The DFB Football Museum in Dortmund is the fixed location from the beginning of the 2017/2018 season for DFB Cup draws. The first draw will take place this coming Sunday 11. June.

Also new: draws will no longer be made after midnight following live matches and the highlights from other fixtures. In future, fixtures will be always be drawn on Sunday at 18:00 on 'ARD Sportschau' after each cup round.

And so to the draw for the first main round of 2017/2018, which will be played between 11. to 14. August. Title defenders Borussia Dortmund could be drawn against the following opponents: 

DFB Cup 2017/18, 1. Main Round, Draw Pot 2

SpVgg Unterhaching (Champions RL Bavaria)
VfL Osnabrück (Finalist State Cup Lower Saxony)
Lüneburger SK (Finalist State Cup Lower Saxony)
SV Eichede (Finalist State Cup Schleswig-Holstein)
Rot-Weiss Essen (Finalist State Cup Lower Rhine)
VfB Germania Halberstadt (Finalist State Cup Saxony Anhalt)
Chemnitzer FC (Winning Finalist State Cup Saxony)
TuS Koblenz (Winning Finalist State Cup Rhineland)
Energie Cottbus (Winning Finalist State Cup Brandenburg)
FC Nöttingen (Winning Finalist State Cup Baden)
Rot-Weiß Erfurt (Winning Finalist State Cup Thüringen)
Eintracht Norderstedt (Winning Finalist State Cup Hamburg)
Sportfreunde Dorfmerkingen (Winning Finalist State Cup Württemberg)
Hansa Rostock (Winning Finalist State Cup Mecklenburg-Pomerania)
Leher TS (Winning Finalist State Cup Bremen)
FC Rielasingen-Arlen (Winning Finalist State Cup Southern Baden)
1. FC Schweinfurt 05 (Winning Finalist State Cup Bavaria)
SV Wehen Wiesbaden (Winning Finalist State Cup Hessen)
SC Paderborn (Winning Finalist State Cup Westphalia)
BFC Dynamo (Winning Finalist State Cup Berlin)
Bonner SC (Winning Finalist State Cup Middle Rhine)
1. FC Saarbrücken (Winning Finalist State Cup Saarland)
SV 1912 Morlautern (Winning Finalist State Cup South West)
TuS Erndtebrück (Westphalia Oberliga Champions)
MSV Duisburg (qualified via 3. Bundesliga)
Holstein Kiel (3. Bundesliga)
Jahn Regensburg (3. Bundesliga)
1. FC Magdeburg (3. Bundesliga)
Karlsruher SC (Relegated from 2. Bundesliga)
Würzburger Kickers (Relegated from 2. Bundesliga)
1860 Munich (Relegated from 2. Bundesliga)
Arminia Bielefeld (Fourth last in 2. Bundesliga)