# 1980–81 DFB-Pokal

The 1980–81 DFB-Pokal was the 38th season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 27 August 1980 and ended on 2 May 1981. In the final, FC Kaiserslautern was defeated by Eintracht Frankfurt (3–1) who were awarded the trophy for the third time. Despite losing in the quarter-finals, Hamburger SV set an all-time record by scoring 36 goals in the competition. Fortuna Düsseldorf set an all-time record of 18 consecutive cup-match victories since 1978, despite losing in the quarter-finals.

## Matches
### First round

| 27 August 1980 |
| FC Bayern Munich | 2 – 0 | Arminia Bielefeld |
| 29 August 1980 |
| VfB Stuttgart II | 2 – 5 | Borussia Dortmund | (AET) |
| Hannover 96 | 8 – 1 | Borussia Hannover |
| MSV Duisburg | 9 – 0 | Wacker 04 Berlin |
| Concordia Hamburg | 2 – 2 | Hammer SpVgg | (AET) |
| Borussia Neunkirchen | 1 – 1 | SpVgg Bayreuth | (AET) |
| 1. FC Viersen 05 | 2 – 2 | Karlsruher SC | (AET) |
| 30 August 1980 |
| SV Darmstadt 98 | 10 – 0 | FSV Hemmersdorf |
| FV 1913 Lauda | 1 – 2 | VfB Oldenburg | (AET) |
| RSV Würges | 2 – 0 | FC Ottering |
| FC Schalke 04 | 2 – 5 | Bayer Uerdingen |
| Hamburger SV | 11 – 1 | VfR Wormatia Worms |
| VfB Stuttgart | 4 – 0 | Fortuna Köln |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | 7 – 3 | OSV Hannover |
| VfB Gaggenau | 0 – 3 | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| SpVgg Emsdetten | 0 – 6 | 1. FC Köln |
| Bramfelder SV | 2 – 8 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen |
| VfL Bochum | 4 – 1 | SV Wilhelmshaven |
| Eintracht Trier | 0 – 1 | Fortuna Düsseldorf |
| Hertha BSC | 3 – 1 | Holstein Kiel |
| SV Werder Bremen | 6 – 3 | Viktoria Köln | (AET) |
| Alemannia Aachen | 3 – 0 | VfB Eppingen |
| Rot-Weiß Essen | 7 – 2 | VfR Neuss |
| Blau-Weiß Niederembt | 1 – 4 | Preußen Münster | (AET) |
| FSV Frankfurt | 3 – 1 | SV Röchling Völklingen |
| SC Herford | 3 – 0 | Eintracht Nordhorn |
| Eintracht Braunschweig | 4 – 1 | SC Fürstenfeldbruck |
| SC Freiburg | 4 – 2 | Bremer SV |
| FC 08 Homburg | 3 – 0 | SG Limburgerhof |
| TuS Neuendorf | 3 – 4 | SG Egelsbach | (AET) |
| VfL Klafeld-Geisweid | 1 – 2 | Rot-Weiß Frankfurt |
| Rot-Weiß Niebüll | 3 – 2 | Eintracht Braunschweig II |
| Bünder SV | 2 – 0 | SV Südwest Ludwigshafen |
| TuS 08 Langerwehe | 5 – 0 | SV Stuttgart-Rot |
| SpVgg Ansbach 09 | 1 – 0 | FSV Pfaffenhofen |
| TSV Gersthofen | 0 – 1 | OSC Bremerhaven |
| SG 05 Pirmasens | 0 – 8 | TSV 1860 München |
| TSV Plön | 0 – 3 | 1. FC Saarbrücken |
| Arminia Hannover | 2 – 1 | SpVgg Erkenschwick |
| Moselfeuer Lehmen | 1 – 15 | Kickers Offenbach |
| Sportfreunde Eisbachtal | 1 – 3 | SG Wattenscheid 09 |
| SV Buchonia Flieden | 1 – 4 | ESV Ingolstadt |
| VfB Bielefeld | 1 – 3 | VfB Friedrichshafen |
| VfR Heilbronn | 0 – 3 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| TSV Pliezhausen | 0 – 3 | SSV Ulm 1846 |
| DSC Wanne-Eickel | 1 – 3 | SpVgg Frechen |
| Kickers Würzburg | 2 – 1 | TSV Hirschaid | (AET) |
| SV Waldhof Mannheim | 8 – 0 | FSV Harburg |
| FC Augsburg | 2 – 0 | Wuppertaler SV |
| SpVgg Fürth | 1 – 1 | 1. FC Nürnberg | (AET) |
| 1. FSV Mainz 05 | 3 – 2 | MTV 1881 Ingolstadt |
| 31 August 1980 |
| Schwarz-Weiß Essen | 6 – 0 | FC Neureut |
| ASV Burglengenfeld | 2 – 3 | VfB Wissen |
| Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | 1 – 0 | FV Offenburg |
| TSV Röttenbach | 2 – 4 | KSV Hessen Kassel |
| Freiburger FC | 3 – 1 | VfB Bottrop |
| ASC Dudweiler | 0 – 1 | FV Würzburg 04 |
| Blumenthaler SV 1919 | 0 – 2 | SC Pfullendorf |
| SV Atlas Delmenhorst | 6 – 2 | Blau-Weiß Wesselburen |
| SV Siegburg 04 | 2 – 1 | BFC Preußen Berlin |
| VfL Osnabrück | 2 – 0 | Tennis Borussia Berlin | (AET) |
| Stuttgarter Kickers | 2 – 0 | Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid |
| VfR 1910 Bürstadt | 4 – 1 | SSV Dillenburg |
| TuS Celle | 0 – 0 | SG Union Solingen | (AET) |

