Will Bayer Leverkusen successfully defend the DFB Cup they won in 2023/24? - © 2017 Getty Images
Will Bayer Leverkusen successfully defend the DFB Cup they won in 2023/24? - © 2017 Getty Images
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2024/25 DFB Cup: Fixtures, results and LIVE blogs

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Bayern Munich have been paired with holders Bayer Leverkusen, while RB Leipzig host Eintracht Frankfurt among three all-Bundesliga ties in the round of 16 in the 2024/25 DFB Cup.

bundesliga.com details all the fixtures for the 2024/25 road to Berlin, where the final will be played on 24 May 2025...

Red bold text = Bundesliga club
Red normal text = Bundesliga 2 club
Italicised text = third division or lower

Round of 16 draw

Ties to be played on 3/4 December

Arminia Bielefeld vs. Freiburg
Bayern Munich vs. Bayer Leverkusen
Werder Bremen vs. Darmstadt
RB Leipzig vs. Eintracht Frankfurt
Karlsruhe vs. Augsburg
Jahn Regensburg vs. VfB Stuttgart
Cologne vs. Hertha Berlin
Wolfsburg vs. Hoffenheim

Second-round results

Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 Elversberg
Kickers Offenbach 0-2 Karlsruhe
Augsburg 3-0 Schalke
RB Leipzig 4-2 St. Pauli
VfB Stuttgart 2-1 Kaiserslautern
Cologne 3-0 Holstein Kiel
Wolfsburg 1-0 Borussia Dortmund (aet)
Jahn Regensburg 1-0 Greuther Fürth
Freiburg 2-1 Hamburg
Hertha Berlin 2-1 Heidenheim
Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1
 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Paderborn 0-1 Werder Bremen
Arminia Bielefeld 2-0 Union Berlin
Hoffenheim
2-1 Nuremberg
Dynamo Dresden 1-2 Darmstadt
Mainz 0-4 Bayern Munich

Watch: Jamal Musiala's hat-trick at Mainz

First-round results

Carl Zeiss Jena 0-1 Bayer Leverkusen
Preußen Münster 0-5 VfB Stuttgart
Energie Cottbus
1-3 Werder Bremen
TuS Koblenz 0-1 Wolfsburg
Kickers Offenbach 2-1 Magdeburg
Eintracht Braunschweig 1-4 Eintracht Frankfurt
Viktoria Berlin 1-4 Augsburg
Saarbrücken 1-1 Nuremberg (Nuremberg win 5-3 on pens.)
Teutonia Ottensen 1-3 Darmstadt
Jahn Regensburg 1-0 Bochum
Bremer SV 0-4 Paderborn
VfV Hildesheim 0-7 Elversberg
Sandhausen 2-3 Cologne (AET)
Hansa Rostock 1-5 Hertha Berlin
Dynamo Dresden 2-0 Fortuna Düsseldorf
Sportfreunde Lotte 0-5 Karlsruhe
Meppen 1-7 Hamburg
Schott Mainz 0-2 Greuther Fürth
Erzgebirge Aue 1-3 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Greifswalder FC 0-1 Union Berlin
Villingen 0-4 Heidenheim
Rot-Weiss Essen 1-4 RB Leipzig
Ingolstadt 1-2 Kaiserslautern
VfR Aalen 0-2 Schalke
Osnabrück 0-4 Freiburg
Alemannia Aachen 2-3 Holstein Kiel
Arminia Bielefeld 2-0 Hannover
Phönix Lübeck 1-4 Borussia Dortmund
Ulm 0-4 Bayern Munich
Würzburger Kickers 2-2 Hoffenheim (Hoffenheim won 5-3 on pens.) 
Wehen Wiesbaden 1-3 Mainz (aet)
Hallescher FC 2-3 St. Pauli (aet)

Watch: Leverkusen celebrate domestic double in 2024

Further key dates

Round of 16

Draw on 3 November 2024, ties to be played on 3-4 December 2024

Quarter-finals

Draw on 8 December 2024, ties to be played on 4-5 and 25-26 February 2025

Semi-finals

Draw on 2 March 2025, ties to be played on 1-2 April 2025

Final

24 May 2025 at Berlin's Olympiastadion