2011–12 DFB-Pokal

Participating clubs

The following 64 teams competed in the first round:

Schedule

The rounds of the 2011–12 competition are scheduled as follows:

Draw

The draws for the different rounds are conducted as following: For the first round, the participating teams will be split into two pots. The first pot contains all teams which have qualified through their regional cup competitions, the best four teams of the 3rd Liga and the bottom four teams of the Second Bundesliga. Every team from this pot will be drawn to a team from the second pot, which contains all remaining professional teams. The teams from the first pot will be set as the home team in the process.

The two-pot scenario will also be applied for the second round, with the remaining 3rd Liga/amateur teams in the first pot and the remaining professional teams in the other pot. Once one pot is empty, the remaining pairings will be drawn from the other pot with the first-drawn team for a match serving as hosts. For the remaining rounds, the draw will be conducted from just one pot. Any remaining 3rd Liga/amateur team will be the home team if drawn against a professional team. In every other case, the first-drawn team will serve as hosts.

Matches

First round

The draw was made on 11 June 2011.

As in the 2010–11 competition, Hallescher FC will have to move their first-round match against Eintracht Frankfurt to another ground because re-building of their own Kurt-Wabbel-Stadion has not yet been completed. After several attempts of moving the tie to other locations, including Paul Greifzu Stadium at nearby Dessau-Roßlau and Frankenstadion at Nuremberg, were unsuccessful because of security concerns, the match will eventually be played at cross-town Stadion am Bildungszentrum, the current home ground of the club. Anker Wismar will also have to move their tie against Hannover 96 from their own Paul-Bürger-Stadion because of security requirements. The match will be played at Lohmühle, Lübeck. Other matches have been moved for capacity reasons, including FC Teningen–FC Schalke 04 (to be played at Badenova-Stadion in nearby Freiburg), SC Wiedenbrück 2000–1. FC Köln (to be played at Heidewaldstadion, Gütersloh), SVN Zweibrücken–1. FSV Mainz 05 (to be played at Waldstadion, Homburg) and Germania Windeck–1899 Hoffenheim (Sportpark Höhenberg, Cologne). Headlines made Hamburg Cup winner Eimsbütteler TV, who lost almost its complete first and second teams because of disagreements over how to split the money earned from reaching the first round. ETV was forced to field a side predominantly made up of players from its under-19 side.

All times CEST Koep Terodde Rodenberg Brauer Heppke Wagner Menz Ede Silvio Karl Salihamidžić Hochscheidt Könnecke Reus De Camargo Kuzmanović Mauersberger Volland Tiffert Petsos Schnatterer Koch Schnetzler Sam Schürrle Hauswald Mak Pekhart Krösche Taylor Kara Meha Proschwitz Domovchiyski Petrić Kazior Herrmann Kagawa Gueye Benyamina Košťál Ginczek Langen Lartey Ziegenbein Aydın Freier Federico Maltritz De Roeck Leitl Ikeng Tunjić Reisinger Kempe Krebs Sararer Tyrała Nehrig Nöthe C. Rahn Stindl Stoppelkamp Ottl Ebert Johnson Babel Papadopoulos Raúl Holtby Gavranović Rösler O. Fink Allagui Jajalo Schweinsteiger Müller

Second round

The draw for this round took place on 6 August 2011. The matches were played on 25–26 October 2011.

Ginczek Federico Jong Tae-se Krebs Spann Schittenhelm Tausendpfund Dante Nordtveit Stranzl Rösler

Aogo Nöthe Occéan Pektürk Musona Götze Sykora Lasogga Rukavytsya Matip Wießmeier Alaba Petersen Matip Usami Cacau Traoré

Round of 16

The draw for this round took place on 30 October 2011. The matches were played on 20–21 December 2011.

Robben Ibišević Langeneke Lambertz Bröker Rösler Błaszczykowski Kehl Gündoğan Perišić Lasogga Ebert Müller Reus

Quarter-finals

The draw for this round took place on 21 December 2011. The matches were played on 7–8 February 2012.

All times CET Kagawa Barrios Perišić Wendt Gómez

Semi-finals

The draw for this round took place on 11 February 2012. The matches were played on 20–21 March 2012.

All times CET

Herrmann Dante Nordtveit Ribéry Lahm Kroos

Final

Main article: 2012 DFB-Pokal Final

Top goalscorers

Final statistics.

;7 goals

• POL Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund)

;5 goals

• NED Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Schalke 04)

;4 goals

• COL Adrián Ramos (Hertha BSC)
• TUR Sercan Sararer (Greuther Fürth)

;3 goals

• GER Cacau (VfB Stuttgart)
• GER Markus Feulner (1. FC Nürnberg)
• GER Daniel Frahn (RB Leipzig)
• GER Marco Reus (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
• GER Sascha Rösler (Fortuna Düsseldorf)
• USA Matthew Taylor (SC Paderborn)

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