1999 DFB-Ligapokal

1999 DFB-Ligapokal

Tournament programme cover
Tournament details
Country	Germany
Teams	6
Defending champions	Bayern Munich
Final positions
Champions	Bayern Munich
Runner-up	Werder Bremen
Tournament statistics
Matches played	5
Goals scored	14 (2.8 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Ulf Kirsten Sören Seidel (2)

The 1999 DFB-Ligapokal was the third edition of the DFB-Ligapokal, and, for the third consecutive year, was won by Bayern Munich. Bayern, the previous year's League champions, beat Werder Bremen in the final, a reverse of the previous year's cup final.

Participating clubs

A total of six teams qualified for the competition. The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League position
• CW: Cup winners
• TH: Title holders

Semi-finals
Bayern MunichTH (1st)	Werder Bremen (CW)
Preliminary round
Bayer Leverkusen (2nd)	Borussia Dortmund (4th)
Hertha BSC (3rd)	1. FC Kaiserslautern (5th)

Matches

Preliminary round

10 July 1999

17:45

Bayer Leverkusen	3 – 1	1. FC Kaiserslautern
Brdarić 30' Schneider 37' Kirsten 78'	Report	Pettersson 16'

Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld, Jena

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Helmut Fleischer

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11 July 1999

17:45

Hertha BSC	1 – 2	Borussia Dortmund
Sverrisson 62'	Report	Bobic 53' Herzog 90' (o.g.)

Stadion an der Bremer Brücke, Osnabrück

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Uwe Kemmling

Semi-finals

13 July 1999

17:45

Werder Bremen	2 – 1	Bayer Leverkusen
Seidel 28' Bode 77'	Report	Kirsten 6'

Erzgebirgsstadion, Aue

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Torsten Koop

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14 July 1999

19:45

Bayern Munich	1 – 0	Borussia Dortmund
Wörns 66' (o.g.)	Report

Rosenaustadion, Augsburg

Attendance: 24,500

Referee: Alfons Berg

Final

Main article: 1999 DFB-Ligapokal Final

17 July 1999 (1999-07-17)

17:45 CEST

Werder Bremen	1–2	Bayern Munich
Seidel 56'	Report	Paulo Sérgio 37' Tarnat 43'

BayArena, Leverkusen

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Hans-Jürgen Weber (Essen)