1998–99 DFB-Pokal

1998–99 DFB-Pokal

Country	Germany
Teams	64
Champions	Werder Bremen
Runner-up	Bayern Munich
Matches played	63
← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

The DFB-Pokal is the second-most important national title in German football. The DFB-Pokal 1998–99 was the 56th season of the competition. 64 teams competed in the tournament of six rounds which began on 28 August 1998 and ended on 6 June 1999. In the final Werder Bremen defeated Bayern Munich 5–4 on penalties thereby claiming their fourth title.^[1]

1st round

August 28, 1998
SV Schalding-Heining	0 – 1	SpVgg Unterhaching
Sportfreunde Eisbachtal	1 – 0	FC Gütersloh	(AET)
1. FC Saarbrücken	1 – 1	Borussia Dortmund	(AET) (Borussia Dortmund won 3 – 1 on penalties)
Karlsruher SC	3 – 4	VfL Wolfsburg
FC St. Pauli II	0 – 5	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Hansa Rostock II	0 – 3	MSV Duisburg
Tennis Borussia Berlin	1 – 0	Hannover 96
Kickers Offenbach	0 – 1	SG Wattenscheid 09
August 29, 1998
SV Werder Bremen II	0 – 1	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
SF 1922 Dorfmerkingen	0 – 3	Stuttgarter Kickers
Chemnitzer FC	1 – 2	SC Freiburg
Bayer 04 Leverkusen II	1 – 2	SV Werder Bremen	(AET)
SG Hoechst	1 – 2	FC Energie Cottbus
SV 1919 Straelen	4 – 7	Fortuna Düsseldorf
Sportfreunde Siegen	3 – 1	1. FSV Mainz 05	(AET)
VfB Lübeck	1 – 2	VfB Stuttgart
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	1 – 0	SSV Ulm 1846
VfB Leipzig	2 – 4	TSV 1860 Munich	(AET)
SC Idar-Oberstein	0 – 1	Arminia Bielefeld
FC Denzlingen	0 – 3	Hamburger SV
SV Waldhof Mannheim	1 – 5	Borussia Mönchengladbach
1. FC Köln	0 – 1	Hansa Rostock
FC Energie Cottbus II	0 – 1	SpVgg Greuther Fürth
1. FC Magdeburg	1 – 2	KFC Uerdingen 05
Lichterfelder SU	0 – 6	FC Schalke 04
VfL Osnabrück	0 – 2	1. FC Nuremberg
August 30, 1998
SG Post Süd Regensburg	0 – 2	Hertha BSC
SV Meppen	0 – 1	FC St. Pauli
FSV Zwickau	2 – 5	VfL Bochum
FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	1 – 6	Eintracht Frankfurt
LR Ahlen	0 – 5	FC Bayern Munich
SC Fortuna Köln	1 – 3	1. FC Kaiserslautern

2nd round

September 17, 1998
FC Energie Cottbus	2 – 4	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Hamburger SV	4 – 0	SpVgg Unterhaching
September 22, 1998
Sportfreunde Eisbachtal	1 – 4	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
Tennis Borussia Berlin	4 – 2	Stuttgarter Kickers
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	1 – 1	Hertha BSC	(AET) (Hertha BSC won 5 – 4 on penalties)
VfB Stuttgart	3 – 2	Eintracht Frankfurt
SV Werder Bremen	3 – 2	Hansa Rostock
1. FC Kaiserslautern	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	(AET) (VfL Bochum won 6 – 5 on penalties)
Arminia Bielefeld	2 – 1	SG Wattenscheid 09
Fortuna Düsseldorf	2 – 1	TSV 1860 Munich
September 23, 1998
Sportfreunde Siegen	1 – 0	SC Freiburg
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	1 – 2	MSV Duisburg
VfL Wolfsburg	3 – 0	1. FC Nuremberg	(AET)
SpVgg Greuther Fürth	0 – 0	FC Bayern Munich	(AET) (FC Bayern Munich won 4 – 3 on penalties)
KFC Uerdingen 05	1 – 1	FC St. Pauli	(AET) (FC St. Pauli won 5 – 4 on penalties)
Borussia Dortmund	1 – 0	FC Schalke 04	(AET)

3rd round

October 27, 1998
VfL Wolfsburg	3 – 1	Arminia Bielefeld
VfB Stuttgart	3 – 1	Borussia Dortmund
VfL Bochum	0 – 1	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	3 – 3	Hamburger SV	(AET) (Rot-Weiß Oberhausen won 4 – 3 on penalties)
October 28, 1998
Tennis Borussia Berlin	4 – 2	Hertha BSC
SV Werder Bremen	3 – 2	Fortuna Düsseldorf
MSV Duisburg	2 – 4	FC Bayern Munich
November 3, 1998
Sportfreunde Siegen	1 – 0	KFC Uerdingen 05

Quarter-finals

December 1, 1998
FC Bayern Munich	3 – 0	VfB Stuttgart
December 2, 1998
Sportfreunde Siegen	1 – 3	VfL Wolfsburg
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	2 – 0	Borussia Mönchengladbach
SV Werder Bremen	2 – 1	Tennis Borussia Berlin	(AET)

Semi-finals

March 10, 1999
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	1 – 3	FC Bayern Munich
VfL Wolfsburg	0 – 1	SV Werder Bremen

Final

June 12, 1999 19:30 (CEST)	SV Werder Bremen	1 – 1 (AET) (5 – 4 PSO)	FC Bayern Munich	Olympic Stadium (Berlin) Attendance: 75,841 (capacity) Referee: Jürgen Aust (Köln)
	Maximov  4'		Jancker  45'
		Penalties
	Bode Todt Bogdanović Wicky Eilts Rost	5 – 4	Salihamidžić Daei Tarnat Jancker Effenberg Matthäus

Werder Bremen

Bayern Munich

WERDER BREMEN: GK 1 Frank Rost SW 8 Bernhard Trares CB 5 Dieter Eilts CB 3 Raphaël Wicky 72' RWB  23 Christoph Dabrowski 69' LWB  13 Andree Wiedener CM 6 Jens Todt CM 7 Yuri Maximov AM 18 Andreas Herzog 45' FW 17 Marco Bode FW 22 Torsten Frings Substitutes: GK Stefan Brasas DF 30 Pawel Wojtala 45' MF 4 Dirk Flock FW 9 Rade Bogdanović 69' FW 32 Aílton Manager: Thomas Schaaf

FC BAYERN MÜNCHEN: GK 1 Oliver Kahn SW 10 Lothar Matthäus CB 4 Samuel Kuffour 37' CB 25 Thomas Linke RWB  2 Markus Babbel LWB  18 Michael Tarnat CM 11 Stefan Effenberg CM 16 Jens Jeremies 47' AM 14 Mario Basler  114' AM 7 Mehmet Scholl 84' CF 19 Carsten Jancker Substitutes: GK 12 Sven Scheuer MF 20 Hasan Salihamidžić 84' MF 17 Thorsten Fink 57' FW 24 Ali Daei 37' FW 21 Alexander Zickler Manager: Ottmar Hitzfeld

See also

• 1. Bundesliga 1998–99
• 2. Bundesliga 1998–99

References

1. ^ "DFB-Pokal 1998-99" (in German). fussballdaten.de. 2008. http://www.fussballdaten.de/dfb/1999/. Retrieved 2008-10-29. 

External links

• Official site of the DFB (German)
• Kicker.de (German)