FC Augsburg to face SC Verl in DFB-Pokal

The first round matches of the DFB-Pokal were drawn on Saturday night at the German football museum in Dortmund. FC Augsburg will face fourth division side SC Verl. The first round matches will take place between Friday 9th August to Monday 12th August. DFB vice-president Peter Frymuth oversaw the first round draw. Former Germany international Nia Künzer was responsible for drawing the matchups, and selected Regionalliga side SC Verl from North Rhein-Westphalia to face FC Augsburg. The roles should be clearly defined: Augsburg go into the match as the favourites and want to move past the Regionalliga side into the next round. Head coach Martin Schmidt is pleased with the draw: “We faced Verl when I was the coach of Mainz’s reserve team and I remember them as being a very sympathetic club with a good pitch. The draw is a nice challenge for us, and one that we will happily take on in our first match of the season!" The first round pairings SSV Ulm – 1. FC Heidenheim 1. FC Magdeburg – SC Freiburg VfL Osnabrück – RB Leipzig Wacker Nordhausen – Erzgebirge Aue VfB Eichstätt – Hertha BSC Berlin VfB Lübeck – FC St. Pauli SC Verl – FC Augsburg FC Ingolstadt – 1. FC Nürnberg Viktoria Berlin – Arminia Bielefeld SV Drochtersen/Assel – FC Schalke 04 1. FC Saarbrücken – Jahn Regensburg Hansa Rostock – VfB Stuttgart SV Wehen Wiesbaden – 1. FC Köln FC Oberneuland – Darmstadt 98 MSV Duisburg – Greuther Fürth Karlsruher SC – Hannover 96 Energie Cottbus – FC Bayern München KSV Baunatal – VfL Bochum FC 08 Villingen – Fortuna Düsseldorf TuS Dassendorf – Dynamo Dresden Alemannia Aachen – Bayer Leverkusen Waldhof Mannheim – Eintracht Frankfurt Chemnitzer FC – Hamburger SV SV Sandhausen – Borussia Mönchengladbach KFC Uerdingen – Borussia Dortmund SV Atlas Delmenhorst – Werder Bremen Hallescher FC – VfL Wolfsburg SV Rödinghausen – SC Paderborn 1. FC Kaiserslautern – FSV Mainz 05 VfB Germania Halberstadt – 1. FC Union Berlin FSV Salmrohr – Holstein Kiel Würzburger Kickers – TSG 1899 Hoffenheim The exact dates of the matches are still to be determined.