The second round of the Niederrheinpokal will be drawn on Thursday evening (6pm). You can find all the pairings in our live ticker.
The first round of the Niederrheinpokal is over – and there were no big surprises at the start. Favourites for the title, such as the third division teams MSV Duisburg, Rot-Weiss Essen or the regional league teams Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Wuppertaler SV, did their duty on Wednesday evening and entered the second round.
Which teams they will face there will be decided on Thursday evening. The Football Association of the Lower Rhine (FVN) has invited the teams to the draw at 6 p.m., while the last four first-round duels will be played later in the evening. Here we will report live on the pairings drawn by former Bundesliga referee Guido Winkmann. The dates for the tournament are scheduled for 26-28 September.
Draw ends with a bombshell
The last pairing Winkmann drew from the lottery pot was the tram derby between KFC Uerdingen and MSV Duisburg. The Zebras, who play two divisions higher, are of course the clear favourites against the top division side. By second-round standards, however, this is a real treat, especially as MSV have often struggled in recent years. Will that also be the case in the Grotenburg, which is sure to be full?
Meanwhile, RWE will face Oberliga bottom side SC St. Tönis with coach Alexander Thamm, who was under contract as a player at Hafenstraße from 2010 to 2012.
The draw is now underway again
The second-round pairings at a glance:
VfL Jüchen-Garzweiler – Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
FC Kray – SSVg Velbert
DJK Gnadental/TuRU Düsseldorf – SV Straelen
FSV Duisburg – SF Baumberg
1st FC Monheim – VfB Homberg
VfR Fischeln – Union Nettetal
SV Lürrip – Ratingen 04/19
Schwarz-Weiß Alstaden – Wuppertaler SV
Rather SV/PSV Wesel – TVD Velbert
TSV Wachtendonk-Wankum – Spvg Schonnebeck
DV Solingen – TuSEM Essen/Adler Union Frintrop
Hamborn 07 – VfB Hilden
Rot-Weiss Essen – SC St. Tönis
SV Sonsbeck – 1st FC Bocholt
TSV Beyenburg/1st FC Kleve – ETB Schwarz-Weiß Essen
MSV Duisburg – KFC Uerdingen
Now it’s time for the draw!
Or not? There seems to be a glitch, Jades counts too few balls in one of the lottery pots. Short interruption…
Now the men’s draw continues
Jades explains the rules. There are two pots: one for the third, regional and upper league teams and one for the lower teams. Since there are more higher-ranked teams, there will be three duels between teams from the higher-ranked pot.
Women’s draw to start
First up is the second round draw in the women’s Lower Rhine Cup. The pairings:
Viktoria Anrath – SV Heißen
TSV Solingen – Borussia Bocholt
Fortuna Wuppertal – CfR Links
Rhenania Bottrop – TSV Urdenbach
SV Brünen – FV Mönchengladbach
SV Siegfried Materborn – SSVg Velbert
SC Union Nettetal – DJK Blau-Weiß Mintard
SV Walbeck – VfR Warbeyen
Now it starts
Here we go. Niederrheinpokal head of division Wolfgang Jades and ex-Bundesliga referee Guido Winkmann sit on the podium.
Start delayed
The FVN has just announced that the start of the draw will be delayed by a few minutes.
Niederrheinpokal: How the first round went
