (2023-08-13)	SpVgg Unterhaching	2–0	FC Augsburg	Unterhaching
15:30	Fetsch  29' Mashigo  90+4'	Report		Stadium: Sportpark Unterhaching Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Timo Gerach

13 August 2023 (2023-08-13)	Lokomotive Leipzig	0–7	Eintracht Frankfurt	Leipzig
15:30		Report	Kolo Muani  37' Götze  58' Marmoush  66' Dina Ebimbe  71', 89' Ngankam  74', 85'	Stadium: Bruno-Plache-Stadion Attendance: 11,100 Referee: Michael Bacher

13 August 2023 (2023-08-13)	SV Oberachern	0–2	SC Freiburg	Freiburg
15:30		Report	Günter  60' Sallai  77'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 24,500 Referee: Richard Hempel

13 August 2023 (2023-08-13)	Energie Cottbus	0–7	SC Paderborn	Cottbus
18:00		Report	Pelivan  4' (pen.) Musliu  11' Bilbija  20', 51' Muslija  64' Klaas  83' Hansen  85'	Stadium: Stadion der Freundschaft Attendance: 12,469 Referee: Robert Schröder

13 August 2023 (2023-08-13)	Astoria Walldorf	0–4	Union Berlin	Walldorf
18:00		Report	Knoche  29' (pen.) Becker  38' Leite  41' Haberer  80'	Stadium: Dietmar-Hopp-Sportpark Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Wolfgang Haslberger

13 August 2023 (2023-08-13)	FSV Frankfurt	1–1 (0–3 pen)	Hansa Rostock	Frankfurt
18:00	McLemore  29'	Report	Güler  83'	Stadium: PSD Bank Arena Attendance: 7,374 Referee: Christian Dingert
		Penalties
	Azaouagh Falaye Emmerling		Bachmann Rossipal Güler

14 August 2023 (2023-08-14)	FC 08 Homburg	3–0	Darmstadt 98	Homburg
18:00	Mendler  10' Heilig  49' Harres  81'	Report		Stadium: Waldstadion Homburg Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Daniel Schlager

14 August 2023 (2023-08-14)	Jahn Regensburg	1–2	1. FC Magdeburg	Regensburg
18:00	Kother  63'	Report	Schuler  16' Hugonet  59'	Stadium: Jahnstadion Regensburg Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Patrick Alt

14 August 2023 (2023-08-14)	VfB Lübeck	1–4	TSG Hoffenheim	Lübeck
18:00	Gözüsirin  34' (pen.)	Report	Kramarić  42', 60' (pen.) Bülter  69' Justvan  76'	Stadium: Stadion an der Lohmühle Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Florian Lechner

14 August 2023 (2023-08-14)	VfL Osnabrück	1–3	1. FC Köln	Osnabrück
20:45	Makridis  73'	Report	Schmitz  43' Adamyan  93' Chabot  96'	Stadium: Stadion an der Bremer Brücke Attendance: 15,741 Referee: Florian Badstübner

26 September 2023 (2023-09-26)	Preußen Münster	0–4	Bayern Munich	Münster
20:45		Report	Choupo-Moting  9' Laimer  40' Krätzig  45+5' Tel  86'	Stadium: Preußenstadion Attendance: 12,794 Referee: Matthias Jöllenbeck

27 September 2023 (2023-09-27)	Wehen Wiesbaden	2–3	RB Leipzig	Wiesbaden
20:45	Prtajin  41', 73'	Report	Forsberg  7' Šeško  18', 70'	Stadium: BRITA-Arena Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Robert Hartmann

Second round

The draw for the second round was held on 1 October 2023, with Shkodran Mustafi drawing the matches. The sixteen matches took place on 31 October and 1 November 2023.

31 October 2023 (2023-10-31)	FC 08 Homburg	2–1	Greuther Fürth	Homburg
18:00	Eisele  31' Harres  83'	Report	Hrgota  52'	Stadium: Waldstadion Homburg Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Florian Lechner

31 October 2023 (2023-10-31)	FC St. Pauli	2–1	Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen
18:00	Hartel  57' (pen.) Eggestein  102'	Report	Kamiński  16'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 29,546 Referee: Bastian Dankert

31 October 2023 (2023-10-31)	VfB Stuttgart	1–0	Union Berlin	Stuttgart
18:00	Undav  45'	Report		Stadium: MHPArena Attendance: 54,000 Referee: Sascha Stegemann