#### Replays

| 17 September 1980 |
| SpVgg Bayreuth | 2 – 1 | Borussia Neunkirchen |
| 24 September 1980 |
| Hammer SpVgg | 3 – 2 | Concordia Hamburg |
| Karlsruher SC | 2 – 1 | 1. FC Viersen 05 |
| 1. FC Nürnberg | 3 – 0 | SpVgg Fürth |
| SG Union Solingen | 5 – 0 | TuS Celle |

### Second round

| Bayer 05 Uerdingen | 4 – 1 | SG Wattenscheid 09 |
| Hannover 96 | 5 – 5 | SV Werder Bremen |
| Eintracht Braunschweig | 3 – 1 | Preußen Münster |
| Hertha BSC Berlin | 4 – 1 | FV Würzburg 04 |
| VfL Bochum | 5 – 1 | Rot-Weiss Essen |
| Kickers Offenbach | 5 – 2 | Bayer Leverkusen |
| Rot-Weiß Niebüll | 0 – 4 | Schwarz-Weiss Essen |
| SpVgg Bayreuth | 1 – 3 | VfB Stuttgart |
| Würzburger Kickers | 0 – 2 | Fortuna Düsseldorf |
| TuS 08 Langerwehe | 1 – 7 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
| FC 08 Homburg | 0 – 1 | VfB Oldenburg |
| SV Darmstadt 98 | 4 – 1 | VfR Bürstadt |
| SSV Ulm 1846 | 1 – 0 | SC Herford |
| OSC Bremerhaven | 0 – 2 | RSV Würges |
| Bünder SV | 3 – 1 | SpVgg Frechen |
| Borussia Dortmund | 3 – 1 | TSV 1860 München |
| 1. FC Köln | 1 – 1 | SC Freiburg |
| Borussia Dortmund | 3 – 1 | TSV 1860 München |
| FC Bayern Munich | 4 – 2 | SV Waldhof Mannheim |
| Karlsruher SC | 1 – 1 | Alemannia Aachen |
| Eintracht Frankfurt | 6 – 0 | VfB Friedrichshafen |
| Stuttgarter Kickers | 13 – 0 | SpVgg Ansbach 09 |
| Union Solingen | 1 – 2 | Rot-Weiß Frankfurt |
| FC Augsburg | 2 – 0 | FSV Mainz 05 |
| VfB Wissen | 1 – 7 | VfL Osnabrück |
| SC Pfullendorf | 0 – 1 | SV Siegburg 04 |
| KSV Hessen Kassel | 4 – 0 | Hammer SpVgg |
| ESV Ingolstadt | 1 – 3 | 1. FC Nürnberg |
| 1. FC Saarbrücken | 2 – 2 | Freiburger FC |
| FSV Frankfurt | 2 – 0 | MSV Duisburg |
| Arminia Hannover | 3 – 7 | Hamburger SV |
| SG Egelsbach | 1 – 3 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| SV Atlas Delmenhorst | 1 – 0 | Rot-Weiß Oberhausen |

#### Replays

| 28 October 1980 |
| SV Werder Bremen | 1 – 0 | Hannover 96 |
| Freiburger FC | 3 – 1 | 1. FC Saarbrücken |
| Alemannia Aachen | 1 – 0 | Karlsruher SC |
| 5 November 1980 |
| SC Freiburg | 3 – 1 | 1. FC Köln |

### Third round

| 22 November 1980 |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 2 – 1 | FC Bayern Munich |
| VfB Stuttgart | 2 – 0 | 1. FC Nürnberg |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | 3 – 0 | Borussia Dortmund |
| Eintracht Frankfurt | 3 – 0 | SSV Ulm 1846 |
| Schwarz-Weiß Essen | 1 – 2 | Bayer Uerdingen |
| Bünder SV | 1 – 7 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
| Hamburger SV | 11 – 1 | Rot-Weiß Frankfurt |
| SC Freiburg | 2 – 1 | KSV Hessen Kassel | (AET) |
| Eintracht Braunschweig | 3 – 2 | Stuttgarter Kickers |
| Hertha BSC | 4 – 1 | SV Darmstadt 98 |
| Alemannia Aachen | 5 – 2 | Freiburger FC |
| FC Augsburg | 1 – 3 | SV Werder Bremen |
| SV Siegburg 04 | 1 – 2 | VfB Oldenburg | (AET) |
| RSV Würges | 0 – 1 | VfL Osnabrück |
| Kickers Offenbach | 1 – 1 | SV Atlas Delmenhorst |
| FSV Frankfurt | 1 – 2 | VfL Bochum |

#### Replay

| 20 December 1980 |
| SV Atlas Delmenhorst | 2 – 1 | Kickers Offenbach |

### Round of 16

| Hamburger SV | 4 – 1 | VfL Bochum |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | 2 – 0 | SV Werder Bremen |
| VfL Osnabrück | 1 – 3 | VfB Stuttgart |
| VfB Oldenburg | 4 – 5 | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | 6 – 1 | SV Atlas Delmenhorst |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 3 – 0 | Alemannia Aachen |
| Hertha BSC Berlin | 5 – 1 | Bayer Uerdingen |
| Eintracht Braunschweig | 1 – 0 | SC Freiburg |

### Quarter-finals

| Eintracht Braunschweig | 4 – 3 | Hamburger SV |
| Hertha BSC Berlin | 2 – 1 | Fortuna Düsseldorf |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 3 – 1 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
| Eintracht Frankfurt | 2 – 1 | VfB Stuttgart |

### Semi-finals

| Eintracht Frankfurt | 1 – 0 | Hertha BSC Berlin |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 3 – 2 | Eintracht Braunschweig |