See a complete list of teams that have won the DFB-Pokal Cup. The 2024 winners of the DFB-Pokal Cup is Bayer Leverkusen. This was their 2nd championship title.
Fast Facts:
- Deutscher Fußball-Bund is German Football Association in English.
- The DFB-Pokal, also known as the DFB Cup, is a knockout football competition in Germany that features teams from the Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga, 3. Liga, and qualified lower-division clubs.
- It is considered to be the second-most important club title in German football after the Bundesliga championship.
- The first DFB-Pokal Cup titleholders were 1. FC Nuremberg.
- Bayern Munich has won the most championship titles at 20.
- The final is always played at the historic Olympiastadion in Berlin — a big event with national significance.
- In the first round, amateur teams are drawn at home against professional sides, often creating intense David vs. Goliath moments.
- It’s a single-elimination tournament — one loss and you’re out.
- In addition to league play, German clubs also compete in the DFB-Pokal, a national knockout cup that includes teams from across all divisions.
DFB-Pokal Cup Champions
| Year | Winner | Runner Up |
| 2024 | Bayer Leverkusen | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| 2023 | RB Leipzig | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| 2022 | RB Leipzig | SC Freiburg |
| 2021 | Borussia Dortmund | RB Leipzig |
| 2020 | Bayern Munich | Bayer Leverkusen |
| 2019 | Bayern Munich | RB Leipzig |
| 2018 | Eintracht Frankfurt | Bayern Munich |
| 2017 | Borussia Dortmund | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| 2016 | Bayern Munich | Borussia Dortmund |
| 2015 | VfL Wolfsburg | Borussia Dortmund |
| 2014 | Bayern Munich | Borussia Dortmund |
| 2013 | Bayern Munich | VfB Stuttgart |
| 2012 | Borussia Dortmund | Bayern Munich |
| 2011 | Schalke 04 | MSV Duisburg |
| 2010 | Bayern Munich | Werder Bremen |
| 2009 | Werder Bremen | Bayer Leverkusen |
| 2008 | Bayern Munich | Borussia Dortmund |
| 2007 | 1. FC Nuremberg | VfB Stuttgart |
| 2006 | Bayern Munich | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| 2005 | Bayern Munich | Schalke 04 |
| 2004 | Werder Bremen | Alemannia Aachen |
| 2003 | Bayern Munich | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| 2002 | Schalke 04 | Bayer Leverkusen |
| 2001 | Schalke 04 | Union Berlin |
| 2000 | Bayern Munich | Werder Bremen |
| 1999 | Werder Bremen | Bayern Munich |
| 1998 | Bayern Munich | MSV Duisburg |
| 1997 | VfB Stuttgart | Energie Cottbus |
| 1996 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | Karlsruher SC |
| 1995 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | VfL Wolfsburg |
| 1994 | Werder Bremen | Rot-Weiss Essen |
| 1993 | Bayer Leverkusen | Hertha BSC II |
| 1992 | Hannover 96 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
| 1991 | Werder Bremen | 1. FC Köln |
| 1990 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | Werder Bremen |
| 1989 | Borussia Dortmund | Werder Bremen |
| 1988 | Eintracht Frankfurt | VfL Bochum |
| 1987 | Hamburger SV | Stuttgarter Kickers |
| 1986 | Bayern Munich | VfB Stuttgart |
| 1985 | Bayer Uerdingen | Bayern Munich |
| 1984 | Bayern Munich | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
| 1983 | 1. FC Köln | Fortuna Köln |
| 1982 | Bayern Munich | 1. FC Nuremberg |
| 1981 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| 1980 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 1. FC Köln |
| 1979 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | Hertha BSC |
| 1978 | 1. FC Köln | Fortuna Düsseldorf |
| 1977 | 1. FC Köln | Hertha BSC |
| 1976 | Hamburger SV | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| 1975 | Eintracht Frankfurt | MSV Duisburg |
| 1974 | Eintracht Frankfurt | Hamburger SV |
| 1973 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 1. FC Köln |
| 1972 | Schalke 04 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| 1971 | Bayern Munich | 1. FC Köln |
| 1970 | Kickers Offenbach | 1. FC Köln |
| 1969 | Bayern Munich | Schalke 04 |
| 1968 | 1. FC Köln | VfL Bochum |
| 1967 | Bayern Munich | Hamburger SV |
| 1966 | Bayern Munich | Meidericher SV |
| 1965 | Borussia Dortmund | Alemannia Aachen |
| 1964 | 1860 Munich | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| 1963 | Hamburger SV | Borussia Dortmund |
| 1962 | 1. FC Nuremberg | Fortuna Düsseldorf |
| 1961 | Werder Bremen | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| 1960 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | Karlsruher SC |
| 1959 | Schwarz-Weiss Essen | Borussia Neunkirchen |
| 1958 | VfB Stuttgart | Fortuna Düsseldorf |
| 1957 | Bayern Munich | Fortuna Düsseldorf |
| 1956 | Karlsruher SC | Hamburger SV |
| 1955 | Karlsruher SC | Schalke 04 |
| 1954 | VfB Stuttgart | 1. FC Köln |
| 1953 | Rot-Weiss Essen | Alemannia Aachen |
| 1943 | First Vienna | Luftwaffen-SV Hamburg |
| 1942 | 1860 Munich | Schalke 04 |
| 1941 | Dresdner SC | Schalke 04 |
| 1940 | Dresdner SC | 1. FC Nuremberg |
| 1939 | 1. FC Nuremberg | Waldhof Mannheim |
| 1938 | Rapid Wien | FSV Frankfurt |
| 1937 | Schalke 04 | Fortuna Düsseldorf |
| 1936 | VfB Leipzig | Schalke 04 |
| 1935 | 1. FC Nuremberg | Schalke 04 |