31 October 2023 (2023-10-31)	VfL Wolfsburg	1–0	RB Leipzig	Wolfsburg
18:00	Černý  14'	Report		Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 16,031 Referee: Florian Badstübner

31 October 2023 (2023-10-31)	Arminia Bielefeld	1–1 (3–4 pen)	Hamburger SV	Bielefeld
20:45	Shipnoski  11'	Report	Jatta  77'	Stadium: Schüco-Arena Attendance: 26,500 Referee: Robert Kampka
		Penalties
	Klos Gohlke Mizuta Großer Wörl		Bénes Muheim Glatzel Krahn Heyer

31 October 2023 (2023-10-31)	SpVgg Unterhaching	3–6	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Unterhaching
20:45	Hobsch  34', 55' Skarlatidis  71'	Report	Klaus  65' Jóhannesson  67', 79', 107' Tzolis  115' Jastrzembski  117'	Stadium: Sportpark Unterhaching Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Alexander Sather

31 October 2023 (2023-10-31)	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–1	1. FC Heidenheim	Mönchengladbach
20:45	Pefok  3', 9' Hack  44'	Report	Beck  78'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Timo Gerach

31 October 2023 (2023-10-31)	1. FC Kaiserslautern	3–2	1. FC Köln	Kaiserslautern
20:45	Tachie  19' Redondo  47' Ritter  65'	Report	Thielmann  71' Uth  81'	Stadium: Fritz-Walter-Stadion Attendance: 49,327 Referee: Sven Jablonski

1 November 2023 (2023-11-01)	SV Sandhausen	2–5	Bayer Leverkusen	Sandhausen
18:00	Ehlich  50' Ben Balla  57'	Report	Palacios  21' (pen.) Tah  54' Hložek  85' Adli  88', 90+2'	Stadium: GP Stadion am Hardtwald Attendance: 10,022 Referee: Richard Hempel

1 November 2023 (2023-11-01)	Holstein Kiel	3–3 (3–4 pen)	1. FC Magdeburg	Kiel
18:00	Heber  61' (o.g.) Piccini  68' (o.g.) Pichler  120+2'	Report	Bockhorn  3' Krempicki  11' Amaechi  93'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 11,112 Referee: Tom Bauer
		Penalties
	Machino Simakala Kleine-Bekel Rothe Holtby		Condé Amaechi Bockhorn Gnaka Arslan

1 November 2023 (2023-11-01)	SC Freiburg	1–3	SC Paderborn	Freiburg
18:00	Eggestein  69'	Report	Bilbija  4', 56' Muslija  33'	Stadium: Europa-Park Stadion Attendance: 31,500 Referee: Christian Dingert

1 November 2023 (2023-11-01)	Borussia Dortmund	1–0	TSG Hoffenheim	Dortmund
18:00	Reus  43'	Report		Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 81,365 Referee: Harm Osmers

1 November 2023 (2023-11-01)	Viktoria Köln	0–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Cologne
20:45		Report	Skhiri  14' Knauff  90'	Stadium: Sportpark Höhenberg Attendance: 8,343 Referee: Max Burda

1 November 2023 (2023-11-01)	1. FC Saarbrücken	2–1	Bayern Munich	Saarbrücken
20:45	Sontheimer  45+1' Gaus  90+6'	Report	Müller  16'	Stadium: Ludwigsparkstadion Attendance: 16,003 Referee: Frank Willenborg

1 November 2023 (2023-11-01)	1. FC Nürnberg	3–2	Hansa Rostock	Nuremberg
20:45	Okunuki  63' Lohkemper  90+5', 99'	Report	Brumado  58' Kinsombi  74'	Stadium: Max-Morlock-Stadion Attendance: 28,489 Referee: Arne Aarnink

1 November 2023 (2023-11-01)	Hertha BSC	3–0	Mainz 05	Berlin
20:45	Reese  45+3' (pen.) Tabaković  50' (pen.), 61'	Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 29,621 Referee: Matthias Jöllenbeck

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 5 November 2023, with Denise Schindler drewing the matches. The eight matches will take place on 5 and 6 December 2023.

