“For me this is the absolute big one of the round of 16. Football fans can look forward to an intense match-up,” said Bayer 04 managing director sport Simon Rolfes. “We want to win in Dortmund to achieve our goal of getting to the final in Berlin.”
It will be the second game against Dortmund in the space of a few days, following the Bundesliga meeting at the BayArena the previous Saturday.
Information on tickets will be available once details for the match are confirmed.
The quarter-finals are scheduled for 3/4 and 10/11 February 2026, with the semi-finals on 21/22 April. The final at the Olympiastadion is to be played on 23 May.
Round of 16 fixtures:
Borussia Dortmund - Bayer 04
Hamburg - Holstein Kiel
Union Berlin - Bayern Munich
Bochum - VfB Stuttgart
Hertha Berlin - Kaiserslautern
Freiburg - Darmstadt
Borussia Mönchengladbach - St. Pauli
RB Leipzig - Magdeburg
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