All statistics correct as of 8 September 2024.Goals scored in penalty shoot-outs not included.
The 2024–25 DFB-Pokal is the 43rd season of the annual German football cup competition. Several teams participate in the competition, including all teams from the previous year's Frauen-Bundesliga and the 2. Frauen-Bundesliga, excluding second teams. The competition will begin on 17 August 2024 with the first of six rounds and will end on 1 May 2025 with the final at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne, a nominally neutral venue, which has hosted the final since 2010.[1]
All clubs from the 2023–24 Frauen-Bundesliga and the four best-placed teams from the 2023–24 2. Frauen-Bundesliga receive a bye in the first round. Clubs from lower leagues will host against clubs from higher leagues until the quarter-finals.
Schedule
The rounds of the 2024–25 competition are scheduled as follows:[1]
Times up to 27 October 2024 and from 30 March 2025 are CEST (UTC+2). Times from 28 October 2024 to 29 March 2025 are CET (UTC+1).
First round
The draw took place on 27 June 2024, with Ulrike Ballweg drawing the matches.[3][4] The teams are split into a North and a South group. The Bundesliga and the two best-placed teams from the 2. Bundesliga will have a bye.[5] The matches will take place between 17 and 20 August 2024.
^SV Hegnach qualified as runners-up of the Regionalliga Süd as champions SC Freiburg II were ineligible.
^FC Forstern qualified regardless of the outcome of the final of the Baden Cup, as 1. FC Nürnberg II, the other finalists, were ineligible.
^Viktoria Berlin qualified regardless of the outcome of the final of the Berlin Cup, as Union Berlin, the other finalists, already qualified through their Regionalliga Nordost position.
^Eintracht Leipzig-Süd qualified regardless of the outcome of the Saxony Cup final, as RB Leipzig II, the other finalists, were ineligible.
^SC Siegelbach qualified regardless of the outcome of the final of the Southwest Cup, as Mainz 05, the other finalists, already qualified through their Regionalliga Südwest position.
^1. FFV Erfurt qualified regardless of the outcome of the Thuringian Cup final, as Carl Zeiss Jena II, the other finalists, were ineligible.
