2003–04 DFB-Pokal

DFB Cup winner in 2004 was Werder Bremen. In the final at the Olympiastadion Berlin Werder Bremen won on May 29, 2004 3-2 victory over second division Alemannia Aachen, who had turned in the quarterfinals defending champion Bayern Munich. Werder secured by winning the DFB Cup for the first time the so-called double after being previously become German champions. What was surprising was the success of VfB Lübeck, who ever reached the semifinals as the first Schleswig -Holstein football club and even then only barely defeated Werder Bremen. Especially was the fact that only three of eight quarter-finalists were from the Bundesliga.

Since the Bremen in the UEFA Champions League 2004 /05 attended, where they were eliminated in the second round against Olympique Lyon, Aachen was able to start the first time in the UEFA Cup 2004/ 05, where the Dutch representative AZ Alkmaar was too strong in the final sixteenth.

Participating teams

For the first round the following 64 teams were qualified:

FC Bayern Munich ( TV)

VfB Stuttgart

Borussia Dortmund

Hamburger SV

Hertha BSC

Werder Bremen

FC Schalke 04

VfL Wolfsburg

VfL Bochum

TSV 1860 München

Hannover 96

Borussia Mönchengladbach

Hansa Rostock

1 FC Kaiserslautern

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Arminia Bielefeld

1 FC Nuremberg

Energie Cottbus

SC Freiburg

1 FC Köln

Eintracht Frankfurt

1 FSV Mainz 05

SpVgg Greuther Fürth

Alemannia Aachen

Eintracht Trier

MSV Duisburg

1 FC Union Berlin

Wacker Burghausen

VfB Lübeck

LR Ahlen

Karlsruher SC

Rot-Weiß Oberhausen

Eintracht Braunschweig

SSV Reutlingen 05

FC St. Pauli

SV Waldhof Mannheim

• Regionalliga Nord

• Regionalliga Süd

• Baden:

• Bavaria:

• Berlin:

• Brandenburg:

• Bremen:

• Hamburg:

• Hesse:

• Mecklenburg- Vorpommern:

• Middle Rhine:

• Niederrhein:

• Lower Saxony:

• Rhineland:

• Saarland:

• Saxony:

• Saxony- Anhalt:

• Schleswig -Holstein:

• Südbaden:

• Southwest:

• Thuringia:

• Westphalia:

• Württemberg:

Schedule

The above each team had home advantage.

1 win after extra time 2 victory on penalties

First round

1 * The game was 2-0 counted for Sportfreunde Siegen, since the LR Ahlen had played with four non-EU foreigners.

2nd round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinal

Final

Winning team

(in brackets the matches and goals are specified)

• Goalkeepers: Andreas Reinke (6 / -)
• Defense: Ümit Davala (4 / - ); Valérien Ismaël (6/1 ); Mladen Krstajić (5 / - ); Christian Schulz ( 3 / -); Victor Skripnik (1 / - ); Paul Stalteri ( 6/1)
• Midfielders: Ivica Banović (2/1 ); Frank Baumann (C) (6 / - ); Tim Borowski (5/ 5); Fabian Ernst ( 6 / -); Pekka Lagerblom (1 / - ); Krisztián Lisztes (5 / - ); Johan Micoud ( 6/4)
• Attack: Aílton (6/ 6); Angelos Charisteas (5/2 ); Ivan Klasnić (6/ 5); Valdez ( 5/1)
• Coach: Thomas Schaaf

Top scorers

Below, the top scorer of the DFB Cup 2003/ 04 are listed. The list is sorted according to their number of hits, with the same number of goals alphabetically.