😮 Historic DFB-Pokal opener: not seen for ages! | OneFootball

FC Bayern only trembled briefly on Wednesday evening, then the record champions overcame an early deficit against newly promoted second-division side Osnabrück and ultimately won very comfortably 4-1.

That means Bayern are the last team to advance to the second round of the DFB-Pokal.

And that, in turn, means this first round ends in a way the competition has not started in many years: All Bundesliga clubs reached the next round, no team embarrassed itself and got knocked out by an underdog.

According to ‘transfermarkt.de’, the last time this happened was in the 2008/09 season, and only the second time overall since the turn of the millennium – in the years after that, at least one top-flight club always lost to an outsider.

Last year, Werder were the only team to spoil that perfect record when Bremen were knocked out by Bielefeld. In 2024/25, it was VfL Bochum that prevented the novelty. This comes from a report by ‘transfermarkt.de’.

In the 2012/13 season, the highest number of Bundesliga clubs in recent history were knocked out in the first round: six. The only times there were more were in the sixties and seventies, with seven teams each.

Werder Bremen are the club that has been knocked out right at the start most often as a Bundesliga side: 14 times. But there is certainly no laughing about that at their northern rivals – because HSV are already in second place. Hamburg have already failed at the first cup hurdle 12 times.

Financially alone, progressing is extremely lucrative: With their opening win, the second-round teams have already earned more than €450,000 each in prize money. Reaching the round of 16 would bring in almost €1 million, according to ‘transfermarkt.de’.

Who faces whom will be decided on Saturday (05/09). The second-round matches will then take place on October 27 and 28.

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