1993 DFB-Pokal final

The 1993 DFB-Pokal Final decided the winner of the 1992–93 DFB-Pokal, the 50th season of Germany's premier knockout football cup competition. It was played on 12 June 1993 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.^[2] Hertha BSC's second team, playing in the third division, made it to the final against Bayer Leverkusen, making it the first and only time a reserve side has made it to the final, as second teams have since been disallowed from entering the competition. Leverkusen won the match 1–0 to claim their first cup title, qualifying for the 1993–94 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 1993 DFB-Supercup.

1993 DFB-Pokal Final

Match programme cover
Event	1992–93 DFB-Pokal
Bayer Leverkusen Hertha BSC Amateure 1 0
Date	12 June 1993 (1993-06-12)
Venue	Olympiastadion, Berlin
Referee	Markus Merk (Kaiserslautern)[1]
Attendance	76,391
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Route to the final

The DFB-Pokal began with 83 teams in a single-elimination knockout cup competition. There were a total of five rounds leading up to the final. Teams were drawn against each other, and the winner after 90 minutes would advance. If still tied, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner.^[3]

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

Bayer Leverkusen		Round	Hertha BSC Amateure
Opponent	Result	1992–93 DFB-Pokal	Opponent	Result
ASV Bergedorf (A)	3–1	Round 1	Bye
1. FC Kaiserslautern (H)	1–0	Round 2	SGK Heidelberg (H)	3–0
VfR Heilbronn (A)	2–0	Round 3	VfB Leipzig (H)	4–2
Hertha BSC (H)	1–0	Round of 16	Hannover 96 (H)	4–3
Carl Zeiss Jena (A)	2–0	Quarter-finals	1. FC Nürnberg (H)	2–1
Eintracht Frankfurt (A)	3–0	Semi-finals	Chemnitzer FC (H)	2–1

Match

Details

Bayer Leverkusen	1–0	Hertha BSC Amateure
Kirsten 77'	Report

12 June 1993 (1993-06-12)

18:00 CEST

Olympiastadion, Berlin

Attendance: 76,391

Referee: Markus Merk (Kaiserslautern)

Bayer Leverkusen

Hertha BSC Amateure

GK 1 Rüdiger Vollborn SW 5 Franco Foda (c) CB 6 Martin Kree CB 4 Christian Wörns RWB 2 Andreas Fischer LWB 3 Markus Happe CM 8 Ioan Lupescu CM 7 Heiko Scholz CM 10 Pavel Hapal CF 11 Andreas Thom CF 9 Ulf Kirsten Manager: Dragoslav Stepanović

GK 1 Christian Fiedler SW 5 Sven Meyer CB 2 Oliver Schmidt  73' CB 7 Karsten Nied (c) RWB 10 Gerald Klews LWB 4 Wolfgang Kolczyk CM 3 Carsten Ramelow CM 8 Andreas Schmidt AM 6 Sven Kaiser CF 9 Oliver Holzbecher CF 11 Ayhan Gezen Substitutes: FW 12 Sascha Höpfner  73' Manager: Jochem Ziegert

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of two substitutions.