Werder away at Lüneburger SK on a Saturday afternoon

TIMINGS CONFIRMED FOR FIRST ROUND OF DFB-POKAL MATCHES

24/06/26

The floodlights are on at the Millerntor-Stadion at night.

SV Werder Bremen will open the 2026/27 competitive season away at Lüneburger SK on Saturday, 22nd August 2026 at 15:30 CEST. The match will be played at the Millerntor-Stadion in Hamburg.

The timings for all first-round matches were announced by the German Football Association on Wednesday afternoon.

Overview of all key dates

First round: 21st – 24th August 2026 & 1st/2nd September 2026
Second round: 27/28th October 2026
Round of 16: 1st/2nd December 2026
Quarter-finals: 2nd/3rd February 2027 & 9/10th February 2027
Semi-finals: 20th/21st April 2027
Final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin: 29th May 2027

Overview of all first-round pairings

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

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