1967–68 DFB-Pokal

1967–68 DFB-Pokal
Tournament details
Country	West Germany
Teams	32
Final positions
Champions	1. FC Köln
Runner-up	VfL Bochum
Tournament statistics
Matches played	33
Goals scored	113 (3.42 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Hannes Löhr (5)
	← 1966–67 1968–69 →

The 1967–68 DFB-Pokal was the 25th season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 27 January 1968 and ended on 9 June 1968. 32 teams competed in the tournament of five rounds. In the final the 1. FC Köln defeated the VfL Bochum 4–1.^[1]

Matches

First round

27 January 1968	Borussia Neunkirchen	2 – 3	Eintracht Braunschweig
	Linsenmaier 27' Kuntz 76'	report Template:De icon	Berg 18', 25' Dulz 79'	Attendance: 5.000 Referee: Karl Niemeyer (Bad Godesberg)

27 January 1968	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	0 – 2	1. FC Nürnberg
		report Template:De icon	Strehl 3' Starek 8'	Attendance: 15.000 Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hannover)

27 January 1968	SV Röchling Völklingen	4 – 2	SV Werder Bremen
	Christ 9', 71' Martin 27', 59'	report Template:De icon	Görts 38' Rupp 66'	Attendance: 4.500 Referee: Rudolf Schreiner (Wachenbuchen)

27 January 1968	Hertha BSC	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Hamburger SV	Olympiastadion, Berlin
	Sangulin 93'	report Template:De icon		Attendance: 40.000 Referee: Wilfried Hilker (Bochum)

27 January 1968	VfL Bochum	3 – 2	Karlsruher SC	Stadion an der Castroper Straße, Bochum
	Klever 28' Böttcher 44' Eversberg 70'	report Template:De icon	Herrmann 18' (pen.) Müller 63'	Attendance: 8.000 Referee: Elmar Schäfer (Buchholz)

27 January 1968	SC Preußen Münster	2 – 1	Alemannia Aachen
	Augustat 60' (pen.) Börger 80'	report Template:De icon	Glenski 76'	Attendance: 8.000 Referee: Karl-Heinz Mailand (Bremen)

27 January 1968	FC 08 Homburg	1 – 4	1. FC Köln
	Kittel 83' (pen.)	report Template:De icon	Pott 17', 84' Thielen 38' Rumor 40'	Attendance: 11.000 Referee: Heinz-Dieter Herbort (Hessisch Lichtenau)

27 January 1968	Arminia Bielefeld	0 – 1	FC Schalke 04
		report Template:De icon	Neuser 51'	Attendance: 22.000 Referee: Heinz Siebert (Mannheim)

27 January 1968	FC Bayern Hof	0 – 1	Borussia Mönchengladbach
		report Template:De icon	Laumen 84'	Attendance: 12.000 Referee: Helmut Fritz (Oggersheim)

27 January 1968	VfB Stuttgart	1 – 0	1. FC Kaiserslautern
	Köppel 75'	report Template:De icon		Attendance: 4.600 Referee: Gerd Hennig (Duisburg)

27 January 1968	MSV Duisburg	4 – 1	Hannover 96
	Kostedde 34', 67' Bella 38' van Haaren 51'	report Template:De icon	Rodekamp 87'	Attendance: 5.000 Referee: Anton Binder (Holzgerlingen)

27 January 1968	1. FC Schweinfurt 05	1 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Hohnhausen 37'	report Template:De icon	Friedrich 50' Bechtold 98'	Attendance: 10.000 Referee: Ferdinand Biwersi (Bliesransbach)

27 January 1968	VfB Lübeck	0 – 1	TSV 1860 München
		report Template:De icon	Küppers 36'	Attendance: 17.000 Referee: Hans Voss (Münster)

27 January 1968	SSV Jahn Regensburg	1 – 4 (a.e.t.)	FC Bayern Munich
	Braun 53'	report Template:De icon	Müller 64', 109' Eberl 108' (o.g.) Roth 11'	Attendance: 25.000 Referee: Franz Heumann (Ansbach)

27 January 1968	VfB Oldenburg	2 – 3	Borussia Dortmund
	Jung 39', 44'	report Template:De icon	Libuda 67' Held 76' Paul 87' (pen.)	Attendance: 17.000 Referee: Ewald Regely (Berlin)

7 February 1968	SSV Reutlingen 05	7 – 1	Itzehoer SV
	Ammer 11' Mikulasch 29', 79' Neuhäuser 31' Braner 36' Kammal 78' Odenwald 83'	report Template:De icon	Thies 12'	Attendance: 3.000 Referee: Max Spindler (Mainz)

