2023 DFB-Pokal final

The 2023 DFB-Pokal final decided the winner of the 2022–23 DFB-Pokal, the 80th season of the annual German football cup competition. The match was played on 3 June 2023 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.^[3][4]

2023 DFB-Pokal final

Match programme cover
Event	2022–23 DFB-Pokal
RB Leipzig Eintracht Frankfurt 2 0
Date	3 June 2023 (2023-06-03)
Venue	Olympiastadion, Berlin
Referee	Daniel Siebert (Berlin)[1]
Attendance	74,322[2]
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The match featured RB Leipzig, defending champions of the competition, and Eintracht Frankfurt. RB Leipzig won the match 2–0 for their second DFB-Pokal title.^[5]

As winners, RB Leipzig qualified for the 2023 edition of the DFL-Supercup at the start of the following season, where they faced Bayern Munich, champions of the 2022–23 edition of the Bundesliga. The winners of the DFB-Pokal also earned automatic qualification for the group stage of the 2023–24 edition of the UEFA Europa League. However, as Leipzig already qualified for the 2023–24 edition of the UEFA Champions League through their position in the Bundesliga, the spot went to the team in sixth, Bayer Leverkusen, and the league's UEFA Europa Conference League play-off round spot went to the team in seventh, Eintracht Frankfurt.^[6]

Teams

In the following table, finals until 1943 were in the Tschammerpokal era, since 1953 were in the DFB-Pokal era.

Team	Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners)
RB Leipzig	3 (2019, 2021, 2022)
Eintracht Frankfurt	8 (1964, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1988, 2006, 2017, 2018)

Route to the final

The DFB-Pokal began with 64 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.^[7]

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

RB Leipzig		Round	Eintracht Frankfurt
Opponent	Result	2022–23 DFB-Pokal	Opponent	Result
Teutonia Ottensen	8–0 (A)	First round	1. FC Magdeburg	4–0 (A)
Hamburger SV	4–0 (H)	Second round	Stuttgarter Kickers	2–0 (A)
1899 Hoffenheim	3–1 (H)	Round of 16	Darmstadt 98	4–2 (H)
Borussia Dortmund	2–0 (H)	Quarter-finals	Union Berlin	2–0 (H)
SC Freiburg	5–1 (A)	Semi-finals	VfB Stuttgart	3–2 (A)

Match

Details

RB Leipzig	2–0	Eintracht Frankfurt
Nkunku 71' Szoboszlai 85'	Report

3 June 2023 (2023-06-03)

20:00 CEST

Olympiastadion, Berlin

Attendance: 74,322

Referee: Daniel Siebert (Berlin)

RB Leipzig

Eintracht Frankfurt

GK 21 Janis Blaswich RB 39 Benjamin Henrichs CB 16 Lukas Klostermann CB 4 Willi Orbán (c) LB 23 Marcel Halstenberg CM 27 Konrad Laimer  81' CM 8 Amadou Haidara  78' RW 17 Dominik Szoboszlai  90+1' LW 7 Dani Olmo CF 18 Christopher Nkunku  90+1' CF 11 Timo Werner  61' Substitutes: GK 13 Ørjan Nyland DF 2 Mohamed Simakan DF 22 David Raum DF 25 Sanoussy Ba DF 37 Abdou Diallo MF 10 Emil Forsberg MF 24 Xaver Schlager  78' MF 44 Kevin Kampl  90+1' FW 9 Yussuf Poulsen  61' Manager: Marco Rose

GK 1 Kevin Trapp CB 35 Tuta CB 20 Makoto Hasebe  78' CB 2 Evan Ndicka RM 24 Aurélio Buta  87' CM 17 Sebastian Rode (c)  70' CM 8 Djibril Sow LM 32 Philipp Max  78' AM 15 Daichi Kamada AM 27 Mario Götze  77' CF 9 Randal Kolo Muani  90+2' Substitutes: GK 40 Diant Ramaj DF 18 Almamy Touré DF 22 Timothy Chandler DF 25 Christopher Lenz  78' MF 6 Kristijan Jakić MF 26 Éric Junior Dina Ebimbe  87' MF 29 Jesper Lindstrøm  70' MF 30 Paxten Aaronson FW 19 Rafael Santos Borré  78' Manager: Oliver Glasner

Assistant referees:[1] Jan Seidel (Oberkrämer) Rafael Foltyn (Wiesbaden) Fourth official:[1] Daniel Schlager (Hügelsheim) Reserve assistant referee:[1] Lasse Koslowski (Berlin) Video assistant referee:[1] Marco Fritz (Korb) Assistant video assistant referee:[1] Dominik Schaal (Tübingen)

Match rules[8][9] 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Nine named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions.[note 1]

See also

• 2023 DFL-Supercup
• Football in Berlin

Notes

1. Each team was given only three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.