Schwaben Cup

The Schwaben Cup (German: "Schwäbischer Pokal") is a domestic cup competition for the Bavarian Bezirk of Schwaben.

Overview

The competition was first played in 1947, before the reintroduction of the German Cup. With the introduction of the national cup competition, the Schwaben Cup also became a qualifying competition for it.

The Schwaben Cup is played annually since 1947 with the exception of 1956 and 1957, when it was not held. The competition is open to all senior men's teams from the Bezirk of Schwaben and clubs that play in the Schwaben football league system. However, it is not open to professional teams, meaning a club in the Bundesliga or 2nd Bundesliga can not take part. The FC Augsburg, record winner of the competition, currently in the second division, can therefore not enter its first team at this stage. The competition is open to reserve sides too.

Since 1998, the Schwaben Cup winner is ellegible to take part in the Bavarian Cup and past winners have also taken out this competition and thereby qualified for the German Cup. The TSV Aindling in 2003 and the TSG Thannhausen in 2006 have done so.

A fixed rule of the competition is, that the lower classed team will always have home advantage. In the past, another rule stipulated that the lower classed team does not need to win a tie to advance, a draw will be sufficient. This rule was however very unpopular with the stronger clubs and has been abolished after the 1998 final.

Modus

The cup currently operates on a system where it is split ito three regions, "Augsburg", "Allgäu" and "Donau". Each of those regions roughly covers the areas of two "Kreissligas":

*Donau: Kreisliga Schwaben-Nord and Kreisliga Schwaben-West
*Augsburg: Kreisliga Schwaben-Augsburg and Kreisliga Schwaben-Ost
*Allgäu: Kreisliga Schwaben-Mitte and Kreisliga Schwaben-Süd

Clubs from the "Kreisliga", the "Kreisklasses" and "A-Klasses" below it but also the clubs in the "Bezirksliga" and "Bezirksoberliga" from this area play out a cup winner of their own. This winner then faces the winner of its sister region (German: Kreis). The three remaining clubs of this competitions then enter the final rounds of the Schwaben Cup, together with the clubs from Schwaben which play in the "Landesliga", "Bayernliga" and "Regionalliga".

At the end of this process is the Schwaben Cup final which is played at a neutral ground.

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Regional (Kreis) finals:

*"Augsburg": FC Schrobenhausen - TSV Gersthofen 3-1
*"Donau": TSV Wemding - SC Bubesheim 0-3
*"Allgäu": SV Ungerhausen - BSK Olympia Neugablonz 3-2

First Round:

*FC Königsbrunn - TSV Rain am Lech 1-1 (4-6 after penaltys)
*FC Schrobenhausen - TSV Aindling 3-2
*FC Affing - FC Augsburg II 1-2
*TSV Schwaben Augsburg - FC Pipinsried 0-2
*FC Kempten - TSV Kottern 2-2 (5-6 after penaltys)
*SV Ungerhausen - FC Memmingen 0-5
*SC Bubesheim - TSG Thannhausen 0-4
*TSV 1861 Nördlingen "bye"

Second round:

*FC Schrobenhausen - TSV Rain am Lech 3-3 (11-10 after pealtys)
*FC Pipinsried - FC Augsburg II 1-5
*TSV 1861 Nördlingen - TSG Thannhausen 3-1
*TSV Kottern - FC Memmingen 2-0

Third round:

*FC Schrobenhausen - TSV 1861 Nördlingen 1-1 (4-6 after penaltys)
*FC Augsburg II - TSV Kottern 7-0

Final:

*on 2 May 2007 in "Rain am Lech": TSV 1861 Nördlingen - FC Augsburg II 0-0 (4-3 after penaltys)

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Regional (Kreis) finals:

*"Augsburg": TSV Krumbach - FC Gundelfingen 3-2
*"Donau": TSV Bobingen - FC Schrobenhausen 2-4
*"Allgäu": VfB Durach - SpVgg Kaufbeuren 3-2

First Round:

*TSV Krumbach - TSG Thannhausen 0-4
*FC Augsburg II - TSV 1861 Nördlingen 0-1
*FC Pipinsried - TSV Aindling 1-1 (6-5 after penaltys)
*TSV Rain am Lech - FC Affing 1-1 (4-3 after penaltys)
*TSV Gersthofen - FC Königsbrunn 0-2
*VfB Durach - FC Kempten 2-3
*1. FC Sonthofen - FC Memmingen 0-0 (4-3 after penaltys)
*FC Schrobenhausen "bye"

Second round:

*TSV Rain am Lech - FC Königsbrunn 3-1
*FC Schrobenhausen - FC Pipinsried 3-1
*1. FC Sonthofen - FC Kempten 1-1 (5-4 after penaltys)
*TSV 1861 Nördlingen - TSG Thannhausen 1-2

Third Round:

