DFB-Pokal: First round draw to take place on Sunday | OneFootball

Sprinter Owen Ansah, who became the first German to break the 10-second barrier (9.99 seconds), will be drawing the balls. The 32 ties in the first round will be played between 15 and 18 August 2025.

A total of 64 teams have qualified for the first round. All 18 Bundesliga clubs and the top 14 from last season's 2. Bundesliga are in the professional pot for the draw, while the other teams are in the amateur pot (places 15-18 in the 2. Bundesliga, places 1-4 in the 3. Liga and the 24 representatives of the regional associations). A ball is drawn first from the amateur pot and then from the professional pot. The team drawn first will have home advantage.

Qualified clubs

Professional pot: Borussia Dortmund, FC Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen, Eintracht Frankfurt, SC Freiburg, 1. FSV Mainz 05, Rasenballsport Leipzig, SV Werder Bremen, VfB Stuttgart, Borussia Mönchengladbach, VfL Wolfsburg, FC Augsburg, 1. FC Union Berlin, FC St. Pauli, TSG Hoffenheim, 1. FC Heidenheim, 1. FC Köln, Hamburger SV, Holstein Kiel, VfL Bochum, SV Elversberg, SC Paderborn, 1. FC Magdeburg, Fortuna Düsseldorf, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Karlsruher SC, Hannover 96, 1. FC Nürnberg, Hertha BSC, SV Darmstadt 98, SpVgg Greuther Fürth, FC Schalke 04

Amateur pot: Preußen Münster, Eintracht Braunschweig, SSV Ulm 1846, Jahn Regensburg, Arminia Bielefeld, Dynamo Dresden, 1. FC Saarbrücken, Energie Cottbus, SV Sandhausen (Baden), FV Illertissen (Bavaria), 1. FC Schweinfurt (Champion of the Regionalliga Bayern), BFC Dynamo (Berlin), SV Hemelingen (Bremen), RSV Eintracht 1949 (Brandenburg), Eintracht Norderstedt (Hamburg), SV Wehen Wiesbaden (Hesse), Rot-Weiss Essen (Lower Rhine), Blau-Weiß Lohne (Lower Saxony), SV Atlas Delmenhorst (Lower Saxony) Hansa Rostock (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), Viktoria Köln (Middle Rhine), FV Engers 07 (Rhineland), 1. FC Lok Leipzig (Saxony), Hallescher FC (Saxony-Anhalt), VfB Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein), Bahlinger SC (Southern Baden), FK Pirmasens (South-West), ZFC Meuselwitz (Thuringia), Sportfreunde Lotte (Finalist of the Landespokal Westfalen), FC Gütersloh (Vice-champion of the Regionalliga West), SG Sonnenhof Großaspach (Wurttemberg), FC 08 Homburg (Saarland)