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DFB-Pokal: Second round to be drawn on Sunday
The matches in the second round will be played on 29 and 30 October 2024. ZDF will broadcast the draw, which will take place at the German Football Museum in Dortmund, live. Sonja Greinacher, an Olympic champion at 3x3 Basketball, will do the draw.
There will be two pots containing professional and amateur teams. Draws will be made first from the amateur pot and then from the professional pot. If there are no more names in one pot, the remaining teams in the other pot will be drawn against each other. The team drawn first will have home advantage.
Arminia Bielefeld and Dynamo Dresden from the 3. Liga are still in the competition, as are Regionalliga club Kickers Offenbach. The other possible opponents for BVB are:
Bundesliga
- TSG Hoffenheim
- FSV Mainz 05
- FC St. Pauli
- Bayern Munich
- Borussia Mönchengladbach
- 1. FC Heidenheim
- Leipzig
- SC Freiburg
- Union Berlin
- Holstein Kiel
- FC Augsburg
- SV Werder Bremen
- VfL Wolfsburg
- Eintracht Frankfurt
- VfB Stuttgart
- Bayer Leverkusen
2. Bundesliga
- SpVgg Greuther Fürth
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern
- FC Schalke 04
- 1. FC Nürnberg
- Jahn Regensburg
- SC Paderborn
- SV Elversberg
- Hertha BSC
- SV Darmstadt 98
- 1. FC Köln
- Karlsruher SC
- Hamburger SV
The remaining dates
| Round of 16: | 3/4 December 2024 |
| Quarter-final: | 4/5 and 25/26 February 2025 |
| Semi-final: | 1/2 April 2025 |
| Final: | 24 Mai 2025 |