# 1978–79 DFB-Pokal

The 1978–79 DFB-Pokal was the 36th season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 4 August 1978 and ended on 23 June 1979. 128 teams competed in the tournament of seven rounds. In the final Fortuna Düsseldorf defeated Hertha BSC 1–0 after extra time.

## Matches
### First round

| 4 August 1978 |
| 1. FC Nürnberg | 4 – 0 | ASV 1860 Neumarkt |
| Freiburger FC | 6 – 1 | SpVgg Neckarelz |
| 5 August 1978 |
| Arminia Bielefeld | 2 – 1 | Hamburger SV | (AET) |
| MSV Duisburg | 4 – 3 | SG Wattenscheid 09 |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | 7 – 2 | Stuttgarter Kickers |
| FV Würzburg 04 | 0 – 2 | Hertha BSC | (AET) |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | 4 – 2 | Wuppertaler SV Borussia |
| TSV 1860 München | 0 – 5 | FC Schalke 04 |
| FC Bayern Munich | 5 – 0 | SSV Glött |
| Eintracht Braunschweig | 2 – 0 | Schwarz-Weiß Essen |
| VfB Stuttgart | 12 – 0 | Spandauer SV |
| SV Darmstadt 98 | 4 – 1 | DJK Abenberg |
| SV Werder Bremen | 5 – 0 | SV Holzwickede |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 7 – 0 | BFC Preußen Berlin |
| VfL Bochum | 4 – 0 | Bünder SV |
| SpVgg Bad Pyrmont | 1 – 2 | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| Borussia Dortmund | 14 – 1 | BSV Schwenningen |
| 1. FC Saarbrücken | 1 – 0 | SpVgg Fürth | (AET) |
| Tennis Borussia Berlin | 2 – 0 | SG Union Solingen | (AET) |
| Fortuna Köln | 2 – 0 | FC Hanau 93 |
| SC Freiburg | 3 – 1 | Rot-Weiß Essen |
| Eintracht Trier | 3 – 1 | SG Fuchsmühl |
| DSC Wanne-Eickel | 2 – 1 | VfR Mannheim |
| SC Pfullendorf | 0 – 3 | FC 08 Homburg |
| Preußen Münster | 6 – 0 | SV Leiwen |
| SSV Dillenburg | 2 – 4 | FSV Frankfurt |
| SV Waldhof Mannheim | 5 – 0 | SV Börnsen |
| SC Jülich 1910 | 1 – 10 | Kickers Offenbach |
| VfB Schrecksbach | 3 – 5 | Arminia Hannover |
| Karlsruher SC | 3 – 1 | Eintracht Bad Kreuznach |
| FC Augsburg | 4 – 2 | FV Offenburg |
| TSV Nord Harrislee | 0 – 6 | Borussia Neunkirchen |
| Holstein Kiel | 5 – 0 | SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken |
| Viktoria Sindlingen | 0 – 3 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen |
| VfR Wormatia Worms | 4 – 2 | VfB Remscheid |
| Union Böckingen | 2 – 8 | Bayer Uerdingen |
| Alemannia Aachen | 4 – 1 | FC Eislingen |
| FC St. Pauli | 3 – 0 | FC Bayern Hof | (AET) |
| KSV Baunatal | 5 – 0 | SV Union Essen-Frintop |
| ESV Ingolstadt | 4 – 0 | Viktoria Klein-Gladbach |
| FC Tailfingen | 4 – 3 | SV 1916 Sandhausen |
| SV Südwest Ludwigshafen | 2 – 0 | Concordia Hamburg |
| SV Memmelsdorf | 1 – 8 | 1. FC Bocholt |
| SVO Germaringen | 1 – 7 | VfR 1910 Bürstadt |
| Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | 5 – 1 | ETSV Landshut | (AET) |
| SVO Salmünster | 1 – 3 | VfL Neustadt / Weinstraße |
| SG Ellingen-Bondefeld | 3 – 1 | VfB Lübeck |
| Göttingen 05 | 2 – 0 | FC Epe |
| 6 August 1978 |
| Rot-Weiss Lüdenscheid | 1 – 4 | 1. FC Köln |
| SV Haidlfing | 0 – 5 | SpVgg Bayreuth |
| TuS Hessisch-Oldenhof | 0 – 4 | Westfalia Herne |
| TuS Iserlohn | 0 – 2 | VfL Osnabrück |
| OSC Bremerhaven | 0 – 3 | Hannover 96 |
| ASV Burglengenfeld | 1 – 4 | Viktoria Köln |
| SC Herford | 2 – 1 | Kickers Würzburg |
| OSV Hannover | 5 – 1 | TSV Helmstedt |
| FC Gütersloh | 4 – 1 | Eintracht Nordhorn |
| 1. FC Kirchheim | 1 – 2 | SpVgg EGC Wirges |
| SV Bliesen | 2 – 3 | Melsunger FV |
| SV Werder Bremen II | 1 – 1 | TuS Neuendorf | (AET) |
| MTV Gifhorn 1861 | 0 – 3 | FK Pirmasens |
| Victoria Hamburg | 0 – 6 | SSV Ulm 1846 |
| VfR Heilbronn | 1 – 0 | TuS 08 Langerwehe |
| Blumenthaler SV 1919 | 1 – 2 | Fortuna Düsseldorf II | (AET) |