Round of 16

24 February 1968	FC Bayern Munich	3 – 1	MSV Duisburg
	Ohlhauser 18' Roth 41' Müller 60' (pen.)	report Template:De icon	Kowalski 53'	Attendance: 12.000 Referee: Alfred Ott (Rheinbrohl)

24 February 1968	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	VfB Stuttgart	Stadion an der Castroper Straße, Bochum
	Balte 42' (pen.), 65'	report Template:De icon	Handschuh 29'	Attendance: 20.000 Referee: Bruno Schulz (Berlin)

24 February 1968	SSV Reutlingen 05	1 – 3	Borussia Dortmund
	Ammer 37'	report Template:De icon	Neuberger 35' Held 58' Emmerich 66'	Attendance: 18.000 Referee: Edmund Bien (Ruppertsberg)

24 February 1968	FC Schalke 04	2 – 3	Eintracht Braunschweig	Glückauf-Kampfbahn, Gelsenkirchen
	Słomiany 20' Blechinger 73'	report Template:De icon	Gerwien 6' Saborowski 54' Maas 77'	Attendance: 6.000 Referee: Franz Wengenmeyer (Munich)

24 February 1968	1. FC Nürnberg	4 – 0	SC Preußen Münster
	Müller 18' Volkert 35' Strehl 58', 69'	report Template:De icon		Attendance: 5.500 Referee: Walter Horstmann (Hildesheim)

24 February 1968	Hertha BSC	2 – 1	SV Röchling Völklingen	Olympiastadion, Berlin
	Altendorff 42' Krafczyk 53'	report Template:De icon	Martin 37'	Attendance: 23.000 Referee: Dietrich Basedow (Hamburg)

24 February 1968	TSV 1860 München	2 – 4	Borussia Mönchengladbach
	Rebele 21' Zeiser 60'	report Template:De icon	Laumen 4', 46' Wimmer 66' Dietrich 84'	Attendance: 10.000 Referee: Gerhard Schulenburg (Hamburg)

24 February 1968	1. FC Köln	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Overath 83'	report Template:De icon	Schämer 51'	Attendance: 15.000 Referee: Max Spindler (Mainz)

Replay

19 March 1968	Eintracht Frankfurt	0 – 1	1. FC Köln
		report Template:De icon	Jendrossek 86'	Attendance: 23.000 Referee: Edgar Deuschel (Ludwigshafen)

Quarter-finals

11 April 1968

FC Bayern Munich	2 – 1	1. FC Nürnberg
Ohlhauser 20' Müller 32'	report Template:De icon	Brungs 2'

Attendance: 40.000

Referee: Willi Thier (Gelsenkirchen)

11 April 1968

Borussia Dortmund	2 – 1	Hertha BSC
Wosab 30' Weber 75'	report Template:De icon	Altendorff 14'

Stadion Rote Erde, Dortmund

Attendance: 23.000

Referee: Horst Herden (Hamburg)

11 April 1968

Eintracht Braunschweig	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	1. FC Köln
Ulsaß 92'	report Template:De icon	Löhr 110'

Attendance: 23.000

Referee: Ferdinand Biwersi (Bliesransbach)

11 April 1968

VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Balte 11' Böttcher 35'	report Template:De icon

Stadion an der Castroper Straße, Bochum

Attendance: 32.000

Referee: Edgar Deuschel (Ludwigshafen)

Replay

23 April 1968

1. FC Köln	2 – 1	Eintracht Braunschweig
Overath 2' Löhr 24'	report Template:De icon	Ulsaß 53'

Attendance: 40.000

Referee: Rudolf Kreitlein (Stuttgart)

Semi-finals

3 May 1968

1. FC Köln	3 – 0	Borussia Dortmund
Thielen 11' Löhr 24', 58'	report Template:De icon

Attendance: 53.000

Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (Mannheim)

15 May 1968

VfL Bochum	2 – 1	FC Bayern Munich
Jansen 5' Balte 56'	report Template:De icon	Ohlhauser 90'

Stadion an der Castroper Straße, Bochum

Attendance: 40.000

Referee: Klaus Ohmsen (Hamburg)

Final

9 June 1968

16:00 CET

1. FC Köln	4–1	VfL Bochum
Jablonski 22' (o.g.) Rühl 38', 57' Löhr 70'	Report	Böttcher 37'

Südweststadion, Ludwigshafen

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Karl Riegg (Augsburg)

References

^ "DFB-Pokal 1967-68" (in German). fussballdaten.de. 2008. Archived from the original on 2 October 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2008. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

External links

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