5 December 2023 (2023-12-05)	1. FC Kaiserslautern	2–0	1. FC Nürnberg	Kaiserslautern
18:00	Tachie  75' Ache  78'	Report		Stadium: Fritz-Walter-Stadion Attendance: 48,349 Referee: Patrick Ittrich

5 December 2023 (2023-12-05)	1. FC Magdeburg	1–2	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Magdeburg
18:00	Atik  15'	Report	Niemiec  87', 90+2'	Stadium: MDCC-Arena Attendance: 20,090 Referee: Robert Hartmann

5 December 2023 (2023-12-05)	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–0	VfL Wolfsburg	Mönchengladbach
20:45	Koné  120'	Report		Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 39,827 Referee: Bastian Dankert

5 December 2023 (2023-12-05)	FC 08 Homburg	1–4	FC St. Pauli	Homburg
20:45	Mendler  28'	Report	Wahl  24' Saad  64' Hartel  69' Eggestein  73'	Stadium: Waldstadion Homburg Attendance: 12,232 Referee: Martin Petersen

6 December 2023 (2023-12-06)	1. FC Saarbrücken	2–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Saarbrücken
18:00	Brünker  64' Kerber  78'	Report		Stadium: Ludwigsparkstadion Attendance: 15,905 Referee: Daniel Siebert

6 December 2023 (2023-12-06)	Bayer Leverkusen	3–1	SC Paderborn	Leverkusen
18:00	Boniface  12' Palacios  28' Schick  87'	Report	Klaas  83'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 29,249 Referee: Tobias Stieler

6 December 2023 (2023-12-06)	VfB Stuttgart	2–0	Borussia Dortmund	Stuttgart
20:45	Guirassy  55' Silas  77'	Report		Stadium: MHPArena Attendance: 54,500 Referee: Benjamin Brand

6 December 2023 (2023-12-06)	Hertha BSC	3–3 (5–3 pen)	Hamburger SV	Berlin
20:45	Reese  21', 90' Kenny  120'	Report	Pherai  31' Bénes  43' Königsdörffer  102'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 58,946 Referee: Sascha Stegemann
		Penalties
	Prevljak Klemens El-Jindaoui Kenny Reese		Bénes Muheim Glatzel Königsdörffer

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 10 December 2023, with Jens Nowotny drewing the matches. The four matches will take place from 30 to 31 January and 6 to 7 February 2024.

30 January 2024 (2024-01-30)	FC St. Pauli	2–2 (3–4 pen)	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Hamburg
20:45	Hartel  60' (pen.) Boukhalfa  120+1'	Report	Vermeij  38' (pen.) Tanaka  99'	Stadium: Millerntor-Stadion Attendance: 29,546 Referee: Sascha Stegemann
		Penalties
	Smith Saad Sinani Maurides Hartel		Hoffmann Daferner Engelhardt Tanaka Tzolis

31 January 2024 (2024-01-31)	Hertha BSC	1–3	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Berlin
20:45	Reese  90+1'	Report	Elvedi  5' Tachie  38' Kaloč  69'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 74,245 Referee: Matthias Jöllenbeck

6 February 2024 (2024-02-06)	Bayer Leverkusen	3–2	VfB Stuttgart	Leverkusen
20:45	Andrich  50' Adli  66' Tah  90'	Report	Anton  11' Führich  58'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Daniel Schlager

7 February 2024 (2024-02-07)	1. FC Saarbrücken	2–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Saarbrücken
20:45	Naïfi  11' Brünker  90+3'	Report	Hack  8'	Stadium: Ludwigsparkstadion Attendance: 15,903 Referee: Robert Hartmann

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 11 February 2024, with Béla Réthy drawing the matches. The two matches took place on 2 and 3 April 2024.

2 April 2024 (2024-04-02)	Saarbrücken	0–2	Kaiserslautern	Saarbrücken
20:45		Report	Ritter  53' Touré  75'	Stadium: Ludwigsparkstadion Attendance: 15,903 Referee: Marco Fritz

3 April 2024 (2024-04-03)	Bayer Leverkusen	4–0	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Leverkusen
20:45	Frimpong  7' Adli  20' Wirtz  36', 60' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Christian Dingert

Final

Main article: 2024 DFB-Pokal Final

The final will take place on 25 May 2024 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.

25 May 2024 (2024-05-25) 20:00 CEST	Kaiserslautern	0–1	Bayer Leverkusen	Olympiastadion, Berlin Attendance: 74,322 Referee: Bastian Dankert (Rostock)
		Report	Xhaka  16'

External links

• Official website (German)
• DFB-Pokal on kicker.de (German)