2021–22 DFB-Pokal Frauen

2021–22 DFB-Pokal Frauen

Tournament details
Country	Germany
Venue(s)	RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne
Dates	21 August 2021 – 28 May 2022
Teams	54
Final positions
Champions	VfL Wolfsburg (9th title)
Runner-up	Turbine Potsdam
Tournament statistics
Matches played	53
Goals scored	256 (4.83 per match)
Attendance	40,345 (761 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	four players (6 goals)
Goals scored in penalty shoot-outs not included.
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The 2021–22 DFB-Pokal was the 42nd season of the annual German football cup competition. Several teams participated in the competition, including all teams from the previous year's Frauen-Bundesliga and the 2. Frauen-Bundesliga, excluding second teams. The competition began on 21 August 2021 with the first of six rounds and ended on 28 May 2022 with the final at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne, a nominally neutral venue, which has hosted the final since 2010.^[1]

VfL Wolfsburg were the seven-time defending champion and defended their title by defeating Turbine Potsdam in the final.^[2][3]

Participating clubs

The following clubs qualified for the competition:

Bundesliga the 12 clubs of the 2020–21 season	2. Bundesliga 13 of the 18 clubs of the 2020–21 season[a]	Regionalliga 8 champions and runners-up of the 2020–21 season[b]
Werder Bremen MSV Duisburg SGS Essen Eintracht Frankfurt SC Freiburg 1899 Hoffenheim Bayer Leverkusen SV Meppen Bayern Munich Turbine Potsdam SC Sand VfL Wolfsburg	SG Andernach SpVg Berghofen Arminia Bielefeld Borussia Bocholt FSV Gütersloh FC Ingolstadt Carl Zeiss Jena 1. FC Köln RB Leipzig Borussia Mönchengladbach 1. FFC 08 Niederkirchen 1. FC Saarbrücken Würzburger Kickers	SV Henstedt-Ulzburg Hannover 96 Viktoria Berlin Sportfreunde Siegen SV Elversberg (as SV Göttelborn) Wormatia Worms 1. FC Nürnberg Jahn Calden
Verbandspokal the 21 winners of the regional association cups
Baden Karlsruher SC[c] Bavaria Germania Ebing[d] Berlin Hertha Zehlendorf[d] Brandenburg FSV Babelsberg Bremen ATS Buntentor Hamburg Hamburger SV Hesse TSG Lütter[d]	Lower Rhine HSV Langenfeld[d] Lower Saxony Pfeil Broistedt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Rostocker FC[c] Middle Rhine Viktoria Waldenrath-Straeten[c] Rhineland TuS Immendorf[d] Saarland 1. FC Riegelsberg[d] Saxony Phoenix Leipzig[d]	Saxony-Anhalt Magdeburger FFC Schleswig-Holstein Holstein Kiel[e] South Baden Hegauer FV[d] Southwest SV Ober-Olm[d] Thuringia Lok Meiningen[f] Westphalia SpVgg Horsthausen[d] Württemberg FV 09 Nürtingen

Format

Clubs from lower leagues hosted against clubs from higher leagues until the quarter-finals. Should both clubs play below the 2. Bundesliga, there were no host club change anymore.

Schedule

The rounds of the 2021–22 competition were scheduled as follows:^[1]

Round	Matches
First round	21–22 August 2021
Second round	25–26 September 2021
Round of 16	30–31 October 2021
Quarter-finals	1–2 March 2022
Semi-finals	17–18 April 2022
Final	28 May 2022 at RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne

First round

The draw was made on 13 July 2021, with Doris Fitschen drawing the matches.^[4][5] The teams were split in a North and South group. The matches took place on 21 and 22 August 2021. The ten best-placed clubs from the 2020–21 Frauen-Bundesliga received a bye.

Second round

The draw was made on 30 August 2021, with Friederike Kromp drawing the matches.^[8][9] The matches took place from 25 to 27 September 2021.

Round of 16

The draw was made on 3 October 2021, with Julia Simic drawing the matches.^[10] The matches took place from 30 to 1 November 2021.^[11]

Quarter-finals

The draw was made on 7 November 2021, with Verena Schweers drawing the matches.^[12][13] The four matches took place from 28 February to 2 March 2022.^[1]

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 6 March 2022, with Laura Nolte drawing the matches.^[14][15] The two matches took place from 17 to 18 April 2022.^[1]

Final

The final took place on 28 May 2022 at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne.^[1]

VfL Wolfsburg

Turbine Potsdam

GK 1 Almuth Schult RB 2 Lynn Wilms  28'  59' CB 4 Kathrin Hendrich CB 6 Dominique Janssen  83' LB 13 Felicitas Rauch DM 5 Lena Oberdorf  49'  83' RW 10 Svenja Huth (c) CM 14 Jill Roord  43'  59' CM 8 Lena Lattwein  67' LW 28 Tabea Waßmuth  72' CF 17 Ewa Pajor  83' Substitutes: GK 77 Katarzyna Kiedrzynek DF 24 Joelle Wedemeyer  59' MF 33 Turid Knaak  83' FW 7 Pauline Bremer  83' FW 11 Alexandra Popp  59' FW 15 Sandra Starke FW 32 Sveindís Jane Jónsdóttir  72' Manager: Tommy Stroot

GK 41 Anna Wellmann RB 21 Anna Gerhardt CB 28 Merle Barth CB 23 Teninsoun Sissoko  80' LB 2 Sara Agrež (c) CM 8 Małgorzata Mesjasz CM 24 Karen Holmgaard  64' RW 6 Maria Plattner  64' AM 14 Sophie Weidauer LW 11 Dina Orschmann  55' CF 25 Melissa Kössler  16' Substitutes: GK 30 Vanessa Fischer DF 4 Irena Kuznetsov  80' DF 13 Isabel Kerschowski  55' DF 26 Sara Holmgaard MF 16 Luca Maria Graf FW 15 Pauline Deutsch  64' FW 17 Viktoria Schwalm  64' Manager: Sofian Chahed

Assistant referees:[16] Christina Biehl Daniela Göttlinger Fourth official:[16] Laura Duske

Match rules[17] 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Nine named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time.[note 2]

Top goalscorers

The following players were the top scorers of the DFB-Pokal, sorted first by number of goals, and then alphabetically if necessary.^[18] Goals scored in penalty shoot-outs are not included.

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Jovana Damnjanović	Bayern Munich	6
	Lotta Fernholz	Sportfreunde Siegen
	Pauline Fernholz	Sportfreunde Siegen
	Indra Hahn	SV Henstedt-Ulzburg
5	Selina Cerci	Turbine Potsdam	5
	Dóra Zeller	Bayer Leverkusen
7	Hasret Kayikçi	SC Freiburg	4
	Maria Lange	RB Leipzig
	Jill Roord	VfL Wolfsburg
10	13 players		3

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