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1998 DFB-Ligapokal
Tournament programme cover
Tournament details
CountryGermany
Teams6
Final positions
ChampionsBayern Munich
Runner-upVfB Stuttgart
Tournament statistics
Matches played5
Goals scored16 (3.2 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)Giovane Élber (3)
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The 1998 DFB-Ligapokal was the second edition of the DFB-Ligapokal. In a repeat of last year's competition, Bayern Munich beat VfB Stuttgart in the 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
1. FC Kaiserslautern (1st) Bayern MunichTH (CW + 2nd)
Preliminary round
Bayer Leverkusen (3rd) Schalke 04 (5th)
VfB Stuttgart (4th) MSV Duisburg (8th)[a]

Notes

  1. ^ The 8th placed team of the 1997–98 Bundesliga, MSV Duisburg, qualified as teams in 6th and 7th (Hansa Rostock and Werder Bremen) were involved in the 1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup during the same period.

Matches

Preliminary round

Bayer Leverkusen3 – 0MSV Duisburg
Beinlich 13'
Kirsten 46'
Rink 64'
Report
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Markus Merk

VfB Stuttgart2 – 1Schalke 04
Akpoborie 48'
Poschner 78'
Report Büskens 16'
Attendance: 5,500

Semi-finals

Bayer Leverkusen0 – 1Bayern Munich
Report Basler 30'
Attendance: 20,000

VfB Stuttgart3 – 21. FC Kaiserslautern
Balakov 18' (pen.)
Poschner 78'
Bobic 87'
Report Marschall 8', 53' (pen.)
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Lutz Wagner

Final

Bayern Munich4–0VfB Stuttgart
Report
Attendance: 14,000

References