1967–68 DFB-Pokal

1967–68 DFB-Pokal
Tournament details
Country	West Germany
Teams	32
Final positions
Champions	1. FC Köln
Runner-up	VfL Bochum
Tournament statistics
Matches played	33
Goals scored	113 (3.42 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Hannes Löhr (5)
	← 1966–67 1968–69 →

The 1967–68 DFB-Pokal was the 25th season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 27 January 1968 and ended on 9 June 1968. Thirty-two teams competed in the five-round tournament. In the final the 1. FC Köln defeated the VfL Bochum 4–1.^[1]

Matches

First round

27 January 1968	Borussia Neunkirchen	2–3	Eintracht Braunschweig
	Linsenmaier 27' Kuntz 76'	report (in German)	Berg 18', 25' Dulz 79'	Attendance: 5.000 Referee: Karl Niemeyer (Bad Godesberg)

27 January 1968	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	0–2	1. FC Nürnberg
		report (in German)	Strehl 3' Starek 8'	Attendance: 15.000 Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hannover)

27 January 1968	SV Röchling Völklingen	4–2	SV Werder Bremen
	Christ 9', 71' Martin 27', 59'	report (in German)	Görts 38' Rupp 66'	Attendance: 4.500 Referee: Rudolf Schreiner (Wachenbuchen)

27 January 1968	Hertha BSC	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Hamburger SV	Olympiastadion, Berlin
	Sangulin 93'	report (in German)		Attendance: 40.000 Referee: Wilfried Hilker (Bochum)

27 January 1968	VfL Bochum	3–2	Karlsruher SC	Stadion an der Castroper Straße, Bochum
	Klever 28' Böttcher 44' Eversberg 70'	report (in German)	Herrmann 18' (pen.) Müller 63'	Attendance: 8.000 Referee: Elmar Schäfer (Buchholz)

27 January 1968	SC Preußen Münster	2–1	Alemannia Aachen
	Augustat 60' (pen.) Börger 80'	report (in German)	Glenski 76'	Attendance: 8.000 Referee: Karl-Heinz Mailand (Bremen)

27 January 1968	FC 08 Homburg	1–4	1. FC Köln
	Kittel 83' (pen.)	report (in German)	Pott 17', 84' Thielen 38' Rumor 40'	Attendance: 11.000 Referee: Heinz-Dieter Herbort (Hessisch Lichtenau)

27 January 1968	Arminia Bielefeld	0–1	FC Schalke 04
		report (in German)	Neuser 51'	Attendance: 22.000 Referee: Heinz Siebert (Mannheim)

27 January 1968	FC Bayern Hof	0–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach
		report (in German)	Laumen 84'	Attendance: 12.000 Referee: Helmut Fritz (Oggersheim)

27 January 1968	VfB Stuttgart	1–0	1. FC Kaiserslautern
	Köppel 75'	report (in German)		Attendance: 4.600 Referee: Gerd Hennig (Duisburg)

27 January 1968	MSV Duisburg	4–1	Hannover 96
	Kostedde 34', 67' Bella 38' van Haaren 51'	report (in German)	Rodekamp 87'	Attendance: 5.000 Referee: Anton Binder (Holzgerlingen)

27 January 1968	1. FC Schweinfurt 05	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Hohnhausen 37'	report (in German)	Friedrich 50' Bechtold 98'	Attendance: 10.000 Referee: Ferdinand Biwersi (Bliesransbach)

27 January 1968	VfB Lübeck	0–1	TSV 1860 München
		report (in German)	Küppers 36'	Attendance: 17.000 Referee: Hans Voss (Münster)

27 January 1968	SSV Jahn Regensburg	1–4 (a.e.t.)	FC Bayern Munich
	Braun 53'	report (in German)	Müller 64', 109' Eberl 108' (o.g.) Roth 115'	Attendance: 25.000 Referee: Franz Heumann (Ansbach)

27 January 1968	VfB Oldenburg	2–3	Borussia Dortmund
	Jung 39', 44'	report (in German)	Libuda 67' Held 76' Paul 87' (pen.)	Attendance: 17.000 Referee: Ewald Regely (Berlin)

7 February 1968	SSV Reutlingen 05	7–1	Itzehoer SV
	Ammer 11' Mikulasch 29', 79' Neuhäuser 31' Braner 36' Kammal 78' Odenwald 83'	report (in German)	Thies 12'	Attendance: 3.000 Referee: Max Spindler (Mainz)

Round of 16

24 February 1968	FC Bayern Munich	3–1	MSV Duisburg
	Ohlhauser 18' Roth 41' Müller 60' (pen.)	report (in German)	Kowalski 53'	Attendance: 12.000 Referee: Alfred Ott (Rheinbrohl)

