Sporting managing director Simon Rolfes said: "A home tie is obviously good for us and we want to put our first round exit from two years ago behind us against Elversberg. They have a good team, we take every opponent very seriously and we will give 100% to go as far as we can in the DFB Pokal this year."
The second round ties in the DFB Pokal will be played on 29 and 30 October. As soon as the fixture dates and details of ticket sales are available we will report that on bayer04.de.
The Round of 16 games will be played on 3/4 December. The quarter-finals are on 4/5 and 25/26 February 2025 with the semi-finals set for 1/2 April 2025. The final at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin will be on 24 May 2025.
DFB POKAL SECOND ROUND DRAW:
Arminia Bielefeld vs FC Union Berlin
Dynamo Dresden vs SV Darmstadt 98
Kickers Offenbach vs Karlsruher SC
SC Freiburg vs Hamburg SV
Hertha Berlin vs FC Heidenheim 1846
FSV Mainz 05 vs Bayern Munich
VfB Stuttgart vs FC Kaiserslautern
Eintracht Frankfurt vs Borussia Mönchengladbach
FC Augsburg vs FC Schalke 04
TSG Hoffenheim vs FC Nürnberg
SC Paderborn vs Werder Bremen
Jahn Regensburg vs SpVgg Greuther Fürth
Bayer 04 Leverkusen vs SV 07 Elversberg
VfL Wolfsburg vs Borussia Dortmund
RB Leipzig vs FC St. Pauli
FC Köln vs Holstein Kiel
Bayer 04 host Borussia Mönchengladbach at the BayArena on matchday 12 of the 2026/27 Bundesliga season. The schedule for the game remains to be confirmed. The latest information on ticket sales.
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Bayer 04 host Eintracht Frankfurt at the BayArena on matchday 14 of the 2026/27 Bundesliga season. The schedule for the game remains to be confirmed. The latest information on ticket sales.
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Werkself-TV shows the highlights of Bayer 04 Women's 0-1 loss at Bayern Munich in the round of 16 of the women's DFB-Pokal 2026/27
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“As far as mentality and determination are concerned, we have nothing to reproach ourselves for,” Robert Andrich said up after the first home defeat for the Werkself this term. In terms of their play, too, the Black and Reds put in a respectable performance for long stretches of this intense and physical match, outperforming VfB Stuttgart in most areas. It was only in terms of efficiency in front of goal that the Swabians had the edge over the Werkself. Head coach Carles Martínez wants to learn from this so that, in future, they can “win this sort of match too”. The Werkself review.
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Rüdiger Vollborn has been at the club for 40 years, he holds the record number of Bundesliga appearances for the club (401) and is the only Bayer 04 player to have won both the UEFA Cup (1988) and the DFB Pokal (1993). And the Berliner stayed with the Werkself after ending his impressive playing career working as a goalkeeping coach for the following nine years. Vollborn now works under the Bayer Cross as a fan liaison officer and club archivist. Since February 2021, the personal Black and Red lexicon takes Werkself fans under the heading of 'Rudi recounts...' on a brief trip through the history of Bayer 04 every month…
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