*1. FC Sonthofen - TSV Rain am Lech 3-3 (8-7 after penaltys)
*FC Schrobenhausen - TSG Thannhausen 2-2 (8-7 after penaltys)

Final:

*on 30 April 2008: FC Schrobenhausen - 1. FC Sonthofen 0-2

Cup finals since 1947

1947 FC Gundelfingen - TSV Göggingen 6-1 1948 VfL Günzburg - TSV Gersthofen 5-2 1949 FC Gundelfingen - TSV Sonthofen 2-1 1950 VfL Günzburg - VfR Neuburg 2-0 1951 TG Viktoria Augsburg - TSV Gersthofen 3-1 1952 SpVgg Kaufbeuren - TSV Gersthofen 4-1 1953 TSV Gersthofen - BC Augsburg II 7-2 1954 TSV Gersthofen - TSV Kottern 2-0 1955 FC Gundelfingen - FC Bad Wörishofen 1956 "not held" 1957 "not held" 1958 FC Memmingen - PSV Augsburg 1-0 1959 TSV Schwaben Augsburg - SpVgg Kaufbeuren 5-2 1960 SpVgg Kaufbeuren - TSV Kriegshaber 3-0 1961 SpVgg Kaufbeuren - TSV 1861 Nördlingen 2-0 1962 TG Viktoria Augsburg - FC Kempten 1-0 1963 FC Kempten - BC Augsburg II 2-1 1964 BSK Olympia Neugablonz - TSV Gersthofen 5-2 1965 BC Augsburg - BSK Olympia Neugablonz 2-2 (after extra time) 1966 BSK Olympia Neugablonz - FC Gundelfingen 5-1 1967 FC Memmingen - FC Gundelfingen 2-0 1968 TSV Haunstetten - SSV Dillingen 3-2 (after extra time) 1969 FC Augsburg - SV Klingsmoos 5-2 1970 FC Augsburg - TSG Augsburg 1-0 (after extra time) 1971 FC Augsburg - SV Salamander Türkheim 3-1 1972 FC Augsburg - FC Memmingen 2-1 (after extra time) 1973 BSK Olympia Neugablonz - SC Altenmünster 6-0 1974 TSG Thannhausen - TSV Haunstetten 2-0 1975 TSG Thannhausen - SSV Dillingen 3-2 1976 FC Memmingen - SV Ober-Germaringen 3-2 1977 FC Augsburg II - FC Füssen 3-2 1978 SSV Glött - SV Ober-Germaringen 6-4 (after penalties) 1979 BSK Olympia Neugablonz - SV Salamander Türkheim 1980 FC Augsburg - TSV Gersthofen 4-1 1981 TSV 1861 Nördlingen - TSV Aindling 3-0 1982 SV Ober-Germaringen - TSV 1861 Nördlingen 2-1 1983 DJK Langenmosen - FC Augsburg II 5-3 1984 TSV Aindling - TSG Thannhausen 2-0 1985 FC Kempten - TSV Aindling 2-1 (after extra time) 1986 FC Augsburg - TSV Landsberg 3-2 1987 FC Kempten - TSG Augsburg 1-0 1988 FC Augsburg - TSV Königsbrunn 4-2 (after extra time) 1989 TSV 1861 Nördlingen - TSV Dasing 5-1 1990 TSV Mindelheim - TSV 1861 Nördlingen 2-0 1991 FC Gundelfingen - TSV Dasing 3-1 1992 FC Gundelfingen - FC Augsburg 2-0 1993 FC Augsburg - FC Memmingen 3-2 1994 SC Altenmünster - FC Memmingen 2-2 (after extra time) 1995 TSV Aindling - FC Kempten 3-1 (after extra time) 1996 FC Augsburg - DJK Lechhausen 5-3 1997 TSV Aindling - TSV Schwaben Augsburg 2-1 (after extra time) 1998 BC Aichach - FC Memmingen 1-1 (after extra time) 1999 FC Augsburg - TSV Kottern 4-2 2000 TSV Rain am Lech - TSV Mindelheim 2-0 2001 FC Gundelfingen - FC Königsbrunn 0-0 (4-3 after penalties) 2002 FC Augsburg 2003 TSV Aindling 2004 TSV Aindling 2005 FC Augsburg - TSG Thannhausen 2-0 2006 TSG Thannhausen - FC Memmingen 4-2 2007 TSV 1861 Nördlingen - FC Augsburg II 0-0 (4-3 after penalties) 2008 1. FC Sonthofen - FC Schrobenhausen 2-0Source: Cite web
url = http://www.bfv-schwaben.de/
title = "Das Fussball-Jahresjournal"
accessdate = 2007-12-15
publisher = Schwäbischer Fussball Bund

*Winner always mentioned first.
*In 1965, 1994 and 1998 the title went to the lower-classed team in a drawn final.

External links

* [http://www.bfv.de/de/100397/100918/view/189/endspiele_im_ueberblick.html The Bavarian Cup (BFV website)]

References