This evening, the second-round draw of the DFB Pokal was made at the Football Museum in Dortmund after the first round was completed earlier this week.
Heading into the draw, the lowest-ranked side still left in the competition is Regionalliga side Kickers Offenbach who beat 2.Bundesliga side Magdeburg 2-1 in the first round. We have not been blessed with a derby between Eintracht Frankfurt and Offenbach with Karlsruhe SC being the fourth division side’s opponent in the next round.
There are four all-Bundesliga ties with Mainz hosting Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund travels to Wolfsburg, St Pauli against RB Leipzig and Eintracht Frankfurt facing Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Last season’s winners Bayer Leverkusen will play 2.Bundesliga SV Elversberg and last season’s finalists Kaiserslautern host VfB Stuttgart.
Full Draw:
1. FSV Mainz 05 vs FC Bayern München
Eintracht Frankfurt vs Borussia Mönchengladbach
VfL Wolfsburg vs Borussia Dortmund
RB Leipzig vs FC St. Pauli
SC Freiburg vs Hamburger SV
Hertha BSC vs 1. FC Heidenheim
VfB Stuttgart vs 1. FC Kaiserslautern
FC Augsburg vs FC Schalke 04
TSG Hoffenheim vs 1. FC Nürnberg
SC Paderborn 07 vs SV Werder Bremen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen vs SV Elversberg
1. FC Köln vs Holstein Kiel
SSV Jahn Regensburg vs SpVgg Greuther Fürth
Arminia Bielefeld vs 1. FC Union Berlin
Dynamo Dresden vs SV Darmstadt 98
Kickers Offenbach vs Karlsruher SC
GGFN | Jack Meenan