Following last weekend’s play-offs, former Germany international Kerstin Garefrekes, currently assistant coach of the U23 national team, drew the 16 ties at the DFB Campus in Frankfurt am Main. The Berlin side beat Regionalliga West side VfR Warbeyen 3–1 in the play-offs. The draw for the first round proper was conducted using two pots. The 16 winners of the play-off matches placed in Pot 1 are at home. The teams from the Google Pixel Women’s Bundesliga, along with the two highest-ranked Bundesliga 2 sides, were placed in Pot 2.
The winners of the first round proper go through to the Round of 16 (31 October to 2 November). Following a break of more than four months, the quarter-finals will be played on 10 and 11 March 2027, followed by the semi-finals on 3 and 4 April. As in previous years, the final will be played at the RheinEnergieSTADION in Cologne on 17 May 2027.
For the Werkself, the new Google Pixel Women’s Bundesliga season kicks off on Sunday, 23 August (16:00 CEST), with an away match against RB Leipzig. The first home fixture follows exactly one week later, on Sunday 30 August (16:00 CEST), at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium against last season’s runners-up, VfL Wolfsburg. Tickets for the match are available HERE.
DFB POKAL ROUND 1 DRAW
VfL Bochum vs Werder Bremen
Blau-Gelb Marburg vs RB Leipzig
Borussia Mönchengladbach vs Bayern Munich
Schalke 04 vs SGS Essen
FC Magdeburg vs Union Berlin
SV Eutingen vs Carl Zeiss Jena
FC Ingolstadt vs Mainz 05
SG 99 Andernach vs SC Freiburg
SC Sand vs VfL Wolfsburg
SpVgg Greuther Fürth vs TSG Hoffenheim
SV Meppen vs Hamburger SV
ATS Buntentor vs FC Nürnberg
Turbine Potsdam vs VfB Stuttgart
Karlsruher SC vs Eintracht Frankfurt
Hertha Berlin vs FC Köln
FC Viktoria Berlin vs Bayer 04
Having progressed to the DFB Pokal Round of 16, the Bayer 04 Women do not have much time before their next Bundesliga fixture. On Friday night (18:30 CEST), coach Roberto Pätzold’s side kick off matchday six at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium against Werder Bremen – and they have a clear mission.
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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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Bayer 04 host top French club Marseille at the BayArena on matchday four in the 2026/27 UEFA Europa League group stage. The match kicks off on Thursday 5 November at 21:00 CET. The latest information on ticket sales.
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During the international break, Bayer 04 will face third-division newcomers SC Fortuna Köln on Friday 2 October (kick-off: 11:00 CEST). The match will be played on training pitch 1 at the BayArena, as preparations are already underway at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium for the Bayer 04 women’s Bundesliga home match against Werder Bremen, which is due to kick off in the early evening. To ensure the friendly against Fortuna Köln runs smoothly and without disruption, it will be played behind closed doors.
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