Energie Cottbus hopes for a dream draw in the DFB Cup: draw on Sunday!

Energie Cottbus hopes for a dream draw in the DFB Cup: draw on Sunday!

A big event is approaching for football fans in Germany: The draw for the first round of the 2025/26 DFB Cup will take place on June 14, 2025. Energie Cottbus, which qualified in fourth place in the 3rd league, is hoping for a big draw to reach a sold-out stadium. Fans and players are excited because the draw will be broadcast live on ZDF on June 15, 2025 at 5:15 p.m., with the event taking place in the German Football Museum in Dortmund, with the athlete Owen Ansah, who set the German record over 100 meters in 2024, acting as the lottery ticket LR-online.de reports that … and Bundesliga.com adds that ….

The anticipation is great! The first round will be played between August 15 and 18, 2025, a week before the Bundesliga starts. However, a derby against Dynamo Dresden or Hansa Rostock is out of the question, which increases the chances of an exciting draw. There are also financial incentives in the background: the DFB has already set the bonuses for the cup season. The income per round for the cup winner can be up to 4.32 million euros, and the bonuses for the other rounds are not to be sniffed at either

The lucrative bonuses

In total, almost 75 million euros will be distributed in the form of bonuses for men during the cup season Kicker explains that.... The individual rewards for the different rounds are as follows:

• Erste Runde: 209.453 Euro
• Zweite Runde: 418.906 Euro
• Achtelfinale: 837.813 Euro
• Viertelfinale: 1,68 Millionen Euro
• Halbfinale: 3,35 Millionen Euro
• Finalist: 2,88 Millionen Euro
• Sieger: 4,32 Millionen Euro

These high bonuses motivate not only the professional teams, but also numerous amateur teams that find themselves in the lottery pots. There is a clear difference in the distribution: all 18 Bundesliga teams as well as the first 14 teams of the 2nd Bundesliga are in the professional pot. The amateur pot includes the remaining 32 teams, including some second division teams that are considered amateurs.

A look at the participants

The teams in the first round are made up of the promoted teams from the 3rd league, including DSC Arminia Bielefeld and SG Dynamo Dresden as well as 1. FC Saarbrücken and Energie Cottbus. 21 representatives from the state associations, most of whom qualified through victory in the state cups, are also there. Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Westphalia each have two teams, which increases the diversity of participants.

With the draw, the DFB Cup adventure comes closer for Cottbus and its fans. They are all excited to see what opponents they will face and whether there will be a big game against a well-known club. The anticipation for the first round is increasing and football hearts are beating faster - it will be an exciting experience for German football!