#### Replay

| 13 September 1978 |
| TuS Neuendorf | 5 – 2 | SV Werder Bremen II |

### Second round

| 22 September 1978 |
| MSV Duisburg | 3 – 1 | Arminia Bielefeld |
| VfL Bochum | 4 – 2 | DSC Wanne-Eickel | (AET) |
| 1. FC Saarbrücken | 2 – 3 | Bayer Uerdingen |
| 23 September 1978 |
| FC Schalke 04 | 3 – 2 | VfB Stuttgart |
| SV Werder Bremen | 2 – 3 | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| FC Bayern Munich | 4 – 5 | VfL Osnabrück |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | 6 – 1 | Arminia Hannover |
| Eintracht Trier | 0 – 1 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| SV Darmstadt 98 | 2 – 1 | Preußen Münster |
| FC Augsburg | 1 – 3 | 1. FC Nürnberg |
| Borussia Neunkirchen | 0 – 0 | Borussia Dortmund | (AET) |
| VfR Wormatia Worms | 1 – 1 | Hertha BSC | (AET) |
| Eintracht Braunschweig | 1 – 0 | SG Ellingen-Bonefeld |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | 3 – 0 | VfR Heilbronn |
| Hannover 96 | 1 – 3 | Alemannia Aachen |
| Tennis Borussia Berlin | 3 – 3 | VfR 1910 Bürstadt | (AET) |
| SV Südwest Ludwigshafen | 4 – 2 | Viktoria Köln |
| SSV Ulm 1846 | 4 – 2 | FSV Frankfurt |
| Kickers Offenbach | 3 – 0 | ESV Ingolstadt |
| SC Herford | 0 – 3 | Holstein Kiel |
| SV Waldhof Mannheim | 7 – 0 | VfL Neustadt / Weinstraße |
| KSV Baunatal | 3 – 0 | Göttingen 05 |
| FC St. Pauli | 1 – 2 | TuS Neuendorf |
| 24 September 1978 |
| Freiburger FC | 2 – 2 | 1. FC Bocholt | (AET) |
| Westfalia Herne | 2 – 3 | 1. FC Köln |
| FC 08 Homburg | 4 – 2 | FK Pirmasens |
| SC Freiburg | 2 – 0 | FC Tailfingen |
| OSV Hannover | 0 – 3 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen |
| SpVgg Bayreuth | 6 – 0 | Melsunger FV |
| Eintracht Wirges | 1 – 7 | Fortuna Köln |
| FC Gütersloh | 1 – 1 | Karlsruher SC | (AET) |
| Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | 3 – 2 | Fortuna Düsseldorf II |

#### Replays

| 3 October 1978 |
| Borussia Dortmund | 2 – 0 | Borussia Neunkirchen |
| VfR 1910 Bürstadt | 3 – 4 | Tennis Borussia Berlin | (PSO) |
| Karlsruher SC | 3 – 0 | FC Gütersloh |
| 1. FC Bocholt | 3 – 2 | Freiburger FC | (AET) |
| 7 November 1978 |
| Hertha BSC | 2 – 0 | VfR Wormatia Worms |

### Third round

| 29 November 1978 |
| Tennis Borussia Berlin | 0 – 2 | 1. FC Nürnberg |
| 1 December 1978 |
| 1. FC Köln | 3 – 2 | Eintracht Braunschweig | (AET) |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | 2 – 1 | Alemannia Aachen |
| 2 December 1978 |
| Hertha BSC | 2 – 0 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
| FC 08 Homburg | 0 – 0 | VfL Bochum | (AET) |
| MSV Duisburg | 2 – 1 | SV Waldhof Mannheim |
| Borussia Dortmund | 6 – 1 | Kickers Offenbach |
| Eintracht Frankfurt | 4 – 1 | KSV Baunatal |
| Bayer Uerdingen | 2 – 1 | FC Schalke 04 |
| SV Darmstadt 98 | 1 – 5 | SSV Ulm 1846 |
| SV Südwest Ludwigshafen | 2 – 1 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| Holstein Kiel | 5 – 2 | Karlsruher SC |
| VfL Osnabrück | 2 – 1 | Fortuna Köln |
| Bayer 04 Leverkusen | 1 – 0 | SpVgg Bayreuth |
| TuS Neuendorf | 3 – 1 | 1. FC Bocholt | (AET) |
| 3 December 1978 |
| Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | 1 – 1 | SC Freiburg | (AET) |

#### Replays

| 26 December 1978 |
| SC Freiburg | 2 – 3 | Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | (PSO) |
| 6 January 1979 |
| VfL Bochum | 1 – 0 | FC 08 Homburg |

### Round of 16

| 27 April 1979 |
| MSV Duisburg | 0 – 1 | Fortuna Düsseldorf |
| Hertha BSC | 2 – 0 | 1. FC Köln | (AET) |
| Borussia Dortmund | 1 – 3 | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| SV Südwest Ludwigshafen | 1 – 1 | SSV Ulm 1846 | (AET) |
| 1. FC Nürnberg | 7 – 1 | Holstein Kiel |
| Bayer Uerdingen | 4 – 2 | VfL Bochum |
| Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | 1 – 0 | VfL Osnabrück |
| TuS Neuendorf | 1 – 4 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen |

#### Replay

| 8 May 1979 |
| SSV Ulm 1846 | 0 – 1 | SV Südwest Ludwigshafen |

### Quarter-finals

| 26 May 1979 |
| 1. FC Nürnberg | 2 – 0 | SV Südwest Ludwigshafen |
| Hertha BSC | 6 – 0 | Bayer Uerdingen |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | 2 – 1 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen |
| Eintracht Frankfurt | 2 – 1 | Rot-Weiß Oberhausen |

### Semi-finals

| 6 June 1979 |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | 4 – 1 | 1. FC Nürnberg | (AET) |
| Hertha BSC | 2 – 1 | Eintracht Frankfurt |