2014–15 Verbandspokal


The 2014–15 Verbandspokal, consisting of twenty one regional cup competitions, the Verbandspokale, is the qualifying competition for the 2015–16 DFB-Pokal, the German Cup.
All clubs from the 3. Liga and below could enter the regional Verbandspokale, subject to the rules and regulations of each region. Clubs from the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga could not enter but were instead directly qualified for the first round of the DFB-Pokal. Reserve teams are not permitted to take part in the DFB-Pokal or the Verbandspokale. The precise rules of each regional Verbandspokal are laid down by the regional football association organising it.
All twenty one winners were qualified for the first round of the German Cup in the following season. Three additional clubs were also qualified for the first round of the German Cup, these being from the three largest state associations, Bavaria, Westphalia and Lower Saxony. The qualified team was the runners-up of the Lower Saxony Cup while, in Bavaria and Westphalia, the best-placed Regionalliga Bayern and Oberliga Westfalen non-reserve team qualified for DFB-Pokal.
Of the twenty two teams qualified for the DFB-Pokal through the Verbandspokale, eighteen were knocked out in the first round. Three clubs, SSV Reutlingen, FC Carl Zeiss Jena and FC Viktoria Köln, were knocked out in the second round while SpVgg Unterhaching was the only one of the twenty two to advance to the third, where it lost to Bayer Leverkusen. Jena and Unterhaching eliminated one Bundesliga club each in the first round, Hamburger SV and FC Ingolstadt 04 while the others advanced though defeating 2. Bundesliga clubs.

Finals

The 2014–15 Verbandspokal finals with the winners qualified for the 2015–16 DFB-Pokal:
VerbandspokalDateLocationHomeAwayResultAttendanceReport
Bavarian Cup'20 May 2015WeidenSpVgg SV WeidenSpVgg Unterhaching2–2 2,200
Berlin Cup20 May 2015BerlinBFC DynamoSV Tasmania Berlin1–06,914
Brandenburg Cup6 May 2015FürstenwaldeUnion FürstenwaldeEnergie Cottbus2–33,424
Bremen Cup25 May 2015BremenBrinkumer SVBremer SV1–5
Hamburg Cup25 May 2015HamburgHSV Barmbeck-UhlenhorstCondor Hamburg2–0
Hesse Cup13 May 2015KasselKSV Hessen KasselVfB Gießen2–16,100
Lower Rhine Cup14 May 2015EssenRot-Weiss EssenRot-Weiß Oberhausen0–0 aet 18,500
Lower Saxony Cup13 May 2015MeppenSV MeppenVfL Osnabrück0–0
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Cup13 May 2015GreifswaldTSG NeustrelitzF.C. Hansa Rostock0–14,500
Middle Rhine Cup14 May 2015BonnBonner SCFC Viktoria Köln1–46,193
North Baden Cup20 May 2015LangensteinbachFC NöttingenSV Spielberg3–23,421
Rhineland Cup3 June 2015PolchSpVgg BurgbrohlFSV Salmrohr1–1 2,081
Saarland Cup13 May 2015RehlingenSV ElversbergFC Homburg2–1 aet4,000
Saxony Cup13 May 2015ZwickauFSV ZwickauChemnitzer FC0–23,615
Saxony-Anhalt Cup13 May 2015HalleVfL Halle 96Hallescher FC0–612,855
Schleswig-Holstein Cup15 July 2015LübeckVfB Lübeck‡Holstein Kiel1–0
South Baden Cup'20 May 2015EmmendingenFreiburger FCBahlinger SC0–33,500
South West Cup13 May 2015OffenbachFK PirmasensFV Dudenhofen1–0 aet2,500
Thuringia Cup13 May 2015MeuselwitzZFC MeuselwitzFC Carl Zeiss Jena1–2 aet3,871
Westphalia Cup14 May 2015VerlSC VerlSportfreunde Lotte0–0 aet 1,600
Württemberg Cup6 May 2015StuttgartSSV ReutlingenFV Ravensburg2–13,658

The clubs qualified for the 2015–16 DFB-Pokal by league:
LeagueLevelClubs
3. Liga3VfL Osnabrück, FC Energie Cottbus, F.C. Hansa Rostock, Chemnitzer FC, Hallescher FC, SpVgg Unterhaching
Regionalliga Nord4SV Meppen, VfB Lübeck
Regionalliga Nordost4FC Carl Zeiss Jena, BFC Dynamo
Regionalliga Südwest4KSV Hessen Kassel, SV Elversberg, FK Pirmasens, FC Nöttingen
Regionalliga West4Rot-Weiß Essen, FC Viktoria Köln, Sportfreunde Lotte
Oberliga Baden-Württemberg5SSV Reutlingen, Bahlinger SC
Oberliga Hamburg5HSV Barmbeck-Uhlenhorst
Bremen-Liga5Bremer SV
Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar5FSV Salmrohr