1991 DFB-Pokal final

1991 DFB-Pokal Final
German Cup Final
	Match programme cover
Event	1990–91 DFB-Pokal
	After extra time; Werder Bremen won 4–3 on penalties
Date	22 June 1991
Venue	Olympiastadion, Berlin
Referee	Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)
Attendance	73,000
	← 1990 1992 →

The 1991 DFB-Pokal Final decided the winner of the 1990–91 DFB-Pokal, the 48th season of Germany's premier knockout football cup competition. It was played on 22 June 1991 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.^[1] Werder Bremen won the match 4–3 on penalties against 1. FC Köln, following a 1–1 draw after extra time, to claim their second cup title.

Route to the final

The DFB-Pokal is a sixty-four team single-elimination knockout cup competition. There are a total of five rounds leading up to the final. Teams are drawn against each other in pots, and the winner after 90 minutes advances. If still tied, extra time, and if necessary a replay were used to determine the winner.^[2]

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

Werder Bremen		Round	1. FC Köln
Opponent	Result	1990–91 DFB-Pokal	Opponent	Result
SpVgg Weiden (A)	2–1	Round 1	VfL Wolfsburg (A)	6–1
FC St. Pauli (H)	2–0	Round 2	1. FC Kaiserslautern (A)	2–1
Schalke 04 (H)	3–1	Round of 16	SV Meppen (H)	1–0
Hessen Kassel (A)	2–0	Quarter-finals	VfB Stuttgart (H)	1–0 (a.e.t.)
Eintracht Frankfurt (A) Eintracht Frankfurt (H)	2–2 (a.e.t.) 6–3 (replay)	Semi-finals	MSV Duisburg (A) MSV Duisburg (H)	0–0 (a.e.t.) 3–0 (replay)

Match

Details

22 June 1991

19:30 CEST

Werder Bremen	1–1 (a.e.t.)	1. FC Köln
Eilts 48'	Report	Banach 62'
Penalties
Allofs Rufer Bratseth Harttgen Borowka	4–3	Rudy Higl Littbarski Banach Götz

Olympiastadion, Berlin

Attendance: 73,000

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

Werder Bremen

1. FC Köln


GK	1	Oliver Reck
SW	4	Rune Bratseth
CB	8	Miroslav Votava (c)
CB	6	Ulrich Borowka
RWB	5	Thomas Wolter
LWB	3	Marco Bode
CM	2	Günter Hermann	76'
CM	7	Dieter Eilts
CM	10	Frank Neubarth	72'
CF	11	Wynton Rufer
CF	9	Klaus Allofs
Substitutes:
DF	13	Gunnar Sauer	76'
MF	14	Uwe Harttgen	72'
Manager:
Otto Rehhagel


GK	1	Bodo Illgner
SW	2	Jann Jensen
CB	4	Andreas Gielchen
CB	6	Karsten Baumann
RWB	8	Frank Greiner
LWB	10	Henrik Andersen	96'
CM	3	Alfons Higl
CM	7	Pierre Littbarski (c)
CM	11	Ralf Sturm	60'
CF	5	Falko Götz
CF	9	Maurice Banach
Substitutes:
MF	13	Horst Heldt	59'
MF	14	Andrzej Rudy	96'
Manager:
Erich Rutemöller

References

^ "Alle DFB-Pokalsieger" [All DFB-Pokal winners]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
^ "Modus" [Mode]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. 15 August 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2015.

[1] "Alle DFB-Pokalsieger" [All DFB-Pokal winners]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 6 June 2016.

[2] "Modus" [Mode]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. 15 August 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2015.

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