DFB-Pokal first round draw: Trip to 2. Bundesliga side for Bayern, Dortmund face fifth-tier team

The draw for the first round of next season's German DFB-Pokal was made on Saturday evening. Champions Bayern will face the newly-promoted 2. Bundesliga side VfL Osnabrück, while Borussia Dortmund travel to Oberliga Hamburg outfit HEBC Hamburg.

The remaining 30 games will be played between August 21st and 24th, but Bayern and Borussia Dortmund will contest the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup on that weekend. As a result, their games will be played on September 1st and 2nd.

Full 2026/27 DFB-Pokal first round draw:

SC St. Tönis vs. Eintracht Frankfurt
Erzgebirge Aue vs. TSG Hoffenheim
Eintracht Braunschweig vs. 1. FC Union Berlin
Eintracht Trier vs. RB Leipzig
TSV Schott Mainz vs. Borussia Mönchengladbach
Fortuna Düsseldorf vs. SC Freiburg
Rot-Weiss Essen vs. FC St. Pauli
SG Sonnenhof Großaspach vs. Arminia Bielefeld
SSV Jeddeloh II vs. 1. FC Heidenheim
SV Wehen Wiesbaden vs. Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Hallescher FC vs. FC Schalke 04
Energie Cottbus vs. FC Augsburg
VfB Krieschow vs. 1. FSV Mainz 05
SpVgg Greuther Fürth vs. VfL Bochum
SV Hemelingen vs. Hannover 96
Preußen Münster vs. Karlsruher SC
1. FC Saarbrücken vs. Hertha BSC
FC Viktoria Köln vs. 1. FC Nürnberg
MSV Duisburg vs. SV Elversberg
Lüneburger SK Hansa vs. Werder Bremen
SC Verl vs. Hamburger SV
Hansa Rostock vs. VfB Stuttgart
Carl Zeiss Jena vs. SV Darmstadt 98
Bahlinger SC vs. 1. FC Magdeburg
TSV 1860 München vs. Holstein Kiel
SV Waldhof Mannheim vs. 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Westfalia Rhynern vs. Dynamo Dresden
1. FC Phönix Lübeck vs. SC Paderborn 07
VSG Altglienicke vs. VfL Wolfsburg
Würzburger Kickers vs. 1. FC Köln
HEBC Hamburg vs. Borussia Dortmund
VfL Osnabrück vs. Bayern München