24 February 1968	VfL Bochum	2–1	VfB Stuttgart	Stadion an der Castroper Straße, Bochum
	Balte 42' (pen.), 65'	report (in German)	Handschuh 29'	Attendance: 20.000 Referee: Bruno Schulz (Berlin)

24 February 1968	SSV Reutlingen 05	1–3	Borussia Dortmund
	Ammer 37'	report (in German)	Neuberger 35' Held 58' Emmerich 66'	Attendance: 18.000 Referee: Edmund Bien (Ruppertsberg)

24 February 1968	FC Schalke 04	2–3	Eintracht Braunschweig	Glückauf-Kampfbahn, Gelsenkirchen
	Słomiany 20' Blechinger 73'	report (in German)	Gerwien 6' Saborowski 54' Maas 77'	Attendance: 6.000 Referee: Franz Wengenmeyer (Munich)

24 February 1968	1. FC Nürnberg	4–0	SC Preußen Münster
	Müller 18' Volkert 35' Strehl 58', 69'	report (in German)		Attendance: 5.500 Referee: Walter Horstmann (Hildesheim)

24 February 1968	Hertha BSC	2–1	SV Röchling Völklingen	Olympiastadion, Berlin
	Altendorff 42' Krafczyk 53'	report (in German)	Martin 37'	Attendance: 23.000 Referee: Dietrich Basedow (Hamburg)

24 February 1968	TSV 1860 München	2–4	Borussia Mönchengladbach
	Rebele 21' Zeiser 60'	report (in German)	Laumen 4', 46' Wimmer 66' Dietrich 84'	Attendance: 10.000 Referee: Gerhard Schulenburg (Hamburg)

24 February 1968	1. FC Köln	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Overath 83'	report (in German)	Schämer 51'	Attendance: 15.000 Referee: Max Spindler (Mainz)

Replay

19 March 1968	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–1	1. FC Köln
		report (in German)	Jendrossek 86'	Attendance: 23.000 Referee: Edgar Deuschel (Ludwigshafen)

Quarter-finals

11 April 1968

FC Bayern Munich	2–1	1. FC Nürnberg
Ohlhauser 20' Müller 32'	report (in German)	Brungs 2'

Attendance: 40.000

Referee: Willi Thier (Gelsenkirchen)

11 April 1968

Borussia Dortmund	2–1	Hertha BSC
Wosab 30' Weber 75'	report (in German)	Altendorff 14'

Stadion Rote Erde, Dortmund

Attendance: 23.000

Referee: Horst Herden (Hamburg)

11 April 1968

Eintracht Braunschweig	1–1 (a.e.t.)	1. FC Köln
Ulsaß 92'	report (in German)	Löhr 110'

Attendance: 23.000

Referee: Ferdinand Biwersi (Bliesransbach)

11 April 1968

VfL Bochum	2–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Balte 11' Böttcher 35'	report (in German)

Stadion an der Castroper Straße, Bochum

Attendance: 32.000

Referee: Edgar Deuschel (Ludwigshafen)

Replay

23 April 1968

1. FC Köln	2–1	Eintracht Braunschweig
Overath 2' Löhr 24'	report (in German)	Ulsaß 53'

Attendance: 40.000

Referee: Rudolf Kreitlein (Stuttgart)

Semi-finals

3 May 1968

1. FC Köln	3–0	Borussia Dortmund
Thielen 11' Löhr 24', 58'	report (in German)

Attendance: 53.000

Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (Mannheim)

15 May 1968

VfL Bochum	2–1	FC Bayern Munich
Jansen 5' Balte 56'	report (in German)	Ohlhauser 90'

Stadion an der Castroper Straße, Bochum

Attendance: 40.000

Referee: Klaus Ohmsen (Hamburg)

Final

9 June 1968

16:00 CET

1. FC Köln	4–1	VfL Bochum
Jablonski 22' (o.g.) Rühl 38', 57' Löhr 70'	Report	Böttcher 37'

Südweststadion, Ludwigshafen

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Karl Riegg (Augsburg)

References

^ "DFB-Pokal 1967–68" (in German). fussballdaten.de. 2008. Archived from the original on 2 October 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2008.

External links

Official site of the DFB (in German)
Kicker.de (in German)
1968 results at Fussballdaten.de (in German)
1968 results at Weltfussball.de (in German)

[1] "DFB-Pokal 1967–68" (in German). fussballdaten.de. 2008. Archived from the original on 2 October 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2008.

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