# 2009–10 DFB-Pokal

The 2009–10 DFB-Pokal was the 67th season of the annual German football cup competition. The competition began with the first round on 31 July 2009 and ended on 15 May 2010 with the final which is traditionally held at Olympiastadion in Berlin. Since the cup winner, Bayern Munich, completed the double by also winning the German championship, and the runner-up, Werder Bremen, qualified for the Champions League, VfB Stuttgart, the sixth-placed team of the championship, qualified for the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round instead.

## Participating clubs

The following 64 teams competed in the first round:
| Bundesliga the 18 clubs of the 2008–09 season | 2. Bundesliga the 18 clubs of the 2008–09 season | 3. Fußball-Liga the top 4 clubs of the 2008–09 season |
| Arminia Bielefeld VfL Bochum SV Werder Bremen FC Energie Cottbus Borussia Dortmund Eintracht Frankfurt Hamburger SV Hannover 96 Hertha BSC TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Karlsruher SC 1. FC Köln Bayer 04 Leverkusen Borussia Mönchengladbach FC Bayern Munich FC Schalke 04 VfB Stuttgart VfL Wolfsburg | Alemannia Aachen Rot-Weiß Ahlen FC Augsburg MSV Duisburg SC Freiburg SpVgg Greuther Fürth FSV Frankfurt FC Ingolstadt 04 1. FC Kaiserslautern TuS Koblenz 1. FSV Mainz 05 TSV 1860 Munich 1. FC Nürnberg Rot-Weiß Oberhausen VfL Osnabrück F.C. Hansa Rostock FC St. Pauli SV Wehen Wiesbaden | 1. FC Union Berlin Fortuna Düsseldorf SC Paderborn 07 SpVgg Unterhaching |
| Winners of 21 regional cup competitions |||
| Baden SpVgg Neckarelz Bavaria SpVgg Weiden (CW) SV Wacker Burghausen Berlin Tennis Borussia Berlin Brandenburg SV Babelsberg 03 Bremen FC Oberneuland Hamburg SC Concordia Hamburg Hesse Kickers Offenbach | Lower Rhine VfB Speldorf Lower Saxony Kickers Emden (CW) Eintracht Braunschweig Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Torgelower SV Greif Middle Rhine TSV Germania Windeck Rhineland SV Eintracht Trier 05 Saarland SV Elversberg Saxony Dynamo Dresden | Saxony-Anhalt 1. FC Magdeburg Schleswig-Holstein VfB Lübeck South Baden FC 08 Villingen Southwest Wormatia Worms Thuringia FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt Westphalia Preußen Münster (CW) Sportfreunde Lotte Württemberg SG Sonnenhof Großaspach |
* 1 2 3 Finalists from the three regions with the most participating teams in their league competitions are also allowed to compete.
* ↑ Tennis Borussia Berlin qualified as losing finalists from Berlin because winners 1. FC Union Berlin have already qualified via their league place.
* ↑ Germania Dattenfeld was renamed TSV Germania Windeck, effective 1 July 2009.
* ↑ While Dresden's reserve team won the cup final, rules stipulate the club must send its first team into the competition, unless it had qualified via a league place.

## Draw

The draws for the different rounds are conducted as following: For the first round, the participating teams will be split into two pots. The first pot contains all teams which have qualified through their regional cup competitions, the best four teams of the 3rd Liga and the bottom four teams of the Second Bundesliga. Every team from this pot will be drawn to a team from the second pot, which contains all remaining professional teams. The teams from the first pot will be set as the home team in the process.
The two-pot scenario will also be applied for the second round, with the remaining 3rd Liga/amateur teams in the first pot and the remaining professional teams in the other pot. Once one pot is empty, the remaining pairings will be 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 3rd Liga/amateur team will be the home team if drawn against a professional team. In every other case, the first-drawn team will serve as hosts.

## Matches

Times up to 24 October 2009 and from 28 March 2010 are CEST (UTC+2). Times from 25 October 2009 to 27 March 2010 are CET (UTC+1).

### First round

The draw took place on 27 June 2009, 18:00 UTC+2 at the Norisring, Nuremberg, and involved the 64 teams listed in the table above. Germany international Renate Lingor conducted the draw. The matches will be played from 31 July – 3 August 2009.

### Second round

The draw took place on 8 August 2009 at Rhein-Neckar-Arena, Sinsheim and involved the 32 winners of the first round. Germany international Inka Grings conducted the draw. The matches were played on 22–23 September 2009.

### Quarter-finals

The draw took place on 1 November 2009 as part of the ARD-Sportschau, and involved the 8 winners of the round of 16. Germany international Linda Bresonik conducted the draw. The matches will be played on 9–10 February 2010.

### Semi-finals

The draw was conducted on 10 February.